Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same
An image forming apparatus has an outline surrounded by a casing. The casing has an opening. The image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit configured to fix an image formed on a recording medium, and a control unit. The fixing unit includes a heating fixing member. The control unit is configured to control an opening degree of the opening based on temperature of a surface of or in the vicinity of the heating fixing member, so as to prevent emission of a substance by an air current to outside of the casing through the opening, during an image forming operation.
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
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inventional inventional
Satoru Hideki Hideaki Masashi Osamu Takayuki
Yoneda Hadano Hayashi Saito Morita Horie