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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Nobuto Kamiyama, Ryugasaki, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuto Kamiyama, Ryugasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A temperature of a sheet material after passing a first fixing device and before entering a second fixing device changes between the start and the end of an image forming job, thus resulting in a change in the gloss of the toner image. A cooling apparatus for directly or indirectly cooling the sheet material is provided in a conveying pathbetween the first fixing deviceand the second fixing devicethereby suppressing a change in the image gloss between the start and the end of the image forming job.