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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. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Saburo Sonobe, Toride, JP;
Akio Onuki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Kinyosha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a belt type fixing apparatus for thermally fixing an unfixed toner layer on a paper sheet. The fixing apparatus has a heating roll and a resilient endless belt stretched by a plurality of rolls such that the endless belt is partly pressed against a part on the circumferential outer surface of the heating roll to form a nipping portion. The heating roll having a hard, non-resilient surface has a mandrel, a halogen lamp arranged inside the mandrel and a release coating layer formed on the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel.