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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Takayuki Horie, Toyokawa, JP;
Hideaki Hayashi, Toyokawa, JP;
Masashi Saito, Hachioji, JP;
Hideki Hadano, Toyokawa, JP;
Osamu Morita, Toyokawa, JP;
Satoru Yoneda, Toyohashi, JP;
Takayuki Horie, Toyokawa, JP;
Hideaki Hayashi, Toyokawa, JP;
Masashi Saito, Hachioji, JP;
Hideki Hadano, Toyokawa, JP;
Osamu Morita, Toyokawa, JP;
Satoru Yoneda, Toyohashi, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an outline surrounded by a casing. The casing has an opening. The image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit configured to fix an image formed on a recording medium, and a control unit. The fixing unit includes a heating fixing member. The control unit is configured to control an opening degree of the opening based on temperature of a surface of or in the vicinity of the heating fixing member, so as to prevent emission of a substance by an air current to outside of the casing through the opening, during an image forming operation.