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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
May. 19, 2023
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hideyuki Umeno, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/206 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cooling device which cools an inside of an image forming apparatus that forms an image on paper, the cooling device includes an overall cooler that cools an entire inside of the image forming apparatus using overall cooling air flowing inside the image forming apparatus, and a partial cooler that blows cooling air to a part to be cooled to cool the part to be cooled, in which volume of the cooling air on a leeward side of the overall cooling air is smaller than volume of the cooling air on a windward side of the overall cooling air in the partial cooler.