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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
Detlef Schulze-hagenest, Molfsee, DE;
Arun Chowdry, Pittsford, NY (US);
Dinesh Tyagi, Fairport, NY (US);
Domingo Rohde, Kiel, DE;
Detlef Schulze-Hagenest, Molfsee, DE;
Arun Chowdry, Pittsford, NY (US);
Dinesh Tyagi, Fairport, NY (US);
Domingo Rohde, Kiel, DE;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for fusing a heat curable toner to a carrier sheet having said toner thereon. In the method, the toner is sandwiched between said carrier sheet and a movable fuser belt and heated to a first temperature by a first means, which first temperature is above a first glass transformation temperature of the toner. The toner is kept at an elevated temperature for a predetermined time by a second means, which elevated temperature is above the first glass transformation temperature, thereby raising the glass transformation temperature of the toner to a second glass transformation temperature. The apparatus has at least a first endless fuser belt, first heating means for heating the toner to a first temperature, second heating means located downstream of said first heating means for keeping the toner at an elevated temperature for a predetermined time and control means for controlling the first and second heating means.