Fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image to a recording medium

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9501012
APP PUB NO 20160098001A1
SERIAL NO

14869622

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A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image to a recording material includes a cylindrical film, a heater configured to make contact with the film, the heater including a substrate and a heat generation resistor formed on the substrate, and a heat conduction member configured to make contact with a surface of the heater opposite to a surface thereof being in contact with the film, the heat conduction member having a higher thermal conductivity than that of the substrate, and being divided into parts in a generatrix direction of the film. The toner image formed on the recording material is fixed on the recording material by using heat of the film, and one of the parts of the heat conduction member is configured to make contact with the heater continuously from a center to an end of a heat generation region of the heater in the generatrix direction.

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  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Imaizumi, Toru Kawasaki, JP 57 389
Minamishima, Yasuhito Odawara, JP 23 206
Narahara, Takashi Mishima, JP 52 405
Ogawa, Kenichi Kawasaki, JP 135 1366
Tanaka, Masashi Kawasaki, JP 196 2191
Umeda, Kensuke Kawasaki, JP 49 153
Yoshida, Tsuguhiro Yokohama, JP 54 177

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