Recording material cooling device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshihiko ICHIKAWA
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Abstract
A recording material cooling device includes: a transporting section that transports a recording material; a heat radiation section that radiates heat of the recording material through the transporting section, the heat radiation section coming into contact with the transporting section; an air current generating section that generates an air current which flows through the heat radiation section; and a pair of passages that are respectively located before and after a zone where the transporting section and the heat radiation section are brought into contact with each other, each of the pair of passages being formed on an outer side of the heat radiation section to flow a portion of the air current.
Claims11
A recording material cooling device comprising:
- a transporting section that transports a recording material;
- a heat radiation section that radiates heat of the recording material through the transporting section, the heat radiation section coming into contact with the transporting section;
- an air current generating section that generates an air current which flows through the heat radiation section;
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- a pair of passages that are respectively located before and after a zone where the transporting section and the heat radiation section are brought into contact with each other, each of the pair of passages being formed on an outer side of the heat radiation section to flow a portion of the air current.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.