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7106985 Image forming system having a temperature controlled fixing unit  
An image forming system has: a manuscript image reading device to scan a manuscript and obtain shade information on the manuscript; an exposure/development device to record a charged latent image...
7103293 Fixing unit with cooling section and image forming apparatus with cooling section  
A heating section ( 1 ) heats a fixing roller ( 10 ). A cooling section ( 2 ) cools the interior of a unit or apparatus. A temperature detecting section ( 3 ) detects the temperature of the fixing...
7092652 Device and method for controlling the turn-on time of plural heater lamps  
Following the end of warm-up, a control unit confirms whether the warm-up time is 10 seconds or more. If the warm-up time is 10 seconds or more, the control unit controls a maximum lamp turn-on...
7088946 Adjusting gloss for a print image  
Adjusting a gloss for a print image by adjusting the cooling of the print image. Further, a toner for a printing press adjusting gloss by adjusting cooling includes 1% to 30% aliphatic...
7088935 Heater, and image forming apparatus, heating method incorporating same  
A fixer (heater) includes a heat roller and a pressure roller pressing each other. The fixer heats a heated material by passing the heated material through a press region where the heat roller and...
7088937 Image fixing device with phase controlled heaters  
An image fixing apparatus has a first rotatable member heated by a first heater and a first temperature detecting element for detecting its temperature; a first controller for controlling electric...
7088936 Power control system for fusing system with external heater  
There is provided a fusing system. The fusing system includes a fuser roller, a pressure roller arranged parallel to the fuser roller for providing pressure to a medium passing between the fuser...
7082283 Fixing unit and image forming apparatus  
A fixing device, comprising a heating roller being rotatable and having a rotating circumferential surface to come in contact with a recording medium holding non-fixed developing agent images so as...
7079782 Fuser and temperature control method  
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fixing apparatus having a non-contact temperature detecting unit which detects temperature by sensing infrared rays emitted...
7079781 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
An image forming apparatus includes: a recording-media supplying tray for storing a recording medium; a print section for printing an image on the recording medium; a storing section for storing an...
7072600 Image forming apparatus with fixing unit for fixing image  
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming a developer image on a recording medium ( 22 ), a fixing unit ( 21 ) for fixing the developer image on the recording medium (...
7065309 Image forming apparatus with variable fixing heat  
An image forming apparatus has a fixing unit that applies heat energy to non-fused developer on a medium. The medium is advanced in a transport path and a heater supplies heat energy to the fixing...
7062187 Fixing device for use in image forming apparatus  
In a fixing device of an image forming apparatus including a heating roller and a temperature detecting device spaced apart from the roller, having a first sensor for detecting the surface...
7062184 Image formation device and sheet material selection device  
An IOT controller of an image formation device is provided with an NvRAM. Correction coefficients relating to various parameters, which are specified for each of paper types in advance, are stored...
7062188 Image heating device, image forming apparatus, image copying machine, and method for controlling temperature  
An image heating device is operational to estimate a temperature of a pressure roller so as to determine a set temperature for a roller belt in a subsequent image heating period.
7057141 Temperature control method and apparatus  
A thermal mass is characterized by a reference temperature. A thermal interrupter thermally interrupts the thermal mass upon contact. A look ahead processor examines the thermal interrupter ahead...
7058329 Fixing apparatus  
Image heating apparatus includes an image heating rotation member, for heating an image on a recording material, a driving device rotationally driving the image heating rotation member, an external...
7058330 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on a recording medium. A heat source is applied with power for generating heat to...
7054573 Heating apparatus  
The heating apparatus includes a first temperature detecting element disposed at least in proximity to a moving member, a second temperature detecting element for detecting the temperature of the...
7054572 Method and apparatus for selective fuser rolling cooling  
The present invention is in the field of electrophotographic printers and copiers. More specifically this invention relates to the fuser apparatus used to fuse an image on a receiving sheet....
7049562 Induction heating device, induction heating fixing device and image forming apparatus  
An induction heating device for inductively heating an object to be heated which is formed of conductive material has a holder. The device also has a coil for inductively heating the object. The...
7046364 Method and apparatus for matching gloss levels of printed and unprinted regions of a media substrate  
A method and apparatus for matching the gloss level of a printed region of a media substrate surface to the gloss level of a non-printed region of the media substrate surface are provided. Optical...
7039335 Temperature sensor, heat fixing device, and image forming device  
A temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of a heating roller contacts the heating roller with the bottom surface of a contact section provided on the front end of the temperature sensor....
7039336 Fixing device and image forming apparatus  
A fixing device has a magnetic field generator; an electric power supplier for electric power supply to the magnetic field generator; electric power controller for controlling an electric power...
7031626 Fixing roller system and method  
The invention relates to the use of roller fusing in printing. In particular, the invention relates to the use of heated rollers. According to one aspect of the invention, a fixing process and...
7031624 Image formation apparatus for providing a predetermined temperature lowering period in which the temperature of a fixing unit is reduced  
A printer control unit starts operations related to next image information signals following a predetermined period required for executing post-processing operations after thermally fixing all...
7027764 Heating device and image forming apparatus  
A heating apparatus has an excitation coil; magnetic flux generator having a magnetic member core, the magnetic member core having a first magnetic core supported with a holder for the excitation...
7027749 Fixing device and image forming apparatus  
A center thermostat ( 16 ) corresponding to a center heater in a heat roller ( 10 ) and a side thermostat ( 17 ) corresponding to a side heater in the heat roller ( 10 ) are so installed that the...
7022944 Image forming apparatus preventing excessive increase in temperature of fixing device  
An image forming apparatus including a fixing device that has a rotatable endless belt, a contacting member to contact the rotatable endless belt, a rotatable pressing member contacting the...
7012222 Method and apparatus for controlling a heat source  
An apparatus and method of controlling the driving of a heat source using an AC voltage. If the temperature of the heat source is lower than a reference temperature and the level of the AC voltage...
7010241 Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and fixing device thereof  
An image forming apparatus having a forming unit which forms an image onto a recording medium on the basis of acquired image information, a fixing unit which fixes the formed image by heating the...
7010257 Method of fixing toner on recording medium  
The fixing unit satisfies following three conditions. That is, (1) 2.4×10 3 ×d/(TC×t)<T 0 , where d is a thickness of the unfixed toner layer in meters, TC is a thermal conductivity of toner...
7003240 Induction-heating fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus  
An induction-heating fixing apparatus comprising: a heating member for fixing a toner image to a recording material carrying the toner image by heating the toner image; an induction-heating coil...
7003239 Image forming apparatus and fixing temperature control method for the apparatus  
A temperature control operation for a fixing device is performed based on a vertical synchronous signal Vsync periodically outputted in association with a cycling motion of an intermediate transfer...
6999692 Color image forming apparatus with temperature control  
A color image forming apparatus having a plural-color image print mode for successively forming images of plural colors, and a single-color image print mode for forming an image of a single color,...
6990299 Image fixing device with phase controlled heaters  
An image fixing apparatus has a first rotatable member heated by a first heater and a first temperature detecting element for detecting its temperature; a first controller for controlling electric...
6982781 Automatic fuser control  
A print job processing method at least includes: providing processing attributes for particular print stock, including a predetermined fuser dwell time; establishing a print job, including the...
6970664 Fixing apparatus which changes electric power supply to heating element based on image density  
An image forming apparatus capable of realizing low power consumption of a fixing means is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming means for forming an unfixed image t on a...
6964515 Temperature determining device, temperature correcting method, and image forming apparatus  
A temperature determining device is composed of a temperature detecting unit that detects a temperature of a determination object member based on an intensity of infrared rays from the object...
6952540 Image forming apparatus  
In an image forming apparatus, a first sequence group operates after input of a print signal and a second sequence group is started up at timing when a temperature T of a fixing device has reached...
6952541 Fixing apparatus  
A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material by heat has a pair of rotary members having a heat generating member, and rotatable in contact with each other, electric power...
6950616 Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus  
A fixing apparatus in which at least one temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of a fixing film and at least one temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of a...
6947679 Image forming apparatus and fixing temperature control method  
An image forming apparatus has sufficient fixing stability and load capacity and being free of sheet jamming and poor image formation. An image forming apparatus includes a transfer voltage...
6941087 Image forming apparatus and initialization control method therefor  
An immediate printing type image forming apparatus is provided of which the warm-up time is sufficiently shortened without causing any trouble to occur in the execution of image reading processing...
6941088 Fixing device, image forming apparatus, method  
A toner fixing device that includes a fixing member and a member formed opposite the fixing member so as to form a nip between the fixing member and the opposite member. The device is supplied with...
6937828 Duplex image forming apparatus with control of heat supplied by fixing member  
In a dual-side image formation, a fixing apparatus has a fixing member for fixing an image on the recording material by heat, a heat supply member for supplying heat from the exterior of the fixing...
6937827 Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same  
In accordance with the present invention, in an image forming apparatus including a fixing device for fixing a toner image on a sheet with heat at a nip between a fixing member accommodating a heat...
6931220 Image forming apparatus capable of shortening start up time of fixing device  
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing section, an energy saving power supply section supplied with power when a power switch is turned on, an energy saving control device activated by the...
6925271 Image forming apparatus and fixing apparatus  
An image forming apparatus has image forming means for forming an unfixed toner image on a recording material, heating and fixing means for heating and fixing the unfixed toner image on the...
6922541 Methods and apparatus for fusing an imaging substance onto an imaging media  
Apparatus and methods in accordance with the present invention relate to fusing of images to imaging media. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention includes defining an...