US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Dec. 16 for "Image forming apparatus and prediction method capable of improving prediction accuracy of execution time of heating process of heating fixing member" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,657, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and prediction method capable of improving prediction accuracy of execution time of heating process of heating fixing member" was invented by Fumiaki Takiguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a heater, a preparation processing portion, an acquisition processing portion, and a prediction processing portion. The heater heats a fixing member used to fix a toner image in response to supply of an AC voltage from a commercial power supply. The preparation processing portion execut...