Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US13212718Application Date: 2011-08-18
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Publication No.: US08737861B2Publication Date: 2014-05-27
- Inventor: Takamasa Hase , Masanao Ehara , Tadashi Ogawa , Takeshi Uchitani , Satoshi Ueno , Teppei Kawata , Kazuya Saito , Shuutaroh Yuasa , Kensuke Yamaji
- Applicant: Takamasa Hase , Masanao Ehara , Tadashi Ogawa , Takeshi Uchitani , Satoshi Ueno , Teppei Kawata , Kazuya Saito , Shuutaroh Yuasa , Kensuke Yamaji
- 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: JP2010-184388 20100819
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing rotation body heating and fixing an unfixed image onto a recording medium; a pressing rotation body pressing the recording medium to the fixing rotation body; and a temperature detection unit detecting a temperature of the pressing rotation body. Further, when a predetermined time period elapses since a warm-up operation has started before a temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined temperature or when the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined temperature before the predetermined time period elapses since a warm-up operation has started, the fixing device determines that the warm-up operation is finished.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120045226A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-02-23
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