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US 8,045,914 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Kato, Motoyasu Muramatsu
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing unit which fixes toner image on a sheet by heat; a first portion in which the sheet on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit is fed; a second portion in which the sheet on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit is fed; and a fan provided between the first portion and the second portion and for cooling the sheet in the first portion and the sheet in the second portion.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit having an image bearing member for bearing a toner image;
- a transfer unit which transfers a toner image on the image bearing member to a sheet;
- a fixing unit which fixes the toner image transferred by the transfer unit on the sheet by heat;
- a discharging member which discharges the sheet on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit;
- a stacking portion on which the sheets discharged by the discharge member are stacked;
- a reversing roller pair which is rotatable normally/reversibly and which conveys the sheet on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit in a first direction and thereafter conveys the sheet in a second direction that is an opposite direction of the first direction;
- a repeated feeding passage that conveys the sheet, which has been conveyed in the second direction by the reversing roller pair, to the image forming unit again;
- a plate-like tray that is disposed above the stacking portion and on a side of the first direction with respect to the reversing roller pair, and guides the sheet being conveyed by the reversing roller pair;
- an opening, through which an air passes, formed in the plate-like tray;
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- a fan which cools the sheet stacked on the stacking portion and the sheet being conveyed by the reversing roller pair while the sheet is being guided by the plate-like tray,
- wherein the fan is mounted on a bottom of the plate-like tray.
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