Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15833920Application Date: 2017-12-06
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Publication No.: US10884363B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Kohei Aoki
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2016-241332 20161213,JP2017-194426 20171004
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a belt rotating member forming, with the rotating member, a nip portion for fixing a toner image to the recording medium, first and second rollers rotatably supporting the belt rotating member, a stepping motor tilting the first roller, an output unit outputting an amount-of-rotation signal instructing an amount of rotation of a rotor in the stepping motor, an electric current control unit controlling electric current to be fed to a coil in the stepping motor based on the amount-of-rotation signal, and a notifying unit. The notifying unit provides a predetermined notification in a state that an image formation process can be executed based on an output from a detecting unit configured to detect a position of the first roller and a value counted by a measuring unit counting the amount of rotation instructed by the output unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180164722A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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