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US 12,194,731 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 processing apparatus comprising:
- a receiving portion that receives a medium;
- a transport path that transports the medium received from the receiving portion;
- a drying unit drying the medium received from the receiving portion;
- and
- a discharge portion that discharges the medium, wherein
- the transport path includes:
- a first transport path that transports the medium to the discharge portion without passing through the drying unit or any other drying unit, and
- a second transport path that transports the medium to the discharge portion through the drying unit.
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A recording system comprising:
- a recording unit performing recording on a medium;
- a transport path that transports the medium performed recording by the recording unit;
- a drying unit drying the medium performed recording by the recording unit;
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- a discharge portion that discharges the medium, wherein
- the transport path includes:
- a first transport path that transports the medium to the discharge portion without passing through the drying unit or any other drying unit, and
- a second transport path that transports the medium to the discharge portion through the drying unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.