摘要:
In a fixing device for heating and melting a toner image and fixing it onto a transfer material, the fixing device has a fixing member surface which comes in contact with a toner image. The fixing member surface has at least a resin and an ion-conductive electrical resistance value controlling material having a melting point higher than a maximum temperature in the fixing device.
摘要:
A heater includes a base plate, and a resistor, extending in a longitudinal direction of the base plate, for generating heat when a power supply is applied thereto. A recess, such as a hole or groove, is formed in the base plate in a longitudinal portion of the resistor, to bias the base plate to break at the longitudinal portion and to open a circuit including the power supply and the resistor, to safely prevent overheating or smoking of the heater.
摘要:
An image fixing apparatus includes a heating member for heating an unfixed image carried on a recording material; a fixing temperature controller for providing a variable fixing temperature of the heating member; wherein when the fixing temperature is lowered, an interval of recording material supply to the heating member is increased.
摘要:
A fixing apparatus includes a heating member; a temperature detecting member for detecting the temperature of the heating member; a power supply controller for controlling the power supply to the heating member so that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting element during a fixing operation is maintained substantially constant at a predetermined fixing temperature; and a temperature selecting device for selecting a fixing temperature in response to both the temperature of the heating member before beginning of the fixing temperature control and a rate of the temperature change of the heating member upon supplying a predetermined amount of power to the heating member or upon turning it off.
摘要:
An image heating device which includes a heater; a temperature detecting element to detect a temperature of the heater; and a controller for controlling power supply to the heater, so that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting member is maintained at a predetermined temperature, and the controller controls the power supply to the heater, based on a rising speed of the temperature detected during a period from the time when the power supply to the heater is started till the time when the temperature reaches the predetermined temperature.
摘要:
A charging device including a movable member to be charged, and a charging member which is contactable to the member to be charged so as to charge the member to be charged, wherein the coefficient of dynamic friction between the member to be charged and a surface of the charging member contactable to the member to be charged is not lower than 0.4.
摘要:
An information recording apparatus, includes a semiconductor light source responsive to an information signal to be recorded to produce information light; a photosensitive member for receiving the information light produced by said semiconductor light source; a driver for supplying to said semiconductor light source an electric current I.sub.0 having a current level lower than a light emitting threshold current Ith of said semiconductor light source before said semiconductor light source is driven in accordance with the information signal to be recorded, so that said semiconductor light source heats itself by the application of the current I.sub.0. Thus when the apparatus is in a stand-by state, the semicondcutor light source is supplied with an electric current which has a lower level than the threshold level, so that the semiconductor light source is self-heated due to the low level current.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus is used in conjunction with a signal generator for producing an image signal representing an image to be recorded. The apparatus includes a device for forming a visible image with visible material on an image bearing member. The image is represented by the image signal produced by the signal generator. A time signal is also generated by a time signal generator and a measuring circuit measures the time signal so generated as a function of the production off the image signal by the image signal generator. Finally, a warning signal that indicates insufficiency of supply of the visible material for forming an image properly by the image forming device is produced on the basis of measurement of the time signal by the measuring circuit.