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US 11,691,439 B2Granted
Dryer, printer, and blower
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKohki Asada, Kenji Nozawa, Genichiroh Kawamichi, Kazuaki Kamihara, Ryusaku Hida
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Abstract
A dryer includes a first airflow generator configured to generate a first airflow to be blown to a sheet conveyed in the blower, a second airflow generator configured to generate a second airflow to exhaust air in the blower outside the blower, and circuitry configured to control the first airflow generator and the second airflow generator to control a blowing amount of the first airflow and an exhaust amount of the second airflow according to a type of the sheet.
Claims13
A dryer comprising:
- a first airflow generator configured to generate a first airflow to be blown to a sheet conveyed in the blower;
- a second airflow generator configured to generate a second airflow to exhaust air in the blower outside the blower;
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- circuitry configured to control the first airflow generator and the second airflow generator to control a blowing amount of the first airflow and an exhaust amount of the second airflow according to a type of the sheet.
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A blower comprising:
- a first airflow generator configured to generate a first airflow to be blown to a sheet conveyed in the blower;
- a second airflow generator configured to generate a second airflow to exhaust air in the blower outside the blower;
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- circuitry configured to control the first airflow generator and the second airflow generator to control a blowing amount of the first airflow and an exhaust amount of the second airflow according to a type of the sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.