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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2024
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takehiro Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Yosuke Obayashi, Chiba, JP;
Kazumi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Masanobu Tanaka, Chiba, JP;
Naoki Akiyama, Ibaraki, JP;
Shinsuke Takahashi, Chiba, JP;
Masayuki Tamaki, Chiba, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus includes first and second belts stretched by a plurality of rollers, including first, second and third rollers, and forming a nip, a heater disposed inside the first belt. The first roller is disposed upstreammost among the plurality of rollers in a conveyance direction, the second roller is disposed downstream of an irradiation area of the first belt heated by the heater and the third roller is disposed between from the second roller to the first roller in a rotational direction of the first belt. A first temperature sensor detects a temperature of the irradiation area in an inner circumferential surface. A second temperature sensor detects a temperature of the first belt between from the second roller to the third roller in the rotational direction.