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Fixing apparatus including apparatus for controlling the supply of releasing agent

  • US 6,032,016 A
  • Filed: 09/16/1998
  • Issued: 02/29/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A fixing apparatus comprising:

  • a first rotating member and a second rotating member arranged to oppose each other to fix unfixed toner images held on sheets of recording media;

    a coating apparatus that coats at least one of said first and second rotating members with a releasing agent, said coating apparatus being equipped with a releasing agent holding roller, which has a releasing agent holding layer on its outer surface; and

    a transfer apparatus that supplies the releasing agent to the releasing agent holding layer so that the releasing agent is not saturating the releasing agent holding layer all the time,wherein content of the releasing agent in said releasing agent holding layer is 20-80 volumetric percent.

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