摘要:
An image forming apparatus having a fixing device for fixing toner including wax on a transfer sheet including a fixing rotating member for fixing toner on the transfer sheet with a rotation thereof, and first cleaning member contacting to the fixing rotating member so as to remove melted wax on the fixing rotating member. A surface roughness Rz of the first cleaning member is not more than 1.6 μm.
摘要:
The fixing apparatus prevents transfer paper from sticking or jamming. This fixing apparatus is intended to fix polymerized toner on transfer material and has a heating roller and a pressure roller. The difference in hardness between the heating roller and pressure roller is 5 through 10 degrees in AskerC, and the hardness of the pressure roller is higher than that of the heating roller. A fixing nip portion, convex-shaped on the side closest to the heating roller, is formed between the heating roller and pressure roller and the nip pressure of the fixing nip portion is 24.5 N/cm or more.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus having a fixing device for fixing toner including wax on a transfer sheet comprising a fixing rotating member for fixing toner on the transfer sheet with a rotation thereof, and first cleaning member contacting to the fixing rotating member so as to remove melted wax on the fixing rotating member. A surface roughness Rz of the first cleaning member is not more than 1.6 μm.
摘要:
A fixing apparatus capable of preventing transfer paper from sticking or jamming, and an image recording apparatus equipped with the same. This fixing apparatus is intended to fix polymerized toner on transfer material and has a) a heating roller having a cylindrical cored bar, and a elastic layer and releasing layer provided around said cylindrical cored bar, b) a pressure roller, in contact with the heating roller, having a cylindrical cored bar, and a elastic layer and releasing layer provided around the cylindrical cored bar, c) a first guide member provided opposite the pressure roller, and d) a second guide member. provided near the heating roller without contacting thereto. In this fixing apparatus, the difference in hardness between the heating roller and pressure roller is 5 through 10 degrees in AskerC, And the hardness of the pressure roller is higher than that of the heating roller. Further, a fixing nip portion, convex-shaped on the side closest to the heating roller, is formed between the heating roller and pressure roller.
摘要:
A fixing apparatus includes a fixing roller, a fixing belt forming a nip between them, a heat source for heating at least one of the rollers, wherein a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image passes through the nip to perform fixing operation, and a flattener having a conveyance roller and a pressure contact member which is in pressure contact with the conveyance roller, which is provided downstream in the conveying direction of the recording medium of the nip. A convex shape of the nip formed by the fixing roller and the fixing belt, and a convex shape of a nip of the flattener formed by the conveyance roller and the pressure contact member are arranged to have opposite directions to each other, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the recording medium.
摘要:
A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image formed on a transfer sheet comprised of rotatable heating member having a thermo-conductive base material, a heat-resistive resilient layer provided to cover the outer surface of the thermo-conductive base material, and a heat-resistive releasing layer provided to cover the heat resistive resilient layer; and a rotatable pressure member to nip and transport the transfer sheet cooperating with the rotatable heating member, for fusing the toner image on the transfer sheet; wherein, hardness of the surface of heat-resistive releasing member measure by a micro hardness meter is 55 to 75° and the surface roughness Rz is 0.5-2.0 &mgr;m.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus equipped with a heat fixing device includes a heating member having an elastic layer on a substrate and a fluorine resin coated on the elastic layer, a pressure member having a substrate covered with a fluorine resin tube through an elastic layer or without the elastic layer in pressure contact with the heating member, and at least one heater as a heat source. The surface roughness of the fluorine resin of the heating member is greater than the surface roughness of the fluorine resin tube of the pressure member.
摘要:
This invention relates to an image forming apparatus including a fixing unit which includes a heat section having a resilient body and a release layer that covers the resilient body, and a press section having a resilient body and a release layer that covers the resilient body and pressed by the heat section, and which heats and fixes a transfer medium at a nip portion as a press contact portion of the two sections. This fixing unit satisfies at least one of the following three conditions: (a) the tensile strength of the resilient body of the heat section upon a lapse of an arbitrary use time is higher than its initial tensile strength or is not lower than the initial tensile strength by 0.5 MPa or more, (b) a relationship (H1−H0)−(h1−h0)≦0 is always satisfied where H0 is the initial surface hardness of the heat section, h0 is the initial surface hardness of the press section, and H1 and h1 are the surface hardnesses of the heat section and the press section, respectively, upon a lapse of the arbitrary use time, and (c) the modulus of impact resilience of the resilient layer of the heat section upon a lapse of the arbitrary use time is higher than its modulus of initial impact resilience before start of use, or is not lower than the modulus of initial impact resilience by 10% or more.
摘要:
A fixing device for use in an image forming apparatus capable of forming both-side images on a sheet which by using a sheet reversing and conveying device. The fixing device has a heat applying rotary body with an elastic layer made of rubber and a toner releasing layer on top thereof, for coming into contact with and heating a side bearing an unfixed toner image of a transfer sheet; a pressure applying rotary body with an elastic layer made of rubber and a toner releasing layer on top thereof, for fixing and conveying the transfer material by coming into pressure contact and rotating with the heat applying rotary body; and a heat applying source for heating at least one of said rotary bodies. The pressure applying rotary body has a micro-hardness smaller than that of the heat applying rotary body.
摘要:
A fixing device for use in an image forming apparatus capable of forming both-side images on a sheet by using a sheet reversing and conveying device. The fixing device has a heat applying rotary body with an elastic layer made of rubber and a toner releasing layer on top thereof, for coming into contact with and heating a side bearing an unfixed toner image of a transfer sheet; a pressure applying rotary body with an elastic layer made of rubber and a toner releasing layer on top thereof, for fixing and conveying the transfer material by coming into pressure contact and rotating with the heat applying rotary body; a drive source for driving one of the rotary bodies; and a heat applying source for heating one of the rotary bodies. The pressure applying rotary body has a micro-hardness smaller than that of the heat applying rotary body.