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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
KAO Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355290 ; 219216 ; 430109 ; 430124 ;
Abstract
A method of forming fixed images including uniformly charging a photoconductor, selectively exposing the photoconductor to light to form an electrostatic latent image, developing the electrostatic latent image with a thermally dissociating encapsulated toner to form a visible image, transferring the formed toner image to a recording medium, and fixing the transferred the toner image onto the recording medium, the fixing process being carried out at a temperature of not less than 40.degree. C. and not more than 120.degree. C. and by using a fixing roller exerting a nip pressure of less than 4 kg/cm.