Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing apparatus and image processing apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和图像处理装置
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Application No.: US12633187Application Date: 2009-12-08
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Publication No.: US07957662B2Publication Date: 2011-06-07
- Inventor: Toshihiro Sone , Osamu Takagi , Satoshi Kinouchi , Yoshinori Tsueda
- Applicant: Toshihiro Sone , Osamu Takagi , Satoshi Kinouchi , Yoshinori Tsueda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
According to an embodiment, a heating device having a plurality of heating members which heat the heating roller, a first thermoelectric converting section having a plurality of thermoelectric converting elements, each of which has a heat-absorbing surface and a cooling surface and generates electromotive force by difference in temperature between the heat-absorbing surface and the cooling surface, and formed along a curved surface of the heating roller, in which the heat-absorbing surface is disposed with a predetermined space from an outer circumferential surface of the heating roller, an auxiliary power supply charged with electric power generated by the first thermoelectric converting section, and a switching section which switches the apparatus between a first state in which electric power is supplied from utility power to the heating members and a second state in which electric power is supplied from the auxiliary power supply to the heating members, based on a predetermined signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100150596A1 FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-06-17
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