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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Ikuo Nakamoto, Matsudo, JP;
Shigeru Hirano, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing apparatus includes a fixing belt, a pressure roller, a heater, a stay holder, and a scraper. The fixing belt is configured to heat an image on a sheet at a nip portion and has an inner surface with a grease applied thereon. The pressure roller drives and rotates the fixing belt and forms the nip portion between the pressure roller and the fixing belt. The heater and the stay holder press the fixing belt toward the pressure roller from the inner surface of the fixing belt. The scraper scrapes the lubricant transferred to the pressure roller in an area that can come into contact with the fixing belt and that does not come into contact with a maximum width sheet introducible into the fixing apparatus on one end side in a rotational axis direction of the pressure roller.