Image forming apparatus with cleaning mode

Details Image forming apparatus with cleaning mode Image forming apparatus with cleaning mode

2011-04-26

2011-04-26

Ngo, Hoang (Department: 2852)

Electrophotography

Image formation

Fixing

Reexamination Certificate

active

07933543

ABSTRACT:
The image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion forming a toner image on a recording material, and a fixing portion heating and fixing the toner image formed on the recording material to the recording material, wherein the apparatus has a cleaning mode in which the fixing portion is cleaned, and when the cleaning mode is set, the image forming portion forms a predetermined toner image on the recording material, and the fixing portion then heats and fixes the predetermined toner image to the recording material to form a cleaning sheet which is heated and conveyed to clean the fixing portion. By the virtue of the present invention, it achieves high cleaning performance in which the fixing portion is cleaned by the cleaning sheet.

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patent: 2651232 (1997-09-01), None
patent: H10-111619 (1998-04-01), None
patent: 3292568 (2002-06-01), None
patent: 2004-240447 (2004-08-01), None

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