US 11,720,056 B2
Image forming apparatus having fan to suck air into the image forming apparatus
Yu Shuhama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,641.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-180573 (JP), filed on Oct. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0128948 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 21/20 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/206 (2013.01) [G03G 15/80 (2013.01); G03G 21/1652 (2013.01); G03G 21/1671 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material;
a stacking unit on which the recording material having the image formed on the recording material by the image forming unit is stacked;
a frame configured to support the image forming unit;
an outer surface member disposed on an outer side relative to the frame and having a through-hole;
an electronic circuit board disposed between the frame and the outer surface member; and
a fan configured to suck air from an outside of the image forming apparatus to an inside of the image forming apparatus via the through-hole,
wherein the electronic circuit board is disposed on an upstream side of the fan in a direction of an air flow generated into air by the fan, and
wherein the stacking unit is disposed on a downstream side of the fan in the direction of the air flow generated by the fan.