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Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011

Filed:

Oct. 15, 2008
Applicants:

Paul M. Fromm, Rochester, NY (US);

Michele Cleary, Rochester, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul M. Fromm, Rochester, NY (US);

Michele Cleary, Rochester, NY (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

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

Disclosed are methods of controlling a speed of a fuser cleaner web in a fuser apparatus, and the corresponding fuser apparatus. The method utilizes a fuser cleaner web for cleaning a fuser roll and being disposed between the fuser roll and a web nip roll, the fuser cleaner web being unwound from a web supply roll and wound onto a take up roll, the take up roll being driven by a motor. The method determines an angular displacement of the motor from a start of the fuser cleaner web being unwound from the web supply roll, and controls a speed of the motor to maintain a substantially constant fuser cleaner web speed, wherein the speed of the motor is controlled based on the determined angular displacement of the motor and a changing diameter of the take up roll.


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