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6496666 Image forming apparatus and method having an improved heating mechanism in fixing device  
A fixing device having an endless fixing belt configured to convey a sheet-like medium on which a toner image is to be fixed, heating and fixing rollers having the fixing belt wound thereon, and a...
6490423 Method of operating a xerographic fusing apparatus with multiple heating elements  
When powering up a xerographic fusing apparatus with two parallel lamps, power is applied to each lamp in a stair-step fashion, in which incremental increases in applied power for each lamp are...
6487381 Fixing apparatus in which heating conditions can be changed in accordance with temperature of releasing oil  
The present invention provides a fixing apparatus which has a fixing member for fixing an unfixed image onto a recording material, releasing agent applying device for applying a releasing agent to...
6466751 Image forming apparatus having a controller for controlling paper feed intervals  
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on paper has a controller for changing paper feed intervals of a feeding device based on a mode set by a setting device. The controller may stop the...
6453130 Fusing methods and apparatus for image-producing devices  
The invention includes apparatus and methods for fusing an image to a medium in conjunction with the use of an image-producing device. The image is formed by a substance which is applied to the...
6449445 Image heating apparatus with time constant setting means  
An image heating apparatus including a heater, a power supply for supplying electric power to the heater, and a time constant setting circuit for setting a time constant when the power supply...
6438334 Image output apparatus and control method therefor  
An image output apparatus capable of preventing occurrence of quality degradation problem due to fixing failure such as fixing offset at a low cost, by rotating fixing rollers at timing other than...
6430381 Thermal fixing system for recording media of a printer or copier device that are printed on one or both sides  
In a thermal fixing system for fixing toner images on the front side of a recording medium in an electrographic printer or copier device, the back side of the recording medium can already have a...
6420685 Control of electrical heater to reduce flicker  
A control system for reducing flicker in an electrical resistance heater comprising: a source of AC (alternating current) current for supplying AC current to an electrical resistance heater; a...
6411786 Toner image fixing device using a parking agent including a volatile odor component  
A toner image fixing device in which a surface temperature of a heat roller ( 1 ) is set to a temperature at which volatile odor component included in a parting agent is below a permissible value,...
6411785 Fixing unit, fixing method and image forming apparatus using the same  
A fixing unit prevents surface temperature of a fixing roller from becoming too high or too low and of always attains good fixing performance by employing an external heating method that makes an...
6407366 Image heating apparatus having a plurality of heat generating elements  
Conventionally, a thermal fixing apparatus contained in an image forming apparatus has a heater like a halogen heater or a film-heating type heater. Generally, the heater comprises a plurality of...
6393230 Fixing device and image forming apparatus therewith  
In a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a transfer material by applying heat and pressure to the transfer material, the fixing apparatus includes: a roll-shaped rotary member for applying...
6389247 Device and method for controlling fixing temperature in image forming apparatus  
A fixing temperature controlling process in an image forming apparatus. The resistance of a transfer roller is detected upon request of a fixing temperature control. It is determined which of...
6381422 Image forming apparatus for fine-adjusting a fixation speed of a development material in accordance with temperature control  
An image forming apparatus controls a fixation speed by fine adjustment in accordance with control of a fixation temperature. Its structure comprises: a medium supply unit for supplying an image...
6369917 Image forming apparatus with temperature control activated by mode switching  
An image forming apparatus which can shorten a first printing time in accordance with a recording mode without increasing electric power consumption is provided. When a reception signal is absent,...
6353719 Method and apparatus of controlling image fixing temperature of image forming unit in a printer  
An apparatus and method of controlling the temperature of an image fixing unit having a developer fixed on a recording medium under a predetermined temperature in an image forming apparatus is...
6343195 Image heating apparatus with core for guiding magnetic flux and temperature sensor to control power supply  
An image heating apparatus has an endless movable member together with a coil for generating a magnetic flux and a core for guiding the magnetic flux. A backup member for forming a nip with the...
6339211 Reducing a temperature differential in a fixing device  
A temperature differential over a length of a fuser can result from a thermal load applied to the fuser by media having a dimension, corresponding to a longitudinal axis of the fuser, less then the...
6336010 Method and apparatus for image forming capable of appropriately changing a fixing temperature  
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing mechanism, a power source, a sheet transfer mechanism, and a controller. The fixing mechanism includes a heater, and fixes a toner image on a recording...
6333490 Toner image fixing apparatus capable of keeping constant fixing roller temperature  
A toner image fixing apparatus has a fixing roller, a pressing roller, and a heating roller. The pressing roller is normally urged toward the fixing roller for pressing a sheet with an unfixed...
6321047 Image heating apparatus  
An image heating apparatus has a heating member for heating an image on a recording material, a backup member for forming a nip in cooperation with the heating member, and an electric power supply...
6321046 Induction heating fixing device having a central processing unit, and image forming apparatus using the fixing device  
A fixing device in an image forming apparatus having various functions such as print data reception, FAX transmission/reception, and the like, has a member to be heated (1), an excitation coil (2)...
6314252 Image forming apparatus and method of a forming image  
A fixing unit for a copying machine has a heating roller having a heating portion therein, and a press roller provided in rolling contact with the heating roller. The heating roller has a paper...
6311028 Fixing apparatus with controlled heaters  
A fixing apparatus for controlling fixing temperature by controlling operations of a plurality of heaters, the apparatus includes: a timer for measuring a period of time for operations of the...
6308021 Fixing device capable of correcting fixing conditions in accordance with an integrated energizing time  
A fixing device is provided with first and second fixing members each having an elastic member, a heater for heating at least one of the first and second fixing members and a controller. The first...
6304731 Printer for narrow media  
A printer has a media feed path (12) for feeding sheets of media (14), with the path having a side reference edge (52) for aligning the media. A media transport mechanism feeds the sheets of media...
6301454 Fixing heater controlling method and an image forming device  
There are provided three periods of time immediately after an AC power-supply voltage is started to be applied to fixing heaters when the heater temperature falls below a target temperature: a...
6298213 Image forming apparatus with image fixing means of low heat capacity  
An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording material and a fixing unit for fixing the image to the recording material by nipping and conveying the...
6289185 System for controlling axial temperature uniformity in a reproduction apparatus fuser  
A system for controlling axial temperature uniformity in a reproduction apparatus fuser device having at least one heated fuser member to permanently fix a marking particle image to a receiver...
6278852 Image forming apparatus having electric power adjusting means  
An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording material, an image fixing device for fixing the image onto the recording material, the image fixing device...
6259870 Fixing device control method and apparatus, fixing device, and image forming machine  
In a photoelectrographic image forming machine of the power saving type, a temperature rise tendency calculating unit calculates a tendency of temperature rise in terms of an amount of temperature...
6249657 One-way heat fixing device for fixing developers on a recording medium and a method therefor  
The present invention provides a one-way heat fixing device for developers in which thermal energy from the fixing roller is provided to the unfixed developer on a recording medium. The fixing...
6246842 Fuser control for limiting current draw in an electrophotographic machine  
A fuser assembly and associated method for an electrophotographic machine heats a first fuser roll with a first heating device. A second heating device heats a second fuser roll. It is determined...
6243547 Image heating apparatus having a plurality of heaters  
An image heating apparatus is provided where an electrical power supply to a second heater is started during the electrical power supply to a first heater, a power supply control that controls the...
6240263 Flicker suppression device in electronic equipment  
In a standby state capable of forming an image, a period of a drive pulse of a heater in a fixing unit is made longer than that of the drive pulse in an image formation state to decrease the number...
6233412 Fixing device for dual-sided-printing capable image reproducing apparatus  
In an electrophotographic printing apparatus, a fixing device heat-roller control system configured for specially controlling the heat roller fixing temperature during consecutive dual-sided...
6219498 Image forming apparatus having improved image transfer characteristics  
By application of a voltage from a power source, a transfer roller carries out both transfers of (A) a first transfer for transferring a toner image on a photoreceptor to an intermediate transfer...
6198888 Fixing device for controlling fixing temperature in a stable manner  
A belt fixing device including a fixing roller, a heating roller, an endless fixing belt spanned around the fixing roller and the heating roller and a pressing roller disposed opposing the fixing...
6188854 Non-contact thermal temperature controller  
A temperature monitoring and control system interfaces with a host printing system through a communication medium to allow the host printing system to maintain control of heating lamps used to heat...
6185388 Image heating apparatus with standby temperature overshooting prevention feature  
An image heating apparatus includes a power supply controller, which sets the set temperature to change the temperature of the heating roller. The power supply is cut off before the temperature of...
6185389 Control of thermal heating in a belt fuser  
An electrophotographic printing apparatus which eliminates overheating of the fuser belt when narrow gauge print media is utilized is disclosed. In this apparatus, a detection means determines...
6185383 Image heating apparatus  
The present invention relates to an image heating apparatus in which an image on a moving recording material is heated by a heat from a heater, the heater has an elongated substrate extending in a...
6175699 Image fixing device with heater control  
An image fixing apparatus has a heating member, a back-up roller cooperating with the heating member to form a nip therebetween for pinching and conveying a recording material bearing an image...
6173132 Ventilation system for an image forming apparatus  
It is an object of the present invention to provide an energy-saving image forming apparatus capable of fixing toner in a reliable manner to enhance the quality of images, control the temperature...
6173131 Image heating apparatus  
An image heating apparatus includes a heating member for heating an image on a recording material, a first temperature detecting element for detecting a first temperature of the heating member, a...
6167216 Temperature sensor and toner image fixing device provided with said temperature sensor  
A prior art temperature sensing element by supporting plates against a fixing roller would detect a temperature lower than an actual surface temperature of the fixing roller, because said...
6163662 Image forming devices, fusing assemblies, and methods of forming an image using control circuitry to control fusing operations  
The present invention relates to image forming devices, fusing assemblies and methods of forming an image. According to one aspect of the invention, an image forming device includes a housing...
6160975 Closed loop ramping control and method of fusing temperature, and optimizing first copy time  
A system and method employing a control algorithm that implements a closed loop ramp up of fuser temperature by traversing an arc of discrete temperatures leading to the steady state temperature....
6151463 Apparatus and method for forming a toner image  
It is an object of this invention to provide a copying machine which can suppress an increase in total power consumption of the overall machine. In executing a plural image formation mode in which...