Fixing apparatus
US6266509A · kind A · utility
Assignee
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 13, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jul 24, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 13, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/2093
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A fixing apparatus includes a rotary member for thermally fixing a nonfixed image to a recording material, and a mold releasing agent applying device for applying a mold releasing agent to the rotary member. The mold releasing agent applying device has a regulating member contacted with the rotary member to regulate an amount of the mold releasing agent supplied to the rotary member. A holding member is disposed at an upstream side of the regulating member in a rotating direction of the rotary member and is adapted to hold the mold releasing agent. A supplying member supplies the mold releasing agent to the holding member, wherein a supplying timing of the mold releasing agent supplied from the supplying member to the holding member is effected periodically after a plurality of fixing process operations.
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