US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Drying apparatus, and image forming apparatus equipped with the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,694, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Drying apparatus, and image forming apparatus equipped with the same" was invented by Akihiro Ito (Chiba, Japan), Makoto Matsuo (Ibaraki, Japan), Yuri Shimamoto (Chiba, Japan), Hiroki Kajita (Saitama, Japan) and Yushi Sadamitsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying apparatus includes a conveyance apparatus, and an air blowing unit disposed above the conveyance unit. The air blowing unit includes a first pivot shaft that extends in a conveyance direction of the sheet. The conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance unit including a belt, and a plurality of stretching...