Invention Grant
US08687997B2 Image forming apparatus configured to direct cooling air flow to a fixing device roller proximate the outer side of the apparatus main body
有权
图像形成装置被构造成将冷却空气流引导到靠近装置主体的外侧的定影装置辊
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus configured to direct cooling air flow to a fixing device roller proximate the outer side of the apparatus main body
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置被构造成将冷却空气流引导到靠近装置主体的外侧的定影装置辊
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Application No.: US13290453Application Date: 2011-11-07
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Publication No.: US08687997B2Publication Date: 2014-04-01
- Inventor: Yoshihiko Kurotsu , Hironori Takahashi
- Applicant: Yoshihiko Kurotsu , Hironori Takahashi
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
- Priority: JP2010-250005 20101108; JP2010-282582 20101220
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that has: a fixing roller heated by induction and a pressing roller brought into press-contact with the fixing roller to fix a toner image borne on a paper sheet conveyed toward the fixing device by a conveyor unit. When a paper sheet having a width smaller than a width of a maximum-width recording medium that can be passed through the fixing device is passed through the fixing device, a non-paper passing region is formed at each end portion of each of the fixing and pressing rollers. Sirocco fans cool the non-paper passing region at a part of an outer peripheral surface of the pressing roller. The pressing roller is disposed opposed to the outer side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120114346A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-05-10
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