Invention Application
- Patent Title: FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
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Application No.: US15427620Application Date: 2017-02-08
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Publication No.: US20170235261A1Publication Date: 2017-08-17
- Inventor: Naoki YOSHIE , Chiaki YAMADA , Toru KIKUCHI
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Priority: JP2016-026795 20160216
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A control unit is configured to control torque of a fixing motor and torque of a pressing motor such that tangential force at a part holding paper in cooperation with a fixing member in a pressing member is equal to or greater than tangential force at a part holding paper in cooperation with the pressing member in the fixing member, and that the relation between the tangential force at the part of the pressing member and the tangential force at the part of the fixing member changes in accordance with the smoothness of paper.
Public/Granted literature
- US09989906B2 Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling image forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2018-06-05
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