With Plural Heating Units Patents (Class 219/470)
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Patent number: 11633905Abstract: A long decorative material with an embossing in register with a pattern, a rolling method and a device therefor are described herein. The method comprises a feeding step of feeding a layered raw material of a long decorative material to be rolled into oppositely rolling rollers; and a rolling step of hot rolling an embossing on the transparent plastic layer. A feeding tension of a printed plastic layer is adjusted according to a longitudinal deviation between the embossing and the pattern in the rolling step. The device comprises a first feeding device, a second feeding device, the oppositely rolling rollers, a detecting device, and a tension controller disposed on the second feeding device. According to the long decorative material with the embossing in register with the pattern manufactured by the method, the embossing hot-rolled on the transparent plastic layer is in register with the pattern on the printed plastic layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARLInventors: Yibing Wang, Wenjin Tang, Caiqin Zhu
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Patent number: 11633904Abstract: A long plastic layer with an embossing in register with a pattern, a rolling method and a device are described herein. The method comprises a feeding step of feeding a plastic layer into oppositely rolling rollers; and a rolling step of hot rolling an embossing on the plastic layer. A feeding tension of the plastic layer is adjusted according to a longitudinal deviation between the embossing and the pattern in the rolling step. The device comprises a first feeding device, an oppositely rolling rollers control device, a detecting device, and a tension controller disposed on the first feeding device. According to the long plastic layer with the embossing in register with the pattern manufactured by the method, the embossing on the plastic layer is in register with the pattern on the plastic layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARLInventors: Yibing Wang, Wenjin Tang, Caiqin Zhu
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Patent number: 11085116Abstract: An engine shaft assembly for an engine is provided. The engine shaft assembly includes a shaft and a thermal distribution layer. The thermal distribution layer is provided on the shaft, and is configured to minimize the effect of distortion of the shaft caused by asymmetric cooling on shutdown of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Scott D. Hartshorn, Keith D. Humfeld
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Patent number: 9693393Abstract: A heated roll with a circular cylindrical casing tube 1 made from thermally conductive metal, which is closed at its end faces with caps 2, 3. One or more electric heating mats 8 are arranged inside the casing tube 1. By at least one connection pin 5, which is arranged at one cap 2, connection cables 11 are guided for supplying the heating mats 8 with electric power. Annular brushing bodies 7 are fastened at the connection pin 5 and serve for the electric contacting of the connection cables 11. A tensioning device 9, 14, 15 is arranged inside the casing tube 1, which presses the heating mats 8 permanently against the interior surface of the casing tube 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Robert Bürkle GmbHInventors: Markus Stortz, Marcel Scheerer, Michael Plocher
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Patent number: 8927907Abstract: A thermally zoned substrate holder including a substantially cylindrical base having top and bottom surfaces configured to support a substrate. A plurality of temperature control elements are disposed within the base. An insulator thermally separates the temperature control elements. The insulator is made from an insulting material having a lower coefficient of thermal conductivity than the base (e.g., a gas- or vacuum-filled chamber).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Steven T. Fink, Eric J. Strang
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Patent number: 8779336Abstract: A ring type infrared heating device is used in manufacturing process for corrugated cardboard so that the paper surface passing through the heating device can be heated up to appropriate temperature for subsequent shaping operation. The ring type infrared heating device is mainly formed by a lengthwise drum and a plurality of ring type infrared lamps arranged within the lengthwise drum. The surface of the lengthwise drum can be heated quickly up to working temperature by the light radiation energy generated from the ring type infrared lamps, so as to facilitate the shaping operation of corrugated cardboard.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Inventor: Hung-Wei Hung
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Patent number: 8705245Abstract: A sensor device has a ceramic carrier substrate. At least two conductor tracks are arranged on the carrier substrate. The sensor device has at least one ceramic component that is in the form of a chip and is connected to the conductor tracks in an electrically conductive manner. The at least one ceramic component is mechanically connected to the conductor tracks by means of a screen printing paste which has been burnt in.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: EPCOS AGInventors: Gerald Kloiber, Heinz Strallhofer, Norbert Freiberger
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Patent number: 8674269Abstract: A safe product transfer apparatus that heats refrigerated food products and then hold those heated food products in a hold drawer until they can be transferred to a heater merchandizer, preferably a roller grill as needed. The apparatus features a control assembly. A pre-heat indicator indicates when the preheat temperature has been reached so that the food products can be loaded into an operable drawer. The apparatus can heat a refrigerated product from 34° F. to greater than or equal to 140° F. in 35 minutes or less. The apparatus has a safe product transfer apparatus that has a heating cavity ranging from 250° F. to 425° F. The apparatus provides a safe product transfer apparatus that can hold the products stored therein at a safe holding temperature (ranging from greater or equal to 140° F. to not more than 205° F.), that is, not hot enough to continue heating or degrading the food product.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Standex International CorporationInventors: James E. Humphrey, Anthony Kukla, Diosdado Pangan
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Publication number: 20130048624Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive strength exhibiting unit including: a thermal head including heat-generating elements aligned in a row, for heating the pressure-sensitive adhesive label from the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer side to cause each of the heat-generating elements to form a bore in the functional layer; a platen roller for conveying the pressure-sensitive adhesive label while sandwiching the pressure-sensitive adhesive label between the thermal head and the platen roller; and a control part for applying heat energy to each of the heat-generating elements independently, wherein when the control part continuously forms perforation lines in which a plurality of the bores are aligned in a row by repeating the application of heat energy, the control part applies high heat energy, whose energy amount is higher than an energy amount of heat energy applied to the heat-generating elements during formation of a previous perforation line, to the heat-generating elements to form the perforation line.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: Yoshinori Sato, Kazuo Tani, Norimitsu Sanbongi
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Patent number: 8306449Abstract: In a roller to affect a temperature of a print substrate in a digital printer, a hollow roll is mounted to a shaft. Channels are provided for a heat transport medium in the hollow wall. A roller shell of the hollow roll is comprised of arc-shaped segments extending over a width of the hollow roll. The segments end laterally in arms designed so that the arms of adjacent segments are connected to each other. The channels extend over the width of the hollow roll and are assembled respectively from the segments of the roller shell. A respective covering plate is clamped between the arms of the respective segments.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbHInventor: Juergen Stresau
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Patent number: 8247747Abstract: A plasticating barrel is provided with a primary heating system having at least one laminated ceramic heater, where the ceramic heater has an electrical insulating layer interposed between the ceramic heater layer and an outer wall of the barrel, and the longitudinal length of the ceramic heater is arranged over a portion of the barrel length. A secondary heating system may also be provided and overlaps, at least in part, the primary heating system.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Xaloy, Inc.Inventors: Bruce F. Taylor, Richard D. Palmer, Bruce E. Hyllberg, Timothy W. Womer
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Publication number: 20120103969Abstract: A warming apparatus for warming a container having outer walls, the apparatus including a warmer body, at least one container holder, open at both ends, defined in the body, the container holder including holder walls adapted and configured to cradle a portion of the outer walls of a container for releasably holding that portion of the outer walls, and at least one heating element disposed in the warmer body adjacent the container holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventor: Igal Sharon
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Patent number: 8143558Abstract: Apparatuses useful for printing and methods for controlling the temperature of media in apparatuses useful for printing are disclosed. An embodiment of the apparatuses includes a heated first roll including a first outer surface; a heated second roll including a second outer surface; a third roll including a third outer surface; a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the third outer surface; a belt supported on the first roll and the second roll and disposed between the first outer surface and the third outer surface, the belt including an inner surface and an outer surface; a nip between the third outer surface and the outer surface of the belt at which the belt heats media which include a surface, marking material on the surface and an interface between the surface and marking material; and a positioning device coupled to the second roll.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Nicholas P. Kladias, Gerald A. Domoto, Augusto E. Barton, Anthony S. Condello
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Patent number: 8035060Abstract: The invention provides for an inkjet printhead having a plurality of micro-electromechanical vapor bubble generators. Each bubble generator includes a nozzle in fluid communication with an ink chamber, and a heater positioned in thermal contact with ink in the chamber. Each generator also includes drive circuitry configured to provide a modulated pulse to the heater to generate a vapor bubble in the ink in said chamber, the pulse comprising a pre-heat series of a predetermined number of pulses separated by a predetermined period, followed by a trigger pulse of a period twice that of said predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty LtdInventors: Angus John North, Samuel James Myers, Kia Silverbrook
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Patent number: 8010010Abstract: An energy storage device that includes capacitor cells of a first type having a first internal resistance and capacitor cells of a second type having a second internal resistance which is higher than the first internal resistance. Further, there is a detection unit that detects a voltage value between two opposing ends of at least one of the capacitor cells, or a voltage detection switching unit that integrates a switch arranged between two opposing ends of at least one of the capacitor cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhito Kishi
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Patent number: 7957663Abstract: A heater is operable with a main power supply unit and a chargeable auxiliary power supplying unit. The heater includes a heater part having one or a plurality of heater elements to receive power from the main and auxiliary power supplying units, a detecting part to detect information related to the heater part, and a controller to vary an amount of power supplied from the auxiliary power supply unit to the heater part per unit time based on the information detected by the detecting part.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Kishi, Yasuhisa Kato, Masami Okamoto, Yasutada Tsukioka, Hiromasa Takagi, Susumu Matsusaka, Akiyasu Amita
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Heater, fixing unit and image forming apparatus operable with a main and auxiliary power supply unit
Patent number: 7885569Abstract: A heater operable with main and auxiliary power supply units. A controller selects a first mode to permit discharge of the auxiliary power supply unit when a voltage or power from the auxiliary power supply unit is a startable value or greater without making reference to judgment information, or a second mode to permit discharge of the auxiliary power supply unit based on the judgment information when the voltage or power from the auxiliary supply unit is less than the startable value.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Kishi, Yasuhisa Kato, Masami Okamoto, Yasutada Tsukioka, Hiromasa Takagi, Susumu Matsusaka, Akiyasu Amita -
Patent number: 7764915Abstract: An elastic roll is used in a fixing device of an image forming apparatus. The elastic roll includes an elastic layer and a covering layer disposed on an outside of the elastic layer. The covering layer is made of a heat-resistant resin or a metal, which has higher rigidity than a material of the elastic layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Uehara, Junpei Amano, Chikara Ando, Ryuji Katsuno, Jun Kimura
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Patent number: 7741586Abstract: The invention relates generally to heat transfer devices for natural gas or propane barbeques. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of a knitted wire mesh with an open loop structure as a heat transfer device in barbeques.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Inventor: Rod Bratton
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Patent number: 7725050Abstract: A heated drum assembly improves thermal control of a rotating drum in a printer. The assembly includes a hollow drum, two stationary heaters located within an internal cavity of the drum, one of the two stationary heaters being at one end of the drum and the other stationary heater being at another end of the drum, a fan located at one end of the drum, a temperature sensor at one end of the drum, and a second temperature sensor at the other end of the drum, and a controller electrically coupled to the heaters, the fan, and the two temperature sensors to control a temperature of the wall of the drum to a set point by activating at least one of the heaters in response to a signal indicating a temperature below a first predetermined temperature threshold and operating the fan at one of three speeds.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Faming Li, Eric Scott Hamby
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Patent number: 7671300Abstract: A heater element is provided adapted to heat a belt in a fuser assembly. The heater element comprises laterally spaced-apart features extending beyond a center section provided between the features. The features and center section are adapted to face an inner surface of the belt.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Russell Edward Lucas, Jason Romain, Jerry Wayne Smith, Casey Thomas Wilson
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Patent number: 7609988Abstract: A heater is operable with a main power supply unit and a chargeable auxiliary power supplying unit. The heater includes a heater part having one or a plurality of heater elements to receive power from the main and auxiliary power supplying units, a detecting part to detect information related to the heater part, and a controller to vary an energy supplied from the auxiliary power supply unit to the heater part per unit time based on the information detected by the detecting part.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Kishi, Yasuhisa Kato, Masami Okamoto, Yasutada Tsukioka, Hiromasa Takagi, Susumu Matsusaka, Akiyasu Amita
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Patent number: 7548719Abstract: A fixing unit includes: a casing; a heat roller that is rotatably supported and that supplies heat for fixing; and a tubular heater disposed in parallel in the heat roller along an axis thereof. The tubular heater includes a lead wire having a protruding end portion protruding outwardly from an axial end portion thereof. In addition, the tubular heater includes a flat terminal having one face thereof connected and fixed to the protruding end portion. Moreover, a fitting surface for fixing the flat terminal is formed in the casing. The fitting surface is arranged to be flat in an area excluding an area in which the protruding end portion is disposed and is provided with a clearance for storing the protruding end portion. Further, the flat terminal is fixed to the fitting surface with the one face of the flat terminal facing the fitting surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Ito, Kunihiko Ishii
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Patent number: 7511249Abstract: Provided is a printing device comprising a hot roller having an inside surface and an outside surface. A heating element is present within the hot roller. The inside surface has a first region, wherein the first region is coated with a first type of material. The inside surface has a second region, wherein the second region is coated with the first type of material, and wherein second region is of a different dimension than the first region. The inside surface has a third region, wherein the third region is coated with a second type of material.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Infoprint Solutions Company, LLCInventors: Carlton E. Begeal, Christopher Raymond Henderson, Laurie Yoshiko Takemori, John Uhlenbrock, Jason Cole Jackson
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Patent number: 7504605Abstract: The heating apparatus of a surface-heating type, includes a rotary member, an opposing member that forms a nip with respect to the rotary member, and a heating member for heating a portion of a rotary member surface other than the nip, in which temperature used for heating the rotary member by the heating member is controlled, and a heating material inserted in the nip to be nipped and conveyed therein is heated using heat of the rotary member. Accordingly, after insertion of the heating material in the nip starts, control temperature of the heating member is increased before the rotary member rotates by one revolution, thereby preventing an uneven heating phenomenon of the heating material in the first revolution and the second revolution or later, and preventing uneven gloss due to the uneven heating phenomenon in the fixing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Nanataki, Taku Fukita, Yozo Hotta
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Patent number: 7491911Abstract: A MEMS vapour bubble generator that uses a heater in thermal contact with a liquid to generate a bubble. The heater is energized by an electrical pulse that is shaped to have a relatively low power, sub-nucleating portion and a high power portion that nucleates the bubble. The thermal energy transferred to the liquid by the sub-nucleating portion speeds up the nucleation of the bubble across the surface of the heater during the nucleating portion. This produces larger, more stable bubble having a regular shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2006Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty LtdInventors: Angus John North, Samuel James Myers, Kia Silverbrook
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Patent number: 7468497Abstract: A heatable container suitable for material such as bitumen. The container includes a vessel for holding a flowable material having side wall zones, end wall zones and a base wall zone. The container also includes a heating system for transferring heat to at least the base wall zone as well as a zone disposed along a central longitudinal axis of the vessel. The heating system may also included at least two internal heating ducts for conveying a heat transfer medium, wherein the ducts are disposed substantially parallel relative to the central longitudinal axis of the vessel, and are vertically and horizontally spaced apart relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2006Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Cont-Asphalt Ltd.Inventor: Jacques Grisoni
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Patent number: 7459658Abstract: An internal heating system for an image transfer drum is disclosed that can include a box having a plurality of sides, an open side facing the drum and a heater element. The box can have small gaps between it and the internal drum surface to maximize thermal efficiency of the internal heating system. The heater element can include first and second support structures that are disposed on a central support structure, the first support structure having an end connector at one side away from the second support structure. The heater system can also include at least two circuits, two channels and a relay switch, with the relay switch operating to switch the circuits into a series or parallel electrical configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Andrew W. Hays, Barry Daniel Reeves, William Bruce Weaver, Scott Phillips
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Patent number: 7446281Abstract: A fusing device (23) has heat reflectors (238) and (239) positioned in consideration of the fact that convective heat loss from respective outer surfaces of the heat reflectors (238) and (239) depends on orientation of the outer surfaces. More specifically, each of the heat reflectors (238) and (239) are positioned so as to have a convective heat transfer coefficient ? of up to 0.9. The convective heat transfer coefficient ? is given by the following expression: ?=(Su+0.77Sh+0.54Sd)/(Su+Sh+Sd), were Su is a projected area of an outer surface of each of the heat reflectors on an upper horizontal plane, Sh is a projected area of the same on a vertical plane, and Sd is a projected area of the same on a lower horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Kagawa, Hiroshi Kida, Takashi Yamanaka, Tetsunori Mitsuoka
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Patent number: 7427727Abstract: A fixing apparatus and an image formation apparatus are disclosed. The fixing apparatus includes two or more heaters with temperature detecting function that generate heat with electric current and detect temperature; a heating unit that includes the heater with the temperature detecting function; a film, a surface of which slides on the heating unit; a thermal fixing unit that is heated by the heating unit through the film for fusing a toner image that is yet-to-be fixed on a recording paper at a predetermined fixing temperature; a pressurization roller for pressing the recording paper to the thermal fixing unit; and a temperature control unit for controlling the temperature of the heater to be a predetermined temperature based on the temperature of the heater detected by the heater with the temperature detecting function.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Koide, Hitoshi Hattori, Motokazu Yasui, Takashi Fujita, Hirokazu Ikenoue
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Patent number: 7386265Abstract: A fixing unit includes: a heat roller that is rotatably supported and that supplies heat for fixing; and a first and a second tubular heaters that are disposed in parallel in the heat roller along an axis thereof and that each have on an outer circumferential surface thereof one protruding residual fused tip, namely, tip portion. As viewed from a side end surface of the heat roller, the tip portions of the first and second tubular heaters are oriented directly opposite to each other with respect to the connection line connecting centers of the first and second tubular heaters.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Ito, Kunihiko Ishii
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Patent number: 7294810Abstract: A heater includes: a hollow tube sealed hermetically and reduced in pressure, the interior of the hollow tube being divided by at least one partition wall into a plurality of regions arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the tube; an electron source provided in each of the divided regions, the electron source being supported inside the hollow tube in an electrically insulated state from the hollow tube; a power supply that applies a voltage between the hollow tube and the electron source with the electron source as a negative polarity side; and the electron source emitting electrons toward an inner periphery surface of the hollow tube to heat the hollow tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigehiko Haseba, Yasuhiro Uehara
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Patent number: 7285755Abstract: A vertically oriented roller oven have an oven housing forming an oven cavity, one or more food product inlet openings, an internal heating portion distinguishably separated by first and second series of centrally disposed vertically aligned and axially displaced rollers and an exit opening each in communication with the oven cavity. First and second backing plates are respectfully positioned opposite each of said first and second series of centrally disposed vertically aligned and axially displaced rollers to frictionally engage and capture a food product and causing the food product to descendingly traverse the internal portion of the oven cavity between the plurality of vertically aligned and axially displaced rollers and correspondingly positioned first and second backing plates.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2004Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: American Permanent Ware CorporationInventors: Charles J. Kingdon, Gabriel Michael Beddingfield
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Patent number: 7285754Abstract: A vertically oriented roller toaster oven with first and second heating zones dispose within its internal portion and positioned between a centrally disposed platen and one or more vertically aligned axially displaced rollers which one motivated via a continuously linked chain in communication with an electric motor. The uppermost roller pairs may be angularly displaced from those immediately below to provide for ease of entrance with respect to a food item to be toasted/cooked. One or more signaling means allows for automatic adjustment of time required for food item to traverse the internal portion of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: American Permanent Ware CorporationInventors: Charles J. Kingdon, Gabriel Michael Beddingfield
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Patent number: 7253378Abstract: A base sheet is spanned over a lower roller, and an upper roller pulls a cover sheet along a path and presses it against the base sheet at the lower roller. A preheater housing along the path upstream of the rollers is formed with a chamber open toward the path. A radiant heater in the chamber is directed transversely at the path so as to heat the cover sheet passing along the path. A sensor along the path adjacent the chamber detects atmosphere around the chamber and generates an output when the detected atmosphere indicates an unsafe hot condition of the cover sheet. A shutter can shift between a retracted position offset from the chamber and an advanced position closing the chamber. A controller connected to the sensor shifts the shutter from the retracted position to the advanced position when the output is generated by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Detlev Gertitschke, Bernd Zoller, Jörg Knüppel
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Patent number: 7166820Abstract: The rotating-type oven includes a driving device, electrothermal pipes, rollers, holders and a box. The electrothermal pipe is installed in the roller, and the electrothermal pipe is connected with the roller via a porcelain base and a plug. The porcelain base is fastened on the holder. The rotating-type oven of the present invention has the characteristics of being able to bake food rapidly, having a stable operation, and being easy to disassemble for cleaning.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Henco & Top Industries Inc.Inventor: Nai-En Chen
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Patent number: 7087861Abstract: A thermal processor including an oven for thermally developing an image in a media. The oven includes an entrance and a guide positioned at the entrance. The guide includes a receiver having a major surface configured to contact and receive the media and a separator configured to lift and separate the media from at least a portion of the major surface and to direct the media into the oven.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2005Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Bradley B. Rassatt, James R. Hakala
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Patent number: 7082272Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a pressing roller for pressing a sheet at the time of a fixing operation; a fixing roller having a hollow portion, facing the pressing roller, rising in temperature by being heated, and fixing a developer to the sheet by sandwiching the sheet between the fixing roller and the pressing roller; and induction heating coils including a center-section coil and an end-section coil, and arranged inside the fixing roller in an axial direction so as to leave a space between the center-section coil and the end-section coil, the space being adjusted so that the temperature of one surface of the fixing roller, the one surface opposing the space, is not higher than the temperatures of the other surface of the fixing roller, the other surface opposing central portions of the coils.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Takano
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Patent number: 6920294Abstract: An image fanning apparatus is provided with a pressing roller for pressing a sheet at the time of a fixing operation; a fixing roller having a hollow portion, facing the pressing roller, rising in temperature by being heated, and fixing a developer to the sheet by sandwiching the sheet between the fixing roller and the pressing roller; and induction heating coils including a center-section coil and an end-section coil, and arranged inside the fixing roller in an axial direction so as to leave a space between the center-section coil and the end-section coil, the space being adjusted so that the temperature of one surface of the fixing roller, the one surface opposing the space, is not higher than the temperatures of the other surface of the fixing roller, the other surface opposing central portions of the coils.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Takano
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Patent number: 6911625Abstract: A heating roller has a first heater lamp having a first filament made of tungsten, and a second heater lamp having a second filament wherein the second filament is a heating element whose resistivity value is greater than that of tungsten at a room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Shimonaka
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Patent number: 6902394Abstract: An apparatus for aiding the removal of an adhesively coated web disposed upon the surface of a rotating roll is disclosed. The apparatus includes a movable belt disposed about at least a portion of the surface of the roll and defining a contact region. The belt has a temperature that is different from the temperature of the roll so that as the adhesively coated web passes between the surface of the roll and the belt within the contact region, the web is cooled.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: William J. Butsch, John William Toussant
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Patent number: 6857871Abstract: A method and apparatus for zone controlling the temperature of a rotating roll. The apparatus includes a roll having a surface at a first temperature and a belt disposed adjacent at least a portion of the surface of the roll. The belt contacts the roll surface in a contact region and has a second temperature that is different from the first temperature of the roll such that the belt affects a temperature change in at least a portion of the surface of the roll in the contact region as the roll is rotated.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: William J. Butsch, John William Toussant
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Publication number: 20040256372Abstract: In a fixing device for causing a pressurizing roller to come in pressure contact with a heating roller including a central region heating heater for heating a central region and a side end region heating heater for heating a side end region on an outside of the central region, thereby fixing an unfixed toner, or an image forming apparatus comprising the fixing device, an outside of an image region of the heating roller is caused to have a peak of heat distribution of the central region heating heater and heat radiated from both side ends of the heating roller is compensated to flatten the temperature distribution of the image region, thereby preventing a deterioration in an image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kenjiro Yoshioka, Kiyoteru Katsuki, Tomoe Aruga
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Patent number: 6816688Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a pressing roller for pressing a sheet at the time of a fixing operation; a fixing roller having a hollow portion, facing the pressing roller, rising in temperature by being heated, and fixing a developer to the sheet by sandwiching the sheet between the fixing roller and the pressing roller; and induction heating coils including a center-section coil and an end-section coil, and arranged inside the fixing roller in an axial direction so as to leave a space between the center-section coil and the end-section coil, the space being adjusted so that the temperature of one surface of the fixing roller, the one surface opposing the space, is not higher than the temperatures of the other surface of the fixing roller, the other surface opposing central portions of the coils.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2002Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Takano
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Patent number: 6810220Abstract: An image forming apparatus which includes a fixing device including a fixing roller, a pressure roller pressed into contact with the fixing roller, and a thermistor in contact with a non-paper-passage region on the surface of the fixing roller, the fixing roller incorporating a first halogen heater whose heat distribution based on the axial direction of the fixing roller is set such that heat in a middle region thereof is higher than heat in opposite-end regions thereof, and a second halogen heater whose heat distribution based on the axial direction of the fixing roller is set such that heat in opposite-end regions thereof is higher than heat in a middle region thereof; and a controller for controlling power supply to the first and second halogen heaters. The controller starts power supply to the first and second halogen heaters to start warm-up of the fixing device, and cuts off power supply to the first halogen heater for a predetermined period of time during the warm-up.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Hamada, Makoto Eki, Yuzuru Nanjo, Takashi Maekawa
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Patent number: 6788906Abstract: Two temperature areas are set at a higher temperature side and at a lower temperature side of target temperature respectively. The power stage of the temperature areas at the higher temperature side is set to −1 and the power stage of the temperature areas at the lower temperature side is set to +1. Thus, a current value is varied little and generation of flicker can be reduced. Further, A temperature can be always converged into the target temperature. When a temperature is in a temperature area near to the target temperature, the power stage is maintained except for a case in which a temperature has passed through a temperature area other than this near temperature area and the target temperature area and enters this near temperature area for the first time. Thus, an amplitude of power can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Teruo Kaneko, Naoki Honma, Kunihiro Maie, Kouji Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 6782802Abstract: A roller grill assembly for cooking human food has a plurality of horizontally aligned roller tubes which can be arranged to extend at an angle of about 3° to 5° are rotatably mounted to a housing frame. A sealing assembly comprises a bearing member and an annular sealing member. A drive chain engages an idler sprocket to rotate the tubes. The housing has a cavity that receives a sliding compartment assembly that has a frame comprising track members and a cross strut shaped to support a pan for holding food. The tubes have heating elements with compact spiraled configuration at the ends. A cover is pivotally mounted by a biased pin or two legged spring to cover a control panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Star Manufacturing InternationalInventors: Thomas Hunot, Michael Lee Huegerich, Frank P. Ricchio
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Patent number: 6775491Abstract: A fixing unit fixes a developing material deposited on a recording medium by heating and pressing the recording medium. The fixing unit includes two heating members that apply heat to the recording medium and two temperature-sensitive shutoff devices. The two temperature-sensitive shutoff devices are connected in series with a corresponding one of the heating members. Each of the temperature-sensitive shut-off devices includes a first heat-sensitive shut-off element and a second heat-sensitive shut-off element. The first heat-sensitive shut-off element shuts off electric power to the corresponding one of the two heating members when a temperature of a surface of the corresponding one of the two heating members exceeds a certain value. The second heat-sensitive shut-off element shuts off electric power to the corresponding one of the two heating members when a temperature of a surface of the second one of the two heating members exceeds a certain value.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventors: Naoji Akutsu, Akinori Kumonaka
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Publication number: 20040149709Abstract: A heat roller having a cylindrical sheet-like heating element having a resistance member embedded into an insulating member. The sheet-like heating element is arranged between an inner tube and an outer tube. The resistance member is formed such that a heating density of the sheet-like heating element is changed in an axial direction of the heat roller. The heating density of the sheet-like heating element at its edge section is greater than that at a center in the axial direction of the heat roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Mori, Koichi Sanpei, Masatoshi Kimura, Masao Konishi
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Publication number: 20040108309Abstract: A method of reducing a fusing apparatus recovery time from a low energy-saver mode temperature back up to a high fusing temperature, the method includes supplying power to a heated member of the fusing apparatus to warm the fusing apparatus from a start up temperature to the high fusing temperature from a primary power supply; and supplying full power to the heated member of the fusing apparatus to warm the fusing apparatus from a start up temperature to the high fusing temperature from a battery power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Neil J. Dempsey