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US 11,392,064 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus capable of increasing gloss level of toner image without increasing number of processes performed by fixing unit
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke Jinkoma
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus sets, in a case where a mode for executing a heating process a plurality of times is set, a target temperature of a fixing unit during a second heating process depending on image information about a toner image to be formed on a first surface of a recording medium immediately before a first heating process.
Claims19
An image forming apparatus to form a toner image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form the toner image on the recording medium;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image formed on the recording medium onto the recording medium by executing a heating process for heating the recording medium while the recording medium is nipped and conveyed at a fixing nip portion, wherein the fixing unit includes a heater, a first rotary member to be heated by the heater, and a second rotary member configured to form the fixing nip portion in cooperation with the first rotary member;
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- a controller configured to set a target temperature of the fixing unit in accordance with image information about the toner image,
- wherein the image forming apparatus is configured to set a mode in which, after the toner image is formed on a first surface of the recording medium by the image forming unit, a first heating process and a second heating process after the first heating process are performed on the same recording medium with the first surface of the recording medium in contact with the first rotary member, and
- wherein, in a case where the mode is set, the controller sets the target temperature at a time of the second heating process by the same fixing unit as the fixing unit used for the first heating process depending on the image information about the toner image to be formed on the first surface of the recording medium immediately before the first heating process.
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An image forming apparatus to form a toner image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form the toner image on the recording medium;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image formed on the recording medium onto the recording medium by executing a heating process for heating the recording medium while the recording medium is nipped and conveyed at a fixing nip portion, wherein the fixing unit includes a heater having a first heating block configured to generate heat by electrical power to be supplied and a second heating block configured to generate heat by electrical power to be supplied, a first rotary member to be heated by the heater, and a second rotary member configured to form the fixing nip portion in cooperation with the first rotary member;
- a first switch configured to switch a power supply state to the first heating block;
- a second switch configured to switch a power supply state to the second heating block;
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- a controller configured to control the first switch and to control the second switch independently of the control of the first switch,
- wherein the first and second heating blocks are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the heater that is a direction perpendicular to a recording medium conveying direction,
- wherein the image forming apparatus is configured to set a mode in which, after the toner image is formed on a first surface of the recording medium by the image forming unit, a first heating process and a second heating process after the first heating process are performed on the same recording medium with the first surface of the recording medium in contact with the first rotary member, and
- wherein, in a case where the mode is set, the controller sets target temperatures of each of first and second regions heated by the first and second heating blocks at a time of the second heating process by the same fixing unit as the fixing unit used for the first heating process depending on the image information about the toner image to be formed on the first surface of the recording medium immediately before the first heating process.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.