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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2010
Kosuke Sasaki, Toyokawa, JP;
Toru Kasamatsu, Hachioji, JP;
Tadayuki Ueda, Kokubunji, JP;
Yoshihito Sasamoto, Hachioji, JP;
Satoshi Miyajima, Hino, JP;
Kosuke Sasaki, Toyokawa, JP;
Toru Kasamatsu, Hachioji, JP;
Tadayuki Ueda, Kokubunji, JP;
Yoshihito Sasamoto, Hachioji, JP;
Satoshi Miyajima, Hino, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To enhance the fixing quality of a fixing device to continuously fix sheets of a plurality of sizes, a carbon nanotube sheet, in which a plurality of carbon nanotubes are arranged such that the longitudinal directions thereof are oriented in the same direction, is provided on the surface of a heating rollerso that the carbon nanotube sheet ranges from the position a predetermined distance inside and the position a predetermined distance outside of the position through which each of the both edges of a sheet Pwith smaller width dimension than a sheet Pof the largest width dimension to be fixed passes.