Cooling device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorJun Okamoto
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Abstract
A cooling device cools, with air, a heating member having a longitudinal direction. The cooling device includes a blower, an air duct, and an air-volume varying mechanism. The blower blows the air. The air passes through the air duct. The air duct has a first opening to which the air is supplied by the blower, a second opening to face a portion of the heating member, and a third opening to face another portion of the heating member. The air-volume varying mechanism changes an air volume of the air discharged from the second opening and the third opening.
Claims11
A cooling device configured to cool, with air, a heating member having a longitudinal direction, the cooling device comprising:
- a blower configured to blow the air;
- an air duct through which the air passes, the air duct having a first opening to which the air is supplied by the blower, a second opening configured to face a portion of the heating member, and a third opening configured to face another portion of the heating member, the second opening being spaced from the third opening in the longitudinal direction of the heating member;
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- an air-volume varying mechanism configured to change an air volume of the air discharged from the second opening and the third opening, wherein the air-volume varying mechanism includes a slide member in the air duct on a downstream side of the first opening in a direction in which the blower is configured to blow the air and the slide member being configured to move in its entirety in the longitudinal direction of the heating member within the air duct in order to vary an amount of air directed to the second opening and the third opening.
A cooling device configured to cool, with air, a heating member having a longitudinal direction, the cooling device comprising:
- a blower configured to blow the air;
- an air duct through which the air passes, the air duct having a first opening to which the air is supplied by the blower, a second opening configured to face a portion of the heating member, and a third opening configured to face another portion of the heating member;
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- an air-volume varying mechanism configured to change an air volume of the air discharged from the second opening and the third opening;
- wherein the air-volume varying mechanism includes a swing mechanism configured to swing the blower in a longitudinal direction of the air duct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.