Image forming apparatus having widthwisely extending exhaust fan
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTAKEHIRO MIYASHITA, TAKEO KAWANAMI, RYOSUKE TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a sheet conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction includes a frame including a first side plate and a second side plate disposed in parallel in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction, an intake unit disposed on an outer side of the frame in the width direction and configured to draw air into an interior of the frame, an exhaust unit disposed between the first side plate and the second side plate and configured to discharge air outside of the frame, and a cooling object unit disposed on a path of the air which is drawn into the interior of the frame by the intake unit and moves toward the exhaust unit.
Claims21
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a sheet conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a frame including a first side plate and a second side plate disposed in parallel in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction;
- an intake unit disposed on an outer side of the frame in the width direction and configured to draw air into an interior of the frame;
- an exhaust unit disposed between the first side plate and the second side plate and configured to discharge air outside of the frame;
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- a cooling object unit disposed on a path of the air which is drawn into the interior of the frame by the intake unit and moves toward the exhaust unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.