Merchant & Gould P.C.
Device including rotator and belt, such as a fixing device for an image forming apparatus
A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt and configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip, an urging member configured to urge one of the rotator and the nip forming member towards the other in a particular direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, an upstream guide and a downstream guide. The upstream guide includes an upstream guide surface configured to guide an inner peripheral surface of the belt. The nip forming member includes a facing surface which faces the rotator. An upstream edge of the facing surface in the moving direction is located at a position farther from the rotation axis, in the particular direction, than a downstream edge of the upstream guide surface.
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Tokifumi Hirotaka Kenji Hiroshi Shuhei Mingguang
Tanaka Imaeda Takeuchi Handa Fukue Zhang