IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING POWER CONTROL SYSTEM

• Main Author: OGAWA SEIYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.09.2019
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS

To provide an image forming apparatus that prevents the occurrence of a delay in return time of a fixing member from cold start without insufficient heating.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 100A comprises: a fixing member that is heated; a detection circuit 21 that detects fixing-excluded electric power consumption that is electric power consumption of components of the image forming apparatus excluding the fixing member; memory means 14A that stores and memorizes, in a table, a plurality of print conditions including one or more pieces of print information and peak information including the peak wave height value, width, and period of the fixing-excluded electric power consumption associated respectively with the plurality of print conditions; and limitation means 11 that limits fixing electric power consumption for heating the fixing member in accordance with the peak wave height value, width, and period of the fixing-excluded electric power consumption.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 13 【課題】加熱が不足することなく、コールドスタートからの定着部材の復帰時間遅延の発生を抑制する画像形成装置の提供。【解決手段】加熱される定着部材と、画像形成装置の前記定着部材を除いた構成要素の消費電力である定着外消費電力を検知する検知回路２１と、１以上の印刷情報を含む複数の印刷条件と、前記複数の印刷条件に夫々対応づけられた前記定着外消費電力のピーク波高値、幅、周期を含むピーク情報とをテーブルに格納して記憶する記憶手段１４Ａと、前記定着外消費電力のピーク波高値、幅、周期に合わせて前記定着部材の加熱のための定着消費電力を制限する制限手段１１と、を備える、画像形成装置１００Ａ。【選択図】図１３