Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus capable of imparting gloss to a desired portion of a recording sheet
- Patent Title (中): 能够对记录纸的期望部分赋予光泽的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12896657Application Date: 2010-10-01
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Publication No.: US08385806B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Daisuke Morikawa
- Applicant: Daisuke Morikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2009-253072 20091104
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit configured to feed a recording sheet, a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image to the recording sheet fed by the sheet feeding unit, a fixing unit configured to heat the toner image transferred to the recording sheet by the transfer unit, a gloss imparting unit configured to impart gloss to an arbitrary region of the recording sheet heated by the fixing unit, a calculation unit configured to calculate a shrinkage ratio of the recording sheet shrunk through heating by the fixing unit, and a correction unit configured to correct the region to which gloss is imparted by the gloss imparting unit according to the shrinkage ratio calculated by the calculation unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110103855A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-05-05
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