Coating device and image forming system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakashi Ebihara
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Abstract
A coating device is provided that includes: a storage that stores a coating liquid; a pumper that pumps up the coating liquid stored in the storage; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the coating liquid stored in the storage; a viscosity sensor that detects a viscosity of the coating liquid stored in the storage; a heating unit that heats the coating liquid stored in the storage; a water supply unit that supplies water to the storage; and circuitry configured to control at least one of the heating unit or the water supply unit based on detection results of the temperature sensor and the viscosity sensor.
Claims8
A coating device comprising:
- a storage that stores a coating liquid;
- a pumper that pumps up the coating liquid stored in the storage;
- a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the coating liquid stored in the storage;
- a viscosity sensor that detects a viscosity of the coating liquid stored in the storage;
- a heating unit that heats the coating liquid stored in the storage;
- a water supply unit that supplies water to the storage;
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- circuitry configured to control at least one of the heating unit or the water supply unit based on detection results of the temperature sensor and the viscosity sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.