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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Mitsui, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01); G03G 21/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/206 (2013.01); G03G 21/1842 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1645 (2013.01); G03G 2221/183 (2013.01);
Abstract
When a process cartridge is mounted, air introduced to inside an image forming apparatus via an intake unit flows in a space surrounded by a housing of the process cartridge, a contact unit, and an arm unit, and is exhausted via an exhaust unit. When another process cartridge having a housing larger in size than a housing of the process cartridge is mounted, the air introduced to inside the image forming apparatus via the intake unit flows in a space surrounded by the housing of the another process cartridge having the larger housing, a contact unit, and the arm unit, and is exhausted via the exhaust unit.