Toner image fixing apparatus capable of keeping constant fixing roller temperature
CA 2262852 A1 · Owner: Nitto Kogyo Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Hamada, Yasuhide; Higashi, Yuichiro
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A toner image fixing apparatus has a fixing roller, a pressing roller, and a heating roller. The pressing roller is normally urged toward the fixing roller for pressing a sheet with an unfixed toner image carried on a surface thereof against the fixing roller to fix the unfixed toner image to the sheet when the sheet passes in one direction through a rolling contact region between the fixing roller and the pressing roller. The heating roller is disposed on one side of the fixing roller opposite to the pressing roller. A first heat source is disposed in the heating roller for heating the heating roller, and a second heat source is disposed in the pressing roller for heating the pressing …
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- Filed February 23, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 23, 2019.
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