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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2019
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Tatsuya Koyama, Toyoake, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has a heating roller and a pressing roller, a nip being formed therebetween, and a controller configured to perform a heating controlling process of raising the temperature of the heating roller toward a fixing temperature, a rotational controlling process of rotating the heating roller and the pressing roller when a detected temperature of the heating roller is equal to or higher than a first threshold temperature, and a conveyance controlling process of conveying the sheet toward the developing device when the detected temperature is equal to or higher than a second temperature higher than the first temperature and lower than the fixing temperature. The controller is configured to set the first temperature to be lower in a case where a nip width is the second width than in a case where the nip width is the first width.