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US 11,442,382 B2Granted
Imaging system with gloss treatment device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsYasuo Suzuki, Koichi Utsunomiya
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Abstract
An imaging system includes an endless belt to convey a medium, a heating member to heat the endless belt, a pressure member to press the endless belt against the heating member, and a cooling device. The cooling device is in contact with the endless belt at a non-linear portion of the endless belt and includes an interior space.
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A system comprising:
- an endless belt to convey a medium;
- a heating member to heat the endless belt;
- a pressure member to press the endless belt against the heating member;
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- a cooling device in contact with the endless belt at a non-linear portion of the endless belt which at least partially wraps around the cooling device, wherein the cooling device comprises:
- a ventilation interior portion that is an interior space inside the cooling device and that extends in a longitudinal direction of the cooling device, the ventilation interior portion to provide a cooling airflow along the longitudinal direction of the cooling device, and
- a slit extending along the longitudinal direction of the cooling device and to discharge the cooling airflow from the ventilation interior portion through the slit to outside the cooling device and toward an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt.
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A system comprising:
- an endless belt to convey a medium in a conveying direction;
- a heating member to heat the endless belt;
- a pressure member to press the endless belt against the heating member;
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- a cooling device in contact with the endless belt at a non-linear portion and at a linear portion of the endless belt, wherein the cooling device comprises:
- a ventilation interior portion that is an interior space inside the cooling device and that extends in a longitudinal direction of the cooling device, the ventilation interior portion to provide a cooling airflow along the longitudinal direction of the cooling device, wherein the longitudinal direction intersects the conveying direction, and
- a slit extending along the longitudinal direction of the cooling device and to discharge the cooling airflow from the ventilation interior portion through the slit to outside the cooling device and toward an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.