- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and method for ensuring adequate torque of development motor and suppressing reduction in printing speed in low-temperature environment
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Application No.: US16580742Application Date: 2019-09-24
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Publication No.: US10969737B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Kotaro Haruta , Masahito Saeki , Shintaro Sakaguchi
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2019-051078 20190319
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to, before driving a development motor, obtain a temperature inside a housing from a temperature sensor, determine whether the obtained temperature inside the housing is equal to or lower than a particular temperature, when determining that the temperature inside the housing is higher than the particular temperature, execute a full-speed mode to control the development motor to rotate at a first target speed and control a process motor to rotate at a second target speed, and when determining that the temperature inside the housing is equal to or lower than the particular temperature, execute a low-temperature mode to control the development motor to rotate at a third target speed lower than the first target speed and control the process motor to rotate at the second target speed that is the same as in the full-speed mode.
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