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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355283 ; 355284 ;
Abstract
A fixing felt is brought into contact with a heating roller surface of an image forming apparatus such that at a predetermined distance towards the downstream side in the direction of rotation of the heating roller from a perpendicular line passing through the center line of the heating roller. As a result, even though foreign matter and residue are accumulated on the contacting part of the fixing felt and the heating roller, such foreign matters and residues will drop and not be transferred to the paper with a latent image.