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.: US13689886Application Date: 2012-11-30
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Publication No.: US08831457B2Publication Date: 2014-09-09
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa , Isao Watanabe , Harumitsu Fujimori
- Applicant: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa , Isao Watanabe , Harumitsu Fujimori
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2011-271672 20111212
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an excitation coil, a fixing member heated by electromagnetic induction by the excitation coil, a magnetic shunt alloy member, a Curie temperature of which is higher than a target fixing temperature, a determiner that determines whether the temperature of a non-sheet passing region of the fixing member is about to reach the Curie temperature, and a power controller that controls power supplied to the excitation coil. Until the determiner determines that the Curie temperature is about to be reached, the power controller performs feedback control to provide power to the excitation coil. When the determiner determines that the Curie temperature is about to be reached, the power controller switches to fixed power control so that a difference between power supplied when the Curie temperature is about to be reached and power supplied after reaching the Curie temperature falls within an allowable range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130148995A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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