Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsMasashi Saito, Atsushi Nakamura
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Abstract
A fixing device has a fixing member, a cleaning roller, and a web, a first drive mechanism, a rotation drive unit, and a control unit. The first drive mechanism moves the cleaning roller to abut on or separate from the fixing member. The rotation drive unit can rotatingly drive the cleaning roller when the cleaning roller separates from the fixing member. The control unit performs control such that, in a case where a cleaning mode for cleaning the cleaning roller using the web is selected, the cleaning roller moves to separate from the fixing member and is rotatingly driven, and the web abuts on the cleaning roller, in order to clean the cleaning roller.
Claims13
A fixing device comprising:
- a fixing member that heats and presses a toner image formed on a recording material to fix the toner image on the recording material;
- a cleaning member that abuts on the fixing member to clean the fixing member;
- a web that cleans the cleaning member;
- a first drive mechanism that moves the cleaning member so as to abut on or separate from the fixing member;
- a rotation drive unit capable of rotatingly driving the cleaning member when the cleaning member separates from the fixing member;
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- a control unit that performs control such that, in a case where a cleaning mode for cleaning the cleaning member using the web is selected, the cleaning member moves to separate from the fixing member and is rotatingly driven, and the web abuts on the cleaning member to clean the cleaning member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.