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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2011
Yoshihiko Kurotsu, Osaka, JP;
Hironori Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiko Kurotsu, Osaka, JP;
Hironori Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that has: a fixing roller heated by induction and a pressing roller brought into press-contact with the fixing roller to fix a toner image borne on a paper sheet conveyed toward the fixing device by a conveyor unit. When a paper sheet having a width smaller than a width of a maximum-width recording medium that can be passed through the fixing device is passed through the fixing device, a non-paper passing region is formed at each end portion of each of the fixing and pressing rollers. Sirocco fans cool the non-paper passing region at a part of an outer peripheral surface of the pressing roller. The pressing roller is disposed opposed to the outer side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.