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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2020
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takahiro Tsujimoto, Toyokawa, JP;
Takeshi Tamada, Toyohashi, JP;
Tianhua Xu, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroaki Takatsu, Nishio, JP;
Katsuyuki Ikuta, Hamamatsu, JP;
Akihiro Hayashi, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00986 (2013.01); H04N 1/0097 (2013.01); H04N 1/00724 (2013.01); H04N 1/00888 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus, includes: a media sensor that detects a sheet type; a fixer that fixes the image on a sheet; a storage that stores a fixing temperature for each sheet type; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the fixer by pulse-width modulation (PWM) control and controls a temperature of the fixer to the fixing temperature corresponding to the sheet type detected by the media sensor.