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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yushi Sadamitsu, Toride, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, a first cooling unit sends airflow to cool a first developing unit, and a second cooling unit sends airflow to cool a second developing unit. A control section controls the first and second cooling units in a first mode where image formation is executed using both a first and second image forming section, and in a second mode where image formation is executed such that the first developing unit is suspended but the first image bearing body is driven, using an image forming section. In the first mode the first cooling unit is controlled based on an output of a first temperature sensor regardless of a temperature detected by a second temperature sensor, and in the second mode the first cooling unit is controlled based on an output of the second temperature sensor regardless of a temperature detected by the first temperature sensor.