US 11,693,342 B2
Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus
Hiroki Yamaguchi, Kanagawa (JP); and Terutaka Endo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/462,383.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-147503 (JP), filed on Sep. 2, 2020; and application No. 2021-130931 (JP), filed on Aug. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0066363 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2028 (2013.01) [G03G 21/1685 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing apparatus comprising:
a first rotating member which heats a recording medium;
a second rotating member which forms a nip portion with the first rotating member;
a holding member which is disposed downstream of the nip portion in a conveying direction of the recording medium and holds a conveying member which conveys the recording medium; and
a guide member which is disposed at a position which is located downstream of the nip portion in the conveying direction and faces the conveying member, and guides conveyance of the recording medium;
wherein the fixing apparatus is not exposed to an outside of an image forming apparatus in a case where an opening/closing member of the image forming apparatus is in a closed state, and the fixing apparatus is exposed to the outside in a case where the opening/closing member is in an opened state, the opening/closing member being adaptable to be opened and closed and being provided downstream of the guide member in the conveying direction,
wherein the holding member is at a first position in the case where the opening/closing member is in the closed state and a distance between the holding member at the first position and the guide member is a first distance, and the holding member can be displaced from the first position to a second position in the case where the opening/closing member is in the opened state and a distance between the holding member at the second position and the guide member is a second distance, and
wherein the second distance is shorter than the first distance,
wherein the conveying member is movably mounted to the holding member such that a distance between the conveying member and the guide member can be changed, and
wherein the holding member has a second urging member which urges the conveying member so as to move the conveying member in a direction which reduces the distance with respect to the holding member.