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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Noboru Furuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member to fix toner to a recording medium, a heating control part to heat the fixing member to a specified temperature, a measuring part to measure a temperature of the fixing member, and a calculation part to calculate an arrival time required until the temperature of the fixing member reaches a target temperature based on a difference between the target temperature at a warming-up end time of the fixing member and the temperature measured by the measuring part. If the arrival time is shorter than a rise time required to warm up the image forming apparatus, the heating control part starts to heat the fixing member after a specified time passes from a time when warming-up of the image forming apparatus is started.