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7613411 Fuser unit and imaging forming apparatus having the same  
A fuser unit including: a set of a heat roller and a pressure roller for sandwiching and conveying a printing sheet while heating the printing sheet by the heat roller; a peripheral surface contact...
7609991 Image heating apparatus with an axial flow fan for cooling a portion of a heating rotatable member  
An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating a toner image on a recording material at a nip; an axial flow fan for cooling the heating rotatable member at a...
7609988 Heater, fixing unit and image forming apparatus having power supplied from chargeable auxiliary power supplying unit varied per unit time  
A heater is operable with a main power supply unit and a chargeable auxiliary power supplying unit. The heater includes a heater part having one or a plurality of heater elements to receive power...
7609984 Fixing device  
The fixing device includes a pair of rotating bodies which conveys a recording medium between a nip; a heating unit which heats at least one of the rotating bodies; and a temperature detection unit...
7603048 Image forming apparatus and control method thereof  
An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes an auxiliary power supply configured to detachably mountable on the image forming apparatus, a fixing device including a main heater...
7599636 Fixing apparatus with current control to heater  
A fixing apparatus has first and second heating members and a current control unit which controls a number of waves and each of a first AC current to the first heating member and a second AC...
7598476 Image forming apparatus having improved flicker characteristics and method thereof  
A fusing apparatus in an image forming apparatus that heats a fusing unit by applying an induced current is provided. The flicker characteristics of the fusing apparatus are improved by gradually...
7596333 Optimizing a printing process for subsequent finishing procedure  
In a system and a method for optimizing a printing process, toner adhesion information is acquired that identifies a toner adhesion characteristic of a printed image. The toner adhesion information...
7593659 Image forming apparatus capable of reducing time unable to perform image formation due to temperature change of image Bearing member  
An image forming apparatus is capable of reducing the time when it is unable to perform image formation due to a temperature change of an image bearing member. The apparatus includes a rotatable...
7593658 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes a control unit for controlling a plurality of fixing units independently of one another regardless of a state of an image forming unit, and a receiving unit for...
7590366 Image heating apparatus and glossiness increasing apparatus  
An image heating apparatus includes a first image heating device for heating a toner image on a recording material. A first temperature detector is provided for detecting a temperature of the first...
7587147 Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus with temperature control  
A fixing apparatus includes a heating roller having a heating unit and a press roller that is in contact with the heating roller. The fixing apparatus fixes an image of developer onto a sheet...
7583910 Image forming apparatus  
When the temperature of a fixing roller detected by a temperature detecting section is less than a predetermined fixing temperature, and a determining portion determines that an image forming unit...
7580649 Fixing device for image forming apparatus and control method thereof  
A fixing device of this invention enables variable control of power to be supplied to a heat roller side or a press roller side in accordance with the temperature of the heat roller and the press...
7570896 Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same  
In a fixing apparatus of the present invention, an end section fixing control temperature changing section selects an end section fixing control temperature in accordance with the number of paper...
7570894 System for control of fusing member temperature  
A fuser control system and method are provided for improving the image control of printing systems, including digital front-end processors, color printers and post-finishing system. This automatic...
7567766 Fixing device with temperature control and image forming apparatus  
A fixing device includes: a fixing roll member; a support roll member; a fixing belt member rotated while being mounted on and tensioned by the fixing roll member and the support roll member; a...
7565087 Fixing device, image forming apparatus including the fixing device, and fixing method  
A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording material in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a heating part that heats the fixing member to fix an image formed on the...
7564574 Image forming apparatus and fixing device therefor  
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing device for fixing a toner image on a sheet with heat. A main and an auxiliary power supply feed power to the fixing device. A...
7561818 Image heating apparatus with cooling operation related to recording material and detected temperature  
An image heating apparatus including: a heating rotary member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blowing unit, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool...
7561816 Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus including synchronization of magnetic flux generation  
A fixing unit is provided with a fixing belt that heats recording paper that bears and moves a toner image, an exciting coil that generates magnetic flux in the fixing belt and causes the fixing...
7560665 Imaging device temperature management  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus relating to the thermal management of an image fixing device such as establishing the temperature of a component that engages with the...
7558499 Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus  
A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a heating roller 2 that is a cylindrical member having a center axis, a pressurizing roller 3 that exerts pressure on the heating roller 2...
7558498 Fixing unit for an image forming apparatus controlling plural coils in rotating heating bodies  
A fixing unit for an image forming apparatus passes a recording medium with a unfixed toner image through between a pair of rotating bodies to fix the unfixed image to the recording medium. The...
7555233 Fixing device and image forming apparatus  
A fixing device includes a non-contacting thermistor ( 54 ) disposed in the vicinity of the surface of a heat roller ( 21 ) and an upper cover temperature thermistor ( 60 ) for detecting the...
7551869 Fixing device, image forming apparatus including the fixing device, and fixing method  
A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording material includes a fixing member disposed on a recording material conveyance path, a heating part that heats the fixing member to fix the...
7546051 Fixing apparatus and image processing apparatus  
A fixing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a heating roller for providing heat to a developer holding medium holding a developer image, a pressurizing roller which...
7546050 Fixing apparatus including a fixing roller and a pressurization roller  
A heating apparatus includes a heating roller that is heated by heating units, a main power supply that supplies power from an external power supply to the main heating unit, and an auxiliary power...
7546049 Image forming device with a control means to correct the fixing control temperature  
An image forming device whereby stable fixing performance is obtained and whose fixing properties are excellent and that does not produce curling of the paper after fixing, due to performing...
7542693 Phase controlling device, fuser controlling device having the same, and phase controlling method  
A phase controlling device of reduced cost, a fuser controlling device including the phase controlling device, and a phase controlling method. The phase controlling device includes: a first signal...
7542692 Image forming apparatus with detecting members for determining when set width is wrong  
An image forming system has an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material in accordance with a set width of the recording material, and an image heating member. A first...
7542691 Image forming apparatus  
A machine ( 1 ) has a capacitor switch ( 20 ) for switching between a side to drive a first fixing heater ( 17 ) by a capacitor ( 18 ), and a side to charge the capacitor ( 18 ). A battery switch (...
7539430 Image forming apparatus with self cooling fixing section  
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing section that fixes an image formed on a recording medium and a drive section that drives the fixing section in rotation. The drive section is stopped or...
7536145 Image heating apparatus  
An image heating apparatus including: an image heating member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blower, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool a...
7532834 Fixing device and fixing method and image forming device  
A fixing device ( 23 ) of the present invention includes a fixing roller ( 131 ) contacting a toner image surface, and a pressure roller ( 132 ) contacting a surface opposite to the toner image...
7529495 Image heating apparatus  
An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt member; at least two support members, for supporting the belt member, disposed inside the belt member; and an induction heating member, for...
7526216 Fixing device and fixing method  
A fixing device includes a first heater provided at a central part of a roller body in a longitudinal direction thereof and a second heater provided at the end of the roller body in the...
7522854 Fixing device of image forming apparatus  
A fixing apparatus of an image forming apparatus of the present invention, in arrival timing of a temperature falling area of a heat roller passing a nip at opposite position γ of an induction...
7519306 Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including priority temperature control  
A fixing control section of a fixing apparatus according to the present invention includes an end section priority temperature control mode. In the end section priority temperature control mode,...
7519305 Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same  
The present invention realizes a fixing device and an image forming apparatus in each of which (i) the amount of power consumption is small and (ii) a wait time from when a command for starting...
7515845 Method for supplying power, and fixing and image forming apparatuses  
A fixing apparatus includes a first heat generating member that generates heat upon receiving power from a commercial power source, an electrical condenser that stores charge when charged by the...
7512372 Temperature-changing pressure roller assembly and a fusing apparatus having same  
A temperature-changing pressure roller assembly is provided and includes (a) a rotatable pressure roller including a cylindrical sleeve having an outer surface, and an inner surface defining a...
7511727 Fixation heater control method and image formation device  
The present invention employs novel phase control for a fixing heater, which uses first and second heaters, to reduce the generation of a higher harmonic wave current and a power line terminal...
7510276 Temperature control system for a sheet support plate of a printer  
A temperature control system for a sheet support plate of a printer which has at least two power supplies for powering different sub-systems of the printer, the temperature control system...
7508552 Document reader, image forming apparatus, and image processing method  
To improve operationality in color adjustment of an image quality, colored characters, or the like of a document including one of a character image, a photographic image, and a screened halftone...
7505701 Thermostat and non-contact type temperature sensor arrangement in an image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus including a thermostat arranged in a housing of a fixing device with terminals on both ends arranged slanted with respect to a longitudinal direction. A non-contact type...
7504605 Heating apparatus  
The heating apparatus of a surface-heating type, includes a rotary member, an opposing member that forms a nip with respect to the rotary member, and a heating member for heating a portion of a...
7499658 Image forming apparatus including at least two thermostats to prevent overheating of the heating roller  
An image forming apparatus, including a heat roller in which a heating source is embedded, a press roller installed close to the heat roller, the press roller contacting the heat roller with a...
7496309 Image forming apparatus with auxiliary power source  
Power is supplied from a capacitor of an auxiliary power source to a secondary heating element of a heating unit, thereby preventing temperature drop of a fixing roller at the time of continuous...
7496303 Fixing device, image forming apparatus having the same and image forming method  
A fixing device, an image forming apparatus having the same include a fixing member having an outer peripheral face with which a sheet to be transported is brought into pressure contact, an...