Electrophotography – Image formation – Fixing
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-10
2008-06-10
Beatty, Robert (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Image formation
Fixing
C219S216000, C219S470000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07386265
ABSTRACT:
A fixing unit includes: a heat roller that is rotatably supported and that supplies heat for fixing; and a first and a second tubular heaters that are disposed in parallel in the heat roller along an axis thereof and that each have on an outer circumferential surface thereof one protruding residual fused tip, namely, tip portion. As viewed from a side end surface of the heat roller, the tip portions of the first and second tubular heaters are oriented directly opposite to each other with respect to the connection line connecting centers of the first and second tubular heaters.
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Ishii Kunihiko
Ito Hiroshi
Beatty Robert
Kyocera Mita Corporation
Smith , Gambrell & Russell, LLP
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