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.: US13716651Application Date: 2012-12-17
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Publication No.: US08774666B2Publication Date: 2014-07-08
- Inventor: Kazuya Saito , Takeshi Uchitani , Takamasa Hase , Shuutaroh Yuasa , Ippei Fujimoto , Shinichi Namekata , Ryota Yamashina , Hiroshi Seo , Takumi Waida
- Applicant: Kazuya Saito , Takeshi Uchitani , Takamasa Hase , Shuutaroh Yuasa , Ippei Fujimoto , Shinichi Namekata , Ryota Yamashina , Hiroshi Seo , Takumi Waida
- 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: JP2012-026635 20120209
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating device to heat an endless rotary body with radiant heat, a power source to supply power to the heating device, a first heat source to heat a region on the endless rotary body corresponding to a width of the small size sheet, and a second heat source to heat regions on the endless rotary body corresponding to both widthwise ends of the large size sheet outside the width of the small size sheet. The power source supplies power only to the first heat source when the small size sheet is printed and to both the first and second heat sources when the large size sheet is printed. The power source supplies more power to the first heat source when the small size sheet is printed than when the large size sheet is printed within a maximum power available to the fixing device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130209124A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2013-08-15
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