Due to global warming, lower the power consumption of electronic device getting more important in recent days. For printing device industry, highly efficient fusing device becomes more important to reduce the power consumption of printer and MFD (Multi Function Device). As the fuser consumes up to 70% of whole energy during the electrophotographic printing process, it is necessary to reduce the power consumption of fuser in printing device. Therefore, induction heating (IH) which could greatly reduce the power consumption of the fusing device and could meet the TEC (Typical Electric Consumption) rate limit is employed. However, the induction heating fusing device's thin heating belt is hard to meet the requirement of diverse paper. The authors designed an IH system which could meet the requirement of multi - purpose printing.
Dae Whan Kim, Jin-Han Kim, Tatsuhiro Otsuka, Keon Kuk, Takashi Kidokoro, "Induction Heating Technology for System Optimization" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP27), 2011, pp 772 - 775, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2011.27.1.art00093_2