Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device
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Application No.: US13761848Application Date: 2013-02-07
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Publication No.: US09411284B2Publication Date: 2016-08-09
- Inventor: Takumi Waida , Hiroshi Seo , Ippei Fujimoto , Ryota Yamashina
- Applicant: Takumi Waida , Hiroshi Seo , Ippei Fujimoto , Ryota Yamashina
- 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: JP2012-026040 20120209; JP2012-131730 20120611
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable fuser member, a rotatable pressure member, a heater, and a controller. The rotatable fuser member is subjected to heating. The rotatable pressure member is disposed opposite the fuser member. The pressure member presses against the fuser member to form a fixing nip therebetween, through which multiple recording media, each spaced apart from each other by an interval distance in a conveyance direction, are sequentially conveyed at a conveyance speed. The heater is disposed adjacent to the fuser member to heat the fuser member. The controller is operatively connected to the heater to control power supply to the heater through a series of on-off switching control cycles, each including an on-time during which the heater power supply is on, and an off-time during which the heater power supply is off, in synchronization with conveyance of the recording medium.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130209123A1 FIXING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-08-15
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