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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
May. 02, 2005
Seiji Taira, Ebina, JP;
Kenji Hara, Ebina, JP;
Keiji Miba, Ebina, JP;
Yoshiaki Tainaka, Ebina, JP;
Yumiko Onuma, Ebina, JP;
Keiichiro Sato, Ebina, JP;
Noriyuki Miyoshi, Ebina, JP;
Masakatsu Eda, Ebina, JP;
Keita Yano, Ebina, JP;
Tomofumi Suzuki, Ebina, JP;
Seiji Taira, Ebina, JP;
Kenji Hara, Ebina, JP;
Keiji Miba, Ebina, JP;
Yoshiaki Tainaka, Ebina, JP;
Yumiko Onuma, Ebina, JP;
Keiichiro Sato, Ebina, JP;
Noriyuki Miyoshi, Ebina, JP;
Masakatsu Eda, Ebina, JP;
Keita Yano, Ebina, JP;
Tomofumi Suzuki, Ebina, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a recording material transporting path that extends in a direction from bottom to top of a body of the image forming apparatus and transports a recording material, a fixing device provided on the recording material transporting path, which includes a rotatable heating member that has an internal heat source and a rotatable pressure member that forms a nip area with the heating member by being located in contact with and pressed against the heating member, to nip the recording material for carrying out a fixing process, and an ejection guide member that guides a recording material ejected from the nip area to the outside of the image forming apparatus. The ejection guide member has a guide surface formed to intersect a tangent line of the heating member at the most downstream point of the nip area, and the guide surface intersects the tangent line at an obtuse angle.