US 11,754,950 B2
Conveying device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
Masato Yamashita, Ebina (JP); Takayuki Yamashita, Ebina (JP); Yoshiki Shimodaira, Ebina (JP); Kosuke Yamada, Ebina (JP); Tetsuro Kodera, Ebina (JP); and Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Ebina (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/532,617.
Application 17/532,617 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/050679, filed on Dec. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-122265 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0082967 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); B65G 39/02 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2028 (2013.01) [B65G 39/02 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing device comprising:
a rotator to which a holder is attached so that a material to be conveyed is held, wherein the rotator rotates in a circumferential direction to convey the material to be conveyed;
a conveying roller to convey the material to be conveyed, wherein the conveying roller includes a recess for accommodating the holder;
a guide member comprising
a guider that guides the material to be conveyed on a downstream side of the conveying roller, and
a space in an intersecting direction intersecting the circumferential direction with respect to the guider, the space being where the holder moving by rotation of the rotation part passes through; and
a nip portion that has a nip area that nips the material to be conveyed between the conveying roller and a roller facing to the conveying roller or a belt facing to the conveying roller,
wherein the holder releases holding of the material to be conveyed after a front end of the material to be conveyed passes through the nip area.