Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14851951Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US09405273B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Satoru Nakamura
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2014-191084 20140919
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/20 ; B65H5/22 ; B65H9/00 ; B65H29/58

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus having a sheet conveyance path guiding a sheet to a sheet exit port after the sheet passes through a fixing device. A conveyance unit constitutes one of a pair of sheet conveyance surface portions of the sheet conveyance path. A first cooling fan is disposed within the conveyance unit and sucks air from an air introducing hole in the conveyance unit that is in communication with the sheet conveyance path. A second cooling fan is disposed on an opposite side of the sheet conveyance path to the conveyance unit and blows air at a sheet passing through the sheet conveyance path. A conveyance guide member is fitted to the conveyance unit and switches a conveyance direction of the sheet passing through the sheet conveyance path. The first cooling fan blows at the conveyance guide member air sucked from the air introducing hole.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160085209A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-03-24
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