US 10,289,032 B2Granted

Oil removing device and image forming apparatus

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorsMasaaki Abe, Satoshi Tatsuura, Nobuhiro Katsuta, Hiroaki Moriyama

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Abstract

An oil removing device includes a first heating member that at an outer surface thereof contacts a non-image surface of a recording medium which is transported, and that heats the recording medium, a toner image that is formed by using liquid developer that contains volatile oil and toner being transferred to the recording medium; and a second heating member that is disposed on a downstream side of the first heating member in a transport direction, the second heating member contacting at an outer surface thereof the non-image surface of the recording medium and heating the recording medium. In the oil removing device, a non-contact region where the non-image surface of the recording medium does not contact the first heating member and the second heating member is provided between the first heating member and the second heating member.

Claims13

Dependent claims

An oil removing device comprising:

a first heating member,
wherein an outer surface of the first heating member is configured to contact a non-image surface of a recording medium which is transported,
wherein the first heating member is configured to heat the recording medium, and
wherein a toner image that is formed by using liquid developer that contains volatile oil and toner has been transferred to the recording medium;
and
a second heating member that is disposed on a downstream side of the first heating member in a transport direction,
wherein an outer surface of the second heating member is configured to contact the non-image surface of the recording medium, and
wherein the second heating member is configured to heat the recording medium,
wherein a non-contact region where the non-image surface of the recording medium does not contact the first heating member and the second heating member is provided between the first heating member and the second heating member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/713,922Filed 25 Sep 2017
Priority: JP 2017-05641922 Mar 2017
Published: US 2018/0275566 A127 Sep 2018
Granted: 14 May 2019
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Classification8 codes

G03G 15/11
Using a liquid developer: removing excess liquid developer, e.g. by heat
G03G 13/11
Using a liquid developer , e.g. liquid suspension: removing excess liquid developer, e.g. by heat
G03G 15/2053
Using contact heat: structural details of heat elements, e.g. structure of roller or belt, eddy current, induction heating
G03G 15/235
By inverting and refeeding the image receiving material with an image on one face to the recording member to transfer a second image on its…