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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Hiroyuki Fuchioka, Kyoto, JP;
Takeshi Katayama, Kyoto, JP;
Akira Taiji, Kyoto, JP;
Mitsuru Tanemoto, Kyoto, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
In an inkjet printing apparatus, heaters are enclosed with a heater casing, achieving accumulation of heated air and efficient performance of heating. A blowing fan blows air to the heaters. The heater casing includes a blowing port configured to narrow and blow warm air heated with the heaters to a transportation path outside the heater casing in a direction along the transportation path. The warm air narrowed at the blowing port obtains an increased air velocity thereof. In addition, uniform air-quantity distribution and uniform heat-quantity are obtainable. Moreover, the heaters face the transportation path. Consequently, the heaters are provided closer to the transportation path than a conventional external heater. This suppresses heat loss.