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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2006
Tetsuo Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsumi Kurita, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Nagata, Kanagawa, JP;
Aya Kakishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsunori Izawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsumi Kurita, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Nagata, Kanagawa, JP;
Aya Kakishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsunori Izawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device for heating and pressing a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image or an unfixed ink image to fix the unfixed toner image or the unfixed ink image on the recording medium, includes a heating roller which has a heating source and has an endless peripheral surface moves around an axis, a pressure roller which is pressed onto the peripheral surface of the heating roller, and presses the recording medium passing between the pressure roller and the heating roller onto the peripheral surface of the heating roller, and plural cleaning sections which are provided to make contact with the heating roller. At least one of the cleaning sections is set, at a portion making contact with the heating roller, to have a relatively negative potential with respect to a surface potential of the heating roller.