Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Ko Kitamura

Mamoru Watanabe

Yutaka Seto

Kimihiko Iwamura

Yojiro Watanabe

Kenichi Chino

A device for controlling the temperature of the fixing means of direct-heating type in the electronic photographic copying machine wherein a desired temperature of a temperature detecting element in the fixing means is set to a value, at which a few sheets of copying papers can be fixed, and then changed to another value lower than the first one to copy more sheets of copying papers after the copying operation of a few sheets of copying papers is finished.

Device for controlling the temperature of the fixing means in the

A fixing device for use in an electrophotographic copying machine comprising a fixing plate having a width substantially equal to the maximum width of recording sheets in use and a heater disposed transversely of a fixing plate. The heater is divided into heater sections in the direction of widths of the recording sheets corresponding to the widths thereof. A temperature sensing element is associated with each of the divided heater sections and supplied power to the heater sections is controlled in response to the output of the temperature sensing element.

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Hachioji, Japan

Ko Kitamura