Patent ID: 7274892

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a fixing device, which fixes a toner image formed on a sheet to the sheet while transporting the sheet upward; a delivery roller, which delivers the sheet, on which the toner image is fixed by said fixing device, to a delivery space, wherein sheets delivered by said delivery roller are stacked in the delivery space; a fan, which exhausts air in the vicinity of said fixing device and air in the delivery space to outside of a main body of said image forming apparatus; a first air vent provided between said fixing device and said fan; a second air vent provided in a wall of the main body; an exhaust opening provided in the main body; and a reader unit, which reads an image of a document, wherein the wall of the main body and a lower surface of said reader unit define the delivery space, wherein said fan exhausts the air in the vicinity of said fixing device from said exhaust opening through said first air vent, and takes the air in the delivery space into the main body through said second air vent to exhaust the air in the delivery space from said exhaust opening, and wherein said fan is provided between said second air vent and said exhaust opening and on the same level as said second air vent and said exhaust opening.