Fixing device and image forming device
Abstract
Abstract PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device and an image forming device, requiring short warm-up time and first print time, preventing the occurrence of fixing failure even if enhancing the speed of the device, and suppressing a problem that a non-paper-feeding area of a metal member or a fixing belt even if feeding continuously small-sized paper.SOLUTION: A fixing member forming a nip portion press-contacting on a pressurizing rotor through a fixing belt 21 to carry a recording medium, a pipe-shaped metal member 22 fixed so as to oppose to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt 21 and heated by a heater 25, and a reflecting member 24 installed between the heater 25 and a reinforcing member 23 and reflecting lights irradiated from the heater 25 toward the inner peripheral surface of the metal member are provided. The reflecting member 24 has reflecting surfaces 24b at both ends in a width direction which are movable to tilt toward a width direction center portion side.
Inventors
- 👤 Toshihiko Shimokawa
- 👤 俊彦 下川
- 👤 Masaaki Yoshikawa
- 👤 政昭 吉川
- 👤 Kenji Ishii
- 👤 賢治 石井
- 👤 Naoki Iwatani
- 👤 直毅 岩谷
- 👤 Tetsuo Tokuda
- 👤 哲生 徳田
- 👤 Yoshinori Yamaguchi
- 👤 嘉紀 山口
- 👤 Yutaka Ikefuchi
- 👤 豊 池淵
- 👤 Takamasa Hase
- 👤 岳誠 長谷
- 👤 Takahiro Imada
- 👤 高広 今田
- 👤 Akira Shinshi
- 👤 晃 進士
- 👤 Kenichi Hasegawa
- 👤 健一 長谷川
- 👤 Hiroshi Yoshinaga
- 👤 洋 吉永
- 👤 Ippei Fujimoto
- 👤 一平 藤本
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