IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240319647A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18599228

    申请日:2024-03-08

    申请人: Ryusuke MASE

    发明人: Ryusuke MASE

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a developing device, a motor, and circuitry. The developing device includes a screw and a developing roller. The screw stirs and conveys a developer. The developing roller bears the developer stirred and conveyed by the screw, brings the developer into contact with the image bearer, and develops an electrostatic latent image on the image bearer. The motor drives the developing device at multiple process speeds. The circuitry is configured to cause the motor to drive the screw and the developing roller before the developing roller starts developing the electrostatic latent image on the image bearer and adjust a drive time of the motor based on a process speed in a previous printing and a process speed in a next printing.

    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240302773A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18439784

    申请日:2024-02-13

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a planar heater, a pressure rotator, a temperature sensor, and a plate. The pressure rotator presses the planar heater to form a nip through which a sheet is conveyed in a conveyance direction. The plate contacts the planar heater and includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has an opening and a projection. The temperature sensor contacts the planar heater through the opening to detect a temperature of the planar heater. The projection projects from the opening in the conveyance direction. The first portion has a first width in the conveyance direction. The second portion is inside a minimum sheet-passing region in an axial direction of the pressure rotator orthogonal to the conveyance direction and outside the first portion in the axial direction and has a second width smaller than the first width in the conveyance direction.

    Image forming apparatus
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12019382B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US18223161

    申请日:2023-07-18

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16 G03G15/00 G03G15/04

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, an acquiring portion, an applying portion, and a controller. When a transfer voltage is subjected to constant-voltage control so that the transfer voltage applied to the transfer member by the applying portion is substantially constant, in a case that the transfer voltage, when a toner amount used for a toner image is a first toner amount, is a first voltage, the controller controls the applying portion so that the transfer voltage is a second voltage lower in absolute value than the first voltage in a case that the toner amount is a second toner amount greater than the first toner amount. The acquiring portion acquires toner amount information on the toner amount for each toner image transferred onto a single recording material.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240053696A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18364608

    申请日:2023-08-03

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing unit including a fixing member, a heating member, and a temperature detection portion, and a control portion configured to execute warm-up processing. If a temperature of the heating member at a first timing in a period of time in which the heating member is being heated in the warm-up processing is a first temperature, a temperature of the heating member at a second timing that is in the period of time and that is later than the first timing is a second temperature, and a temperature of the heating member at a timing different from the first timing and the second timing is a third temperature, the control portion is configured to change a fixing condition used in the job, based on the first temperature, the second temperature, and the third temperature.

    Temperature control device for inductive heater

    公开(公告)号:US11899385B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US17943102

    申请日:2022-09-12

    发明人: Yutaka Usami

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00 H05B6/06

    摘要: According to one embodiment, a temperature control device includes a temperature estimation unit and a frequency generation unit. The temperature estimation unit is configured to estimate a temperature of an object being heated by an induction heating coil, the temperature being estimated based on a frequency of a drive signal supplied to an inverter connected to the induction heating coil. The frequency generation unit is configured to set the frequency of the drive signal based on the temperature estimated by the temperature estimation unit, a detected temperature of the object from a temperature sensor, and a target temperature for the object.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD TO DETERMINE CONTROL TEMPERATURES FOR COOLING CONTROL OF INSIDE OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230305435A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US18295452

    申请日:2023-04-04

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08 G03G21/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a first cartridge to store first developer, a second cartridge to store second developer, a first temperature sensor to detect an inside temperature as a temperature inside the main body housing, and a controller configured to calculate a first control temperature corresponding to the first cartridge, using the detected inside temperature and a first coefficient to be multiplied by the inside temperature, calculate a second control temperature corresponding to the second cartridge, using the detected inside temperature and a second coefficient to be multiplied by the inside temperature, the second coefficient being different from the first coefficient, and perform cooling control to cool an inside of the main body housing when at least one selected from the first control temperature and the second control temperature is higher than a particular threshold.