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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2013
Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a separator disposed downstream from a fixing nip formed between a fixing rotary body and a pressing rotary body in a recording medium conveyance direction to separate a recording medium from the fixing rotary body. The separator includes a front disposed opposite an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotary body with a given interval therebetween and a conveyance face contiguous to the front, over which the recording medium slides. A coating layer, made of fluoroplastic, coats the front and the conveyance face of the separator. The coating layer includes a front portion corresponding to the front of the separator and produced with a plurality of recesses extending in a width direction of the separator orthogonal to the recording medium conveyance direction throughout substantially an entire width of the separator in the width direction thereof.
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