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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2009
Applicant:
Masashi Kougami, Saitama, JP;
Inventor:
Masashi Kougami, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 23/02 (2006.01); B05C 1/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sheet humidifying device includes a pair of humidifying rollers which form a nip portion by pressure contacting against each other and giving water to a sheet passing through the nip portion, a water-supply roller that pressure contacts the humidifying roller and supplies water to the humidifying roller, a water vessel that stores water to be supplied to the water-supply roller, and a pressure-contact releasing section that releases pressure-contact of the pair of humidifying rollers and releases pressure-contact between the humidifying roller and the water-supplying roller.