US 12,105,453 B2
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
Kosuke Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); Tetsuro Kodera, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiki Shimodaira, Kanagawa (JP); Masato Yamashita, Kanagawa (JP); Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP); and Takayuki Yamashita, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,521.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-191420 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0161283 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2053 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing device comprising:
a holding part that extends in a width direction of a recording medium being transported and that holds the recording medium;
a pair of circulating parts that are attached to both ends of the holding part and that circulate to transport the recording medium; and
a heating member that heats the recording medium in a non-contact manner and that is located in a space between the pair of circulating parts in the width direction; and
a reflection part that has a reflection area, parallel to a transport direction of the recording medium when under the heating member, that reflects the heat rays, that has side surfaces located on both sides of the heating member in the width direction and the heating member and the reflection area of the reflection part are disposed in this order from the side closer to the recording medium,
wherein outermost portions of the heating member are disposed within the pair of circulating parts in the width direction, and outermost portions of the side surfaces are disposed between outermost portions of the heating member and innermost portions of circulating part in the width direction.