US 11,892,787 B2
Fixing device for reducing belt damage
Tatsunori Izawa, Yokohama (JP); Takayuki Horie, Yokohama (JP); Yasuo Suzuki, Yokohama (JP); Satoru Furuya, Yokohama (JP); Satoshi Ohwada, Yokohama (JP); Hiroyuki Sato, Yokohama (JP); and Koichi Utsunomiya, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/918,221
Filed by HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed May 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/032917
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/242569, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-094461 (JP), filed on May 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0195014 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2053 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00143 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00151 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2035 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2038 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing device comprising:
a belt having a tubular shape and extending in a longitudinal direction, the belt having a longitudinal end forming an edge of the belt;
a drive roller to rotate the belt, to convey a print medium between the drive roller and the belt;
a bushing located at the longitudinal end of the belt, the bushing including a shoulder adjacent to the longitudinal end of the belt and a stem extending from the shoulder to an inside of the belt to support the belt; and
a guide wall adjacent to the bushing to guide the bushing to move along an arcuate path in a direction opposite to a conveyance direction of the print medium, when the belt moves toward the bushing.