US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Drying apparatus including circulation path and adjustable exhaust mechanism for temperature control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,859, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Drying apparatus including circulation path and adjustable exhaust mechanism for temperature control" was invented by Yoshikazu Abe (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshinobu Tokita (Kanagawa, Japan), Waichiro Saiki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Inoue (Tokyo), Toshiro Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyuki Nagase (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying device includes a conveying unit to convey a medium to which liquid is discharged from a discharging head, a hot air blowing unit, a passage forming unit, and an adjusting unit. The hot air blo...