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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2012
Alan Richard Priebe, Rochester, NY (US);
Donald Saul Rimai, Webster, NY (US);
Christopher J. White, Avon, NY (US);
Kevin Edward Spaulding, Spencerport, NY (US);
Alan Richard Priebe, Rochester, NY (US);
Donald Saul Rimai, Webster, NY (US);
Christopher J. White, Avon, NY (US);
Kevin Edward Spaulding, Spencerport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A toner fixing system has a heating member rotatable around an axis. The heating member includes a liquid-blocking barrier and a backing layer that define a liquid cavity not including the axis. The liquid cavity contains a heating liquid warmed above a glass transition temperature of the toner. A media-transport system transports the receiver medium along a transport path in which the receiver medium contacts or is entrained around the liquid-blocking barrier. Heat is transferred through the liquid-blocking barrier from the warmed heating liquid to the toner, raising a temperature of the toner to a level above the toner glass transition temperature.