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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2024
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai City, JP;
Inventor:
Kenji Kitami, Sakai City, JP;
Assignee:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai City, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/205 (2013.01); G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 15/657 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00772 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2074 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a heat source, a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence, an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree of the color material for the plurality of pieces of paper, and one or more controllers that cause each of the plurality of pieces of paper to pass through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed amount which is a paper feed amount per unit time according to the fixation degree.