Patent ID: 8447218
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A fixing apparatus comprising: a fixing belt that is looped over a pair of rollers to rotate; and a pressurizing roller that comes into pressure-contact with the fixing belt, wherein the pair of the rollers is capable of coming close to/departing from each other, a regulating member that comes into contact with the meandered fixing belt to move in an axis direction is provided in one of the rollers, an adjustable member that causes the other roller to move in the direction orthogonal to the axis direction in linkage with movement of the regulating member is provided in the other roller, the adjustable member is regulated so as not to move in the axis direction as well as capable of being displaced in the direction orthogonal to the axis direction, the adjustable member is displaced in the direction orthogonal to the axis direction by movement of the regulating member, and one of the rollers comes close to/departs from the other roller, and the space between both rollers is adjusted according to meandering of the fixing belt so that the fixing belt is moved to one side.