Invention Grant
US08606157B2 Image forming apparatus operable in a mode for cleaning a fixing portion
有权
图像形成装置可以以清洁固定部分的方式操作
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus operable in a mode for cleaning a fixing portion
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置可以以清洁固定部分的方式操作
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Application No.: US13079305Application Date: 2011-04-04
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Publication No.: US08606157B2Publication Date: 2013-12-10
- Inventor: Mahito Yoshioka , Daizo Fukuzawa , Noriaki Sato , Tooru Imaizumi , Munehito Kurata , Kuniaki Kasuga
- Applicant: Mahito Yoshioka , Daizo Fukuzawa , Noriaki Sato , Tooru Imaizumi , Munehito Kurata , Kuniaki Kasuga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2008-101396 20080409; JP2009-083242 20090330
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20
Abstract:
The image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion forming a toner image on a recording material, and a fixing portion heating and fixing the toner image formed on the recording material to the recording material, wherein the apparatus has a cleaning mode in which the fixing portion is cleaned, and when the cleaning mode is set, the image forming portion forms a predetermined toner image on the recording material, and the fixing portion then heats and fixes the predetermined toner image to the recording material to form a cleaning sheet which is heated and conveyed to clean the fixing portion. By the virtue of the present invention, it achieves high cleaning performance in which the fixing portion is cleaned by the cleaning sheet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110182632A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-07-28
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