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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:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 69 ; 399328 ; 399330 ;
Abstract
In a device for fixing a toner image, provided with a heating roller including a heater, the heating roller having a length larger than a possible largest size sheet to be fixed so that the heating roller has an excess portion on which a small size sheet does not pass over; a pressing roller for coming in contact with the heating roller; and a cooling roller for coming in contact with the excess portion of the heating roller so as to cool the excess portion; one of the heating roller and the cooling roller is a metal roller and the other one is a roller comprising an elastic material layer.