Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control unit, control method, and recording medium storing a control program
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Application No.: US14719644Application Date: 2015-05-22
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Publication No.: US10251215B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Naohiro Yamamoto
- Applicant: Naohiro Yamamoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dumham LLP
- Priority: JP2014-115687 20140604
- Main IPC: H02M1/00
- IPC: H02M1/00 ; H02M1/32 ; H05B1/02 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G15/20 ; H02M7/217

Abstract:
A control device includes an AC-DC converter that converts power supplied from a commercial power source into DC, a DC-DC converter that supplies the DC to a fixing heater, an calculator that calculates a target DC voltage of the DC to be supplied to the fixing heater, based on detected temperature of the fixing heater, an overcurrent detection unit that outputs an interruption signal when an overcurrent detection value is detected in a circuit including a switching element, and a controller that calculates switching time for switching the switching element so that an output of the DC-DC converter reaches the target DC voltage. When the interruption signal is output causing stopping of the switching of the switching element, the controller causes the calculator not to calculate the switching time to continuously use the previously calculated switching time after resuming switching of the switching element at a next switching cycle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150359040A1 CONTROL UNIT, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2015-12-10
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