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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takeharu Nakada, Utsunomiya, JP;
Tomoo Akizuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Ryo Morihara, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiko Suzumi, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, a temperature detecting portion, a measuring portion, a storing portion, and a controller. The controller is capable of setting a case that a start of feeding of a recording material is permitted after a lapse of a predetermined time need to measure a temperature rising rate of the fixing portion and a case that the start of feeding of the recording material is permitted, depending on a value relating to the temperature rising rate stored in the storing portion, at timing before the lapse of the predetermined time.