Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and temperature control method therefor
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置及其温度控制方法
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Application No.: US13178687Application Date: 2011-07-08
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Publication No.: US08224203B2Publication Date: 2012-07-17
- Inventor: Yasunari Miyazaki
- Applicant: Yasunari Miyazaki
- 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 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, exercitation coils for induction-heating the fixing belt, power supplies that supply high-frequency power to the excitation coils, an output power detecting circuit that detects output electric energy of the power supplies, a power control circuit that controls the output electric energy of the power supplies, and temperature sensors that detect the temperature of a surface portion of the fixing belt. When electric energy applied to the excitation coils during the power fall reaches minimum power set in advance larger than 0 W, the power control circuit maintains the minimum power while the temperature detected by the temperature sensors is within a predetermined control temperature range and controls output power of the induction heating power supplies to shift from the minimum power to 0 W when the detected temperature deviates from the predetermined control temperature range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110262167A1 FIXING DEVICE AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2011-10-27
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