Patent ID: 8521076

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording medium; a fixing portion that heats and fixes an image on the recording medium after forming the image; a feed path that conveys the recording medium after heating and fixing by the fixing portion; a first pair of feed rollers composed of two feed rollers provided in the feed path; and a cooling mechanism that sends cooling air to a nip portion of the pair of feed rollers or to the vicinity thereof, wherein the cooling mechanism includes a cooling fan that blows the cooling air and a cooling duct that guides the cooling air to the first pair of feed rollers, the cooling mechanism increases a cooling air volume when the recording medium is held between the first pair of feed rollers in comparison to the time when the recording medium is not held between the first pair of feed rollers, and the cooling duct rotatably and integrally supports a driven roller which is one feed roller of the first pair of feed rollers.