Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus, duct unit
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Application No.: US16094422Application Date: 2017-11-09
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Publication No.: US10585392B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Mitsutoshi Takemoto
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi, Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi, Osaka
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2017-028986 20170220
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/040364 WO 20171109
- International Announcement: WO2018/150655 WO 20180823
- Main IPC: G03G21/20
- IPC: G03G21/20 ; G03G15/01 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
A pair of side plate portions of a duct unit are formed to continue from an upstream plate portion to a downstream plate portion. A partition wall portion partitions a space between the pair of side plate portions into branch flow paths and the other area. A plurality of flow-out openings formed in the downstream plate portion are smaller, in area and width in a first direction, than flow-in openings formed in the upstream plate portion. The pair of side plate portions are formed to extend along edges of the flow-in openings and edges of the flow-out openings. The edges of each of the flow-in openings and the flow-out openings are opposite to each other in the first direction. An interval between the pair of side plate portions in the first direction becomes gradually narrower from upstream to downstream.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190129359A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DUCT UNIT Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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