Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Other

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Toshiba Hokuto Electronics Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Nec Corporation

Kabuhsiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kabushiki Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Toshiba

Brother Kogyo Kaushsiki Kaisha

Osamu Takagi

Satoshi Kinouchi

Toshihiro Sone

Yoshinori Tsueda

Kazuhiko Kikuchi

Hiroshi Nakayama

Yumio Matsumoto

Minoru Yoshida

Ken Iguchi

Hiroyuki Taguchi

Takahito Kabai

Yoshiaki Kaneko

Chie Miyauchi

Masahiko Ogura

Kenji Takano

Kiyoharu Hayakawa

Taizo Kimoto

Hisaaki Kawano

Noriyuki Umezawa

Akira Sago

Masashi Ueda

Yohei Doi

Masanori Takai

Tetsuo Kitamura

Toyoyasu Kusaka

Yasuo Kimura

Takemi Yamamoto

Susumu Kuzuya

Yuji Asano

Akihiro Wasai

Shunichi Higashiyama

Masaki Ishiguro

Ryota Saeki

Shigeyuki Hayashi

Tsugio Okamoto

Shoko Shimmura

Takashi Tokunaga

Junichi Miyamoto

Hiroshi Hashidume

Yoshifumi Kubota

Takahisa Hirano

Minoru Shinmyo

Yuichi Uchiyama

Makoto Tani

Tomoyuki Uchida

Takuya Shiraishi

Takashi Kawakubo

Ryutaro Kusunoki

Shin Yamauchi

Ryuichi Arai

Kazuo Sangyoji

Kazushige Morihara

Atsuhisa Nakashima

Kazuhide Abe

Jun Sakai

Yukiko Sato

Yasushi Tomizawa

Takatoshi Takemoto

Takashi Nakata

Yukichi Sawaki

Takashi Tomizawa

Hiroshi Kawahara

Chikara Kawamura

Yasufumi Hayashi

Yasuhiro Shimizu

Tetsurou Honda

Yoshiya Hashimoto

Takao Nakazawa

Tsuneo Iizuka

Takuya Honda

Osamu Hashiguchi

Makoto Suzuki

Hiroshi Taira

Hiroshi Murata

Takao Izumi

Mitsuaki Kohyama

Naoto Iwao

Kazumasa Makino

Toshihiro Kasai

Michitoshi Akao

Fumitaka Asami

Toshio Sakai

Ichiro Sasaki

Kazuhisa Kimura

Hitoshi Yoshida

Naruhito Yoshida

Tokunori Katoh

Kazunori Tanabe

Yuji Goto

Mitsuaki Kouyama

Masakazu Kuki

Yoshiyuki Ban

Keiko Suzuki

Hideyuki Ohtani

Junichiro Shibata

Takakuni Sonoda

Shigeru Mizuno

Yousuke Ito

Koichiro Saito

Shoko Seto

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A heater is to face a pressure element via a belt and is to heat the belt. The pressure element sandwiches and conveys a sheet together with the belt. The heater includes a substrate, a heat generating element, a couple of electrodes, and a protective layer. There are the electrodes on both sides of the heat generating element in a conveyance direction of the sheet. Both sides of the heat generating element in the conveyance direction are connected to adjacent electrodes.

Heater, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A heating device according to an embodiment generally includes substrate, blocks, and temperature sensors. The blocks are arranged on the substrate with a gap therebetween in a first direction. The temperature sensors are provided for each of the blocks and detect the temperature of the blocks. The block includes a plurality of first blocks on at least one side in the first direction, and the first block is adjacent to two blocks in the first direction, and the temperature sensor detects temperature of a temperature detection region on the first block, which is closer to the one of the adjacent two blocks being longer in the first direction of the two blocks.

Heating device and fixing device and image forming apparatus

A heater is to face a pressure element via a belt and is to heat the belt. The pressure element sandwiches and conveys a sheet together with the belt. The heater includes a heat generating element, a couple of electrodes, and a protective layer. there are the electrodes on both sides of the heat generating element in a conveyance direction of the sheet. Both sides of the heat generating element in the conveyance direction are connected to adjacent electrodes.

A heater includes an insulator substrate, a heat generating section in which a plurality of divided regions are formed in a longitudinal direction on a first surface of the insulator substrate, electrodes formed at both end portions of the heat generating section to correspond to the plurality of divided regions, and electric conductors connected to at least one of the electrodes and formed over a surface different from the first surface of the insulator substrate.

Heater and fixing apparatus

A heat generating member includes a plurality of heat generating portions configured to generate heat and including a first heat generating portion having a meandering shape, and a plurality of second heat generating portions between two of which the first heat generating portion is disposed.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit for transferring a toner image onto a sheet, a fixing device for fixing the image, the fixing device including a heating member including a heat generating element and electrodes on both sides of the heat generating element in a sheet conveyance direction and connected to the heat generating element, and a pressure element for pressing against the heating member, and a controller for controlling an adjustment mechanism so that a distance between the heating member and the pressure element becomes a first distance during a fixing process and a second distance larger than the first distance during temperature raising of the heating member, which is conducted before the fixing process.

Image forming apparatus, and adjustment method for distance between heating member and pressure element of fixing device

A heating device according to an embodiment generally includes heat generating parts and temperature sensors. The heat generating parts are divided into a plurality of blocks, so that the plurality of heat generating parts are arranged with a gap therebetween on a substrate in each block. With a temperature detection region provided in each block, the temperature sensors are provided corresponding to the heat generating parts with the gaps being avoided. The temperatures of the heat generating parts are detected by the temperature sensors that are less in number than the plurality of heat generating parts.

Heating device and image forming apparatus

A heater includes a heat-resistant insulating substrate, a plurality of heat generating members arrayed in a first direction on a first surface of the substrate, and a plurality of heat radiating bodies disposed on a surface different from the first surface of the substrate at positions corresponding to gap portions between the heat generating members to passively radiate heat generated thereby.

Heater and heating apparatus

A heater is to face a pressure element via a belt and is to heat the belt. The pressure element sandwiches and conveys a sheet together with the belt. The heater includes a substrate, a heat generating element, and a protective layer. The heat generating element is on the substrate. The protective layer covers the heat generating element and the substrate and whose surface is concave with respect to the pressure element. In the protective layer, a curvature of a top surface of an upstream end in a conveyance direction of the sheet is smaller than a curvature of a top surface of a downstream end in the conveyance direction.

Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a heater, comprising an insulator substrate, a first member, a plurality of electrodes, and a second member. The first member is configured to generate heat on an upper surface of the insulator substrate across a first direction. The first member has a first end opposite a second end. The plurality of electrodes are formed on both the first end and the second end of the first member, respectively, and each electrode is disposed in a direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second member is configured to store heat. The second member comprises a latent heat material having latent heat in a target temperature zone. Furthermore, the latent heat material is fixed to a side surface or a bottom surface of the insulator substrate.

Heater and image forming apparatus

A heater includes a heat generating member in a first layer, a sensor that is in a second layer different from the first layer and configured to detect a temperature of the heat generating member, and a wiring pattern in one or more third layers between the first and second layers to supply power to the heat generating member.

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Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Takagi