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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:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2001
Hideo Furukawa, Yokohama, JP;
Takuya Ejiri, Setagaya, JP;
Motokazu Yasui, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Gotoh, Kawasaki, JP;
Masanao Ehara, Urawa, JP;
Hirofumi Ogawa, Yamato, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshinaga, Ichikawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a recording medium includes a heating roller, a fixing roller, an endless fixing belt extended around at least the heating roller and the fixing roller and configured to be heated by the heating roller, a pressing roller disposed opposite to the fixing roller via the fixing belt, a temperature detecting member configured to detect a surface temperature of the heating roller, and a control device configured to control a surface temperature of the fixing belt at a predetermined temperature based on a surface temperature of the heating roller detected by the temperature detecting member. The temperature detecting member contacts a circumferential surface of the heating roller where the fixing belt is not extended around, such that the temperature detecting member is held in a low frictional relation to the circumferential surface of the heating roller.
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