Patent ID: 9557691
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G03G

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a fixing unit having a heating roller and a pressing roller arranged while interposing a paper conveyance path between the heating roller and the pressing roller, and performing a fixing process on a paper at a fixing nip portion formed by the heating roller and the pressing roller; a non-contact type temperature detection sensor having a temperature detection surface facing a surface of the heating roller while being spaced apart from the surface of the heating roller; and a sensor board on which the temperature detection sensor is mounted, wherein the fixing unit includes a housing that has the heating roller and the pressing roller accommodated therein, the temperature detection sensor and the sensor board are provided outside the housing, and the image forming apparatus further comprises: a sensor protection tube including a hollow cylindrical body passing through a side wall portion of the housing, and having one end that abuts a mounting surface of the temperature detection sensor in the sensor board so as to surround a periphery of the temperature detection sensor and the other end positioned in the housing and in vicinity of a surface of the heating roller, wherein a heat sink for radiating heat from the temperature detection sensor is provided at a surface of the sensor board, which is opposite to the mounting surface of the temperature detection sensor.