Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus including same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置及其成像装置
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Application No.: US14161078Application Date: 2014-01-22
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Publication No.: US09122212B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Ippei Fujimoto , Kazuhito Kishi , Masahiro Samei , Hiroshi Ono , Hiroshi Seo , Yasunori Ishigaya , Ryota Yamashina , Takumi Waida , Takeshi Yamamoto
- Applicant: Ippei Fujimoto , Kazuhito Kishi , Masahiro Samei , Hiroshi Ono , Hiroshi Seo , Yasunori Ishigaya , Ryota Yamashina , Takumi Waida , Takeshi Yamamoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2013-022337 20130207
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body, an opposed member opposing the fixing rotary body to form a nipping portion, and a heater to heat the fixing rotary body. The heater includes heat generators arranged in a width direction of a recording medium and separately supplied with power. When an unfixed image on the medium has an image area and a non-image area, power supplied to each of the heat generators is controlled so that, of the heat generators, a first heat generator corresponding to the image area becomes a higher temperature and second heat generators corresponding to the non-image area becomes a lower temperature. When the second heat generators are adjacent to each other, power supplied to one of the second heat generators closer to the image area is set to be greater than power supplied to another of the second heat generators farther from the image area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140219696A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME Public/Granted day:2014-08-07
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