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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2024
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hirotaka Kanou, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Maeda, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5008 (2013.01); G03G 15/2053 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing roller that fixes an unfixed image to a medium; a drive motor of the fixing roller, and a hardware processor that acquires information regarding a state of the image forming apparatus or information regarding a state of the medium, and controls a number of rotations of the drive motor between a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value, wherein the hardware processor changes the upper limit value and the lower limit value while maintaining a difference between the upper limit value and the lower limit value on a basis of the acquired information.