US 8,712,271 B2Granted

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsToshinori Nakayama, Masayuki Tamaki

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Abstract

In an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which forms an image in which toner containing a wax is used on a recording material, and a fixing device which heats the toner image formed on the recording material at a nip portion which nips and conveys the recording material, when the fixing device heats the recording material on which a toner image having a maximum toner-carrying amount of toner is formed, when a temperature of a surface of the toner layer reaches a temperature at which an endothermic amount indicates a peak in a relationship between a temperature of the toner and the endothermic amount, a condition of the fixing device at the nip portion is set so that a temperature of an interface between the toner and the recording material is lower than a temperature of a surface of the toner.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material using toner containing a wax component;
a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material, said fixing portion including a heating rotatable member configured to heat the toner image on the recording material at a nip portion, a pressure rotatable member configured to form the nip portion cooperatively with said heating rotatable member, and a cooling portion configured to cool said pressure rotatable member;
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a controlling portion configured to control an operation of said fixing portion, wherein said controlling portion controls a cooling condition of said cooling portion so that a temperature of said pressure rotatable member is kept at a first temperature lower than a second temperature at which an endothermic amount of the toner indicates a main peak, and wherein said controlling portion controls a fixing condition of said fixing portion so that an interfacial temperature between a toner layer and the recording material becomes a temperature that is lower than a temperature of an outermost surface of the toner layer when the temperature of the outermost surface of the toner layer reaches the second temperature in the case that the toner image having a maximum toner amount per unit area is formed.

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An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material using toner containing a wax component;
a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material, said fixing portion including a heating rotatable member configured to heat the toner image on the recording material at a nip portion, a pressure rotatable member configured to form the nip portion cooperatively with said heating rotatable member, and a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of said pressure rotatable member;
and
a controlling portion configured to control an operation of said image forming portion and said fixing portion,
wherein said controlling portion keeps the temperature of said pressure rotatable member at a first temperature lower than a second temperature at which an endothermic amount of the toner indicates a main peak so that an interfacial temperature between a toner layer and the recording material becomes a temperature that is a temperature of an outermost surface of the toner layer when the temperature of the outermost surface of the toner layer reaches the second temperature, in the case that a toner image having a maximum toner amount per unit area is formed, and
wherein said controlling portion interrupts an image forming operation of said apparatus if the temperature detected by said temperature detector reaches a predetermined temperature that is higher than the first temperature and that is lower than the second temperature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.