Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lubricating device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 润滑装置,固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US12830624Application Date: 2010-07-06
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Publication No.: US08385799B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Atsushi Miyamoto
- Applicant: Atsushi Miyamoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-166660 20090715
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A lubricating device includes an lubricant impregnation member to coat a surface of a target member with lubricant, an lubricant supply member to supply lubricant to the lubricant impregnation member, a subsidiary roller to feed the lubricant impregnation member out, a main roller to reel in the lubricant impregnation member fed by the subsidiary roller, a drive motor to drive the main roller, an encoder disc provided at a rotational shaft of the subsidiary roller, an encoder sensor to detect a rotational state of the encoder disc, and a controller unit to calculate an outer diameter of the main roller and a portion of the lubricant impregnation member reeled by the main roller, based on a number of drive steps of the drive motor during a detection interval of the encoder disc.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110013953A1 LUBRICATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-01-20
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