Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device for correcting movement direction of fixing belt by swinging pressure roller, and image forming apparatus provided with same
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Application No.: US17692595Application Date: 2022-03-11
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Publication No.: US11835895B2Publication Date: 2023-12-05
- Inventor: Minoru Tomiyori
- Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Sakai
- Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sakai
- Agency: ScienBiziP, P.C.
- Priority: JP 21051060 2021.03.25
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a fixing belt; a facing member disposed on an inner side of the fixing belt; a pressure roller that presses against the fixing belt toward the facing member from outside to form a fixing nip area; a heat source; a non-passage area temperature measurer that measures a temperature of a sheet non-passage area; a pressure roller swinger that swings one end side of the pressure roller in a direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the fixing nip area; and a controller that performs meandering correction control for correcting a movement direction of the fixing belt by causing the pressure roller swinger to swing the pressure roller, and the controller has such a movement mode as to cause the pressure roller swinger to forcibly move the fixing belt in a direction away from the non-passage area temperature measurer while rotating the fixing belt.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220308510A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME Public/Granted day:2022-09-29
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