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, a holder holding the nip forming member, a first stay supporting the holder, an urging member urging the first stay toward the rotator, a second stay, and a connector. The nip forming member is configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip. The first stay extends in a width direction parallel to the rotation axis. The second stay is positioned upstream of the first stay in a moving direction of the belt at the nip. The moving direction is perpendicular to the width direction. The connector extends through at least one of the first stay and the second stay to connect the first stay to the second stay.
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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inventional additional inventional
Hiroshi Kazuna Shuhei Kenji Tatsuo Tomonori
Handa Taguchi Fukue Takeuchi Ogasawara Watanabe