Patent ID: 6411786
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A toner image fixing device comprising:a first roller having a heater lamp provided therein; a second roller coming into pressure contact with the first roller at a pressure contact portion; a parting agent supplying unit adapted to supply a parting agent having a volatile odor component onto a surface of the first roller; and an auxiliary heating unit provided on at least one side of an upstream side and a downstream side in a recording material transporting direction in relation to the pressure contact portion, for heating a recording material having unfixed toner on a front surface thereof. wherein a recording material having unfixed toner on a front surface thereof is heated and pressed at the pressure contact portion while being nipped and conveyed at the pressure contact portion, thereby fixing the unfixed toner onto the recording material; and a surface temperature of the first roller is set to a temperature at which the volatile odor component has no more than a permissible value.