Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsYuzo HARADA, Tomohiko YAMAKAWA, Kazuhisa HIRAHARA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image into a toner image and a cooling unit that cools the developing device with a cooling fluid. The cooling unit has a cooling pipe formed of a metal pipe and having an inner space of the pipe as a flow passage for the cooling fluid and a heat-dissipating member disposed between the cooling pipe and the developing device and contacting the cooling pipe and the developing device to conduct heat between the cooling pipe and the developing device. A part of the heat-dissipating member in contact with the cooling pipe is elastically deformable.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image into a toner image;
- and
- a cooling unit that cools the developing device with a cooling fluid,
- wherein
- the cooling unit includes:
- a cooling pipe that is formed of a metal pipe and that has an inner space of the pipe as a flow passage for the cooling fluid;
- and
- a heat-dissipating member that is disposed between the cooling pipe and the developing device, the heat-dissipating member making contact with the cooling pipe and the developing device to conduct heat between the cooling pipe and the developing device, and
- a part of the heat-dissipating member in contact with the cooling pipe is elastically deformable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.