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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1998
Yasumasa Otsuka, Yokohama, JP;
Koichi Okuda, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Hayakawa, Abiko, JP;
Tetsuo Kishida, Toride, JP;
Masahito Omata, Toride, JP;
Akira Kato, Toride, JP;
Kazuo Suzuki, Chichibu, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yokota, Chichibu, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a fixing apparatus with a pair of fixing members at least one of which is rotatable, a nip being formed between the fixing members and a recording material which carries a non-fixed toner being conveyed through the nip and heated at the nip to fix the non-fixed toner onto the recording material. The apparatus has a cleaning mode for cleaning the fixing member, in which a sheet is pinched by the nip, and the sheet is conveyed in a direction by repeating rotation and stoppage of the rotatable fixing member.