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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
May. 23, 2011
Naoki Yamamoto, Toyohashi, JP;
Mamoru Fukaya, Nagoya, JP;
Noboru Yonekawa, Toyohashi, JP;
Toru Hayase, Toyohashi, JP;
Naoki Yamamoto, Toyohashi, JP;
Mamoru Fukaya, Nagoya, JP;
Noboru Yonekawa, Toyohashi, JP;
Toru Hayase, Toyohashi, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image onto the recording sheet, the fixing device comprising: a fixing belt; and a meander regulation member provided adjacent to an edge of the fixing belt in a width direction thereof, and operable to prevent meandering of the fixing belt, wherein the fixing belt includes: a resistive heat layer that is tubular and generates heat when an electric current is applied thereto; and first and second electrodes that are provided circumferentially on an outer circumferential surface of the resistive heat layer, and that receive and apply the electric current to the resistive heat layer, and the first electrode is provided closer to the meander regulation member than to the second electrode, and is at a distance from the edge of the fixing belt in the width direction thereof.