Invention Grant
US08019247B2 Fusing device and image forming apparatus which turns on an edge heater
有权
定影装置和打开边缘加热器的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Fusing device and image forming apparatus which turns on an edge heater
- Patent Title (中): 定影装置和打开边缘加热器的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12358357Application Date: 2009-01-23
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Publication No.: US08019247B2Publication Date: 2011-09-13
- Inventor: Ayako Mito , Ryuichi Kikegawa
- Applicant: Ayako Mito , Ryuichi Kikegawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-023189 20080201
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A disclosed fusing device includes a fusing part; a pressing part rotatably pressed against the fusing part to form a fusing nip for fusing a toner image onto a sheet; a capacitor; a center heater for heating a center portion of the fusing part; an edge heater for heating edge portions of the fusing part; an auxiliary heater for heating the fusing part; and a control unit configured to continuously turn off the edge heater and to turn on the center heater and the auxiliary heater to heat the fusing part during a fusing process of one or more small-size sheets having a width less than that of the heat generating portion of the center heater. The control unit is configured to turn on the edge heater to heat the fusing part when the capacitor stops discharging electricity during a consecutive fusing process of multiple small-size sheets.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090196643A1 FUSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-08-06
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