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US 11,691,440 B2Granted
Medium drying device, medium processing apparatus, and recording system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYutaro Harada, Kohei Ueno, Nobuyuki Mizushima, Shunpei Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A medium drying device includes a transport roller pair as a transport unit that transports a medium and a heat roller pair as one heating unit that heats the medium transported by the transport roller pair and is provided in a transport direction of the medium, in which the medium is configured to be transported to a heating area by the heat roller pair a plurality of times.
Claims20
A medium drying device comprising:
- a transport unit that transports a previously unheated medium that has received a double- sided recording;
- and
- one heating unit that heats the medium transported by the transport unit and is provided in a transport direction of the medium,
- an exhaust unit that is provided downstream of a heating area in a medium transport direction and discharges vapor generated from the medium by the heating, to an outside of the device,
- wherein the medium is transported to a heating area by the heating unit a plurality of times.
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A medium drying device comprising:
- a transport unit that transports a medium;
- one heating unit that heats the medium transported by the transport unit and is provided in a transport direction of the medium;
- and
- a cooling unit that cools the medium transported to a heating area, wherein
- the medium is transported to the heating area by the heating unit a plurality of times, and
- the medium is cooled by the cooling unit while the medium is transported to the heating area a plurality of times.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.