Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus, fixing device, and image forming method
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置,定影装置和图像形成方法
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Application No.: US11830457Application Date: 2007-07-30
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Publication No.: US07653321B2Publication Date: 2010-01-26
- Inventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa
- Applicant: Takahiro Yoshikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2006-212371 20060803
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form a toner image on a sheet and a fixing device configured to fix the toner image on the sheet. In the fixing device, a heater heats a fixing belt. A pressing roller applies a pressure to a fixing roller via the fixing belt to form a nip between the pressing roller and the fixing belt. A controller switches the fixing device between an increased pressure mode and a decreased pressure mode in a state in which the fixing roller and the pressing roller rotate. In the increased pressure mode, the pressing roller applies an increased pressure capable of fixing the toner image on the sheet to the fixing roller. In the decreased pressure mode, the pressing roller applies a decreased pressure incapable of fixing the toner image on the sheet to the fixing roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080031647A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD Public/Granted day:2008-02-07
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