US 11,693,358 B2
Image forming apparatus
Atsuyuki Yuzawa, Kanagawa (JP); and Yu Shuhama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/521,550.
Application 17/521,550 is a division of application No. 17/038,128, filed on Sep. 30, 2020, granted, now 11,199,810.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-181251 (JP), filed on Oct. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0057748 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 21/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/206 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a frame member of said image forming apparatus;
an outer casing covering an outside of the frame member of said image forming apparatus;
a duct provided between the frame member and the outer casing;
an air blower provided between the frame member and the outer casing and configured to take an air from an outside and cool an inside of the image forming apparatus; and
a heat generating member provided inside of the duct;
wherein the outer casing is provided with an opposing surface extending horizontally so as to oppose an installation surface thereof in a position separated from the installation surface,
wherein the opposing surface includes an opening, and
wherein the duct and the air blower are positioned at an upper side of the opposing surface.