Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13754083Application Date: 2013-01-30
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Publication No.: US09052689B2Publication Date: 2015-06-09
- Inventor: Masahito Saeki , Hidekazu Nogami , Koyo Yamamoto
- Applicant: Masahito Saeki , Hidekazu Nogami , Koyo Yamamoto
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken,
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken,
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2012-017773 20120131
- Main IPC: G03G21/20
- IPC: G03G21/20 ; G03G15/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body casing; a fixing unit accommodated in the casing and including a heating member and a pressing member; a first wall provided inside the casing at a position above the heating member and the pressing member and extending diagonally downward and forward; an uneven portion provided on the first wall at a position rearward of front end portion of the pressing member to restrain a dew droplet condensed on the first wall from running down along the first wall; a sheet ejection opening formed in the casing such that the recording sheet conveyed out from the fixing unit is ejected outside the casing through the sheet ejection opening; and an exhaust opening formed in the casing at a position rearward of the heating member such that air heated in the fixing unit is discharged outside the casing through the exhaust opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130195500A1 Image Forming Apparatus Public/Granted day:2013-08-01
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