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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2003
Hideki Tatematsu, Ashiya, JP;
Kenji Asakura, Kyoto, JP;
Masaru Imai, Hirakata, JP;
Tadafumi Shimizu, Ogoori, JP;
Masahiro Samei, Fukuoka, JP;
Keiichi Matsuzaki, Kurume, JP;
Kazunori Matsuo, Oonojo, JP;
Shoichi Kitagawa, Fukuoka, JP;
Hideki Tatematsu, Ashiya, JP;
Kenji Asakura, Kyoto, JP;
Masaru Imai, Hirakata, JP;
Tadafumi Shimizu, Ogoori, JP;
Masahiro Samei, Fukuoka, JP;
Keiichi Matsuzaki, Kurume, JP;
Kazunori Matsuo, Oonojo, JP;
Shoichi Kitagawa, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device as an image heating device is provided, by which a difference in glossiness is not caused in a recording medium in the axial direction of a pressure roller. When a print request is issued during the end-processing sequence, an electric power applied to a magnetization coil via an exciting circuit is dropped to 0 by controlling means during the start-processing sequence, and after an appropriate interval, the heating with full power is restarted by the controlling means. By so doing, the decrease in temperature at both ends of a fixing belt and a heat-generating roller in the axial direction can be compensated.