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Title:
DRYER, DRYING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3642764
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dryer and a drying method capable of drying ink, so as to reduce the extent of wrinkles of a medium caused by sticking the ink to the medium, improving the efficiency of a drying work, and handling the medium in an imaging device, without hampering images formed on the medium, after the ink is sticuck to the medium.
SOLUTION: This dryer 200 is to dry fluid on the medium 20, and a waveguide provided with an aperture 206 formed so that the medium 20 can move through it and an electromagnetic energy source 204 formed so as to generate an electric field in the waveguide 202, so that the angle formed between the direction of the electric field and the longitudinal axis of fiber in the medium is more than 10 degrees and not more than 90 degrees are included in it.


Inventors:
Jeff M Watton
Stephen B. Elsey
David E Smith
Harold Di Kimley Jr.
Application Number:
JP2002117036A
Publication Date:
April 27, 2005
Filing Date:
April 19, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
International Classes:
B41J11/00; B41J29/00; B41M7/00; F26B13/04; F26B13/10; F26B23/08; B41J2/01; H05B6/78; H05B6/80; (IPC1-7): H05B6/80; B41J2/01; B41J29/00; F26B13/04; F26B13/10; F26B23/08
Domestic Patent References:
JP60240094A
JP7235374A
JP7195683A
JP4816238A
JP4886134A
JP5054953A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shoichi Okuyama
Arihara Koichi
Matsushima Tetsuo