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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Hara, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenichi Iida, Tokyo, JP;
Ryuji Hamasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Yoshida, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a container that contains a developer, a temperature information acquisition unit that acquires temperature information of the container, and a control unit that controls an image formation operation for forming an image. During the image formation operation, the control unit executes a suspension operation for suspending the image formation operation in the case that t≥t(t≠0) is satisfied, where t is defined to be an elapsed time from when a temperature corresponding to the temperature information of the container exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature T, and where tis defined to be an exceeding time threshold value related to a period during which the temperature corresponding to the temperature information of the container remains higher than the threshold temperature T.