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7623805 Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus  
An image heating apparatus comprises an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material. A heating member is provided for heating a part of the endless belt and a contact member is...
7620338 Fixing apparatus having a curie point heater and image forming apparatus  
A fixing apparatus has a heater that includes a magnetic shunt alloy whose Curie temperature is set higher than a fixing temperature; an induction heater that generates an alternating magnetic...
7620337 Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus with controlled switch out of stand-by state  
An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable image heating member for heating an image on a recording material; a pressing member for forming a nip, with the image heating member, in which the...
7620336 Apparatus and method for fixing an image  
An apparatus including and a method using a fixing device including a fixing member, a pressure member, a heater, and a pressure controller. The fixing member and the pressure member face with each...
7605931 Image forming apparatus including power saving control and job scheduling and control method therefor  
An image forming apparatus which is capable of bringing processing devices, such as sheet feed devices and post-processing devices connected respectively to the image forming apparatus, into...
7599637 Image fixing apparatus  
A fixing apparatus includes a control circuit which controls the electrifying to a first heater so that a temperature detected by a first temperature detection portion reaches a first target...
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...
7593661 Power-saving control method of image forming device, and image forming device  
In a power-saving control method of an image forming device, the image forming device is set in a power saving state when an input operation is not performed by a user over a predetermined time....
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...
7577373 Image forming apparatus having warm-up and normal modes and control method thereof  
An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance motor for conveying paper; an image forming unit forms a toner image on the conveyed paper; and a fixing device having a heat roller including...
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...
7565086 Power control of image forming apparatus  
According to an aspect of the present invention, an image forming apparatus comprising: a heater heating unit configured to heat a heater at a first temperature or a second temperature lower than...
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...
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...
7548707 Image-forming apparatus, control apparatus, control method, and computer-readable medium  
An image-forming apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a request of a user; a fixing unit that heats an unfixed image on a recording medium to thereby fix the same to the recording...
7546052 Image forming apparatus and method of controlling charging the apparatus to reduce warm up time  
When a main switch 11 is off, an electricity storage device 93 is charged with electric power of a commercial AC power supply 80 . When the main switch 11 is on and warming-up of a fixing...
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...
7522870 Image heating apparatus with control means for controlling heating rotatable member in accordance with belt operation  
An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member and a belt cooperative with the heating rotatable member to form the nip in which an image on a recording material is heated. The...
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...
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...
7496311 Fixing device with a magnetic flux generating section and a control section  
When a fixing roller 1 generates heat by a magnetic flux generating section 3 during a standby time, a control section 5 rotates the fixing roller 1 . This prevents the fixing roller 1 ...
7496310 Image forming apparatus including a fixing roller  
An image forming apparatus that includes a fixing roller to fix a developer onto a recording medium, a heating unit to heat the fixing roller, a manual feed roller disposed at a position contact...
7493059 Method and apparatus for image forming with an improved warm-up control  
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a fixing roller, a heater, a sensor, a warm-up mechanism, and a controller. The image forming mechanism forms a toner image on a...
7460801 Image forming apparatus with control of power distribution to heat fixing device  
An image forming apparatus for forming an image by a power supply from a commercial power source, the image forming apparatus including: an image forming member for forming an image on a recording...
7457551 Fixing apparatus  
A fixing unit adapted to fix a developing agent onto an image forming medium by way of a heat roller containing a heater and a press roller conducts a warming up operation for the optimum warming...
7454151 Image forming apparatus, fixing unit having a selectively controlled power supply and associated methodology  
A fixing unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a heating source, and a controller. The fixing member is supported rotatably. The heating source heats the fixing...
7447453 Apparatus and method of driving a transfer belt  
An apparatus and method of driving a transfer belt are disclosed. The apparatus and method comprise driving the transfer belt provided in an image forming apparatus by a predetermined distance when...
7440708 Multifunction apparatus  
A multifunction apparatus according to the present invention transmits an electromagnetic wave signal to a memory card carried by a user who enters a detection area, scans identification...
7440707 Image generating apparatus with temperature and feed interval control for fusing section  
An image generating apparatus is provided which can maximize the throughput without causing thermal damage of the fusing components. It determines a sub-thermistor temperature threshold value for...
7437091 Method for controlling temperature of heat roller and image forming apparatus based on the same  
Disclosed is a method for controlling the temperature of a heat roller and an image forming apparatus based on the same. The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes: a heat roller...
7433620 Image forming apparatus with controlled electric power supply to heating member  
An image forming apparatus including a fixing device for fixing by heat an image formed on a recording material; a heater for heating the fixing device; a controller for controlling electric power...
7412182 Image forming apparatus with setting of an operating condition of at least one image heating device  
An image forming system has an image forming device, a first image heating device for heating a toner image at a first nip to maintain a target temperature, a second image heating device for...
7395121 Service providing system  
A service providing system includes input/output devices, a service providing device configured to provide services by driving the input/output devices, and a preparation device, in response to...
7395003 Fuser temperature control providing faster wake up from cold start by optimizing standby temperature of fuser roller  
An apparatus is disclosed which is for forming an image using a fuser unit, including: a fuser roller; a heater heating the fuser roller; a temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the fuser...
7391985 Image forming apparatus with power saving features  
The image forming apparatus serves to raise a temperature of fusing section ( 22 ) only when an operational item received from operation panel section ( 3 ) is determined that an image printing is...
7359654 Image generating apparatus  
An image generating apparatus is provided which can maximize the throughput without causing thermal damage of the fusing components. It determines a sub-thermistor temperature threshold value for...
7359653 Fixing device, image forming apparatus including the fixing device, and fixing method  
A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording medium includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a heat source that heats the fixing member, a storage device that supplies power to the...
7349114 Image-forming system and image-forming apparatus used in the image-forming system  
An image-forming system includes an image-forming apparatus, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the image-forming apparatus. The terminal device comprises a signal-transmitting...
7340193 Image forming apparatus, and storage medium storing a control program for the same  
An image forming apparatus is disclosed which interrupts the power supply to the sensors that are used during image formation when it is impossible to form an image, thereby allowing the image...
7336405 Thermal fixing device for controlling the temperature of a heat member to melt toner on a recording sheet  
A thermal fixing device for fixing toner images onto recording sheets includes a heat member, a pressing member, a temperature sensor, a clock, and a control unit. The control unit performs a toner...
7324773 Image forming device having a power consumption control device controlling power supplied to a fixing device  
A sheet counter counts points corresponding to the number of sheets subjected to a fixing process performed by a fixing unit during the image forming operation (during the copy state). A heater...
7324771 Method for minimizing temperature droop in a fuser  
A method of controlling a fuser assembly within an image forming apparatus having a fuser assembly including a heating member and a backup member cooperating with the heating member to form a nip...
7324770 Printing apparatus, fusing apparatus, and method of controlling fusing temperature of printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus including a heat roller, a pressure roller, a fusing apparatus, and a method of controlling a fusing temperature of the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a...
7321738 Fixing apparatus with current control to heater  
A fixing apparatus has a first heating member and a second heating member provided in a heating portion, and a current control unit which controls an AC current to be supplied to the heating...
7317881 Image heating apparatus  
An image heating apparatus having a first fixing device for heating an image on a recording material, and a second fixing device for heating the image on the recording material heated by the first...
7317879 Image forming apparatus operating in a power saving mode as long as possible  
An image forming apparatus operates in a power saving mode or in the normal printing mode. An image forming section forms an image in accordance with print data received from an external apparatus....
7310485 Temperature control of a fixing roller in an image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus for performing thermal fixing of toner images, including a fixing section, a heating section, a power supply section and a control section. The control section controls...
7308218 Warm-up of multiple integrated marking engines  
A printing device includes: multiple marking engines that during operation place marks on output media; and, a power supply that selectively supplies selected levels of power to the marking engines...
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