IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    43.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210389713A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US17336450

    申请日:2021-06-02

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a protectant applicator, a heating device, and a protectant biasing member. The protectant applicator applies protectant to the image bearer. The heating device includes a heater including a base, a heat generator, an electrode, and a conductor coupling the heat generator to the electrode. The heater has a first position and a second position having a higher temperature than the first position. These are symmetrical to each other with respect to a longitudinal center of a heat generation area of the heater. The protectant biasing member biases the protectant to the protectant applicator with a first biasing force at a position closer to the first position than to the second position and with a second biasing force larger than the first biasing force at a position closer to the second position than to the first, and the protectant contacts the protectant applicator.

    HEATER, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200249601A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16701686

    申请日:2019-12-03

    摘要: A heater includes a base and at least one resistive heat generator mounted on a face of the base. At least one electrode supplies power to the at least one resistive heat generator. A conductor couples the at least one electrode with the at least one resistive heat generator. A slide layer covers the at least one resistive heat generator and the conductor. The slide layer includes a projecting portion that defines a surface of the slide layer. The projecting portion is defined by a film thickness of at least one of the conductor and the at least one resistive heat generator. The projecting portion includes an upstream projection disposed opposite a lateral end of the base in a longitudinal direction of the base and a downstream projection disposed downstream from the upstream projection in a rotation direction of an endless belt that slides over the heater.

    HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200174407A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-04

    申请号:US16655367

    申请日:2019-10-17

    申请人: Yuusuke FURUICHI

    发明人: Yuusuke FURUICHI

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: A heating device includes an endless belt that rotates in a rotation direction and a pressure rotator that contacts an outer circumferential surface of the endless belt to form a nip between the endless belt and the pressure rotator. A heater sandwiches a lubricant together with the endless belt. The heater includes a heat generator that defines a conveyance span in a longitudinal direction of the heater, where a heating target having a predetermined width in the longitudinal direction of the heater is conveyed through the nip, and a non-conveyance span in the longitudinal direction of the heater, where the heating target is not conveyed. A non-conveyance span temperature detector is disposed opposite the endless belt in the non-conveyance span of the heat generator. The non-conveyance span temperature detector detects a temperature of the endless belt.

    HEATER, HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200033768A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16502473

    申请日:2019-07-03

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: A heater includes an electrode, a heat generator, and a plurality of layers including a first layer and at least one additional layer disposed in an opposite side with respect to a surface on which the electrode is disposed. The at least one additional layer includes at least one of a plurality of portions, a gap at a location corresponding to the electrode, existing between the plurality of portions and a single portion, at least a part of the single portion corresponding to the electrode, being relatively thinner than a part of the single portion corresponding to the heat generator.

    HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20190286027A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US16276807

    申请日:2019-02-15

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: A heating device includes a belt that rotates in a rotation direction and has a temperature decrease span in an axial direction of the belt, where the belt is susceptible to temperature decrease. A resistive heat generator is disposed opposite the belt. The resistive heat generator heats the belt and extends in the axial direction of the belt. The resistive heat generator includes a primary heat generating portion that generates heat in a first heat generation amount and a secondary heat generating portion that is disposed outside the primary heat generating portion and disposed opposite the temperature decrease span of the belt. The secondary heat generating portion generates heat in a second heat generation amount that is greater than the first heat generation amount of the primary heat generating portion.

    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    50.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190286026A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US16263634

    申请日:2019-01-31

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: A fixing device includes a heater including a heat generator that is divided into a plurality of heat generating portions in an axial direction of the endless belt. The heat generator defines a dividing region between adjacent ones of the plurality of heat generating portions and a non-dividing region other than the dividing region. A primary guide contacts and guides the endless belt. The primary guide is disposed opposite the dividing region of the heat generator and has a first thermal capacity. A secondary guide contacts and guides the endless belt. The secondary guide is disposed opposite the non-dividing region of the heat generator and has a second thermal capacity that is greater than the first thermal capacity.