FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

A fixing device includes a fixing rotator being rotatable and a heater to heat the fixing rotator. The heater includes a tube, a heat generator, disposed inside the tube, to generate heat, and a sealing portion, disposed at each lateral end of the tube in a longitudinal direction of the heater, to s...

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Main Authors SAITO Kazuya, SHOJI Keitaro, SHIMOKAWA Toshihiko, ISHIGAYA Yasunori, TAKAGI Hiromasa
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.08.2017
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Summary:A fixing device includes a fixing rotator being rotatable and a heater to heat the fixing rotator. The heater includes a tube, a heat generator, disposed inside the tube, to generate heat, and a sealing portion, disposed at each lateral end of the tube in a longitudinal direction of the heater, to seal the tube. The sealing portion includes an inboard edge. A reflector reflects heat radiated from the heater toward the fixing rotator. The reflector includes an outboard edge being disposed inboard from the inboard edge of the sealing portion in an axial direction of the fixing rotator.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201715410179