Recording material cooling device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshihiko Ichikawa
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Abstract
A recording material cooling device includes: a transporting section that transports a recording material; a heat radiation section that radiates heat of the recording material through the transporting section, the heat radiation section coming into contact with the transporting section; an air current generating section that generates an air current which flows through the heat radiation section; and a pair of passages that are respectively located before and after a zone where the transporting section and the heat radiation section are brought into contact with each other, each of the pair of passages being formed on an outer side of the heat radiation section to flow a portion of the air current.
Claims13
A recording material cooling device comprising:
- a transporting section that transports a recording material;
- a heat radiation section that radiates heat of the recording material through the transporting section, the heat radiation section coming into contact with the transporting section;
- an air current generating section that generates an air current which flows through the heat radiation section;
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- a passage that is constituted by a space including an end portion of a contacting portion where the transporting section and the heat radiation section are brought into contact with each other, the passage being formed with a gap from the transporting section and to flow a portion of the air current at the end portion,
- wherein the gap between the passage and the transporting section is closed by a gap closing member.
A recording material cooling device comprising:
- a transporting section that transports a recording material;
- a heat radiation section that radiates heat of the recording material through the transporting section, the heat radiation section coming into contact with the transporting section;
- an air current generating section that generates an air current which flows through the heat radiation section;
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- a passage that is constituted by a space including an end portion of a contacting portion where the transporting section and the heat radiation section are brought into contact with each other, the passage being formed to flow a portion of the air current at the end portion;
- wherein the passage is constituted so that abrasion dust generated from the transporting section being rubbed with an edge of the heat radiation section is accumulated in the passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.