US 12,174,564 B2
Image forming apparatus
Yasuharu Toratani, Chiba (JP); Shutaro Saito, Tokyo (JP); Keisuke Yoshida, Chiba (JP); Yuya Yamada, Chiba (JP); Taku Ashida, Shizuoka (JP); Asuna Fukamachi, Chiba (JP); Shohei Tsuzaki, Chiba (JP); Yusuke Yamaguchi, Chiba (JP); and Hiroshi Miyamoto, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/461,428.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-166246 (JP), filed on Oct. 17, 2022; application No. 2022-166248 (JP), filed on Oct. 17, 2022; and application No. 2022-166249 (JP), filed on Oct. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0126193 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2017 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2053 (2013.01); G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2025 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a first rotatable member configured to heat a toner image formed on a recording material;
a second rotatable member configured to form a nip in contact with the first rotatable member, wherein the second rotatable member applies heat and pressure to the recording material, on which the toner image is carried, in the nip in cooperation with the first rotatable member to fix the toner image on the recording material;
an air nozzle configured to blow air toward the recording material and the first rotatable member on a side downstream of the nip with respect to a feeding direction of the recording material; and
a pipe configured to send air to the air nozzle and opposing the first rotatable member,
wherein the pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with the first rotatable member and making one reciprocation or more in a case that when a direction crossing the feeding direction of the recording material fed in the nip is a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member, the pipe is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction.