US 11,703,786 B2
Fixing device and image-forming apparatus
Yoshiki Shimodaira, Ebina (JP); Masato Yamashita, Ebina (JP); Tetsuro Kodera, Ebina (JP); Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Ebina (JP); Kosuke Yamada, Ebina (JP); and Takayuki Yamashita, Ebina (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/529,506.
Application 17/529,506 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/051613, filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-112508 (JP), filed on Jun. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0075303 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2064 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2021 (2013.01); G03G 15/2039 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing device comprising:
a non-contact heating unit configured to heat a recording medium in a non-contact manner; and
a contact heating unit configured to press and heat the recording medium on a downstream side of the non-contact heating unit in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, wherein
the non-contact heating unit controls an amount of heat applied to the recording medium according to information on whether the recording medium is black or not, and a thickness of the recording medium, and
the contact heating unit controls the pressure applied to the recording medium according to the thickness regardless of whether the recording medium is black or not.