Patent ID: 8845066
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An inkjet printer for ejecting and fixing ink onto a recording medium, the inkjet printer comprising: an ink jet head for ejecting the so as to land on the recording medium; a carriage having the ink jet head mounted thereto, the carriage being configured to reciprocate in a scanning manner in a direction crossing a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a platen arranged to be opposed to a bottom surface side of the carriage, the platen being configured to hold the recording medium, a heater arranged inside a casing and above the carriage, the heater being configured to heat the ink immediately after landing on the recording medium to thereby fix the ink onto the recording medium; an exterior opening portion for air intake, the exterior opening portion being arranged in a rear surface of the casing and configured to take outside air into the casing; a first intake fan provided to the exterior opening portion and configured to feed air into the casing via the exterior opening portion; a rear surface opening portion provided on the carriage at a position opposed to the exterior opening portion; an exhaust opening portion for air exhaust from inside the carriage, the exhaust opening portion being arranged to be oriented toward a downstream side of the carriage in the conveyance direction of the recording medium; an exhaust duct provided inside of and passing through the casing at a position on an opposite side to the recording medium across the heater, the exhaust duct having a duct intake opening portion for air intake and a duct exhaust opening portion provided to the casing at a position on a delivery side of the recording medium, the duct exhaust opening portion being configured to exhaust the air toward an outside of the casing; and a duct exhaust fan provided to the duct exhaust opening portion of the exhaust duct, the duct exhaust fan being configured to discharge a gas from inside the exhaust duct to the outside of the casing.