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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2015
Keisuke Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Okano, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyasu Hirasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanori Saitoh, Tokyo, JP;
Takehara Kenichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromitsu Fujiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Okano, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyasu Hirasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanori Saitoh, Tokyo, JP;
Takehara Kenichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromitsu Fujiya, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cooling device including at least two cooling members to cool a recording medium passing thereover, a coolant circulation unit to circulate a coolant, and tubing that connects the coolant circulation unit to the cooling members and through which the coolant circulates. Each of the cooling members includes a heat-absorbing surface that directly contacts the recording medium or indirectly contacts the recording medium via a thermal transmission member, an internal channel provided within each of the cooling members through which the coolant circulates, and a channel inlet and outlet formed at downstream and upstream ends of each of the cooling members in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium, respectively. One of an interval and a thermal insulator is provided between the cooling members.