Image formation device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuya KOYAMA
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Abstract
An image forming device includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a fixing unit configured to fix the image on the sheet, the fixing unit including heating rotation body, a heater configured to heat the heating rotation body, and a pressure rotation body configured to form a nip portion between the heating rotation body and the pressure rotation body, a discharge roller disposed downstream of the fixing unit in a conveying direction of the sheet, and configured to discharge the sheet, a main motor configured to transmit a drive force to at least one of the heating rotation body or the pressure rotation body, a cutter disposed downstream of the fixing unit in the conveying direction, and configured to cut the sheet, and a controller.
Claims20
An image forming device comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the image on the sheet, the fixing unit including:
- a heating rotation body;
- a heater configured to heat the heating rotation body;
- and
- a pressure rotation body configured to form a nip portion between the heating rotation body and the pressure rotation body;
- a discharge roller disposed downstream of the fixing unit in a conveying direction of the sheet, and configured to discharge the sheet;
- a main motor configured to transmit a drive force to at least one of the heating rotation body or the pressure rotation body;
- a cutter disposed downstream of the fixing unit in the conveying direction, and configured to cut the sheet;
- and
- a controller,
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- control the heater such that a temperature of the fixing unit becomes a first temperature for fixing the image on the sheet;
- control the main motor to rotate the heating rotation body or the pressure rotation body to convey the sheet;
- stop the discharge roller in a case where a cutting position on the sheet reaches a disposing position of the cutter, and then control the cutter to cut the sheet with the cutter;
- and
- at a time point when cutting of the sheet with the cutter starts:
- set a target value of the temperature of the fixing unit to a second temperature lower than the first temperature to control the heater;
- or
- control the main motor to drive the main motor to rotate the heating rotation body or the pressure rotation body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.