Fixing apparatus equipped with sheet flattener

Details Fixing apparatus equipped with sheet flattener Fixing apparatus equipped with sheet flattener

2005-03-08

2005-03-08

Nguyen, Anthony H. (Department: 2854)

Electrophotography

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C399S328000

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06865366

ABSTRACT:
A fixing apparatus includes a fixing roller, a fixing belt forming a nip between them, a heat source for heating at least one of the rollers, wherein a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image passes through the nip to perform fixing operation, and a flattener having a conveyance roller and a pressure contact member which is in pressure contact with the conveyance roller, which is provided downstream in the conveying direction of the recording medium of the nip. A convex shape of the nip formed by the fixing roller and the fixing belt, and a convex shape of a nip of the flattener formed by the conveyance roller and the pressure contact member are arranged to have opposite directions to each other, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the recording medium.

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