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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2014
S-printing Solution Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Ji Su Park, Suwon, KR;
Soo Hwan Bae, Seoul, KR;
Dong Woo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Dong Jin Seol, Suwon, KR;
Jun Tae Kim, Suwon, KR;
S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A fixing device including fixing belt, a heat source to heat the fixing belt, a rotating member in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, a nip forming member to pressurize the fixing belt, thereby forming a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt and rotated together with the fixing belt. A rotation center of each of the sliding members is on an upstream side compared to a rotation center of the rotating member along a feeding direction of a printing medium, and a shortest distance between a tangential line of an outer circumferential surface of each of the sliding members and the rotation center of the rotating member is equal to or greater than a shortest distance between the fixing nip and the rotation center of the rotating member.