Image Forming Apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAtsushi Mikuni
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a first fan and a second fan that are configured to generate air in a main body of the apparatus, a controller configured to control operations of the fans, and a detector configured to detect a malfunction of a first fan. When the detector detects the malfunction of the first fan, the controller increases a voltage applied to the second fan as compared with that before the malfunction is detected.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording sheet, comprising:
- a main body;
- a first fan configured to generate air in the main body;
- a second fan configured to generate air in the main body;
- a controller configured to control operation of the first fan and the second fan;
- and
- a detector configured to detect whether a malfunction of the first fan occurs,
- wherein when the detector detects the malfunction of the first fan, the controller increases a voltage applied to the second fan as compared with the voltage applied before the malfunction was detected.
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording sheet, comprising:
- a plurality of blowers configured to generate air in a main body of the image forming apparatus;
- a controller configured to control operations of the blowers;
- and
- a detector configured to detect a defective blower,
- wherein when the detector detects a defective blower, the controller increases a quantity of air generated by a blower except for the defective blower to a quantity greater than the quantity before the defective blower was detected.
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording sheet, comprising:
- a main body;
- a first fan configured to generate air in the main body;
- a second fan configured to generate air in the main body;
- a controller configured to control the first fan in a first rotation speed and the second fan in a second rotation speed;
- and
- a detector configured to detect a rotation speed of the first fan,
- wherein when the controller detects that the rotation speed of the first fan detected by the detector is lower than the first rotation speed, the controller increases a rotation speed of the second fan to a rotation speed greater than the second rotation speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.