Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Kazuyuki Kagawa

Yasuhiro Kawai

Ryouei Nozawa

Kenro Yamamoto

Koji Tashiro

Kazuyuki Akiyama

A photosensitive material processing apparatus in which a pair of rollers respectively having water absorbing surface layers is disposed downstream of a washing processing section and the rotating shafts of said rollers are urged in the directions in which said rollers approach each other, wherein the thickness of said water absorbing surface layer of at least one roller of said rollers gradually decreases toward end portions of the at least one roller. In this way, since the thickness of the water absorbing surface layer of the at least one roller gradually decreases toward the end portions of said at least one roller, a gap is prevented from occurring between said water absorbing surface layer and said photosensitive material at the central portions of the rollers due to the flexing of the rollers.

Photosensitive material processing apparatus

In a temperature control method of a photosensitive material drying device relating to the present invention, a photosensitive material is heated and dried by drying air heated by a heating device. A temperature of a member heated by the drying air is detected, and operation of the heating device is controlled so that the temperature of the member is maintained within a predetermined range. Further, a photosensitive material drying device relating to the present invention includes a heating device supplying heated drying air to an interior of a drying chamber and heating and drying a photosensitive material for which processing by processing solutions has been completed; an exhaust grill through which exhaust air, which is discharged from a vicinity of a conveying path of the photosensitive material to an exterior of the drying chamber, passes; a temperature sensor, disposed at the exhaust grill in a state in which the temperature sensor is shielded from the drying air and detecting a temperature of the exhaust grill heated by the exhaust air; and a temperature control device which controls the heating device in accordance with a temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuyuki Kagawa