Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming device modifying nip pressure of nip formed in fixing device before motor is halted
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Application No.: US17128346Application Date: 2020-12-21
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Publication No.: US11294308B2Publication Date: 2022-04-05
- Inventor: Yusuke Mizuno , Fumitake Tajiri , Tokifumi Tanaka , Tomonori Watanabe , Sadaharu Kato , Hirotaka Imaeda
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2019-231463 20191223
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
In an image forming device, a first fixing member has a roller. A second fixing member has a belt to form a nip together with the first fixing member. A pressure modifying mechanism modifies a nip pressure at the nip to selected one of a first nip pressure and a second nip pressure smaller than the first nip pressure. A controller drives the first motor to drive the roller and fixes the developer image on a sheet in a state that the nip pressure is the first nip pressure. The controller modifies the nip pressure from the first nip pressure to the second nip pressure while driving the first motor in a case where a final sheet among one or more sheets fixed according to a print job has passed the nip, and halts the first motor after the nip pressure is modified to the second nip pressure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210191296A1 IMAGE FORMING DEVICE MODIFYING NIP PRESSURE OF NIP FORMED IN FIXING DEVICE BEFORE MOTOR IS HALTED Public/Granted day:2021-06-24
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