摘要:
A fixing apparatus is provided that enables a recording medium that has undergone heat-fixing to be separated smoothly from a heating medium without causing a sheet jam or image disturbance. In this apparatus, there are provided on the guide surface of a separator two step parts raised along the guide surface guide width direction. Recording paper is transported gripped by a fixing nip, is guided so as to come into contact with only the apex parts of step parts, and is separated from the surface of a fixing belt. Thus, a gap is formed between the guide surface and the heat-fixing surface of recording paper guided along the guide surface, the contact area between the heat-fixing surface of recording paper and the guide surface decreases, the heat-fixing surface of recording paper becomes less prone to adhere to the guide surface of the separator, and recording paper is smoothly separated from the fixing belt without causing a sheet jam or image disturbance.
摘要:
A fixing device as an image heating device is provided, by which a difference in glossiness is not caused in a recording medium in the axial direction of a pressure roller. When a print request is issued during the end-processing sequence, an electric power applied to a magnetization coil via an exciting circuit is dropped to 0 by controlling means during the start-processing sequence, and after an appropriate interval, the heating with full power is restarted by the controlling means. By so doing, the decrease in temperature at both ends of a fixing belt and a heat-generating roller in the axial direction can be compensated.
摘要:
An image heating device is provided with reduced cost, by which a difference in glossiness among printed images on recording media is eliminated, and the wrapping of a belt and the like at a high temperature is prevented. In the image heating device, a controller estimates a temperature of a pressure roller according to at least one of a temperature of a belt detected by a temperature sensor and a variation with time in the detected temperature from completion of the heating after application of an electric power to the magnetization coil by an exciting circuit is stopped and the heating of the belt by the heating roller is stopped, so as to determine a set temperature for the belt in a subsequent image heating period.
摘要:
A fixing device is formed by using a heat generating roller having magnetism and electric conductive characteristics and a magnetizing coil opposed to the outer peripheral of the heat generating roller and generating heat on the heat generating roller by an electromagnetic induction. The magnetizing coil is formed in such a manner that 60 copper wires whose surfaces are insulated and have the outside diameter of 0.2 mm are bundled to form a bundle of wires and the bundle of wires is drawn in the direction of rotation axis of the heat generating roller and wound in the direction of a circumference of the heat generating roller. Further, the magnetizing coil is disposed so that the bundles of wires mutually come into close contact along the circumference of the heat generating roller to cover the upper half of the heat generating roller.
摘要:
An image heating apparatus and heat generating rotary member for use in the image heating apparatus has a fixing roller including a magnetic metal layer and a non-magnetic metal layer, and the non-magnetic metal layer is provided on the outer side of the magnetic metal layer and is thinner than the magnetic metal layer.
摘要:
A fixing apparatus is provided that enables a recording medium that has undergone heat-fixing to be separated smoothly from a heating medium without causing a sheet jam or image disturbance. In this apparatus, there are provided on the guide surface of a separator two step parts raised along the guide surface guide width direction. Recording paper is transported gripped by a fixing nip, is guided so as to come into contact with only the apex parts of step parts, and is separated from the surface of a fixing belt. Thus, a gap is formed between the guide surface and the heat-fixing surface of recording paper guided along the guide surface, the contact area between the heat-fixing surface of recording paper and the guide surface decreases, the heat-fixing surface of recording paper becomes less prone to adhere to the guide surface of the separator, and recording paper is smoothly separated from the fixing belt without causing a sheet jam or image disturbance.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that enables the occurrence of print defects due to a first print start time delay to be eliminated without using a temperature sensor that has a small thermal time constant. When the temperature of a fixing belt serving as an image heating body is greater than or equal to a predetermined temperature following the elapse of a fixed time after an image forming operation is started, recording paper is transported to a nip area (fixing area) of a fixing apparatus before the temperature detected by a temperature sensor reaches a predetermined image fixing temperature, and an image forming operation is started immediately.
摘要:
An image heating device is provided with reduced cost, by which a difference in glossiness among printed images on recording media is eliminated, and the wrapping of a belt and the like at a high temperature is prevented. In the image heating device, controlling means estimates a temperature of a pressure roller according to at least one of a temperature of a belt detected by a temperature sensor and a variation with time in the detected temperature from completion of the heating after application of an electric power to the magnetization coil by an exciting circuit is stopped and the heating of the belt by the heating roller is stopped, so as to determine a set temperature for the belt in a subsequent image heating period.
摘要:
In a fixing unit 230, a medium introducing port 250 is provided near a gripping part 230a of a housing 230, and a sheet material 90 to be subjected to a fixing process is guided to the medium introducing port. A shutter 260 is provided slanted at a given angle with respect to a gripping surface 240 of the gripping part 230a of the fixing unit 230 such that the shutter has a fulcrum at a part thereof, which is closer to the gripping part 230a of the fixing unit 230, at the medium introducing port 250, and the shutter 260 is turnable to a position to close the medium introducing port 250 while resisting the urging forces of the twisted springs 270.
摘要:
A fixing device capable of suitable fixing even after moving to a print mode by reducing overshoot at moving to a print mode, and an image forming device using this. A mode switching unit informs a set or switched print mode to a calorie control unit and a rotation speed control unit. The calorie control unit controls supply power to a fixing roller, a heating roller and a fixing belt, that is a heating output from a heating means consisting of the fixing roller, the heating roller and the fixing belt according to a print mode informed from the mode switching unit. Therefore, the image fixing temperature of a non-fixed image at the heating means can be maintained at a specified temperature corresponding to a print mode.