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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Akiyama, Toride, JP;
Shigeaki Takada, Abido, JP;
Daigo Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Miyahara, Tokyo, JP;
Akeshi Asaka, Kashiwa, JP;
Shuichi Tamura, Moriya, JP;
Toshinori Nakayama, Kashiwa, JP;
Yutaka Arai, Kawasaki, JP;
Jun Miura, Kawasaki, JP;
Takeshi Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Inagi, JP;
Shinsuke Takahashi, Kashiwa, JP;
Hiroto Sugimoto, Toride, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing member used for fixing a toner image on a recording material includes: a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer and containing a needle-like filler. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity with respect to a longitudinal direction thereof in a first region where the elastic layer is contactable to the recording material on the fixing member, and the thermal conductivity is 6 times to 900 times a thermal conductivity with respect to a thickness direction in the first region. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction thereof in a second region outside the first region with respect to the longitudinal direction, and the thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction in the second region is larger than the thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction in the first region.