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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5408301 | Electrophotographic apparatus having two fixing sections and control means for controlling temperature adjustments selectively to the fixing sections An electrophotographic apparatus is provided with a fixing device having the first through third fixing rollers for forming the first fixing section by contacting the first and second fixing rollers as well as forming the second fixing section by contacti... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5376773 | Heater having heat generating resistors A heater apparatus includes an electrically insulative base plate and a plurality of independent resistors, extending along a length of the base plate, for producing heat upon electric energization thereof. A temperature detecting element detects a temper... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5367369 | Image heating apparatus capable of controlling number of waves in AC power supply An image heating apparatus including a heater which is stationary in use; a film movable together with a recording material in sliding contact with the heater, an image on the recording material being heated through the film by the heat from the heater, i... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365314 | Image heating apparatus capable of changing duty ratio An image heating apparatus includes a heater; a temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature of the heater; the controller for controlling electric power supplied to the heater so that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting memb... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5333038 | Image forming apparatus for controlling a size or a color tone of a toner image In a toner image forming apparatus capable of changing the fixing condition of a fixing device to fix a toner image on a recording sheet, there is provided a control device to change at least one of the charging condition of a charging device, the exposur... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5331384 | Fixing apparatus having temperature controller which controls temperature according to width size and number of recording sheets In an image forming apparatus including a fixing device for heating and fixing a toner image on a recording material, a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the surface of a fixing roller is provided substantially outside a passing region... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5321481 | Fuser temperature and copy output controller An electrophotographic copy machine includes a system manager which controls the operation of the copy machine based on a plurality of performance levels corresponding to fuser copy quality characteristics, i.e., TPE, gloss and fuse fix. Each performance ... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5315350 | Image forming apparatus provided with a controller for fixing roller heater An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming and transferring an image of a document to a copy sheet, fixing unit including a fixing roller for fixing the document image to a copy sheet while transporting it, a heater for heating ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5311268 | Fixing device using fuzzy inference Disclosed is a fixing device using fuzzy inference, which is used for copying machine, optical printer, or the like. The fixing device is provided with a fixing heater drive circuit 13 for controlling a heater 8 arranged in a fixing roller 9 on the basis ... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5309209 | Heat-fixing apparatus for color video printer including a stationary heat tube A heat-fixing apparatus for a color video printer. The heat-fixing apparatus comprises a heating member for heating an under surface of a receiver paper, thereby heat-fixing an image which has been developed on the receiver paper, and receiver paper feedi... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5306381 | Laminating apparatus The present invention provides a laminating apparatus comprising a sheet feeder for feeding a sheet on which an image is formed, a laminate film feeder for feeding laminate films, a heater for heating the laminate films being fed, a device for pressurizin... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5307134 | Electrophotographic apparatus An electrophotographic apparatus for providing a thermally fixed toner image on a recording medium and wherein the fixing temperature can be selectively canceled. The apparatus is of the type including: an image forming unit for forming a toner image to b... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5303015 | Recording apparatus for conserving energy A recording apparatus has an image forming unit for forming a visible image on a recording medium in accordance with an inputted image signal, a fixing unit for fixing the visible image on the recording medium with a heating element which is heated upon c... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5300996 | Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus for fixing an image on a record sheet comprises a fixing roller in which a heater is disposed, a pressing roller urged against the fixing roller, heat pipes extending in either one of the fixing and pressing rollers in a longitudinal di... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5287155 | Temperature control method for a fixing device A method of controlling the surface temperature of a heat roller included in a fixing device and having a heater therein by sensing it by a thermistor. The thermistor is held in contact with the heat roller during warm-up operation and in a standby condit... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5281793 | Apparatus for positioning a temperature sensing element in temperature sensing relationship with a moving object An apparatus for positioning a temperature sensing element in temperature sensing relationship with a moving object. The apparatus includes a base and also a resilient member, attached to the base, for supporting the sensing element. The apparatus further... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5276482 | Temperature control device for a fixing apparatus An image forming device in which a toner on a sheet is heated by the heater of a fixing unit. The heater of the fixing unit is heated via a power supply. The temperature of the fixing unit is sensed by a temperature sensor. A controller increases the temp... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274423 | Image forming apparatus having temperature control at a fixing unit The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine and the like, and more in particular to the temperature control at a fixing unit thereof. In the image forming apparatus according to the present invention, the temperat... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5270776 | Method for fusing developed image An imaging process which includes the steps of developing an image with liquid toner including a liquid carrier and toner particles, transferring the image to a substrate and fusing and fixing the image to the substrate by the application of energy and pr... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5225874 | Image fixing apparatus having a pulsewisely energized heater An image fixing apparatus including a heater having a linear heat generating layer; a film movable together with a recording medium carrying thereon a toner image which is heated by heat generated by the heat generating layer through the film; energizing ... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5220389 | Image forming apparatus having a controlled fixing means An image forming apparatus maintaining the fixing temperature at a fixed level, by detecting the surface temperature of a heating roller provided internally with a heater in a fixing unit, and by controlling an on-time which starts upon the surface temper... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5138392 | Image forming apparatus with a fixing device capable of fixing a transparent member An electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming a color toner image by a developing device and fixing the toner image by a fixing device including top and bottom rollers. When OHP mode for forming images on transparency sheets is selected, the ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5124756 | Duplex apparatus having a roller fuser A copier or printer uses the principle of single pass duplexing which produces simplex output at full machine speed and duplex output with a gap of at least one sheet between sheets. It has a duplex fuser that fuses both duplex images simultaneously. The ... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5111249 | Heat roller fixing device A fixing device for use in a copying machine for fixing a toner image on the surface of a recording sheet. The fixing device conveys the recording sheet between a pair of rollers consisting of a heating roller and a pressure roller to fix the toner image ... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5081493 | Method of controlling thermal fixing unit for electronic transfer printer A controller receives data transferred thereto from a host computer to control a photosensitive drum, a writing head, and a thermal setting device. Futher, the controller detects whether or not the data from the host computer is being transferred. When th... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5073801 | Color image forming apparatus having different ejection parts for different paper thickness A color image forming apparatus has a plurality of developing devices and an automatic paper feed unit and a manual paper feed unit, each paper feed unit having a paper feed cassette. The paper feed units are provided below a belt-shaped image retainer. P... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5001519 | Image fixing apparatus having plural temperature settings An image fixing apparatus includes a pair of rotatable members, the pair comprising a heating rotatable member and a back-up rotatable member press-contacted to the heating rotatable member, wherein the heating rotatable member is settable at a first sett... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4977431 | Fixing apparatus and method of controlling temperature of the same A fixing apparatus detects the surface temperature of a heat roller, detects either the temperature of a press roller which press-contacts the heat roller and incorporates a heater, or the temperature of an external heating apparatus which heats the exter... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4951096 | Self-calibrating temperature control device for a heated fuser roller A temperature control device, for controlling, at a desired set point, the temperature of an environment or member being heated or being cooled, is particularly suitable for controlling the temperature of a heated electrostatographic fuser roller. The dev... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4949131 | Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus has a heat roller having a heater, a pressure roller contacting the heat roller under pressure, a drive for rotating the heat roller, a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of the heat roller, a holder holding the t... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4933724 | Fixing device for electrophotography A fixing device for electrophotography has a heating roller and a compression roller compressed against each other. Copy paper with toner image on its surface is passed inbetween to have the image fixed. The heating roller is hollow and contains a heater ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4905051 | Fixing means for electrophotographic copier A fixing means for an electrophotographic copier includes a first roller and a second roller which are compressed against each other and serve to fix toner images on an image transferring medium passed therebetween. A control means is programmed to operat... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4835573 | Machine control system utilizing paper parameter measurements Data processing elements such as microcode count the number of cut sheets fed from a supply bin and also monitor the amount of bin travel. This yields data correlated to actual sheet thickness and weights useful for a variety of applications. For instance... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4745431 | Fixing device for image forming apparatus A device for fixing a toner image on an image forming medium in an image forming apparatus includes a heating roller and a supporting roller for supporting the sheet of paper and transporting the paper, the heating roller having an inner peripheral surfac... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4610530 | Capacitive paper property sensor for copying apparatus A capacitive paper property sensor for sensing the moisture content of copy sheets in a xerographic system in which a copy sheet feed roll pair are made overlong to provide a non-feeding nip segment in addition to the feeding nip segment; a capacitor in e... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4585325 | Fixing roller device A fixing roller device having a pressure roller and a heating roller as the fixing roller. Heating elements sealed into glass cylinders are located inside the heating roller, parallel to a roller axis. One heating element consists of a coil in a middle zo... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4551007 | Controller for a fusing device of an electrophotographic printing machine An apparatus in which images on sheets are fused during a copy run. Heat is applied to at least the images on successive sheets advanced, in seriatim, through a fusing device permanently affixing the images to the sheet. The temperature of the fusing devi... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4549803 | Recording apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus wherein image fixing means is controlled for different fixing conditions under which a toner image is fixed on a recording material to adapt it to a synthetic resin sheet as the recording material or to a color ... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4512649 | Fuser apparatus Apparatus for fusing a toner image to a support by means of heat and pressure. The fuser apparatus includes a heated fuser member which contacts toner image carrying supports moved along a path. A sensor is spaced from the fuser member for sensing the tem... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4474456 | Device for heat-fixing a toner image A heat-fixing device includes a heat plate along which a transfer medium bearing thereon a toner image is advanced during which the toner image becomes fixed to the transfer medium by fusing, the heat plate including a plurality of heating sections arrang... | 10/02/1984 |
