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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2001
Hiroshi Terada, Nara, JP;
Masaru Imai, Osaka, JP;
Hideki Tatematsu, Osaka, JP;
Akinori Toyoda, Osaka, JP;
Kenji Asakura, Osaka, JP;
Syuichi Watanabe, Kyoto, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image heating device having a predetermined amount of heat generation with a small electric current. The device has a heat-generating roller having magnetism and conductivity, and an exciting coil opposed to the peripheral face of the heat-generating roller and adapted for allowing the heat-generating roller to generate heat with electromagnetic induction. The exciting coil is composed of a bundle of copper wires extended in the direction of the rotation axis of the heat generating roller. The wires are circumferentially wound along the circumferential direction of the heat-generating roller. The bundled wires are arranged in close contact with each other in the circumferential direction of the heat-generating roller so as to cover the upper half of the heat-generating roller.