Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Yuuya Shimohora

Kuniaki Nakano

Akihiro Masaki

Hideto Miyanagi

A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member, and a guiding member. The guiding member includes a first guide surface, a second guide surface, and a pair of third guide surfaces consecutively installing both end portions in the axial direction of the first guide surface and both end portions in the axial direction of the second guide surface. The first end edge of the first guide surface has a first circular arc shape arranged such that a center portion in the axial direction projects toward the downstream side in the rotation direction with respect to both end portions in the axial direction. The second guide surface is one of a curved surface in a second circular arc shape arranged such that a center portion in the axial direction is close to the first circumference surface with respect to both end portions in the axial direction.

Fixing device ensuring smooth delivery of sheet

In a sheet feeding cassette (), wall portions (to) are provided upright at four peripheral end portions of a cassette base (). Of the wall portions (to), the wall portion () positioned on a downstream side in a sheet feeding direction has a first notch portion () formed at a substantially center portion in a longitudinal direction of the wall portion (), the first notch portion () facing a feeding roller () provided on an image forming apparatus () main body side.

Recording medium storage cassette and image forming apparatus including the same

Disclosed is a scanning optical module, which includes a light source, a rotatable multifaceted mirror adapted to scanningly deflect a scanning beam emitted from the light source, in a given direction, a driving device adapted to drivingly rotate the rotatable multifaceted mirror through a shaft thereof, a plate-shaped member formed with a driving device-mounting portion mounting thereto the driving device in such a manner as to absorb heat generated in the shaft, an air blower adapted to generate an airstream, and an airstream passage-defining member adapted to direct the airstream from the air blower, toward the driving device-mounting portion of the plate-shaped member.

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Osaka, Japan

Yuuya Shimohora