US Patent Application 18339143. FIXING APPARATUS simplified abstract
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FIXING APPARATUS
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FIXING APPARATUS - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 18339143 Titled 'FIXING APPARATUS'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes a fixing apparatus that includes several components such as a fixing belt, a steering roller, a pressure rotation member, and a contact-separation mechanism. The contact-separation mechanism is responsible for moving the pressure rotation member between a position where it is in contact with the fixing belt and a position where it is separated from the fixing belt. The swing of the steering roller is controlled to ensure that the fixing belt moves to a specific position in the width direction. The abstract also mentions that the distance between the center position of the fixing belt and the center position of the range of movement of the fixing belt is smaller in the separated state compared to the contact state.
Original Abstract Submitted
A fixing apparatus includes a fixing belt, a steering roller, a pressure rotation member, and a contact-separation mechanism. The contact-separation mechanism moves the pressure rotation member to a position where the pressure rotation member is in a contact state with the fixing belt and a position where the pressure rotation member is in a separated state from the fixing belt. Swing of the steering roller is controlled so that the fixing belt moves to a predetermined position in a fixing belt width direction. A distance between a center position of the fixing belt in tilting the steering roller for a first time after the center position is separated from a center position of a range of movement of the fixing belt and the center position of the range of movement of the fixing belt in the width direction is smaller in the separated state than in the contact state.
