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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYasuaki Iijima, Kenichi Takehara, Junya Takigawa, Keisuke Uchida
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An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a transfer mechanism, a fixing mechanism, and a heat radiation mechanism. The image forming mechanism forms a toner image which is transferred by the transfer mechanism transfers onto a recording sheet and is fixed by the fixing mechanism. The heat radiation mechanism is disposed between the image forming and fixing mechanisms and radiates heat generated by the fixing mechanism. The heat radiation mechanism includes a heat receiving member, a heat radiating member, and a heat conduction member. The heat receiving member receives heat generated by the fixing mechanism. The heat radiating member radiates the heat received by the heat receiving member. The heat conduction member has a thermal conductive property to efficiently conduct the heat from the heat receiving member to the heat radiating member.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
A heat sink device for use in an image forming apparatus, the heat sink device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.