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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2024
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Kawakita, Chiba, JP;
Hiroshi Kokubo, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Aoki, Chiba, JP;
Yoshiaki Hara, Chiba, JP;
Yushi Sadamitsu, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A drying device for blowing air on a sheet on which an image is formed by discharging ink and for drying the sheet includes a conveyance belt, first and second blowing units. The first blowing unit includes a plurality of first blowout holes, and the second blowing unit disposed adjacent to downstream of the first blowing unit in a sheet conveyance direction includes a plurality of second blowout holes. When a pitch between of the plurality of the first blowout holes, a first hole and a second hole downstream of the first hole and closest to the first hole in the sheet conveyance direction is a first pitch, a second pitch between a downstreammost hole of the plurality of the first blowout holes and an upstreammost hole of the plurality of the second blowout holes in the sheet conveyance direction is not more than the first pitch.
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