IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220091558A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-24

    申请号:US17480154

    申请日:2021-09-21

    IPC分类号: G03G21/20

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a heating device including a heater, a developing device, and an airflow generation device. The heater includes a base, a heat generator, an electrode portion, and conductive portions. The conductive portions are disposed on one side and another side in a longitudinal direction in a heat generation region and spaced apart in a lateral direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. A maximum total value among total values of squares of current flowing in the conductive portions at longitudinal positions on the one side is larger than that on said another side. The developing device includes a rotating member and sliding portions. A sliding portion having highest temperature in operation is disposed on one side of the developing device being same as the one side of the heater in the longitudinal direction. The airflow generation device generates an airflow toward the one side of the developing device.

    Heater, heating device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11054772B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US16535350

    申请日:2019-08-08

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/08

    摘要: A heater for being attached to a heating device includes a base layer, a heat generator mounted on the base layer, an electrode mounted on the base layer, and a feeder mounted on the base layer. The feeder is interposed between the electrode and the heat generator. The feeder is configured to electrically connect the electrode to the heat generator. A positioner is configured to engage a counterpart of the heating device. The positioner is configured to position the heater in a longitudinal direction of the heater when the heater is attached to the heating device.

    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200249602A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16715348

    申请日:2019-12-16

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/01

    摘要: A fixing device includes an endless belt that rotates and a pressure rotator that rotates and presses against the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium bearing an image is conveyed. A heater is disposed inside a loop formed by the endless belt. The heater heats the endless belt. A conductor is disposed upstream from the pressure rotator in a recording medium conveyance direction and grounded. The conductor contacts and detects the recording medium.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200033766A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16391959

    申请日:2019-04-23

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a power controller that starts an examination mode by an external operation. The examination mode detects a temperature-resistance property of a resistive heat generator. The power controller supplies power at a predetermined power duty cycle to the resistive heat generator, The power controller obtains the power supplied to the resistive heat generator and a change in a temperature of the resistive heat generator, that is detected by a temperature detector, while the power controller supplies the power at the predetermined power duty cycle to the resistive heat generator. The power controller calculates the temperature-resistance property of the resistive heat generator based on the power and the change in the temperature that are obtained. The power controller adjusts a power duty cycle at which the power is supplied to the resistive heat generator based on the temperature-resistance property.

    HEATER, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20190278206A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-12

    申请号:US16269616

    申请日:2019-02-07

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: A heater includes a plurality of resistive heat generators electrically connected to each other in parallel. A power supply supplies power to the resistive heat generators. An electric current detector detects an electric current that flows through the resistive heat generators. A voltage detector detects a voltage applied to the resistive heat generators. An electric current controller controls the electric current that flows through the resistive heat generators based on the electric current detected by the electric current detector and the voltage detected by the voltage detector. The electric current detector detects the electric current in a state in which, after the power supply starts supplying the power to the resistive heat generators, an identical waveform of an alternating current supplied to the resistive heat generators continues for a predetermined time period or longer taken for the electric current detector to detect the electric current.

    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    10.
    发明申请
    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS 有权
    固定装置和图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US20150346662A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-03

    申请号:US14719506

    申请日:2015-05-22

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    CPC分类号: G03G15/2053 G03G2215/2035

    摘要: A fixing device includes an endless belt rotatable in a given direction of rotation and a thermal conductor to conduct heat from a heater to the endless belt. A pressure rotator is pressed against the endless belt to form a fixing nip therebetween. An abutment contacts the endless belt to restrict a trajectory of the endless belt to bring the endless belt into contact with the thermal conductor in a particular circumferential span spanning from a particular position upstream from the fixing nip to the fixing nip in the direction of rotation of the endless belt and to separate the endless belt from the thermal conductor in at least a part of an outboard circumferential span outboard from the particular circumferential span in the direction of rotation of the endless belt.

    摘要翻译: 定影装置包括沿给定旋转方向旋转的环形带和用于将热量从加热器传导到环形带的热导体。 压力旋转器被压靠在环形带上,以在它们之间形成一个定影辊隙。 支座接触环形带以限制环形带的轨迹,以使环形带与特定圆周跨度的热导体接触,该特定圆周跨度从跨过定影辊隙上游的特定位置到定影辊隙的旋转方向 环形带并且在环形带的旋转方向上的特定圆周跨度的外侧圆周跨度的至少一部分中将环形带与热导体分离。