Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMasanori NAMBA, Toshikane NISHII, Mitsutaka NAKAMURA, Haruyuki HONDA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a manual operating unit, at least a part of which being exposed to an outside of the apparatus body and a part of which included inside the apparatus body being exposed to the outside by manually operating from the outside, a condensation part to which moist air in the apparatus body contacts to dew-condense to a water droplet, and a recovery container part containing the water droplet generated by the condensation part and being disposed on an inner surface of the manual operating unit included inside the apparatus body.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- a manual operating unit, at least a part of which being exposed to an outside of the apparatus body and a part of which included inside the apparatus body being exposed to the outside by manually operating from the outside;
- a condensation part to which moist air in the apparatus body contacts to dew-condense to a water droplet;
- and
- a recovery container part to contain the water droplet generated by the condensation part,
- wherein the recovery container part is disposed on an inner surface of the manual operating unit included inside the apparatus body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.