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5899599 Fixing device and fixing method  
A fixing device capable of producing fixed images of excellent quality by using a thin-layer rotating heating member and a heating element capable of rapidly and directly heating a rotating heating...
5890032 Belt fusing accessory with selectable fused image gloss  
A belt fusing accessory, for a reproduction apparatus, the belt fusing accessory providing selectable image gloss. The belt fusing accessory, as disclosed, includes a heated fuser roller and a...
5890031 Safety device for a toner image fixing device  
Energy saving in a fixing unit having a low heat capacity is achieved by reducing a loss of heat transferring from a temperature sensing element to temperature sensing unit and by improving...
5887220 Electrophotographic printer sensing ambient conditions without sensors  
When an electrophotographic printer is manufactured, the initial electrical resistance of its transfer roller is measured and a corresponding value is stored in a memory device in the printer....
5881335 Gradational power saving technique for electrophotographic image forming apparatus  
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus employs a gradational power saving mode for reducing power consumption step by step with the passage of a print-waiting time. The apparatus raises a...
RE36124 Fixing apparatus  
A fixing apparatus for fixing an image on a record sheet . .comprises.!. includes a fixing roller in which a heater is disposed, a pressing roller urged against the fixing roller, heat pipes...
5875373 Image fixing device having means for controlling conveyance a transfer medium  
An image fixing device for heating and fixing an unfixed image on a recording medium has a heater, a measuring device for measuring the electrical energization time of the heater per unit time, and...
5872350 Paper fire Preventer  
A Nip Forming Fuser Roll (NFFR) fuser. The fuser is constructed to be self-stripping, that is, the roll contacted by the substrate carrying the toner images is fabricated from a relatively thick...
5869809 Non-drooping NFFR fuser  
A NFFR is disclosed which does not exhibit the phenomena of droop which can occur when the fuser switches from a standby to a run mode of operation. The elimination of droop is effected using an...
5862436 Fixing apparatus and method for electrophotographic apparatus including temperature detecting mechanism for heat roller  
A a fixing apparatus for an electrophotographic apparatus includes a heat roller (11a) having a heater (14) therein and a pressure roller (11b) urged against the heat roller, wherein a recording...
5854959 Adaptive fuser control for 180 CPM  
Image fix level and Input Output Terminal (IOT) faults are minimized. The foregoing are effected by reducing fuser roll temperature sag or droop which can be a problem during the initial portion of...
5847361 Belt fixing system and method therefor  
A belt fixing system includes a rotatably supported belt, a heating member for heating the belt, a pressure member which contacts with a circumference of the belt to form a nipping region therewith...
5839023 Fixing apparatus and control method thereof  
A fixing apparatus which is equipped with a heat roller that has a resistance heating member generating heat by means of current supply and which is constructed such that current is supplied to the...
5839038 Electrophotographic printer for reel paper having a thermal print fixing station  
An electrophotographic printer has an electro-thermally operating fixing station (23) with a heated fixing roller (86) and a feed roller (87) which can be pivoted on and away. With the aid of an...
5838590 Information processing apparatus  
This specification discloses an information processing apparatus in which the temperature of the atmosphere in the apparatus is detected by system temperature detecting means, the temperature of an...
5832332 Fixing unit for toner-based image recording apparatus  
In an apparatus for forming an image using a toner, a toner temperature is maintained below a protective temperature even in a high temperature environment, thereby preventing frequent operational...
5832330 Method and apparatus for controlling a temperature of a fixing roller in a printing/copying device  
In a fixing system used to an electrophotographic recording apparatus, when a fixing roller is heated to a temperature above a preset fixing temperature by a heater and then a thermistor senses...
5826128 Apparatus for processing photosensitive material  
A processing apparatus including a drying part provided with at least a drying fan and a drying heater to automatically develop a photosensitive material wherein the drying part further includes a...
RE35923 Fixing device, fixing method, and recording apparatus  
A fixing device for fixing the toner on the recording medium comprising a pair of fixing rollers which face each other and rotate in opposite direction to form a nipping and fusing section for...
5819136 Temperature control for a fixing device  
A control operation for a fixing device which may find application in an image forming apparatus such as a printer, facsimile, or copier machine, etc. The fixing device controls a temperature of a...
5819134 Fixing apparatus having a temperature control system for a plurality of heaters  
The present invention provides an image heating apparatus comprising a first heater, a second heater having a heat generating distribution different from that of the first heater, a heated member...
5812906 Fuser having thermoelectric temperature control  
A fuser for fixing toner, for example, toner images, includes thermoelectric control devices for controlling temperature. Preferably, the thermoelectric control devices are used to heat the toner...
5809367 Method of automatically controlling transfer voltage and fusing temperature in an electrophotographic printing apparatus  
A method of automatically controlling an electrophotographic printing apparatus' transfer voltage and fusing temperature according to the type of paper by an automatic mode change during manual...
5802421 Heating and fixing device with AC zero-cross detection circuit  
A heating and fixing device includes a heater for generating heat upon electric power supply thereto; a zero-cross detection device for detecting a zero-cross point of AC power supplied to the...
5801360 Image fixing apparatus  
A fixing apparatus includes a heat generating element for generating heat upon electric power supply thereto; a temperature detecting element a for detecting a temperature or the heat generating...
5794096 Induction type heat fixing device  
The present invention relates to an induction type heat fixing device. In the induction type fixing device, a high frequency current is supplied to a coil by switching an electric current supply to...
5790919 Method for controlling temperature of heater of image processing apparatus in accordance with consecutive image forming operations  
A method for controlling a temperature of a heating device in an image processing apparatus includes the steps of: setting the temperature of the heating device to a first temperature corresponding...
5787319 Fixing unit for use in image forming apparatus  
The invention provides a fixing device in which a temperature fuse melts quickly when a heat roller becomes overheated. The heat roller, to which pressure is applied by a pressure roller placed in...
5787321 Temperature controlling device for fixing unit  
A temperature controlling device for an electrophotographic imaging device which has a fixing unit including a heat roller, the fixing unit performing a fixing operation in which toner is fixed on...
5774763 Energy efficient fixing device having a fast response  
In an image forming apparatus, a fixing device has a structure in which a film formed on an outer face of a hollow cylinder is heated by a heat ray of a heater. In this structure, the heating...
5768654 Image forming apparatus with fixing temperature control  
An image forming apparatus has a fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording medium, a device for detecting an operating environment of the image forming apparatus, a selecting device...
5768655 Image forming apparatus and control method thereof  
An image forming apparatus having a first mode for image forming at a first recorded pixel density and a second mode for image forming at a second recorded pixel density that is higher than that in...
5765075 Temperature sensor and method and apparatus for using the temperature sensor and fixing apparatus in combination with a temperature sensor  
A temperature sensor which contacts with a curved-surface body to be measured to sense a temperature thereof is provided with a support member having a bow-shaped surface; a thin film strung and...
5754917 High temperature safety system for a fusing subsystem module for an electrophotographic printer  
A customer-replaceable module having a fusing subsystem therein for a electrophotographic printer or copier includes three separate devices for detecting potentially dangerous temperature...
5745247 Image forming apparatus having a controlled fixing unit  
An image forming apparatus for reading a document image, digitizing the resulting image data, and then forming an image on the basis of the digitized image data. The apparatus is selectively...
5742870 Method for regulating temperature of a fixing unit in an electrophotographic system  
A method for regulating a temperature of a fixing unit in an electrophotographic system contemplates the steps of preheating the fixing unit in response to application of electrical power to the...
5742865 Apparatus for controlling temperature of fixing device by increasing the temperature for each sheet of a continuous fixing operation  
An apparatus controls a temperature of a heat roller for fixing a developer material transferred on a print medium such as paper. The apparatus includes a controller, a sensor for detecting the...
5735604 Temperature sensor and temperature measuring system using the temperature sensor  
The invention relates to a sensor unit and a temperature measuring system that includes the sensor unit for the contactless determination of the object temperature (T v ) of at least a part of an...
5737664 Overheating prevention device for a fixing unit  
When the surface temperature of a heating roller exceeds a predetermined temperature, bearings that rotatably support the heating roller melt. Thus, a pressuring roller causes the heating roller to...
5724630 Image forming apparatus with standby temperature control of thermal fixing  
An image-forming apparatus which controls the temperature of the contained thermal fixing device on standby, based on the image formation history information on times of past image formations,...
5724628 Fixing device with endless belt and plural heaters  
A fixing device includes a rotatably supported endless belt and a nip forming member arranged outside the belt in circumferential contact therewith to form a nipping region. Heat generators are...
5724638 Fixing device for image forming apparatus  
A fixing device for an image forming apparatus having low heat losses. The fixing device consists of a fixing roller and a compression roller for abutting upon it under pressure. The fixing roller...
5708920 Toner-image fixing device with roller-temperature limitation  
A toner image fixing device realizes a stabilized fixing process by smoothly controlling a surface temperature of its heating roller, preventing peeling-off of a layer of the roller core. The toner...
5701555 Serial electrophotography apparatus and fixing temperature control method  
A conveying unit conveys a recording sheet. A carriage comprises a process unit for forming a latent image and developing it so as to produce a developed image on an image carrier having a rotation...
5701554 Fixing apparatus having controller for setting a target temperature and for estimating the amount of heat transferred to a pressure roller  
A fixing apparatus including a heating member and a pressurizing member that are in contact with each other under pressure to define a nip through which a sheet carrying an unfixed toner image is...
5697016 Image forming apparatus operable in horizontal and vertical installations  
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a sheet both in a horizonal installation and in a vertical installation of the apparatus. The image forming apparatus is...
5694226 Facsimile apparatus  
A facsimile apparatus which includes a heater for fixing an image on a recording member and a heater control unit for controlling the heater. A timer is provided for outputting a time and a time...
5682576 Fixing device  
In a fixing device used in an image forming apparatus, temperature changes in a heating member are reduced by gradually reducing a power supply duty ratio while the heating member is subjected to...
5666593 Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) sensor for a heat and pressure fuser  
A temperature sensor for use in connection with a heat and pressure roll fuser which minimizes the problem of gloss variation due to fuser roll wear caused by sensor contact with the fuser roll...
5659844 Fixing device for thermally fixing toner onto a paper sheet and having a controller for controlling the amount of heat received by the paper sheet  
A fixing device which changes the amount of heat received by a recording paper in accordance with a portion of the recording paper with respect to a paper transporting direction. The fixing device...