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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
May. 19, 2014
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideaki Ohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuyoshi Komatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Uehara, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuyoshi Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Mikio Saiki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromi Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording material, a pressurizing member that forms a pressurizing portion, in cooperation with the fixing member, through which the recording material holding a non-fixed toner image passes, a heating member that includes a heat generating portion having a predetermined pattern shape and being energized to generate heat, and heats the fixing member, a supporting member that supports the heating member along an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member, and a thermal diffusion member that faces the supporting member with interposing the heating member, and diffuses heat from the heating member and conducts the heat to the fixing member.