B41J 11/002
Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials
Official title: {Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating}
B41J11/002 (Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials) appears on 3,312 US grants and 4,171 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Image forming method and image forming apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307414 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Indirect printing process for applying selective phase change ink compositions to substrates423US 5,372,852 ATektronix, Inc. · 1994
- Large inkjet print swath media support system209US 5,992,994 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1999
- Thermal ink-jet printing with fast- and slow-drying inks136US 5,371,531 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Platen arrangement for hot melt ink jet apparatus125US 4,751,528 ASpectra, Inc. · 1988
- Multicolor liquid ink printer and method for printing on plain paper118US 6,019,466 AXerox Corporation · 2000