Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsTetsuro Kodera, Tomoaki Yoshioka, Takayuki Yamashita
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports an object along a transport path; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object on the transport path; and a fixing unit that has a heat source for increasing a temperature inside the fixing unit, into which the object onto which the image has been transferred is carried along the transport path, and includes a first opening and closing member that opens a carry-in opening when the object is carried into the fixing unit and closes the carry-in opening after the object is carried into the fixing unit.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a transport unit that transports an object along a transport path;
- a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object on the transport path;
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- a fixing unit that has a heat source for increasing a temperature inside the fixing unit, into which the object onto which the image has been transferred is carried along the transport path, and includes a first opening and closing member that opens a carry-in opening when the object is carried into the fixing unit and closes the carry-in opening after the object is carried into the fixing unit,
- the fixing unit further includes a covering unit that covers the heat source when the first opening and closing member opens the carry-in opening and exposes the heat source when the first opening and closing member closes the carry-in opening.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- transport means for transporting an object along a transport path;
- transfer means for transferring an image onto the object on the transport path;
- and
- fixing means that has a heat source for increasing a temperature inside the fixing means, into which the object onto which the image has been transferred is carried along the transport path, and includes a first opening and closing member that opens a carry-in opening when the object is carried into the fixing means and closes the carry-in opening after the object is carried into the fixing means,
- the fixing means further includes a covering means that covers the heat source when the first opening and closing member opens the carry-in opening and exposes the heat source when the first opening and closing member closes the carry-in opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.