Image heating apparatus with standby temperature overshooting prevention feature

• US 6,185,388 B1
• Filed: 02/22/1999
• Issued: 02/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Naoyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Grimley, Arthur T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGO, HOANG X
• Application Number:
  US09/253,515
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 219/216, 399/67, 399/68, 399/69, 399/320, 399/328, 399/331, 399/70, 399/324, 399/330
• US Class Current: 399/69
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/2039 with means for controlling the fixing temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/205 specially for the mode of operation, e.g. standby, warming-up, error G03G15/2046 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0241 For photocopiers
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/0095 Heating devices in the form of rollers heated by induction H05B6/145

Abstract

An image heating apparatus includes a power supply controller, which sets the set temperature to change the temperature of the heating roller. The power supply is cut off before the temperature of the heating roller reaches the set temperature. A predetermined time later, the heating roller and the back-up roller stop rotating.

Claims

1. An image heating apparatus, comprising:

a heater;

a heating roller heated by said heater;

a back-up roller for forming a nip for nipping and conveying a recording material by cooperating with said heating roller; and

power supply control means for controlling a power supply to said heater so that a temperature of said heating roller may be maintained at a standby temperature during a standby period and at an image heating temperature during an image heating period,

wherein when a temperature of said heating roller reaches a predetermined temperature lower than the standby temperature, said power supply control means cuts off the power supply to said heater, and then said heating roller and said back-up roller stop their rotation before the temperature of said heating roller reaches the standby temperature.

2. An image heating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein stopping the rotation of said heating roller and back-up roller is effected a predetermined time after the power supply is cut off.

3. An image heating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined time is set in conformity with the temperature of said heating roller after the completion of the image heating period.

4. An image heating apparatus comprising:

a heater;

a heating roller heated by said heater;

a back-up roller for forming a nip for nipping and conveying a recording material by cooperating with said heating roller; and

power supply control means for controlling a power supply to said heater so that a temperature of said heating roller may be maintained at a standby temperature during a standby period and at an image heating temperature during an image heating period,

wherein while a temperature of said heating roller is changing from the image heating temperature to the standby temperature after an image heating operation is finished, said power supply control means cuts off the power supply to said heater, and then said heating roller and said back-up roller stop their rotation before the temperature of said heating roller reaches the standby temperature.

5. An image heating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein stopping the rotation of said heating roller and back-up roller is effected a predetermined time after the power supply is cut off.

6. An image heating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined time is set in conformity with the temperature of said heating roller after the completion of the image heating period.

7. An image heating apparatus, comprising:

a heater;

a heating roller heated by said heater;

a back-up roller for forming a nip for nipping and conveying a recording material by cooperating with said heating roller; and

power supply control means for controlling a power supply to said heater so that a temperature of said heating roller may be maintained at a standby temperature during a standby period and at an image heating temperature during an image heating period,

wherein a rotation of said heating roller and said back-up roller is controlled in accordance with a temperature of said back-up roller during the standby period.

8. An image heating apparatus according to claim 7, wherein during the standby period, when the temperature of said back-up roller drops lower than a first predetermined temperature, said heating roller and said back-up roller starts to rotate, and when the temperature of said back-up roller rises to a second predetermined temperature higher than the first predetermined temperature, said power supply means cuts off the power supply to said heater, and then, after a predetermined time period has passed, said heating roller and said back-up roller stops their rotation.