Electric heating – Heating devices – With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...
Patent
1996-03-04
1997-10-28
Paschall, Mark H.
Electric heating
Heating devices
With power supply and voltage or current regulation or...
219506, 219497, 219492, 219216, 355405, H05B 102
Patent
active
056814933
ABSTRACT:
A temperature controlling device for controlling the temperature of a heating member of a fixing unit of an image forming apparatus, the heating member being heated by a heater to perform a fixing operation at a predetermined fixing temperature, the temperature controlling device is provided with a controller which is operable to control the heater to selectively keep the temperature of the heating member at a first energy saving temperature smaller than the fixing temperature and a second energy saving temperature smaller than the first energy saving temperature when the fixing operation is suspended.
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Sugiyama Tsukasa
Tabata Yoshiaki
Yoshizuka Ken
Mita Industrial Co. Ltd.
Paschall Mark H.
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