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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:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mitsuru Isogai, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
Abstract
A fixing device has a fixing roller which heat-fixes an unfixed toner image on a recording member transported between the fixing roller and another rotating member. The fixing roller is provided with a base member, a surface coat layer provided on the surface of the base member and which comes into contact with the recording member during the fixing process, and a silica protective layer provided over the part of the surface not provided with the surface coat layer.