Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsKouichi Sanpei, Hiroshi Nou, Akira Iwaishi, Mitsuhiro Mori
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Abstract
A fixing device that applies heat energy to a recording medium having a toner image formed thereon to fix the toner image includes a flash fixing part that includes a flash lamp disposed in non-contact with the recording medium and applies heat energy to the toner image formed on the recording medium through discharge luminescence of a gas in the flash lamp, and an air stream spraying part that is disposed in non-contact with the recording medium on a downstream side of the flash fixing part in a transporting direction of the recording medium and sprays an air stream at a prescribed temperature onto a surface of the recording medium.
Claims7
A fixing device that applies heat energy to a recording medium having a toner image formed thereon to fix the toner image, the fixing device comprising:
- a flash fixing part that comprises a flash lamp disposed in non-contact with the recording medium and applies heat energy to the toner image formed on the recording medium through discharge luminescence of a gas in the flash lamp;
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- an air stream spraying part that is disposed in non-contact with the recording medium downstream of the flash fixing part in a transporting direction of the recording medium and sprays an air stream at a prescribed temperature onto a surface of the recording medium.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device that forms a toner image on a recording medium;
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- a fixing device comprising:
- a flash fixing part that comprises a flash lamp disposed in non-contact with the recording medium and applies heat energy to the toner image formed on the recording medium through discharge luminescence of a gas in the flash lamp;
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- an air stream spraying part that is disposed in non-contact with the recording medium downstream of the flash fixing part in a transporting direction of the recording medium and sprays an air stream at a prescribed temperature onto a surface of the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.