Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus that executes cleaning operation on fixing section
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Application No.: US15964943Application Date: 2018-04-27
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Publication No.: US10281840B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Sueaki Okamoto , Eiji Nimura , Koji Kuramashi
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka
- Agency: IP Business Solutions, LLC
- Priority: JP2017-088437 20170427
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section, an image forming section, a fixing section, a sheet output tray, a toner container, a suitable product determining section, and a control section. The suitable product determining section determines whether the toner container loaded in an apparatus body is a suitable product. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is not a suitable product, the control section allows the conveyance section, the image forming section, and the fixing section to form, on a sheet, a solid image having a circumferential length of one of rotating bodies of the fixing section or longer, and allows the sheet on which the solid image is formed to pass through a fixing nip, to thereby periodically allow a cleaning operation of removing a contamination adhering to surfaces of rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180314187A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR FORMING IMAGE ON SHEET Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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