Patent ID: 7046949
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image fixing apparatus, comprising: a linear heating body; an endless belt entrained around thereon; means for supplying electricity to the linear heating body with pulse electricity; a pressure body for interposing a subject to be fixed having an image between the endless belt and the pressure body; the image on the subject to be fixed is heated by the linear heating body through the endless belt, and thereafter being cooled and removed from the endless belt; wherein the image is formed by a toner comprising a binder containing a resin as a main component, and wherein the means for supplying electricity comprises means for controlling supply of electricity which variably controls one of a pulse width and a pulse density per unit time of an electricity supplied to the linear heating body during a process for fixing the image on the subject, and wherein a ratio of the supply electricity to the heating body at a time of starting of the process for fixing the subject to the supply electricity to the heating body at a time of ending of the process for fixing the subject is 10/9 to 10/1.