Image forming apparatus and method of fixer temperature control in a power-saving mode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8934801-B2
Application number	US-201113079887-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2011
Priority date	Apr 6, 2010
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

Upon recovery from a power-saving mode to a normal mode and then restart of fixing temperature control from a state in which the fixing temperature control is stopped, a control part (display control part 10 obtains a current temperature of a fixing part based on output of a temperature detector and required stabilization time T 1 based on required stabilization time data, and based on necessary time data A and the number of remaining setting screens on which settings need to be made in a wizard format, issues a restart signal RS for restarting the fixing temperature control between a first time point TP 1 reached by tracing back by the required stabilization time T 1 from a predicted time point at which making the settings is predicted to complete and a second time point TP 2 as a time point the necessary time before the first time point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an operation part including an input part for inputting settings related to the image forming apparatus and a display performing display in a wizard format in which setting screens for a plurality of predefined functions are sequentially displayed in an interactive manner;
a fixing part having therein a heater for fixing a toner onto paper, the fixing part performing fixing temperature control for maintaining a temper…

Assignees

• Saito Yasushi
• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Saito Yasushi

Classifications

• G03G15/5004

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N1/00413 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00896

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00482

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G03G15/502

  Physics · mapped topic