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Patent No.:

US 7120370 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2004
Applicant:

Tomonori Watabe, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Tomonori Watabe, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In a duplex printing or a simplex printing, upper and lower rollers of a fixing unit are separated from each other or stop rotating during a period after the fixing operation of the first side of a recording medium (or a preceding recording medium) and before the fixing operation of the second side of the recording medium (or a subsequent recording medium). With such an arrangement, it is possible to prevent the excessive heating of the lower roller, and thereby to prevent the degradation of the printed image.


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Watabe, Tomonori. (2006). Image forming apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 7120370). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7120370

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