Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and image forming system having a controller that controls a rubbing treatment for a fixing roller of a replaceable fixing portion
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Application No.: US15218181Application Date: 2016-07-25
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Publication No.: US10031473B2Publication Date: 2018-07-24
- Inventor: Katsuya Nakama , Satoru Yamamoto , Masahiro Tsujibayashi , Yasuharu Chiyoda , Nobuhiro Kikuchi , Akinobu Nishikata , Akihiro Kawakita , Toshiyuki Miyake , Koji Yumoto , Riki Fukuhara
- 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: JP2015-151202 20150730; JP2015-151203 20150730; JP2015-151204 20150730
- Main IPC: G03G21/16
- IPC: G03G21/16 ; G03G15/20 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has an image forming station, a mounting portion, and a fixing portion that includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, a rubbing rotatable member configured to rub a surface of the first rotatable member during a rubbing treatment, and a storing portion capable of storing number information. A number of recording materials fed to the fixing portion is counted, written into the storing portion, and used to determine whether to execute the rubbing treatment. In a case in which, in sequence, the recording material is fed to the mounted fixing portion, the mounted fixing portion is removed and replaced with another fixing portion, and the removed fixing portion is remounted, both number information acquired from the storing portion and the number of recording materials fed to the remounted fixing portion are used to determine whether to execute the rubbing treatment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170031307A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-02-02
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