Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus therewith
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Application No.: US15841737Application Date: 2017-12-14
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Publication No.: US10082754B2Publication Date: 2018-09-25
- Inventor: Kenichi Kasama , Akihiro Kondo , Kuniaki Nakano
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2017-001322 20170106
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G15/02 ; G03G21/02 ; G03G15/16

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a charger, and adjusting part. The fixing member heats toner images on media. The pressing member forms nips with the fixing member and presses the media. The charger uses a corona discharge that occurs in an electric field generated around a discharging electrode so as to charge the fixing member to a same polarity of toner in the toner images. The adjusting part increases a bias applied to the discharging electrode in accordance with increase of a cumulative number calculated by accumulating a number of the media on which the toner images are fixed or increase of a cumulative printing amount calculated by multiplying a printing rate that indicates a ratio of an area of the toner images to an area of the media by the cumulative number.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180196382A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THEREWITH Public/Granted day:2018-07-12
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