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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Mitorida, Kanagawa, JP;
Taichi Fuchu, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirotake Eguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoru Nishikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Numazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Takada, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A drawer member that is capable of being drawn out from an image forming apparatus body and that includes a fixing unit that heats and fixes an image onto a recording medium, a first flow path that is formed around the fixing unit and that causes air that is heated by heat, which is discharged from the fixing unit, to circulate, and a second flow path that is formed adjacent to the first flow path on a side opposite to the fixing unit and in which air having a temperature lower than a temperature of air, which circulates in the first flow path, circulates.