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US 7,364,150 B2Granted
Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus using heating member on sheet tray
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshimitsu Nakane
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Abstract
An air duct is disposed in the vicinity of a heating member generating the heat for heating sheets stacked in a sheet tray, and the air in the air duct is heated by the heat generated by the heating member. The air duct is connected to an air blowing portion blowing the air toward the sheets stacked in the sheet tray, and the air in the air duct that is heated by the heat generated by the heating member is blown toward the sheets stacked in the sheet tray by the air blowing portion.
Claims8
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet tray supporting a plurality of sheets;
- a sheet feeding device that feeds out the sheets stacked in said sheet tray;
- an air blowing device that blows air toward the sheets stacked in said sheet tray;
- a heating member, disposed between said sheet tray and sheets to be stacked therein, that generates heat to heat air and is arranged so as to also apply the heat to the plurality of sheets on said sheet tray;
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- an air duct disposed on a side opposite to said heating member with respect to said sheet tray and connected to said air blowing device to guide the air heated by said heating member to said air blowing device,
- wherein the air in said air duct heated by heat conducted via said sheet tray from said heating member is blown toward the sheets stacked in said sheet tray by said air blowing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.