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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2010
Gun-wook Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Jin-ho Park, Yongin-si, KR;
Kwoang-joe Seorl, Seongnam-si, KR;
Byung-jo Lee, Bucheon-si, KR;
Gun-wook Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Jin-ho Park, Yongin-si, KR;
Kwoang-joe Seorl, Seongnam-si, KR;
Byung-jo Lee, Bucheon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: a body housing; a paper feeding unit accommodated in the body housing and providing a recording medium; an image forming unit accommodated in the body housing and forming an image on the recording medium; a fixing unit accommodated in the body housing and fixing the image formed by the image forming unit; and a cooling unit including a channel including an inhalation part and a discharging part which are formed in the body housing for air to flow, extending between the inhalation part and the discharging part and formed adjacently to the fixing unit, and an air purification module installed in the channel and generating ions reacting to foreign substances in air traveling through the channel to purify the air, and discharging heat generated in the fixing unit to the outside.