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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2020
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Asawa, Yamagata-mura, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a rotary drum that is provided with a cylindrical body, a rotary shaft, and arm portions, an ejecting unit, a first cooling fan that uses a section formed in the circumferential direction between the arm portions as a passageway of air and that supplies the air, and a first air guide member that is retrofitted to the passageway of the air. The first air guide member is provided with a number a of first guides, a being an integer of 2 or more. The number a of the first guides are configured to guide the air from the first cooling fan to regions that are different positions of the inner surface of the cylindrical body and that are obtained by dividing up the inner surface of the cylindrical body by the number a in the direction along the rotary shaft.