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US 2011/0217066 A1Published application
Image forming device having exhaust channel for exhausting air out of the device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasamitsu UKAI
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Abstract
An image forming device includes a main casing, a process unit, a fixing unit, and a duct. The duct is disposed between the process unit and the fixing unit with respect to a direction in which a recording medium is conveyed. The duct defines an exhaust channel for exhausting air out of the main casing. The duct includes at least two partitioning walls extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and is formed with at least three inlet ports partitioned by the partitioning walls in the first direction.
Claims13
An image forming device comprising:
- a main casing;
- a process unit including an image-bearing member onto which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developing unit that supplies developing agent to the electrostatic latent image formed on the image-bearing member to form a developing-agent image on the image-bearing member, and a transfer unit that transfers the developing-agent image from the image-bearing member onto a recording medium;
- a fixing unit that thermally fixes the developing-agent image onto the recording medium;
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- a duct disposed between the process unit and the fixing unit with respect to a first direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, the duct defining an exhaust channel for exhausting air out of the main casing, wherein
- the duct includes at least two partitioning walls extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and is formed with at least three inlet ports partitioned by the partitioning walls in the first direction.
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