Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15882184Application Date: 2018-01-29
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Publication No.: US10031455B2Publication Date: 2018-07-24
- Inventor: Masanobu Tanaka , Oki Kitagawa , Akiyoshi Shinagawa
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2014-206271 20141007; JP2014-206272 20141007
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion forming a toner image on a sheet, a rotatable heating member and a rotatable pressing member for fixing, at a nip, the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming portion, an executing portion for executing a cleaning mode for cleaning the rotatable heating member by introducing, into the nip, the sheet on which a predetermined toner image is formed by the image forming portion, a re-introducing mechanism for re-introducing the sheet, into the nip, which has passed through the nip and then has been turned upside down, and a shifting mechanism for shifting a sheet position so that when a single sheet is introduced twice into the nip in the cleaning mode by using the re-introducing mechanism, positional relationships of a first-time sheet and a second-time sheet relative to the rotatable heating member with respect to a widthwise direction of the rotatable heating member are made different from each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180150004A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-05-31
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