Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinichi Sugiyama, Koji Nojima, Takanori Sakurai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form, in a first position, a toner image on a sheet using toner containing a parting material; a fixing device configured to fix the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming device in a second position, by heat and pressure; a fan configured to flow air along an air flow path between the image forming device and the fixing device; and a partition configured and positioned to substantially separate between the air flow path and a sheet feeding path from the first position to the second position.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device configured to form, in a first position, a toner image on a sheet using toner containing a parting material;
- a fixing device configured to fix the toner image formed on the sheet by said image forming device in a second position, by heat and pressure;
- a fan configured to flow air along an air flow path between said image forming device and said fixing device;
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- a partition configured and positioned to substantially separate between the air flow path and a sheet feeding path from the first position to the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.