- Patent Title: Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming method
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Application No.: US15377278Application Date: 2016-12-13
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Publication No.: US10042295B2Publication Date: 2018-08-07
- Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshinaga , Kenji Ishii , Kazuhito Kishi , Takashi Seto , Takayuki Seki , Ippei Fujimoto , Misaki Shimizu , Kazunari Sawada
- Applicant: Hiroshi Yoshinaga , Kenji Ishii , Kazuhito Kishi , Takashi Seto , Takayuki Seki , Ippei Fujimoto , Misaki Shimizu , Kazunari Sawada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-253440 20151225; JP2016-220304 20161111
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt being applied with a lubricant on an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt. A pressure rotator presses against a nip formation pad via the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressure rotator. A radiant heater heats the endless belt. At least one contact heater heats at least one lateral end of the endless belt in an axial direction of the endless belt. At least one temperature detector detects a temperature of the endless belt. A controller controls the at least one contact heater to generate heat, controls the endless belt to rotate, and controls the radiant heater to generate heat sequentially based on the temperature of the endless belt that is detected by the at least one temperature detector.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170185015A1 FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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