Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with a plurality of individually-controlled heat generating resistors having different temperature coefficients of resistance
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Application No.: US16715313Application Date: 2019-12-16
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Publication No.: US10942476B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Ryota Ogura , Yusuke Nakashima
- 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: JPJP2018-237166 20181219
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus including an image heating portion that heats an image formed on a recording material using heat of a heater constituted of a substrate and a plurality of heat generating resistors disposed on the substrate, the plurality of heat generating resistors include (i) a first heat generating resistor that has a first temperature coefficient of resistance, and (ii) a second heat generating resistor that has a second temperature coefficient of resistance which is smaller than the first temperature coefficient of resistance, and heats a second heating region of which width in the longitudinal direction of the substrate is narrower than the first heating region which is heated by the first heat generating resistor, among the plurality of heating regions heated by the plurality of heat generating resistors.
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