Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16032142Application Date: 2018-07-11
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Publication No.: US10310422B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Tomomi Izawa , Mitsuru Satou , Kenji Sawada
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2017-140747 20170720
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G21/20

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus feeds a sheet that is unfixed through a nip formed between a heating member and a pressurizing member to thermally fix the sheet, and includes a cooler that cools the pressurizing member, wherein when a fixing job is performed on a sheet whose sheet width is a second width larger than a first width, after a fixing job is completed on a sheet whose sheet width in an orthogonal direction to a sheet feeding direction is the first width, the cooler cools a difference region in which a first sheet feeding region of the pressurizing member through which the sheet having the first width is fed and a second sheet feeding region through which the sheet having the second width is fed are not overlapped with each other, with a cooling power stronger than that of a region corresponding to the first sheet feeding region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190025739A1 FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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