Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Nami

Naoyuki Yamamoto

Hitoshi Suzuki

Yasuhiro Yoshimura

Takahiro Nakase

Toshiharu Kondo

Tatsuo Takeuchi

Takeshi Menjo

Kazuo Kishino

Hideo Kawamoto

Masahiro Inoue

Takahiro Kubo

Jiro Ishizuka

Koji Takematsu

Tokihiko Ogura

Kazuaki Aoki

Shouhei Takeda

Masahiro Nawa

Koichi Sato

Nobuatsu Sasanuma

Hisashi Fukushima

Haruhiko Moriguchi

Masahiro Itoh

Takashi Kawai

Masaaki Sakurai

Rie Saito

Yoshihiro Murasawa

Ikuo Kuribayashi

Ryuichiro Maeyama

Takeo Tsunemi

Hiroyuki Arakawa

Rie Nakashimizu

Toru Obuchi

An image heating apparatus includes a hollow image heating roller having a through hole at one axial end portion side thereof; a bearing fitted around the roller; a heat insulating bush fitted around the roller between the roller and the bearing; a retaining ring for preventing the heat insulating bush from moving relative to the roller; an annular spacer provided between the heat insulating bush and the retaining ring, the annular spacer being provided with an inwardly protruded key portion engageable with the through hole.

Image heating apparatus and recording material feeding apparatus

An image heater a hollow heating roller having a hole at an axial end portion thereof; a bearing supporting the heating roller; a heat insulating bush fitted between an outer surface of the heating roller and the bearing; a retaining ring for retaining the heat insulating bush in an axial direction of the heating roller, the retaining ring including a projection engaging with the hole; an annular spacer provided between the retaining ring and the heat insulating bush, wherein the spacer includes a connecting portion having a connecting hole, the retaining ring includes a hooking portion engaging with the connecting hole.

Image heating apparatus

An image heating apparatus includes a roller, a heating portion disposed within the roller, a bearing portion fitted around an end portion of the roller to rotably support the roller, and a retaining ring attached at an axially predetermined position of the roller to restrict the roller from moving in a axial direction of the roller with respect to the bearing portion. The retaining ring includes first and second projections fitted into a hole portion of the roller. Profiles of side surfaces of these first and second projections abutting edges of the hole portion in a circumferential direction are recessed in the circumferential direction.

Image heating apparatus, bearing mounting structure and retaining ring

An image heating apparatus includes a coil for generating a magnetic flux by a current flowing therethrough; an image heating member having an electroconductive layer in which an eddy current is produced by the magnetic flux by which heat is generated, the image heating member being effective to heat an image on a recording material; an electroconductive magnetic flux adjusting member movable from a first position and a second position to decrease the eddy current produced in the image heating member by the magnetic flux; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of image heating member; electric power control means for control electric power supplied to the coil on the basis of an output of the temperature sensor, wherein the electric power control means changes an electric power condition to be supplied to the coil before start of the movement from the first position to the second position of magnetic flux adjusting member.

Image heating apparatus heating a toner image on a sheet by the magnetic flux from an excitation coil and controlling the electric power supply to the coil

An image heating apparatus includes a coil for generating a magnetic flux by a current flowing therethrough; an image heating member having an electroconductive layer in which an eddy current is produced by the magnetic flux by which heat is generated, to heat an image on a recording material; an electroconductive magnetic flux adjusting member movable from a first position and a second position to decrease the eddy current produced in the image heating member by the magnetic flux; a sensor for sensing the temperature of the image heating member; and a controller for controlling electric power supplied to the coil on the basis of an output of the sensor. The controller changes an electric power condition to be supplied to the coil before start of the movement from the first position to the second position of magnetic flux adjusting member.

Image heating apparatus generating heat by magnetic flux having a member reducing the amount of heat generation by the magnetic flux by movement thereof

Image heating apparatus with control means for controlling power to the coil that generates magnetic flux

An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating an image on a recording material in a heating nip; a magnetic flux generator for generating a magnetic flux for induction heat generation in the heating rotatable member; a magnetic flux confining device for confining the magnetic flux directed toward a predetermined region of the heating rotatable member from the magnetic flux generator; and a moving device for repeatedly moving the magnetic flux confining device during a heating operation between the operating position and a retracted position retracted from the operation position, when the recording material which has a predetermined width overlapping with a part of the predetermined region is continuously heated by the apparatus.

Magnetic flux image heating apparatus with control of movement of magnetic flux shield

A heating apparatus of an electromagnetic induction heating type includes a coil and a roller which generates heat by the action of magnetic flux generated from the coil. A recording material is heated by the roller. The heating apparatus further includes a movable magnetic flux decreasing member for decreasing magnetic flux, generated from the coil, acting on the roller. In the heating apparatus, a shutter is moved toward an effective position at which a temperature in a non-conveyance area is lowered when a recording material having a size lower than a maximum conveyable size is conveyed, and is moved away from the effective position depending on the temperature in the non-conveyance area, irrespective of the size of the recording material to be conveyed.

Induction heating for image flexing with means for adjusting magnetic flux

In an electromagnetic induction heating-type heating apparatus for moving a temperature decreasing member toward or apart from an effective position where a temperature in a predetermined area is decreased in order to take countermeasure against temperature rise at a non-sheet passing portion of a heating roller, a Curie temperature of the heating roller is not less than a predetermined image heating temperature and is less than a heat-resistant temperature of the heating apparatus.

Induction heating apparatus for image fixing

Information on a temperature of a heat generation member at a position which is in the neighborhood of an end portion of a conveyance area of a material, to be heated, having a maximum size and in the neighborhood of a non-conveyance area of a material, to be heated, having a size smaller than the maximum size is detected by temperature information detector, and a changer lowers a target temperature of the heat generation member depending on a detection result of the temperature information detector. Thereafter, when the detection result of the temperature information detector reaches a predetermined temperature, a magnetic flux adjusting member is started to be moved by a moving device.

Heating apparatus with target temperature control and means for changing target temperature

An image heating apparatus is provided, which includes: a heating member for heating an image on a recording material; a temperature control unit for controlling a temperature of the heating member to a predetermined set temperature; a waiting state setting unit for setting a waiting state in which the temperature of the heating member is controlled to a first set temperature; and a waiting state releasing unit for releasing the waiting state in a shorter time between a set time from start of a waiting state releasing operation and a time needed to reach a second set temperature at which the waiting state is released. An image formable state can be recovered from a low power mode in a short time.

A color-mixing fixing device includes a first fixing rotary member, and a second fixing rotary member for forming a nip together with the first fixing rotary member. After toner images of a plurality of colors stacked on one surface of a recording medium are fixed by a nip, toner images of a plurality of colors stacked on the other surface of the recording medium are fixed by the nip, thereby forming full-color images on both the surfaces of the recording medium. Each of the first and second fixing rotary members has a surface rubber layer with an impact resilience of 50% or less.

Color-mixing fixing device in which impact resilience of surface layer of fixing rotary member is 50% or less

In an image forming apparatus, during a continuous image forming mode, in a case where the number of recording members on which to form an image is not less than a predetermined number, a cleaning web is wound by a second amount larger than a first amount which is used for the ordinary winding of the cleaning web, after completion of a continuous image forming operation. Thus, a recording member to be next used for image formation can be prevented from being smudged.

Image forming apparatus

The present invention relates to an electrophotographic apparatus in which the apparatus is provided with a sequence in which a dark portion and a light portion are formed on a first portion and a second portion, respectively, on a photosensitive member by an electrostatic image forming device, whereafter the first portion and the second portion are exposed by a pre-exposure device, and then the first portion and the second portion are charged by a charger, and then a surface potential of the first portion and the second portion are detected by a detector, and an exposure amount at which the photosensitive member is exposed by the pre-exposure device is controlled in conformity with the potential of the first portion and the potential of the second portion detected by the detector in the sequence.

Electrophotographic apparatus having pre-exposure means

An image forming apparatus, such as a copying machine, has a fixing device for fixing a developer image transferred to a transfer medium, such as paper, with a fixing roller whose surface is coated with a release agent, such as oil, and includes at least one feed passage member for conveying, while contacting, a transfer medium to a transfer region of the apparatus. The feed passage member has a release agent absorbing layer on the surface thereof, and is thus advantageous for preventing release agent from being transferred and adhered to a photo-sensitive drum of the apparatus. The release agent absorbing layer of the feed passage member may contain either porous particles or particles and a binder resin, and be formed on another layer for retaining release agent absorbed by the release agent absorbing layer. The feed passage member preferably constitutes a transfer medium carrying member, which may include a dielectric sheet, for supporting and carrying a transfer medium. The member may alternatively constitute a pick-up roller, a feed guide, and/or a resist roller of the apparatus.

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