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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2011
Seiji Okada, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Okada, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a coil disposed along an outer surface of a heating member and configured to generate magnetic flux for heating the heating member through induction heating; and a core unit being configured to constitute a part of a magnetic path around the coil. The core unit includes a plurality of core bodies arranged in a width direction of a recording medium to be conveyed, the core bodies being made of magnetic material; and a shaft having an outer surface on which the core bodies are arranged, a length of the outer surface being longer than a sum of lengths of the core bodies arranged thereon, the core body lengths including axial tolerances of the core bodies. A gap is provided between any adjacent ones of the core bodies.