Image forming apparatus with medium transport control
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorKoji Kato
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a medium transport path which a medium is transported through; an image forming unit configured to form a developer image on the medium transported through the medium transport path; a fusing unit configured to fix the developer image formed on the medium to the medium; a temperature detecting unit configured to detect temperature in the image forming apparatus; and a controller operable to temporarily stop the transport of the medium in the medium transport path when the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising
- a medium transport path through which a medium is transported;
- an image forming unit configured to form a developer image on the medium transported through the medium transport path, wherein the medium transport path has a re-feeding path configured to re-feed medium that had passed through the image forming unit back to the image forming unit;
- a fusing unit configured to fix to the medium the developer image formed on the medium;
- a temperature detecting unit configured to detect temperature in the image forming apparatus;
- a controller operable to temporarily stop the medium in the re-feeding path when the controller determines that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature,
- an opening provided at the re-feeding path and communicating the outside of the image forming apparatus to the medium transport path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.