FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240184232A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18437725

    申请日:2024-02-09

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: A fixing device includes: a heating section that heats in a non-contact manner a front surface of a recording medium; a feeding section that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the heating section; and a maintaining section that, in order to enable the recording medium to be fed by the feeding section while a rear surface that is opposite to the front surface, and that is in an image region where an unfixed-image is formed on the front surface is in a non-contact state, maintains the non-contact state.

    Temperature control device and image forming apparatus including temperature control device

    公开(公告)号:US11822269B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US18084599

    申请日:2022-12-20

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: According to one embodiment, a temperature control device stores a fixing device temperature estimation value and a storage time obtained by WAE control in a memory at any time during operation. After an electric power supply to the temperature control device is stopped, the next time the electric power supply is started, an electric power supply stop period until the electric power supply is started is calculated. If the electric power supply stop period is shorter than a set time, the WAE control is started by using the stored fixing device temperature estimation value, and if the electric power supply stop period exceeds the set time, the WAE control is started based on an initial set value.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190025736A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-24

    申请号:US16027032

    申请日:2018-07-03

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a sheet discharge unit to stack sheets, an acquisition unit, and a controller. The fixing unit fixes a toner image formed on a sheet by the image forming unit. The acquisition unit acquires information corresponding to a maximum toner application amount per unit area of the formed toner image. The controller controls the number of image formations on the sheets per unit time based on the acquired information. The controller executes a first job with a first number of image formations on the sheets per unit time during a period from an Lth sheet to an Mth sheet in the first job, and executes a second job with a second and smaller number of image formations on the sheets per unit time during the period from the Lth to the Mth sheet in the second job.

    IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180188672A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-05

    申请号:US15905154

    申请日:2018-02-26

    发明人: Hiroki Kawai

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt for heating a toner image on a sheet; a first detector for detecting a temperature of one longitudinal end portion of the endless belt; a second detector for detecting a temperature of the other longitudinal end portion of the endless belt; and a controller for controlling whether or not notification of generation of an error is provided on the basis of a change amount per unit time of a difference in detection temperature between the first detector and the second detector.

    FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20180113404A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-26

    申请号:US15787875

    申请日:2017-10-19

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: A fixing apparatus includes: first switching unit for allowing or cutting off power supply from a primary-side circuit to a heater when power is supplied; and second switching unit for allowing or cutting off power supply from the primary-side circuit to a temperature acquiring portion when power is supplied, and the power supply to the heater can be allowed or cut off according to the temperature of the heater acquired by the temperature acquiring portion. In the fixing apparatus, a control portion cuts off power supply from the primary-side circuit to the heater and power supply from the primary-side circuit to the temperature acquiring portion by controlling operations of the first switching unit and the second switching unit with one signal.