Image forming apparatus and fixing device controller

    公开(公告)号:US09886000B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-06

    申请号:US15251010

    申请日:2016-08-30

    CPC classification number: G03G21/1685 G03G15/2064 G03G2215/00514

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that includes a pressing unit and a heating unit provided facing the pressing unit, an image-forming-apparatus body in which the fixing device is housed and to and from which the fixing device is attachable and detachable, a fixing-device-attachment-detachment-detecting member that detects attachment or detachment of the fixing device to or from the image-forming-apparatus body, and a controller that controls, if the fixing-device-attachment-detachment-detecting member detects the detachment of the fixing device from the image-forming-apparatus body, the image-forming-apparatus body to take a position where the pressing unit and the heating unit are to be pressed against each other.

    Heating unit insertable through an open end of a hollow portion, driving-force transmission unit and bearing portion

    公开(公告)号:US10901352B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US16398284

    申请日:2019-04-30

    Inventor: Yusuke Sakurai

    Abstract: A heating device includes a hollow portion that has an endless loop shape in a rotation direction and that has open ends in a rotation-axis direction, at least one heating unit that includes a heat-generating portion and that is inserted in the hollow portion, the heating unit being configured to heat the hollow portion from a space enclosed by the hollow portion as a result of heat generation of the heat-generating portion, and a driving-force transmission unit that is fixed to an end portion of the hollow portion in the rotation-axis direction and that transmits a driving force, which is transmitted to the driving-force transmission unit by a driving source, to the hollow portion so as to rotate the hollow portion, the driving-force transmission unit having an opening that is in communication with an interior of the hollow portion. The heat-generating portion is disposed at a position that does not overlap the driving-force transmission unit in the rotation-axis direction.

    Fixing device and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10175621B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15792757

    申请日:2017-10-25

    Abstract: A fixing device includes a roller member that rotates and a belt member including an endless belt that moves circularly while being in contact with the roller member, a pressing member that is disposed in a space enclosed by the endless belt and that presses the endless belt against the roller member on both a downstream side and an upstream side relative to a direction of rotation of the roller member, and a rotation hindering member that is disposed in the space enclosed by the endless belt and that hinders the pressing member from rotating as a result of receiving a reaction force. The roller member and the endless belt nip a sheet that has been transported while holding a toner image on the sheet and cause the sheet to pass between the roller member and the endless belt, so that the toner image is fixed onto the sheet.

    Fixing device and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10175618B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15795268

    申请日:2017-10-27

    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first fixing member, a second fixing member that fixes a toner image transferred to a recording medium onto the recording medium by transporting the recording medium while holding the recording medium between the first fixing member and the second fixing member, a first support member that supports the first fixing member, a forcing member that supports the second fixing member and presses the second fixing member against the first fixing member, and a restricting member disposed on the first support member to fix a position of the first support member at an attachable member to which the first support member is attached, and to restrict a position of the forcing member.

    Pressure member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US09897955B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-20

    申请号:US15233118

    申请日:2016-08-10

    Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotatably-supported first fixing member and a second fixing member pressed against the first member. The second member includes a belt-shaped component, a support component, and a pressing component. The belt-shaped component extends in a width direction of a medium passing through a contact region between the belt-shaped component and the first member. The support component is disposed opposite the first member with the belt-shaped component interposed therebetween. The pressing component has a base end supported by the support component and a free end extending toward the contact region and presses the belt-shaped component against the first member. The pressing component has biasing portions arranged apart in the width direction and elastically deformable in correspondence with the medium thickness. The biasing portions are connected in the width direction by the free end. The free end is disposed at an upstream side in a medium transport direction.

    Fixing device and image forming apparatus for transmitting heat to belt
    7.
    发明授权
    Fixing device and image forming apparatus for transmitting heat to belt 有权
    固定装置和用于将热传递到带的图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US09581947B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-28

    申请号:US15055953

    申请日:2016-02-29

    CPC classification number: G03G15/2053 G03G2215/2035

    Abstract: A fixing device includes a heater and a presser. The heater includes an endless heating belt that rotates while heating a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image. The presser presses against the recording medium in cooperation with the heater to fix the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium. The heater further includes a first plate body extending to form a contact region in contact with an inner surface of the belt, a heat source nipping the first plate body in cooperation with the belt in the contact region, and a second plate body disposed opposite the first plate body with the heat source interposed therebetween and extending at a distance from the heat source. The first plate body has relatively higher heat absorptivity than the second plate body. The second plate body has relatively higher heat reflectivity than the first plate body and is in contact therewith.

    Abstract translation: 定影装置包括加热器和压脚。 该加热器包括一个循环加热带,在加热携带未定影调色剂图像的记录介质的同时旋转。 压头与加热器协作地压靠记录介质,将未定影的调色剂图像固定在记录介质上。 所述加热器还包括延伸以形成与所述带的内表面接触的接触区域的第一板体,与所述接触区域中的所述带一起夹持所述第一板体的热源,以及与所述接触区域相对设置的第二板体 第一板体,其间插入有热源并且与热源一段距离延伸。 第一板体具有比第二板体相对更高的热吸收率。 第二板体具有比第一板体相对更高的热反射率并与其接触。

    Image forming apparatus
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09760057B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-12

    申请号:US15207878

    申请日:2016-07-12

    CPC classification number: G03G21/1623 G03G21/1633 G03G2221/1654

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a cover that opens and closes an opening of an apparatus body, a unit removable from the apparatus body through the opening, a latch that is included in the unit and that is rotatable about a rotation fulcrum, the latch including a hook that is latched onto a latched portion of the apparatus body from downstream in a mounting direction of the unit to fix the unit onto the apparatus body and an operating portion that opposes the hook across the rotation fulcrum and that is operable through the opening, and a hindering portion that is included in the cover and that interferes, when the hook rotates in a separating direction in which the hook is separated from the latched portion in a state where the cover closes the opening, with the operating portion and hinders the hook from rotating in the separating direction.

    Temperature detection device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
    10.
    发明授权
    Temperature detection device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus 有权
    温度检测装置,定影装置和成像装置

    公开(公告)号:US09454112B1

    公开(公告)日:2016-09-27

    申请号:US14994781

    申请日:2016-01-13

    CPC classification number: G03G15/2039

    Abstract: A temperature detection device includes a supporting body that includes end portions and a middle portion and that is elastically deformed by being pressed by an object to be detected, both of the end portions being supported at positions separated from the object to be detected, the supporting body having an initial shape such that the middle portion bulges in an arc shape to a position beyond the object to be detected when the supporting body does not receive an external force from the object to be detected; and a temperature detection element that is supported by a contact portion of the supporting body that contacts the object to be detected.

    Abstract translation: 温度检测装置包括支撑体,其包括端部和中间部分,并且被被检测物体按压而弹性变形,两个端部被支撑在与待检测物体分离的位置处,支撑体 主体具有初始形状,使得当支撑体不受到来自被检测物体的外力时,中间部分以弧形凸出到超过待检测物体的位置; 以及温度检测元件,其由与被检测体接触的支撑体的接触部支撑。

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