Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus for forming image on sheet
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Application No.: US15965089Application Date: 2018-04-27
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Publication No.: US10409208B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- 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: JP2017-088439 20170427
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; 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, on condition of successive feeding of sheets, the control section allows, after every predetermined number of sheets have been subjected to an image forming operation, a fixing aging operation for stopping the image forming operation and rotating rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is a suitable product, the control section keeps the fixing aging operation conditional on successive feeding of sheets from being performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180314198A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR FORMING IMAGE ON SHEET Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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