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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185029 | Fixing device including deformable peeling member and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device comprises: a pair of fixing rotors, at least one of which has a heating source and both of which are rotated in pressure contact with each other; and a click-shaped peeling member provided on a downstream side of the fixing rotor with respect to a tr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8145109 | Sheet separator and fixing unit using the same and image forming apparatus incorporating the fixing unit A sheet separator using air includes a plurality of nozzles and a guide member. The plurality of nozzles, through which compressed air is ejected against a nip portion where a plurality of rotating members meets, presses each other, and carries a sheet of a recordin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145110 | Apparatuses useful for printing and corresponding methods Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of cleaning debris from a surface in an apparatus useful for printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus useful for printing includes a first roll, a belt including an inner surface and an outer surface,... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135321 | Gas knife apparatus and methods for stripping media from surface in printing apparatus Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of stripping media from surfaces in apparatuses useful for printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus useful for printing includes a first member including a first surface; a second member including a s... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8107864 | Separating member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing roller and a pressing roller that are in pressure contact with each other. A separating plate is placed opposite to the fixing roller with a certain gap in between them. Positioning portions are installed on the separating plate to ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107865 | Image forming apparatus and fixing device An image forming apparatus including a fixing device having first and second rollers to press against each other with a sheet of paper to be transferred therebetween. The apparatus includes a roller frame to support the first roller; a separation claw, which, when d... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086158 | Method and apparatus for enhanced sheet stripping An enhanced sheet stripping method and apparatus for stripping toner image carrying copy sheets from a surface of a moving heated fusing member forming a fusing nip. The apparatus includes (a) a moving assembly for moving a cut sheet towards the fusing nip; (b) a sh... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081914 | Apparatus and method for detaching media from a fuser in a printer An apparatus (100) and method (200) that detaches media from a fuser in a printer is disclosed. The method can include feeding (220) a media sheet through a fuser member and applying (230) gas from an air knife to the media sheet on the f... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073372 | Apparatuses including a vibrating stripping device for stripping print media from a belt and methods of stripping print media from belts Apparatuses useful in printing onto media and methods for stripping print media from belts are disclosed. An exemplary apparatus useful in printing onto media includes a first member including a first surface; a second member; a fixing belt supported on the second m... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073371 | Image forming apparatus which corrects the curl of a discharge sheet An image forming apparatus which uses toner to form an image on a sheet may cause the sheet to experience curl after passing through a fixing device which uses heat and pressure to fix the toner image on the sheet. A pair of discharge rollers and/or a sheet separati... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068777 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus includes a heating member for heating a toner image on a recording material in a heating nip, a pressing member for forming the heating nip and being in contact with the heating member, an abrading member for abrading a surface of the heat... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8019265 | Method and apparatus for stripping media from a surface in an apparatus useful in printing An apparatus and method for stripping media from a surface and useful in printing may include a first member, a fixing belt, a first nip, a second nip, and a stripping device including a curved stripping edge contacting the inner surface of the fixing belt, the stri... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7974560 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus comprising the same A separation mechanism of a fixing device includes a separation member extending in a direction orthogonal to the paper convey direction and arranged opposite the fixing member in a state apart from the fixing member by a predetermined gap, a support shaft member ex... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970326 | Image forming apparatus and image printing system for borderless printing An image forming apparatus includes a determining unit, an image forming unit, a fixing member, a pressing member, a separating member and a release agent applying member. The determining unit determines whether to print a borderless image or not. The image forming ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965969 | Active rotation of air knife for increased performance According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided a method of optimizing an electro-photographic reproduction machine having a fusing subsystem and an air knife. The methods acquire at least one electro-photographic reproduction machine objective and media ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962079 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus A disclosed fixing device includes a fixing member configured to heat and melt a toner image to fix it onto a recording medium; a pressure member abutting the fixing member to form a nip into which the recording medium is fed; a separating member disposed on the dow... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962080 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus includes a heating member for heating a toner image on a recording material in a heating nip, a pressing member for forming the heating nip and being in contact with the heating member, an abrading member for abrading a surface of the heat... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7937033 | Separating plate, fixing device having the separating plate with an edge part that abuts with the fixing member, method for producing the separating plate and image forming apparatus A fixing device (55) including a fixing member (6), a pressure member (7) forcibly contacting with the fixing member, and a separating plate (1) for separating a transfer paper (9) ejected from a nipping part (8) formed by t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7890039 | Sheet separation device, sheet conveyance apparatus, and image forming system A sheet separation member having a separation pick includes a substrate made of hard material, which is swingable around a support shaft connected to a stable member, and a wrapping member made of resin softer than the substrate for wrapping the substrate. A leading... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890038 | Image heating apparatus The present invention provides an image heating apparatus capable of holding an open/close unit at a normal position and capable of inexpensively avoiding conveyance failure and deterioration in image quality. An image heating apparatus includes a fixing an roller | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890037 | Self adjusting metal stripper fingers A plurality of stripper fingers in a fuser assembly are provided to assist in preventing damage to the fuser roll caused by prior art fingers. In the present invention, skiis are positioned away back from the tip of the stripper finger. These skiis extend beyond the... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7817950 | Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of stripping media from surfaces in apparatuses useful for printing Apparatuses useful for printing and methods for stripping media from surfaces in apparatuses useful for printing are disclosed. An apparatus useful for printing including a first member including a first outer surface; a second member including a second outer surfac... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801473 | Fixing device, image forming apparatus and fixing method The fixing device is provided with: a fixing roll that is rotatable; a belt member that is stretched by the fixing roll; a pressure roll that presses the fixing roll through the belt member; and a peeling member that presses an outer surface of the belt member again... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7761043 | Image forming apparatus and fixing device An image forming apparatus comprising including a pressing roller to press a sheet of printing paper, further comprising: and a heating roller to press against each other with a sheet of printing paper to be transferred therebetween to rotate against the pressing ro... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756457 | Fuser assembly having selectable fuser detack mechanism A fuser assembly includes a fuser housing, a fuser roller rotatably mounted to the fuser housing, an actuator mechanism, and a fuser detack mechanism. The fuser detack mechanism includes a detack housing pivotably mounted to the fuser housing. The fuser detack mecha... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751768 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus including fixing device A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member and a separation mechanism. The pressure member presses against the fixing member to form a nip through which a toner image on a recording medium is fixed. The separation mechanism is disposed at a downstre... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751767 | Rotatable air knife Embodiments herein include an apparatus that can comprise any heating device, such as one having an outer surface adapted to contact items, such as sheets of print media, and a rotatable air outlet (vent, jet, blower, etc.) positioned next to the heating device. The... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747205 | Image forming apparatus having fixing device with air separator that separates recording material from a heating member An image forming apparatus having a fixing device for fixing toner image on a recording material, the fixing device includes: a heating member which heats a recording material; a pressing member which comes into contact with the heating member with pressure; and an ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742730 | Control to detect air knife blockage A system for detecting stripper device blockage in a printing system is disclosed. The system includes a fusing member which during operation contacts a sheet of printer media to fuse a marking material to the sheet, a stripping device configured to apply pressurize... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734239 | Fixing device, image forming apparatus and sheet conveying device A fixing device includes a pair of rotating bodies forming a nip portion, for fixing an image formed on the surface of a sheet to the sheet; and a separating pawl having a leading end portion and a tailing end portion, a tip part of the leading end portion being mad... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725064 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device has a heating rotary (30) with a nonconductive surface that contacts a press (33) to form a nip (N). A sheet passes through the nip (N) to fix a toner image on the sheet. An electrically conductive base (50) is positioned near th... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715772 | Image forming apparatus having print media-releasing member and fusing apparatus having same An image forming apparatus having a print roller, in which a circumferential elastic contact part of the print roller contacts and presses a print medium to convey the print medium, the apparatus comprises a push roller pressing the print roller to elastically defor... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702270 | Fixing device Relates to a fixing device comprising a fixing part for fixing toner to a paper, and a separation mechanism to separate paper P from fixing body, separation mechanism has a separation member 12 with a shaft member 17 and a separation pawl 16, an... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693471 | Sheet wrapping avoidable fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus A fixing apparatus includes a fixing member to be heated and a pressure-contacting member for pressure contacting the fixing member. The fixing apparatus directs and conveys a recording member through a nip formed between the fixing member and pressure applying memb... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684744 | Fixing device with separation claws and image forming apparatus including the device A fixing device includes a fixing roller that heats a toner image. A pressure roller forms a nip with the fixing roller by contacting and pressing the fixing roller. Separation claws are disposed side by side along a shaft center of the fixing roller within a sheet ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676187 | Enhanced fuser stripping system An improved fuser includes a fuser member, a pressure member that forms a nip with the fuser member through which copy sheets pass to have images fused thereon and an air knife to assist in peeling copy sheets from the fuser member. The air knife has a device connec... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672629 | Sheet processing apparatus, fixing unit and image forming apparatus provided with the fixing unit A fixing unit includes a heating rotary member for heating a sheet, a pressing rotary member that is pressed against the heating rotary member with a specific pressure, forming a nip in between, and at least one separating member having a far end directed toward a s... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7616919 | Image forming apparatus and fixing device An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device having a heating member and a pressing member which is pressed against the heating member, the heating member and the pressing member holding and transporting a recording medium to thermally fix a developer on the... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613421 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing roller for fixing a toner image transferred onto a sheet and conveying the sheet along a conveyance path, and a separating mechanism for separating the sheet from the fixing roller. The separating mechanism includes a claw member ha... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7593678 | Fixing apparatus and image-forming apparatus having the same The present invention proposes a fixing apparatus which can properly adjust the fixing ability and the curvature separation ability based on sheet quality, and an image forming apparatus having the same fixing apparatus. This fixing apparatus, which forms images thr... | 09/22/2009 |
