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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2012
Shuichi Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Sunohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Kishimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Motofumi Baba, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kinoshita, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeo Iwasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuichi Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Sunohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Kishimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Motofumi Baba, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kinoshita, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeo Iwasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing member including a heat generating layer that generates heat by induction, the fixing member fixing images onto plural recording media that are successively supplied thereto with heat generated from the heat generating layer; a pressure member that contacts the fixing member and forms a nip between the pressure member and the fixing member, the nip allowing the recording media to pass therethrough; an induction heating unit that inductively heats the heat generating layer of the fixing member; and a controller that controls a manner in which the induction heating unit heats the heat generating layer when the plural recording media successively pass through the nip in accordance with a total of times during which the recording media are not present in the nip, the total of times being measured from when the recording media started passing through the nip.