Electrophotography – Image formation – Fixing
Patent
1998-05-20
1999-11-30
Grimley, Arthur T.
Electrophotography
Image formation
Fixing
399397, 399400, G03G 1520
Patent
active
059957972
ABSTRACT:
In an image forming apparatus provided with a first image carrying member; a belt-shaped second image carrying member onto which a toner image is transferred from the first image carrying member; a pair of rotatable fixing members forming a nip region for fixing the toner images transferred on the both sides of the sheet; a conveying device for guiding the sheet separated from an end of the belt-shaped second image carrying member to the pair of rotatable fixing members, when the sheet is nipped and conveyed through the nip region of the pair of rotatable fixing members, the belt-shaped second image carrying member and the pair of rotatable fixing members are arranged such that the sheet is conveyed so as to form a loop protruding from a line connecting the entrance of the nip region and the end of the belt-shaped second image carrying member.
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Haneda Satoshi
Miura Toshihide
Nagase Hisayoshi
Sato Yotaro
Shigeta Kunio
Grimley Arthur T.
Konica Corporation
Tran Hoan
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