Electrophotography – Image formation – Fixing
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-27
2011-12-27
Gray, David (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Image formation
Fixing
Reexamination Certificate
active
08086159
ABSTRACT:
A fixing device and an image forming apparatus including the fixing device. The fixing device includes a heat source, an endless, flexible fixing member to fix a toner image by heating and melting the toner image onto a recording medium, a pressure member to press against the fixing member, a stationary facing member to face an inner surface of the fixing member and heat the fixing member while contacting the pressure member via the fixing member at a nip portion formed between the fixing member and the pressure member, and a reinforcement member to reinforce the facing member at the nip portion by contacting an inner surface of the facing member in a fixed manner.
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Gray David
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Ricoh Company Limited
Villaluna Erika
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