Cooling device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsHiroaki MIYAGAWA, Koji KAWAHARA
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Abstract
A cooling device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes multiple air blowers to cool a cooling target provided to the image forming apparatus and a duct to connect with the multiple air blowers and to flow airflow generated by the multiple air blowers therethrough and to have an opening formed thereon and disposed at a position shifted to a part of the multiple air blowers. Respective outputs of the multiple air blowers are different from each other according to respective positions of the multiple air blowers with respect to the opening.
Claims16
A cooling device comprising:
- multiple air blowers to cool a cooling target provided to an image forming apparatus;
- and
- a duct to connect with the multiple air blowers and to flow airflow generated by the multiple air blowers therethrough,
- the duct having an opening formed thereon and disposed at a position shifted to a part of the multiple air blowers,
- wherein respective outputs of the multiple air blowers are different from each other according to respective positions of the multiple air blowers with respect to the opening.
A cooling device comprising:
- multiple air blowers to cool a cooling target provided to an image forming apparatus;
- and
- a duct to connect with the multiple air blowers and to pass respective airflows generated by the multiple air blowers therethrough,
- the duct having an opening formed at a position facing a part of the multiple air blowers to pass the airflows from the multiple air blower therethrough,
- wherein the multiple air blowers inflow the respective airflows in a previously determined direction,
- wherein airflows exhausted from each of the multiple air blowers at a high speed enter into respective different regions on the opening without interference with each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.