发明授权
US07483643B2 Image forming apparatus and moisture feeding device provided therewith
有权
图像形成装置和与其一起提供的湿气供给装置
- 专利标题: Image forming apparatus and moisture feeding device provided therewith
- 专利标题(中): 图像形成装置和与其一起提供的湿气供给装置
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申请号: US11480416申请日: 2006-07-05
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公开(公告)号: US07483643B2公开(公告)日: 2009-01-27
- 发明人: Masashi Kougami , Hirofumi Kayahara , Hisao Satoh
- 申请人: Masashi Kougami , Hirofumi Kayahara , Hisao Satoh
- 申请人地址: JP Tokyo
- 专利权人: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: JP Tokyo
- 代理机构: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
- 优先权: JP2005-245697 20050826; JP2006-123185 20060427
- 主分类号: G03G15/00
- IPC分类号: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/20 ; G03G21/00
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes: a moisture feeding unit which supplies moisture to a sheet when the sheet passes through a nip portion of a pair of porous rollers, which has a lower roller absorbing water and an upper roller absorbing water in contact with the lower roller, and comprises a water supplying unit which supplies water to the pair of porous rollers, after the sheet onto which a toner image has been formed by and image forming unit passes through a fixing unit. A contact of a contact member in contact with each of a circumference surface of the upper roller and the lower roller is released when a sheet jam occurs.