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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. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2004
Kazuaki Ono, Kashiwa, JP;
Masayoshi Kachi, Abiko, JP;
Daigo Matsuura, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has a both-side image forming unit for forming images on both sides of a recording material; a rotatable belt for heating a toner image on a recording material through a belt; a rotatable supporting member, having an elastic layer, for supporting the belt; a rotatable pressing member, pressed toward the supporting member with the belt interposed therebetween, for forming the nip for nipping and feeding the recording material; the pressing member has a surface hardness which is larger than a surface hardness of the rotatable supporting member, wherein a surface hardness of the rotatable supporting member through the belt is different from a surface hardness of the pressing rotatable member by +4 degrees to −8 degrees.
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