Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和包含其的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13178411Application Date: 2011-07-07
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Publication No.: US08358948B2Publication Date: 2013-01-22
- Inventor: Shin Yamamoto , Yoshihiro Fukuhata
- Applicant: Shin Yamamoto , Yoshihiro Fukuhata
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2010-167280 20100726
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body and a pressing member each of which includes a waveform elastic layer having at least one wave crest and at least one wave trough to form a waveform face between the fixing rotary body and the pressing member pressed against each other. A controller identifies a temperature differential between a first temperature of the wave crest of the fixing rotary body detected by a first temperature detector and a second temperature of the wave trough of the fixing rotary body detected by a second temperature detector and adjusts an amount of heat stored from a heater into the fixing rotary body based on the identified temperature differential.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120020690A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2012-01-26
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