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US 12,422,770 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus that sets cooling time of a fixing device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi Nakagawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body to which a fixing device that thermally fixes a toner image to a recording medium is detachably attached; and one or more controllers that control the apparatus main body, wherein the controllers include a setter that sets predetermined timing as timing at which the fixing device is cooled detachably from the apparatus main body.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus main body to which a fixing device, that thermally fixes a toner image to a recording medium, is detachably attached;
- and
- one or more controllers that control the apparatus main body, wherein
- the one or more controllers set a predetermined time as a time at which the fixing device is cooled detachably from the apparatus main body, and
- the predetermined time includes a time and a date specified in advance by a user.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus main body to which a fixing device, that thermally fixes a toner image to a recording medium, is detachably attached;
- and
- one or more controllers that control the apparatus main body, wherein
- the one or more controllers set a predetermined time as a time at which the fixing device is cooled detachably from the apparatus main body, and
- the one or more controllers execute, within a predetermined period until the predetermined time is reached, a pre-cool process to reduce a temperature of the fixing device from a first temperature to a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature, wherein the first temperature is a temperature set during a standby of a print job.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.