Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having fan disposed between exhaust port and filter and controlling fan to generate air current
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Application No.: US15080006Application Date: 2016-03-24
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Publication No.: US09678472B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Naohisa Kinoshita , Kentaro Murayama
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2015-064215 20150326
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G21/20 ; F24F11/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus including a fan disposed between an exhaust port and a filter, and a controller configured to perform at least one of first fan control and second fan control when at least one switching condition is satisfied among one or more switching conditions for switching fan control, the first fan control being for controlling the fan to generate an air current when an in-apparatus temperature detected by a temperature sensor is higher than a threshold temperature, the second fan control being for controlling the fan to generate an air current when an air contamination amount detected by a contamination sensor is larger than a threshold contamination amount.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160282807A1 Image Forming Apparatus, and Method and Computer-Readable Medium for the Same Public/Granted day:2016-09-29
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