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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7099604 | Image forming apparatus A multi-function printer (MFP) has a main control circuit for setting the operation mode of the apparatus to either a normal operation mode or a power-saving operation mode. There are provided a main power supply circuit and an auxiliary power supply circuit for sup... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099601 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt stretched over a plurality of rollers. The apparatus also includes a potential detecting device for detecting a potential of the endless belt. The detecting device is positioned downstream, along a sheet transport ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092652 | Device and method for controlling the turn-on time of plural heater lamps Following the end of warm-up, a control unit confirms whether the warm-up time is 10 seconds or more. If the warm-up time is 10 seconds or more, the control unit controls a maximum lamp turn-on time for alternate turn-on at 1.0 second as long as an idle time (t) fro... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088935 | Heater, and image forming apparatus, heating method incorporating same A fixer (heater) includes a heat roller and a pressure roller pressing each other. The fixer heats a heated material by passing the heated material through a press region where the heat roller and the pressure roller meet. The fixer further includes an external heat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088946 | Adjusting gloss for a print image Adjusting a gloss for a print image by adjusting the cooling of the print image. Further, a toner for a printing press adjusting gloss by adjusting cooling includes 1% to 30% aliphatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic acids, aliphatic alcohols or their salts, or olefinic hyd... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088937 | Image fixing device with phase controlled heaters An image fixing apparatus has a first rotatable member heated by a first heater and a first temperature detecting element for detecting its temperature; a first controller for controlling electric supply to the first heater to maintain a detected temperature of the ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088936 | Power control system for fusing system with external heater There is provided a fusing system. The fusing system includes a fuser roller, a pressure roller arranged parallel to the fuser roller for providing pressure to a medium passing between the fuser roller and the pressure roller, and a heater external to the fuser roll... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088934 | Fusing system and temperature control method thereof for use in an image forming apparatus A fusing system and a temperature control method thereof for use in an image forming apparatus. The fusing system includes a control unit having a controller. The controller determines whether to initiate a heater driving-start timing, on the basis of one of a first... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088931 | Image forming apparatus capable of changing image forming directions and its fixing device An image forming apparatus of the present invention capable of changing the image forming direction detects the surface temperatures at the central part and edges of a fixing member, when an abnormal temperature rise or temperature insufficiency occurs at the ends, ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082283 | Fixing unit and image forming apparatus A fixing device, comprising a heating roller being rotatable and having a rotating circumferential surface to come in contact with a recording medium holding non-fixed developing agent images so as to heat and melt the non-fixed developing agent images and a tempera... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082272 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided with a pressing roller for pressing a sheet at the time of a fixing operation; a fixing roller having a hollow portion, facing the pressing roller, rising in temperature by being heated, and fixing a developer to the sheet by s... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079781 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes: a recording-media supplying tray for storing a recording medium; a print section for printing an image on the recording medium; a storing section for storing an adjustment value for a printing of the image in the print section re... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079802 | Fixing device with specific surface roughness An image forming apparatus equipped with a heat fixing device includes a heating member having an elastic layer on a substrate and a fluorine resin coated on the elastic layer, a pressure member having a substrate covered with a fluorine resin tube through an elasti... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079782 | Fuser and temperature control method According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fixing apparatus having a non-contact temperature detecting unit which detects temperature by sensing infrared rays emitted from the a heating roller. A difference between a real temperature and t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076183 | Image fusing device and image forming apparatus This invention is intended to control the amount of power to be supplied to a fusing heater below a maximum applicable current value. The engine controller supplies electricity to both of two heating bodies at the same fixed duty D1. At a phase angle α1 | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072600 | Image forming apparatus with fixing unit for fixing image An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming a developer image on a recording medium (22), a fixing unit (21) for fixing the developer image on the recording medium (22), an operation unit (11b), and a fixi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7065315 | Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention has a heating member which is heated by induction heating, a pressing member which supplies a predetermined pressure to the heating member, and induction heating mechanisms which supply a predetermined ma... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065309 | Image forming apparatus with variable fixing heat An image forming apparatus has a fixing unit that applies heat energy to non-fused developer on a medium. The medium is advanced in a transport path and a heater supplies heat energy to the fixing unit when the medium passes the fixing unit. When a trailing end of t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062188 | Image heating device, image forming apparatus, image copying machine, and method for controlling temperature An image heating device is operational to estimate a temperature of a pressure roller so as to determine a set temperature for a roller belt in a subsequent image heating period. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062187 | Fixing device for use in image forming apparatus In a fixing device of an image forming apparatus including a heating roller and a temperature detecting device spaced apart from the roller, having a first sensor for detecting the surface temperature of the roller, and a second sensor for detecting the ambient temp... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062184 | Image formation device and sheet material selection device An IOT controller of an image formation device is provided with an NvRAM. Correction coefficients relating to various parameters, which are specified for each of paper types in advance, are stored in the NvRAM. The NvRAM is provided with a user setting region, and w... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061637 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively collating a stack of single-/double-sided recording sheets in a desired ejection tray An image forming apparatus includes first and second image carrying members, ejection trays, and a sheet transferring mechanism. The first image carrying member carries images in increasing order of corresponding sheet numbers. The second image carrying member carri... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058330 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on a recording medium. A heat source is applied with power for generating heat to thereby heating the heating device. A drive circuit includes a storage capa... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058329 | Fixing apparatus Image heating apparatus includes an image heating rotation member, for heating an image on a recording material, a driving device rotationally driving the image heating rotation member, an external heating member including an exothermic member heating the image heat... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057141 | Temperature control method and apparatus A thermal mass is characterized by a reference temperature. A thermal interrupter thermally interrupts the thermal mass upon contact. A look ahead processor examines the thermal interrupter ahead of anticipated contact with the thermal mass and determines an amount ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055675 | Conveyor belt cleaning system An assembly for cleaning a conveyor belt system is disclosed. The cleaning assembly is for a conveyor belt system with the type having first and second endless belts which each traverse a separate belt travel path and together define a generally upright article tran... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054573 | Heating apparatus The heating apparatus includes a first temperature detecting element disposed at least in proximity to a moving member, a second temperature detecting element for detecting the temperature of the heating member or the atmospheric temperature of the apparatus, a cont... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054589 | Fixing belt having a protective layer between a metal heating layer and a releasing layer, manufacturing method thereof, and electromagnetic induction heat-fixing device using the fixing belt The present invention provides a fixing belt including a substrate having provided thereon at least a metal heating layer and a releasing layer, wherein at least a protective layer is provided between the metal heating layer and the releasing layer, a manufacturing ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054572 | Method and apparatus for selective fuser rolling cooling The present invention is in the field of electrophotographic printers and copiers. More specifically this invention relates to the fuser apparatus used to fuse an image on a receiving sheet. According to just one aspect of the invention, an apparatus and process for... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054571 | Method of driving a fuser roll in an electrophotographic printer A method of operating an electrophotographic printer includes the steps of: transporting a print medium at a first operating speed using a print medium transport assembly; transporting the print medium from the print medium transport assembly to a fuser assembly, th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054570 | Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus is disclosed. The image-forming apparatus includes a fixing unit. The fixing unit includes: a heating part including a heating element; a power storage unit including a chargeable and dischargeable capacitor and supplying power to the heat... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053345 | Heating apparatus with temperature detection system for identifying and notifying the user that the material to be heated is wound around the induction heating element A heating apparatus has a magnetic flux generator and a rotatable induction heating element for generating heat through electromagnetic induction by the action of magnetic flux generated by the magnetic flux generator, and heats a material to be heated by causing th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053342 | Electric cooking apparatus and method of controlling heaters thereof An electric cooking apparatus and method of controlling heaters thereof, in which the heaters operate according to power-ON periods and power-OFF periods set in view of a temperature of the heaters, consumption of unnecessary power is reduced, and variations of heat... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049562 | Induction heating device, induction heating fixing device and image forming apparatus An induction heating device for inductively heating an object to be heated which is formed of conductive material has a holder. The device also has a coil for inductively heating the object. The coil is supported by the holder. The coil is composed of a plurality of... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050751 | Image forming system with temporary storage trays between sheet storage units and image forming apparatus An image forming system has a sheet deck assembly, an image forming apparatus, and a feeding buffering apparatus with plural feeding buffer trays for temporarily storing sheets of printing paper fed from plural printing paper decks of the sheet deck assembly. The fe... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046949 | Image fixing apparatus using pulsating power for heating An image fixing apparatus having a linear heating body with an endless belt entrained around thereon, using an electrical power supply to provide pulsating power to the linear heating body. Additionally, a pressure body interposes the subject to be fixed containing ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046937 | Fixing device of image forming apparatus employing electro-photographic process and controlling method of the same At least, a temperature of the surface of a heating roller 13 in a region through which paper of small width passes, and a temperature of the surface of a heating roller 13 in a region through which paper of small width does not pass where paper of lar... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046364 | Method and apparatus for matching gloss levels of printed and unprinted regions of a media substrate A method and apparatus for matching the gloss level of a printed region of a media substrate surface to the gloss level of a non-printed region of the media substrate surface are provided. Optical reflection intensities are measured in both printed and non-printed r... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045749 | Apparatus for fixing toner on transferred material The present invention relates to a device including a body to be heated to which a magnetic field is supplied to generate heat and which heats a developer on a material to be recorded, a plurality of coil bodies which generate an induced heat in the body to be heate... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043167 | Image formation device and image formation method that selectively adapts a process of fixing an image on a medium The process of the invention determines whether toners of cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y) are all included in toner filled in a toner cartridge 40, based on color information of the toner read from a storage element 50 of the toner cartridge 4... | 05/09/2006 |
