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US 8,523,345 B2Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiaki Suzuki, Yuji Kanome, Seiji Suzuki, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takeaki Nakano, Masahiro Sugimoto, Susumu Hirosawa
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a humidifying unit that generates humidified gas, a drying unit that dries ink applied to a sheet by a recording unit, a first duct that supplies gas discharged from the drying unit to at least one of the humidifying unit and the recording unit, and a second duct that supplies the humidified gas generated by the humidifying unit to the recording unit.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- a recording unit that performs a recording operation by applying ink to a sheet using a recording head;
- a humidifying unit that generates humidified gas by a vaporizing method;
- a drying unit that dries the ink applied to the sheet;
- a first duct that supplies gas discharged from the drying unit into at least the humidifying unit;
- and
- a second duct that supplies the generated humidified gas to the recording unit,
- wherein the humidifying unit includes a chamber into which the gas discharged from the drying unit is introduced, and the humidified gas is generated in the chamber by heating the gas discharged from the drying unit with a heater and mixing the heated gas with moisture provided by a liquid absorbing member.
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A method comprising:
- performing a recording operation by applying ink to a sheet using a recording head by a recording unit;
- generating humidified gas by a humidifying unit using a vaporizing method;
- drying the ink applied to the sheet by a drying unit;
- supplying gas discharged from the drying unit to at least the humidifying unit via a first duct;
- and
- supplying the generated humidified gas to the recording unit via a second duct,
- wherein the humidifying unit includes a chamber into which the gas discharged from the drying unit is introduced, and the humidified gas is generated in the chamber by heating the gas discharged from the drying unit with a heater and mixing the heated gas with moisture provided by a liquid absorbing member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.