Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tatsuhito Watanabe

Takahiro Kobayashi

Suguru Takeuchi

Shingo Hattori

Takuma Tadomi

Kenjirou Sugaya

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a plurality of exterior covers forming an exterior of the image forming apparatus, a fan configured to suck outside air into the image forming apparatus through an air intake port, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the outside air sucked by the fan, and a partition member disposed upstream the temperature sensor and downstream the air intake port in an airflow generated by the fan, the partition member dividing an air intake path through which the outside air sucked through the air intake port passes into a first path passing through a fixing unit side and a second path passing through a temperature sensor side.

Image forming apparatus

A display device usable with an image forming apparatus includes a liquid crystal unit including a liquid crystal screen and a frame supporting the liquid crystal screen; a supporting member of metal supporting the liquid crystal unit; and an insulative spacer providing a space between the frame and the supporting member at a position of the frame corresponding to an outside area of a display area of the liquid crystal screen.

Displaying device and image forming apparatus

A metal frame of an image forming apparatus includes a connecting member which is a metal plate and which connects first and second spaced apart support members which are constructed to support an image forming unit of the an image forming apparatus. The connecting member includes a first facing portion which faces a first region of the first support member around a slit portion thereof, and a fitted portion which is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the slit portion and is fitted into the slit portion in a plate thickness direction of the fitted portion. A width of the fitted portion in a direction vertical to a plate thickness direction of the first support member and the plate thickness direction of the fitted portion in the slit portion is less than or equal to a width of the slit portion in the vertical direction. The fitted portion includes a hook portion having a hook shape and a second facing portion which faces a second region which is provided on a rear surface of a surface of the first support member on which the first region is provided, and which is adjacent to the slit portion in the vertical direction with a gap.

Metal frame of image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station configured to form a toner image on a recording material, a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image formed by the image forming station on the recording material, a selector configured to select a correction level for correcting a crease of an envelope, by an operator, and a controller configured to control a fixing condition in response to the correction level selected on the selector.

Image forming apparatus having a controller that controls a fixing condition in response to a selected level of crease or finish of an envelope

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a fixing device including a first rotary member of which a surface layer containing a fluororesin is brought into contact with a sheet surface having an unfixed toner image formed by the image forming device, and a controller. In a case that image formation processing for continuously forming a toner image on a plurality of predetermined sheets is executed, the controller can control conveyance of a sheet so that a portion of the surface layer of the first rotary member which is brought into contact with a trailing edge of a preceding sheet is brought into contact with a margin area on a leading edge side on a next sheet.

Image forming apparatus which controls period between trailing edge of preceding sheet and leading edge of next sheet

An image heating apparatus includes a coil; a belt member; a first core and a second core which are provided inside the belt member; a contact member contacting an inner surface of the belt member along a widthwise direction of the belt member; a pressing member configured to press the belt member against the contact member; a core supporting member configured to support the first and second cores; a pressing mechanism configured to generate pressure for forming a nip; and an adjusting portion, provided on the core supporting member, configured to adjust the height of each of the first core and the second core so that the height of a supporting surface configured to support the first core and the height of a supporting surface for supporting the second core are different from each other with respect to a direction perpendicular to the supporting surfaces.

Image heating apparatus

A fixing device causes an eccentric cam to perform a rotation step of 113&#xb0; to shift from a pressurization releasing mode to a pressurization mode, and causes the eccentric cam to perform a rotation step of 263&#xb0; to shift from a standby mode to the pressurization mode. A control unit activates a motor by setting a rotational speed of a rotational magnetic field of a stator to 600 rpm in the rotation step of 113&#xb0; and to 1500 rpm in the rotation step of 263&#xb0; so as to prevent the eccentric cam from receiving acceleration of a rotational direction from a pressure lever before a rotational speed of a rotor reaches a first rotational speed. Then, the control unit stops the rotational magnetic field of the stator based on an output of a photo interrupter.

Image forming apparatus with a cam configured to change a pressurizing force applied to a rotation member, and a control unit configured to control a motor speed for driving the cam

An image heating apparatus includes a belt member for heating an image on a recording material; a heater heating the belt member; a supporting portion, provided on an inner surface of the belt member, for detachably supporting the belt member; a temperature detecting member contacted to the inner surface of the belt member and elastically supported by the supporting portion; a controller for controlling energization to the heater on the basis of an output of the temperature detecting member; and an inclined surface, provided to the temperature detecting member, for guiding the temperature detecting member toward an inside of the belt member in contact with the belt member during a mounting operation of the belt member to the supporting portion.

An image heating apparatus includes a heating unit including a rotatable image heating member; an induction heating unit for externally induction heating the image heating member; a nip forming member press-contacting an outer surface of the image heating member to form a nip therewith; a pressing member for pressing the heating unit to the nip forming member; a press releasing member for releasing a pressure of the pressing member to the heating unit; fastening means for fastening the heating unit and the induction heating unit together; and a force receiving portion, provided on the induction heating unit, for contacting the pressing member to move the heating unit away from the nip forming member when the press releasing member releases the heating unit from the pressure of the pressing member.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuhito Watanabe