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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2005
Ryoei Nozawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideto Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Suya, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Hibe, Kanagawa, JP;
Keiichi Adachi, Shizuoka, JP;
Ryoei Nozawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideto Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Suya, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Hibe, Kanagawa, JP;
Keiichi Adachi, Shizuoka, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Developer is supplied to a first spray pipe disposed in a developing bath. The inside of the developing bath is provided with a heater. A liquid-flow generating unit comprises a liquid-flow generating head and a branch duct, which is connected to a branch pipe of the first spray pipe via a rubber hose. A part of the developer flowing in the first spray pipe is forwarded to the liquid-flow generating head. By a gap-forming ring, a gap is secured between an outer surface of the heater and an inner surface of the liquid-flow generating head so that the developer uniformly flows along the outer surface of the heater in a longitudinal direction thereof. A heater cover is attached to the liquid-flow generating head. An inner surface of the heater cover inclines in the longitudinal direction of the heater.