Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US14666456Application Date: 2015-03-24
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Publication No.: US09389553B2Publication Date: 2016-07-12
- Inventor: Mineo Yamamoto , Isao Watanabe , Yasutaka Tanimura , Hiroshi Hiraguchi , Hiroshi Yamaguchi , Toshinori Inomoto
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2014-076903 20140403
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a plurality of heating units which individually heat a plurality of areas of a fixing member; an acquisition unit which acquires information on an image forming range and a non-image forming range of the recording sheet for each of the plurality of divided heating areas; and a control unit which performs first control for controlling the corresponding heating unit such that a contact portion of the image forming range of the recording sheet has a target fixing temperature when the image forming range contacts the fixing member at the contact portion of the image forming range, and second control for controlling the corresponding heating unit such that a contact portion of the non-image forming range of the recording sheet has a temperature lower than the fixing temperature when the non-image forming range contacts the fixing member at the contact portion of the non-image forming range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150286174A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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