Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Fixing apparatus for fixing polymerized toner by hard roller
A fixing apparatus that has a fixing member which makes contact with a recording material supporting an unfixed image formed of wax-containing toner on the unfixed image-supporting surface, the fixing member having a supporting material and a surface releasing layer formed on the supporting material and formed of a hard resin, and a pressing member which forms a nip which holds and conveys the recording material with the fixing member and that satisfies the following express:2.0&times;105&lE;F/S&lE;10.0&times;105 wherein F is the pressure-contact force (N) between the fixing member and the pressing member, and S is the area (m2) of the nip.
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G
G03G
inventional
Nobuaki Osamu Toshinori
Hara Watanabe Nakayama