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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuhei Chiwata, Kanagawa, JP;
Masuharu Inui, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an image forming apparatus including: at least two guide members; a drying section; an ink curing section that illuminates light onto a front surface of the recording medium that has been dried by the drying section and cures the ink; a single liquid coolant circulation device that circulates liquid coolant to respectively formed circulation flow paths between the liquid coolant circulation device and a plurality of cooling targets for which cooling is required due to heat of the drying section or heat of the ink curing section, that cools one of the cooling targets with intermittent circulation of liquid coolant, and that cools another of the cooling targets with continuous circulation of liquid coolant; and an opening and closing portion that opens and closes one of the circulation flow paths to intermittently circulate the liquid coolant of the one cooling target.