Title: Fixing apparatus having cleaning mode and storage medium storing program therefor
Application Number: 98117422 Application Date: 1998.07.14
Publication Number: 1210286 Publication Date: 1999.03.10
Approval Pub. Date: 2004.01.28 Granted Pub. Date: 2004.01.28
International Classifi-cation: G03G15/20
Applicant(s) Name: Canon K. K. Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Yasumasa Otsuka;Koichi Okuda;Akira Hayakawa
Attorney & Agent: yu jing
Abstract:
    The present invention provides a fixing apparatus with a pair of fixing members at least one of which is rotatable, a nip being formed between the fixing members and a recording material which carries a non-fixed toner being conveyed through the nip and heated at the nip to fix the non-fixed toner onto the recording material. The apparatus has a cleaning mode for cleaning the fixing member, in which a sheet is pinched by the nip, and the sheet is conveyed in a direction by repeating rotation and stoppage of the rotatable fixing member.
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