Fixing belt, fixing unit and image forming apparatus

Details Fixing belt, fixing unit and image forming apparatus Fixing belt, fixing unit and image forming apparatus

2011-02-08

2011-02-08

Gray, David M (Department: 2852)

Electrophotography

Image formation

Fixing

Reexamination Certificate

active

07885593

ABSTRACT:
In a fixing unit which drivingly rotates an endless fixing belt having a lubricant applied to an inside surface thereof and which presses the fixing belt against a recording medium formed with a toner image thereon thereby fixing the toner image to the recording medium, the inside surface of the fixing belt is formed with a plurality of grooves extended along a circumferential direction of the fixing belt or extended from a widthwise center of the fixing belt toward the opposite ends thereof as inclined in a moving direction of the fixing belt.

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Machine translation of JP 2005-003781 A.
Machine translation of JP 2002-025759 A.

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