- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus that executes a cleaning mode in which positional relationships of a first sheet and a second sheet, fed through a fixing nip during a cleaning mode, relative to a rotatable heating member differ from each other
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Application No.: US15476434Application Date: 2017-03-31
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Publication No.: US10409203B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Masanobu Tanaka , Oki Kitagawa , Akiyoshi Shinagawa
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2014-206271 20141007; JP2014-206272 20141007
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an executing portion for cleaning a rotatable heating member by introducing, into a nip, sheets, of a plurality of sheets, on which a predetermined toner image is formed by an image forming portion, a changing mechanism for making positional relationships of first and second sheets, of the plurality of sheets, relative to the rotatable heating member, different from each other with respect to a widthwise direction of the rotatable heating member when the first and second sheets are successively introduced into the nip in a cleaning mode, and a re-introducing mechanism for re-introducing the first and second sheets into the nip, the first and second sheets having passed through the nip and having been turned upside down, wherein the changing mechanism changes the relative positional relationship of the first and second sheets, which are turned upside down, relative to the rotatable heating member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170205744A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-07-20
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