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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi YOSHINAGA, Takayuki SEKI, Yuji ARAI, Yutaka IKEBUCHI, Ryuuichi MIMBU, Yoshiki YAMAGUCHI, Shuntaro TAMAKI, Kazuya SAITO, Shuutaroh YUASA, Toshihiko SHIMOKAWA
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An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a fixing rotary body and a heater for heating the fixing rotary body. An opposed body contacts the fixing rotary body with releasable pressure therebetween to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium is conveyed. A heat shield is interposed between the heater and the fixing rotary body and movable in a circumferential direction of the fixing rotary body to shield the fixing rotary body from the heater in a variable circumferential direct heating span of the fixing rotary body where the heater is disposed opposite the fixing rotary body directly. A controller halts the heat shield instantly when a fault occurs during a print job.
An image forming apparatus comprising a fixing device including:
An image forming method comprising:
An image forming method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.