Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoaki Imura

Takaaki Tsuruya

Shunsuke Hijikata

Katsuhiko Oba

Taku Fukita

Eiji Wakiyama

The image forming apparatus including a fixing part that heats and fixes an unfixed toner image formed on a recording material, onto the recording material, an electric field generation member that forms an electric field in a space in which a component evaporated from a wax flows, the component being generated during the heating and fixing, and a collection member to which a voltage is applied, the collection member electrostatically collecting the component passing through the space in which the electric field has been formed. The image forming apparatus prevents conveyance failures resulting from evaporated components of a release wax adhering to parts within the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus in which various kinds of sheets can be used and which can be made compact and reduce the number of parts. The present invention provides an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, which has a sheet feeding cassette, first sheet feeding means, and image forming means, wherein the sheet feeding cassette is provided with second sheet feeding means for feeding out a sheet contained in a second sheet storing portion different from the first sheet storing portion of the sheet feeding cassette.

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Mishima, Japan

Tomoaki Imura