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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2021
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Sadaharu Kato, Kariya, JP;
Kazuna Taguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Mingguang Zhang, Nagoya, JP;
Shunsuke Ueki, Nagoya, JP;
Shintaro Sakaguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Yusuke Mizuno, Nagoya, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a first fixing member, a second fixing member, a heater, a switching mechanism capable of switching a nip state of the first fixing member and the second fixing member between (i) a first nip state in which the belt is nipped between each of the first nip forming member and the second nip forming member, and the first fixing member, and (ii) a second nip state in which the belt is nipped between the first nip forming member and the first fixing member in a state in which the belt is not nipped between the second nip forming member and the first fixing member, and a controller configured to switch the nip state from the first nip state to the second nip state when a jam error occurs in the first nip state.