Drawer member having image fixing unit, and image forming apparatus having same
US9141080B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 30, 2014 |
| Grant date | Sep 22, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 30, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G21/206
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A drawer member that is capable of being drawn out from an image forming apparatus body and that includes a fixing unit that heats and fixes an image onto a recording medium, a first flow path that is formed around the fixing unit and that causes air that is heated by heat, which is discharged from the fixing unit, to circulate, and a second flow path that is formed adjacent to the first flow path on a side opposite to the fixing unit and in which air having a temperature lower than a temperature of air, which circulates in the first flow path, circulates.
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