Patent ID: 6989516

Claim:
A heated member toner fusing system, comprising: a heatable fuser member including an image contact region that contacts an image receiving medium to melt toner that has been deposited on the image receiving medium, the heatable fuser member comprising a core of a thermally-conductive material and a ferromagnetic layer in sufficient contact with the heatable fuser member to establish a heat flow path between the ferromagnetic layer and the thermally-conductive core of the heatable fuser member, the ferromagnetic layer extending along a first portion of the heatable fuser member that is outside the image contact region, the ferromagnetic layer not extending along a second portion of the heatable fuser member that is inside the image contact region; and at least one electrical coil in proximity to the ferromagnetic layer, the placement of the at least one electrical coil promoting inductive coupling of the at least one electrical coil and the ferromagnetic layer such that, when electrical power is applied to the at least one electrical coil, inductive heating of the ferromagnetic layer results, the thermally-conductive core of the heatable fuser member being at least one of conductively and convectively heated across the heat flow path established with the inductively-heated ferromagnetic layer.