Fixing device and image forming apparatus with temperature control

    公开(公告)号:US10852673B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16668438

    申请日:2019-10-30

    发明人: Ken Iguchi

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: A fixing unit includes a heater, a fixing member, a press roller, a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The fixing member is heated by heat generated by the heater. The press roller forms a nip portion through which a medium having a fixing target material transferred thereto passes, between the press roller and the fixing member. The sensor measures a temperature of the fixing member. The processor controls the temperature of the fixing member so as to be a target value by acquiring the temperature detected by the sensor in a first period, and also acquires the temperature detected by the sensor in a second period shorter than the first period. The memory records the temperature acquired in the second period.

    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200064761A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16668438

    申请日:2019-10-30

    发明人: Ken Iguchi

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: According to an embodiment, a fixing device includes a heater, a fixing member, a press roller, a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The fixing member is heated by heat generated by the heater. The press roller forms a nip portion through which a medium having a fixing target material transferred thereto passes, between the press roller and the fixing member. The sensor measures a temperature of the fixing member. The processor controls the temperature of the fixing member so as to be a target value by acquiring the temperature detected by the sensor in a first period, and also acquires the temperature detected by the sensor in a second period shorter than the first period. The memory records the temperature acquired in the second period.

    Image forming apparatus and method of controlling an image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10289053B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15276438

    申请日:2016-09-26

    发明人: Ken Iguchi

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a first sheet storage, a second sheet storage, an image forming unit, a sheet conveyer configured to convey sheets from the first and second sheet storages to the image forming unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to set new sheets as a type of sheets stored in the first sheet storage and image-decolored sheets as a type of sheets stored in the second sheet storage, switch a sheet feeding source from the first sheet storage to the second sheet storage when the first sheet storage runs out of sheets during execution of a first image forming job that includes no sheet post-processing, and stop image forming by the image forming unit when the first sheet storage runs out of sheets during execution of a second image forming job that includes sheet post-processing.

    Decolorizing apparatus
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10131174B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15903071

    申请日:2018-02-23

    IPC分类号: B41M7/00

    摘要: An erasing apparatus of embodiments has a color erasing device, the color erasing device has: a first heating member; a second heating member provided at a position facing the first heating member so as to form a nip portion therebetween through which the sheet is passed; a halogen lamp configured to heat the second heating member from outside thereof; and a reflector provided at a position opposite to the second heating member with the halogen lamp interposed therebetween and having a reflective surface configured to reflect heat received from the halogen lamp toward the second heating member, the reflector forming a guiding section configured to be in sliding contact with the sheet being conveyed so as to guide the sheet to the nip portion, the guiding section being heated by the halogen lamp.

    Decoloring apparatus and method
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10118428B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15253422

    申请日:2016-08-31

    发明人: Ken Iguchi

    摘要: A decoloring apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit, a scanner, a decoloring unit, and a controller. The decoloring unit decolors the image on the sheet conveyed through the sheet conveying unit. The decoloring unit is positioned downstream of the scanner in a sheet conveying direction. A distance along the sheet conveying direction between the scanner and the decoloring unit is shorter than a length of a first predetermined sheet size and longer than a length of a second predetermined sheet size. A controller determines whether the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit is the first predetermined sheet size or the second predetermined sheet size. The controller performs a mode limiting process if the sheet size is determined to be the first predetermined sheet size.

    SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET BINDING PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20170305707A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-26

    申请号:US15427551

    申请日:2017-02-08

    发明人: Ken Iguchi

    IPC分类号: B65H43/00 B65H37/04

    摘要: A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a first sensor, a second sensor and a controller. The first sensor detects whether or not a staple for performing a binding processing is prepared in a stapler. The second sensor detects that an amount of the staples held by the stapler has become not more than a prescribed amount. The controller judges whether or not to transfer an operation mode of the sheet post-processing apparatus to a first operation mode to perform the binding processing by the stapler to the sheets to be manually fed, based on a detection result of the second sensor, and judges whether or not to perform the binding processing by the stapler, based on a detection result of the first sensor, after having transferred the operation mode to the first operation mode.