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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2010
Yuichi Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahito Chiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Sho Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Kono, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahito Chiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Sho Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Kono, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes: a fixing roll that is rotatable; a belt member that is stretched over the fixing roll; a pressurizing roll that pressurizes the fixing roll via the belt member; a belt pressing member that presses an outer surface of the belt member to the pressurizing roll from inside of the belt member on a downstream side at a pressure-contact position between the fixing roll and the pressurizing roll; and a controller that decrease a time difference between a passage time per unit area of a tip region of a recording medium and a passage time per unit area of a succeeding region of the recording medium to pass a pressure-contact portion between the fixing roll and belt pressing member and the pressurizing roll.