Patent ID: 11934122
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. An image forming method executed by an image forming apparatus including:
an image forming portion configured to form a transferred sheet to which a toner image has been transferred; a fixing member provided separately from the image forming portion and configured to come into contact with a toner image transfer surface of the transferred sheet, and fix the toner image on the transferred sheet; a heater configured to heat the fixing member; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature at a detection position separated from a contact position between the fixing member and the transfer surface, the method comprising:
a conveyance control step of executing a conveyance process of conveying the transferred sheet to the contact position in a predetermined execution cycle;
a driving control step of controlling driving of the heater so that the temperature detected by the temperature sensor matches a target temperature set based on the execution cycle;
an adjustment step of executing an adjustment process of adjusting a condition for formation of the transferred sheet by the image forming portion and restricting the execution of the conveyance process until the adjustment process is completed; and
a stop step of stopping continuous execution of the conveyance process by the conveyance control step when the restriction on the execution of the conveyance process by the adjustment step continues beyond an allowable limit timing that is an execution timing of the conveyance process or thereafter, wherein
in the driving control step, the driving control of the heater is ended when the continuous execution of the conveyance process is stopped by the stop step,
the image forming method comprises a restart step of restarting the continuous execution of the conveyance process by the conveyance control step after lifting of the restriction on the execution of the conveyance process when the continuous execution of the conveyance process is stopped by the stop step, and
in the driving control step, the driving control of the heater is started when the continuous execution of the conveyance process is restarted by the restart step.