Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing apparatus, image forming apparatus, method of controlling fixing apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program
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Application No.: US16752492Application Date: 2020-01-24
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Publication No.: US11237511B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Yoshikazu Tsubotani
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-018976 20190205
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/20 ; G06K15/14

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus includes: a first rotating body that contacts a sheet for printing and heats the sheet; a second rotating body that rotates while pressing the first rotating body; a motor that rotates the first rotating body; and a hardware processor that determines whether an abnormal noise occurs on the basis of a plurality of condition values including a torque value of the motor, wherein the hardware processor performs abnormal noise prevention control that increases the rotation of the first rotating body or weakens pressing applied by the second rotating body to the first rotating body in a case where it is determined that the abnormal noise occurs.
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