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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2006
Masahiro Yagi, Ibaraki, JP;
Toshio Ogiso, Ibaraki, JP;
Shunichi Oohara, Ibaraki, JP;
Shigeru Obata, Ibaraki, JP;
Toru Hanashima, Ibaraki, JP;
Osamu Saito, Ibaraki, JP;
Masahiro Yagi, Ibaraki, JP;
Toshio Ogiso, Ibaraki, JP;
Shunichi Oohara, Ibaraki, JP;
Shigeru Obata, Ibaraki, JP;
Toru Hanashima, Ibaraki, JP;
Osamu Saito, Ibaraki, JP;
Ricoh Printing Systems, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a fixing apparatus including heating member having an elastic layer and a heat source and pressing member having an endless shape member and a pressing member for transporting a record medium in a cut sheet shape while being adhered with an unfixed toner image to pass a nip portion formed by the endless shape member and the heating member and fixing the unfixed toner image on the record medium, the fixing apparatus is constructed by a constitution in which a space between the toner image on the record medium and a surface of the heating member is widened immediately after the record medium is projected from an outlet of the nip portion.