Image forming apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024077817-A1
Application number	US-202318357061-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 21, 2023
Priority date	Aug 24, 2022
Publication date	Mar 7, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device which includes a fixing unit including an endless fixing belt, a heating portion, and a temperature detecting portion and which includes a nip forming member; a first storing portion; and a controller. In a case that a predetermined part of a plurality of parts is exchanged, the controller succeeds information other than information on the predetermined part of information on the fixing device stored in the first storing portion, and determines a target temperature in temperature adjustment control by using the succeeded information and information on the predetermined part used after being exchanged.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An image forming apparatus comprising:
a fixing device configured to fix a toner image on a recording material, wherein the fixing device includes a fixing unit including an endless fixing belt, a heating portion for heating the fixing belt, and a temperature detecting portion for detecting a temperature of the fixing belt and includes a nip forming member for forming a nip in which a recording material carrying thereon a toner image is nipped and fed between itself and the fixing belt and in which the toner image is fixed on the recording material, and wherein each of a plurality of parts including the fixing unit and the nip forming member and used in the fixing device is capable of being exchanged; a first storing portion configured to store information on the fixing device; and a controller configured to carry out temperature adjustment control of the heating portion on the basis of the temperature detected by the detecting portion, wherein in a case that a predetermined part of the plurality of parts is exchanged, the controller succeeds information other than information on the predetermined part of the information on the fixing device stored in the first storing portion, and determines a target temperature in the temperature adjustment control by using the succeeded information and information on the predetermined part used after being exchanged.

2 . An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said fixing unit includes:
a second storing portion before the predetermined part is exchanged and in which information on the predetermined part used before exchange, and a third storing portion after the predetermined part is exchanged and in which information on the predetermined part used after the exchange.

3 . An image forming apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein in the third storing portion, information on a part, of the plurality of parts, other than the predetermined part is not stored.

4 . An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information on the fixing device includes information on the fixing belt and information on the temperature detecting portion.

5 . An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the fixing device further includes a pressing portion for pressing the fixing belt toward the nip forming member, and
wherein the information on the fixing device includes information on the pressing portion.

6 . An image forming apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein in a case that the predetermined part is exchanged, the controller calculates a correction value for a target base temperature in the temperature adjustment control by using information other than the information on the predetermined part stored in the first storing portion and the information on the predetermined part stored in the third storing portion, and then determines the target temperature by correcting the target base temperature with the calculated correction value.

7 . An image forming apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein in the first storing portion, a target base temperature in the temperature adjustment control and a correction value for determining the target temperature by correcting the target base temperature are stored, and
wherein in a case that the predetermined part is exchanged, the controller updates the correction value by using information other than the information on the predetermined part stored in the first storing portion and the information on the predetermined part stored in the third storing portion.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Hirano Shigeru
• Ohnishi Takahiro
• Sotome Kiyonori
• Ito Hiroto

Classifications

• G03G15/2039 Primary

  with means for controlling the fixing temperature · CPC title