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US 8,708,456 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTsuyoshi Miyata
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a carriage including a recording head that discharges liquid droplets for forming an image on a recording medium; a rail that supports the carriage in such a manner that the carriage reciprocates; a fixing part that fixes the rail; and an air stream creation part that creates an air stream. The fixing part is hollow, has a first inflow opening part and a discharge opening part, and the air stream created by the air stream creation part flows from the first opening part to the discharge opening part.
Claims19
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a carriage including a recording head that discharges liquid droplets for forming an image onto a recording medium;
- a rail that supports the carriage in such a manner that the carriage reciprocates;
- a fixing part that fixes the rail in the image forming apparatus;
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- an air stream creation part that creates an air stream inside the fixing part, wherein
- the fixing part is hollow, and has a first inflow opening part and a discharge opening part,
- the fixing part is disposed on a first side of the rail and the carriage is disposed on another side of the rail that is opposite to the first side on which the fixing part is disposed, and
- the air stream is created inside the fixing part by the air stream creation part by drawing air from external to the fixing part to flow through the first inflow opening part to inside of the fixing part and causes the air inside of the fixing part to flow through the discharge opening part to outside of the fixing part.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a carriage including a recording head that discharges liquid droplets for forming an image onto a recording medium;
- a rail that supports the carriage in such a manner that the carriage reciprocates;
- a fixing part that fixes the rail in the image forming apparatus;
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- an air stream creation part that creates an air stream, wherein
- the fixing part is hollow, and has a first inflow opening part and a discharge opening part, and
- the air stream created by the air stream creation part flows from the first inflow opening part to the discharge opening part,
- the fixing part is disposed on a first side of the rail and the carriage is disposed on another side of the rail that is opposite to the first side on which the fixing part is disposed,
- the image forming apparatus further comprising:
- an ejection tray onto which the recording media are stacked, wherein
- air discharged from the discharge opening part is discharged toward the recording media stacked on the ejection tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.