Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Yamamiya

Takaharu Koyama

Takayuki Kikuchi

Satoru Nishikawa

Hajime Yoshii

Yuji Otsuka

Teruyo Ryuzaki

Yoshihiko Ichikawa

Masayuki Enta

Shuuichi Yamamura

Shiro Miyake

Naochika Iida

An image forming apparatus includes a containing member that is detachably disposed in an interior space of the housing and that contains a color material, an opening and closing member that opens and closes an opening of the housing by rotating about an axis, which is formed in a lower portion of the housing, when the containing member is replaced, and a cover member that includes surface portions, a first end attached to the housing, and a second end attached to the opening and closing member and that forms a color-material-receiving surface by covering a region between the housing and the opening and closing member from above when the opening and closing member opens the opening, the cover member being formed to be folded such that one of the surface portions and the other surface portions face one another when the opening and closing member closes the opening.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a housing, an image forming section, an air passage that is disposed so as to be movable between a first position and a second position, the air passage having an interior through which air is allowed to flow while the air passage is in the first position, a trapping member that is mountably and dismountably disposed in the interior of the air passage, the trapping member trapping an object contained in the air flowing through the interior of the air passage, and a mounting system that mounts the trapping member, which is not completely mounted in the interior of the air passage, in the interior of the air passage by an operation of moving the air passage from the second position to the first position.

Image forming apparatus and trapping device

A gas transfer unit includes a transfer path forming member; a gas transferring member; and a gas purifying member as defined herein, and in a case where exhaustion is performed through the first exhaust port, the transfer vanes are rotated at a first rotation number, and, in a case where exhaustion is performed through the second exhaust port, the transfer vanes are rotated at a second rotation number which is higher than the first rotation number.

Gas transfer unit

A recording material cooling apparatus includes: a cooling belt that is in contact with a toner-image surface of a recording material on which a toner image is heated by a fixing device to be in a fusing state, to cool the recording material while conveying the recording material; and an air blowing unit that blows air toward the toner-image surface of the recording material which is between the fixing device and the cooling belt, the toner-image surface being in the fusing state, or an air sucking unit that sucks air from the toner-image surface.

Recording material cooling apparatus, and image forming apparatus including the same

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Masayuki Yamamiya