Patent ID: 11934119
Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; and
a fixing device that includes:
a first transporter that is either one of a heating member and a pressing member;
a second transporter that is the other one of the heating member and the pressing member, and movable toward and away from the first transporter between a contact position and a separate position to hold a recording medium between the second transporter and the first transporter in the contact position; and
a transportation unit that transports the recording medium along the first transporter to a nip area where the first transporter and the second transporter hold the recording medium therebetween while the second transporter is located in the separate position,
wherein the second transporter is arranged on a side of a surface having an unfixed image transferred to the to-be-transported object, and moves from the separate position to the contact position, in a state where the recording medium transported to the nip area by the transportation unit is in contact with and held by the first transporter, to hold the recording medium between the second transporter and the first transporter to fix the image on the recording medium formed by the image forming unit onto the recording medium,
wherein the second transporter holds the recording medium between the second transporter and the first transporter after a trailing end of the recording medium passes through the image forming unit.