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US 10,703,113 B2Granted
Liquid discharge apparatus and method for discharging liquid
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYuusuke Matsuki, Atsushi Yanaka, Daisuke Mezaki
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Abstract
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a sub-scanning direction, an irradiator to irradiate the liquid discharged onto the recording medium with a curing ray, an irradiation area of the curing ray being variable in the sub-scanning direction, and a scanner to scan the liquid discharge head and the irradiator in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction.
Claims12
A liquid discharge apparatus, comprising:
- a liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a sub-scanning direction;
- an irradiator to irradiate the liquid discharged onto the recording medium with a curing ray;
- a shutter to variably cover a part of the irradiator to vary an irradiation area of the curing ray in the sub-scanning direction;
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- a scanner to scan the liquid discharge head and the irradiator in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction.
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A method for discharging a liquid, the method comprising:
- discharging a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a sub-scanning direction;
- irradiating the liquid discharged onto the recording medium with a curing ray, an irradiation area of the curing ray being variable in the sub-scanning direction with a shutter that variably covers a part of the irradiator;
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- scanning a position of the discharging and a position of the irradiating in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.