Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt having a tubular shape and extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a longitudinal end, a drive roller to rotate the belt to convey a print medium between the drive roller and the belt, a bushing located at the longitudinal end of the belt, and a guide wall adjacent to the bushing. The belt is displaceable in the longitudinal direction relative to the bushing. The bushing includes a shoulder adjacent to the longitudinal end of the belt and a stem extending from the shoulder to an inside of the belt to support the belt. The guide guides the bushing to move in a direction opposite to a conveyance direction of the print medium when the belt moves toward the bushing. The stem of the bushing includes a convex portion that is in contact with an inner surface of the belt when the belt is displaced in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An endless belt includes a loop-shaped support and a surface layer formed on the support. The surface layer contains a polymer including, as monomer units, a first monomer having a polymerizable group and an aliphatic ring, a second monomer having a polymerizable group and a fluorine atom, and a third monomer having 4 or more polymerizable groups.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt having a tubular shape and extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a longitudinal end, a drive roller to rotate the belt to convey a print medium between the drive roller and the belt, a bushing located at the longitudinal end of the belt, and a guide wall adjacent to the bushing. The belt is displaceable in the longitudinal direction relative to the bushing. The bushing includes a shoulder adjacent to the longitudinal end of the belt and a stem extending from the shoulder to an inside of the belt to support the belt. The guide guides the bushing to move in a direction opposite to a conveyance direction of the print medium when the belt moves toward the bushing. The stem of the bushing includes a convex portion that is in contact with an inner surface of the belt when the belt is displaced in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer device to transfer an unfixed toner image to a print medium, a fixing device located along a conveyance path of the print medium, and a gloss applying device. The unfixed toner image includes clear toner that is associated with a gloss image to be formed. The gloss applying device receives the print medium including the unfixed toner image, to fix the unfixed toner image to the print medium by applying heat and pressure, and to cool the heated toner image to form the gloss image.

Abstract: An imaging system includes: an endless belt, a tensioning member, a heating member, a pressing member, a cleaning member. The endless belt conveys a printing medium. The tensioning member tensions the endless belt. The heating member heats the endless belt. The pressing member presses the endless belt against the heating member. The cleaning member is located outside the endless belt, between the tensioning member and the heating member, and presses the endless belt inwardly.

Abstract: An endless belt includes a loop-shaped support and a surface layer formed on the support. The surface layer contains a polymer including, as monomer units, a first monomer having a polymerizable group and an aliphatic ring, a second monomer having a polymerizable group and a fluorine atom, and a third monomer having 4 or more polymerizable groups.

Abstract: An imaging system includes: an endless belt, a tensioning member, a heating member, a pressing member, a cleaning member. The endless belt conveys a printing medium. The tensioning member tensions the endless belt. The heating member heats the endless belt. The pressing member presses the endless belt against the heating member. The cleaning member is located outside the endless belt, between the tensioning member and the heating member, and presses the endless belt inwardly.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a heating device, a conveyor belt including a surface layer located on an outer surface of the heating device to receive a printing medium, and a cooling device to cool the surface layer after the conveyor belt passes along the outer surface of the heating device. The surface layer includes a temperature sensitive material to vary an adhesive force of the conveyor belt with respect to the printing medium in response to a change in temperature of the surface layer. The adhesive force increases in response to an increase in temperature of the surface layer.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a heating device, a conveyor belt including a surface layer located on an outer surface of the heating device to receive a printing medium, and a cooling device to cool the surface layer after the conveyor belt passes along the outer surface of the heating device. The surface layer includes a temperature sensitive material to vary an adhesive force of the conveyor belt with respect to the printing medium in response to a change in temperature of the surface layer. The adhesive force increases in response to an increase in temperature of the surface layer.

Abstract: A zero string error detection circuit which detects a specified number of zeros occurring in succession in bipolar data. The detection circuit has a relatively small gate size achieved by making the shift registers in the B8ZS or B6ZS code conversion circuit serve also for zero string monitoring. The zero string error detection circuit includes a pair of shift registers which receive serial bipolar data and convert it to parallel data composed of a specified number of bits, a code detector which, upon detecting a specific code from the parallel outputs of the shift registers, issues a reset signal to the shift registers to make the outputs of the shift registers zero, a zero string monitor which issue a zero string error detection signal when the outputs of the shift registers become zero, and a gate which inhibits the zero string monitor from issuing the zero string error detection signal during a specific period when the code detector issues a reset signal.