Image forming apparatus having a cooling section in a fixing apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHiroshi Funabiki, Masami Maruko, Mikihiko Takada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: an image bearing body; an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body; a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material; and a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, wherein the fixing apparatus comprises a cooling section to cool the pressure member, and a controlling section to control the cooling section according to an interval between recording materials.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing body;
- an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
- a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
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- a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, the fixing apparatus fixing the toner image on the recording material transported through the fixing apparatus, the fixing apparatus comprising:
- a cooling section to cool the pressure member;
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- a controlling section to control the cooling section according to a ratio of a distance of an interval between recording materials to a traveling distance of a fixing member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing body;
- an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
- a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
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- a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, the fixing apparatus fixing the toner image on the recording material transported through the fixing apparatus, the fixing apparatus comprising:
- a cooling section to cool the pressure member, the pressure member including a hollow pipe, the cooling section passing air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member;
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- a controlling section to control the cooling section according to an interval between recording materials.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.