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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:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/520 ;
Abstract
The heat fixing device includes a heating roller and a pressure roller disposed in contact with the heating roller, the heating roller includes a base member and a surface layer, and the surface layer has a surface resistivity of 1×10 &OHgr; or lower, and a residual elongation percentage of 3% or lower. By this arrangement, charging of the heating roller can be prevented so that the recording medium can be prevented from being curled around the heating roller.