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US 10,983,472 B2Granted
Image forming system including a plurality of recording medium cooling apparatuses and an uncurling apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki Inoue, Atsushi Yoshida
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Abstract
In a feeding direction of a recording material, a recording material cooling device is provided downstream of a fixing device, a curl reducing device is provided downstream of the recording material cooling device, and another recording material cooling device is provided downstream of the curl reducing device. By this configuration, occurrence of image defect by the recording material cooling device during the feeding of the recording material can be suppressed, and the curling of the recording material can be reduced after the recording material is cooled.
Claims8
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording material;
- a fixing device configured to heat the recording material carrying the toner image formed by said image forming unit to fix the toner image on the recording material;
- a first cooling device configured to cool the recording material that has been passed through said fixing device;
- a curl reducing device configured to nip and to feed the recording material that has been passed through said first cooling device and to reduce curling of the recording material;
- a second cooling device configured to cool the recording material that has been passed through said curl reducing device;
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- a duplex print feeding path branched from a recording material feeding path of said image forming system at a branch point between said first cooling device and said curl reducing device, said duplex print feeding path reversing a feeding direction of the recording material, on which the toner image is formed on the first side, and refeeding the recording material to said image forming unit,
- wherein said second cooling device is disposed in a downstream side of the branch point with respect to the feeding direction of the recording material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.