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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
May. 20, 2011
Noboru Yonekawa, Toyohashi, JP;
Mamoru Fukaya, Nagoya, JP;
Naoki Yamamoto, Toyohashi, JP;
Toru Hayase, Toyohashi, JP;
Noboru Yonekawa, Toyohashi, JP;
Mamoru Fukaya, Nagoya, JP;
Naoki Yamamoto, Toyohashi, JP;
Toru Hayase, Toyohashi, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip. The fixing device has: a heat-generating endless belt having, on a circumferential surface thereof, a sheet passing area through which the recording sheet passes; a first pressure member disposed inside a running path of the endless belt; and a second pressure member disposed to press the endless belt against the first pressure member from outside the running path to form the fixing nip. The endless belt includes: a resistive heat layer that generates heat upon receiving electric current; and a pair of electrode layers that receive electric current. The electrode layers flank the sheet passing area. The resistive heat layer is in contact with the electrode layers at a different one of end faces opposing each other in a width direction of the resistive heat layer.