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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2011
Mahito Yoshioka, Numazu, JP;
Daizo Fukuzawa, Mishima, JP;
Noriaki Sato, Suntou-gun, JP;
Tooru Imaizumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Munehito Kurata, Mishima, JP;
Kuniaki Kasuga, Mishima, JP;
Mahito Yoshioka, Numazu, JP;
Daizo Fukuzawa, Mishima, JP;
Noriaki Sato, Suntou-gun, JP;
Tooru Imaizumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Munehito Kurata, Mishima, JP;
Kuniaki Kasuga, Mishima, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion forming a toner image on a recording material, and a fixing portion heating and fixing the toner image formed on the recording material to the recording material, wherein the apparatus has a cleaning mode in which the fixing portion is cleaned, and when the cleaning mode is set, the image forming portion forms a predetermined toner image on the recording material, and the fixing portion then heats and fixes the predetermined toner image to the recording material to form a cleaning sheet which is heated and conveyed to clean the fixing portion. By the virtue of the present invention, it achieves high cleaning performance in which the fixing portion is cleaned by the cleaning sheet.