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Electrophotography > Control Of Electrophotography Process > Control Of Fixing Control Of FixingControl Of Fixing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.09/13/07 - 20070212090 - Image forming apparatus Power is supplied from a capacitor of an auxiliary power source to a secondary heating element of a heating unit, thereby preventing temperature drop of a fixing roller at the time of continuous paper delivery. An allowable range for starting discharge from the capacitor is set to, for example, 30 ... 08/16/07 - 20070189794 - Image forming apparatus and fixing device The present invention provides a fixing device and a digital photocopier which can shorten the time from an instruction of starting image formation to end of fixing. The fixing device is provided in a cylinder made of metal and having a small thickness, and includes a magnetic excitation coil. When ... 08/09/07 - 20070183804 - Power control for a multi-lamp fusing apparatus in a xerographic printer A fusing apparatus for xerographic printing includes two lamps therein. There is applied to the first lamp a first wave set and to the second lamp a second wave set, each wave set comprising a predetermined arrangement of active half-cycles for each time period. The first wave set and second ... 06/28/07 - 20070147865 - Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of obtaining an image of a desired quality by a simple method is provided with an image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording material, a plurality of pairs of fixing rollers provided to fix the toner image, a glossiness detecting sensor ... 05/10/07 - 20070104503 - Fixing apparatus In an embodiment of the present invention, a pressure application mechanism portion is provided with a pressure-varying link structure arranged so as to be movable in lateral directions along an upper end portion of a device frame, a drive shaft having an eccentric cam for moving the pressure-varying link structure ... 05/03/07 - 20070098426 - Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus capable of compatibly realizing enhancement of durability of a heat rotation member heated by magnetic flux from magnetic flux generation means and early rise up of the image heating apparatus to a heatable temperature includes magnetic flux generation means, heating means, drive means, pressure rotation member, ... 04/05/07 - 20070077082 - System and methods for enabling geographically specific fuser control process An image forming system (210) includes an engine controller (60) and memory device (152) with a power supply (162) supporting a 220 volt, 120 volt or 100 volt level. A fuser control capability indicator (164) is read by the engine controller (60) in order to determine the fuse control capabilities ... 03/29/07 - 20070071474 - Image forming apparatus and gloss level control method An image forming apparatus which can facilitate acquisition of an image output bundle that has a uniform and optimal gloss level as a whole. An image forming apparatus 10 fixes a toner image on a plurality of sheets. An image ratio calculation unit 233 calculates a composition ratio of image ... 03/01/07 - 20070047989 - Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, fixing apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image onto a recording medium by applying pressure and heat to toner provided on the surface of the recording medium. The fixing apparatus includes a fixing member, a pressing member for pressing against the fixing member, a temperature ... 02/01/07 - 20070025750 - Image fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus is provided, in which a problem such as the melting of a heater retaining member does not occur when a fixing nip portion performs a fixing processing in a reduced pressure state. In a fixing apparatus of an image forming apparatus capable of feeding a paper by ... 01/25/07 - 20070019979 - Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprises a belt fixing unit and a controller. The belt fixing unit includes a moving fixing belt heated by a heater, a pressure member provided inside the fixing belt, a pressure roller provided opposite to the pressure member through the fixing belt to form a nip ... 01/25/07 - 20070019978 - Fixing unit for electrophotographic image forming apparatus A fixing unit for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided. The fixing unit includes a heating roller and a pressing roller provided opposite to form a fixing nip and apply pressure to a recording medium passing through the fixing nip. A heating roller holder rotatably supports heating roller shafts ... 01/25/07 - 20070019977 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a heating member disposed with an internal heating source and a pressuring member that presses against the heating member. The fixing device is configured to be attachable to and detachable from an image forming apparatus body, and includes: brackets that retain the heating member; pressuring levers ... 01/18/07 - 20070014585 - Sheet transporting apparatus and printing apparatus A sheet transporting apparatus includes: a heating roller and a pressure roller that heats and presses a toner image to fix the toner image onto the sheet; a pressure roller detection unit that detects a contact posture of the rollers; a sheet meander correction mechanism that corrects a meander of ... 10/05/06 - 20060222393 - Printing system A printing system includes first and second marking engines. First and second fusers are associated with the marking engines, respectively. The printing system has a first mode of operation in which print media is fused by both fusers and a second mode of operation in which at least a portion ... 09/21/06 - 20060210291 - Fixing device of image forming apparatus A fixing device of an image forming apparatus of the present invention enables induction heating coils for a 100 V power source to set a ratio of inductance L to load resistance R of a heat roller to L/R <35×10−6 (H/Ω) and coil impedance Z (Ω) to Z<10 (Ω) and ... 07/20/06 - 20060159477 - Image fixing apparatus and process for fixing an image An image fixing apparatus having a linear heating body, an endless belt entrained around thereon, means for supplying electricity to the linear heating body with pulse electricity, a pressure body which interposes a subject to be fixed having an image with the endless belt, the image is heated by the ... 07/20/06 - 20060159476 - Rotation control and heating control for a fixing rotatable member in rotational induction-heating type apparatus A fixing apparatus has a coil for forming a magnetic field; a fixing rotatable member for fixing an unfixed toner image carried on a recording material thereon by heat generated by eddy currents which is generated by the magnetic field; an electric power supply control for controlling electric power supply ... 06/15/06 - 20060127117 - User interface for differential gloss images The present disclosure relates to providing a user interface for the effective generation of differential gloss images. The user is instructed to indicate the base primary image data, and the desired gloss image data. This data may be displayed for verification and position adjustment by superimposition of the gloss image ... 06/01/06 - 20060115288 - Glossing system for use in a tipp architecture In a tightly integrated parallel printing architecture having at least a first print engine and a second print engine, the first print engine and a second print engine includes a first fuser system having a first fusing member for fusing marking particles on the substrate and second fuser system having ... 06/01/06 - 20060115287 - Glossing system for use in a printing system A sensor system for detecting gloss levels of a printed image on a substrate generated by a print engine, including: a fixing member for fixing marking particles on the substrate; an optical sensor for sensing a gloss value of the surface of the fixing member; and means for correlating the ... 04/20/06 - 20060083528 - Image heating apparatus In a construction wherein at the start of fixing, a pressure belt is brought into contact with a fixing roller at uniform timing, it has sometimes been the case that the temperature of the pressure belt at a point of time whereat the fixing is started does not become a ... 03/23/06 - 20060062584 - Rotation control and heating control for a fixing rotatable member in rotational induction-heating type apparatus A fixing apparatus has a coil for forming a magnetic field; a fixing rotatable member for fixing an unfixed toner image carried on a recording material thereon by heat generated by eddy currents which is generated by the magnetic field; an electric power supply control for controlling electric power supply ... 02/09/06 - 20060029411 - Image fixing apparatus stably controlling a fixing temperature, and image forming apparatus using the same An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism and an image fixing unit. The image forming mechanism forms a toner image on a recording sheet. The image fixing unit fixes the toner image onto the recording sheet. The image fixing unit includes a magnetic flux generator, a heat member, ... 12/22/05 - 20050281576 - Image forming apparatus and fixing device The present invention provides a fixing device and a digital photocopier which can shorten the time from an instruction of starting image formation to end of fixing. The fixing device is provided in a cylinder made of metal and having a small thickness, and includes a magnetic excitation coil. When ... 11/17/05 - 20050254846 - Apparatus and method for fixing an image An apparatus including and a method using a fixing device including a fixing member, a pressure member, a heater, and a pressure controller. The fixing member and the pressure member face with each other to form a nip. The heater heats a surface of the fixing member when the fixing ... 11/03/05 - 20050244181 - Method and apparatus for reducing image artifacts caused by release fluid in an electrophotographic machine An electrophotographic machine includes a fusing station configured for fusing an image to an image substrate by applying fusing process parameters to the image substrate. A controller adjusts the fusing process parameters applied to the image substrate dependent at least in part upon whether the image substrate is to be ... 10/06/05 - 20050220473 - Closed loop control of nip pressure in a fuser system A fuser system of a xerographic device, including a fuser member and a pressure member in which the pressure member is made to exert pressure upon the fuser member so as to form a nip having a nip width between the fuser member and the pressure member, wherein the nip ... 09/29/05 - 20050214009 - Apparatus and process for fuser control The invention is in the field of fusing and fusing apparatus for print media, particularly for fusing toner to print media and other variations. According to various aspects of the invention, an improved temperature control is provided for a fusing apparatus wherein control is prioritized. According to various further aspects ... 09/29/05 - 20050214008 - Apparatus and process for fuser control The invention is in the field of fusing and fusing apparatus for print media, particularly for fusing toner to print media and other variations. According to various aspects of the invention, an improved temperature control is provided for a fusing apparatus wherein control is prioritized. According to various further aspects ... 09/22/05 - 20050207770 - Image heating apparatus having heater for externally heating fixing roller The image heating apparatus for heating a toner image formed on a recording material, includes a rotatable member; heating device for heating an outer peripheral surface of the rotatable member, the heating device including a heater for forming a heating nip portion in cooperation with the rotatable member; back-up device ... 08/04/05 - 20050169654 - Rotation control and heating control for a fixing rotatable member in rotational induction-heating type apparatus A fixing apparatus has a coil for forming a magnetic field; a fixing rotatable member for fixing an unfixed toner image carried on a recording material thereon by heat generated by eddy currents which is generated by the magnetic field; an electric power supply control for controlling electric power supply ... 07/28/05 - 20050163522 - Printing device with laminating functionality A method of using a printing device having a toner fuser to laminate a media sheet with at least one laminate material sheet, the method including receiving a laminate request, adjusting a characteristic of the toner fuser of the printing device, and passing the media sheet and the at least ... 07/14/05 - 20050152709 - Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming a developer image on a recording medium (22), a fixing unit (21) for fixing the developer image on the recording medium (22), an operation unit (11b), and a fixing section regulation unit for regulating the fixing section based on ... 06/02/05 - 20050117929 - Procedure and device for adjusting gloss in print material To regulate the gloss on a print material, and avoid excess release oil, the properties of the fusing medium are measured, and the gloss on the print material is determined on the basis of the measured properties of the fusing medium. ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |