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Color image forming apparatus

US5319428A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 30, 1992
Grant dateJun 7, 1994
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Expiry dateOct 30, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/205
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a color image forming apparatus provided with a fixing roller and a pressure roller equipped with a heater therein, which is in press contact with the fixing roller. The completion timing of warm-up of the fixing device is determined by the time at which either the detected temperature of the fixing roller or the heating time of the heater reaches a predetermined value.

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