US 11,693,359 B2
Image forming apparatus having a suction port and a blowing port arranged at different positions
Takehito Osada, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/671,955.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-024574 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0260952 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 21/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/206 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2028 (2013.01); G03G 15/6573 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00417 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1645 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on one surface of a recording material;
a fixing unit that includes a heating unit and is configured to heat and fix the toner image formed on the one surface of the recording material;
a discharging unit configured to discharge the recording material, on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit, to a discharged paper tray; and
a guide member that is disposed between the fixing unit and the discharging unit and is configured to form a recording material conveying path for conveying the recording material from the fixing unit to the discharging unit, wherein
on the guide member, a blowing port to send air to the recording material conveying path and a suction port to suck air from the recording material conveying path are disposed on a same surface so as not to cross over the recording material being conveyed, and
the suction port is positioned at a different position than the blowing port in a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction of the recording material.