US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 1 for "Transport device, drying device, and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,809, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transport device, drying device, and printing apparatus" was invented by Yuji Asano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a transport device which transports a web-shaped substrate from a first atmosphere of a first atmosphere temperature to a second atmosphere of a second atmosphere temperature different from the first atmosphere temperature along a transport path, the transport device including a plurality of pass rollers that are disposed in the transport path and that each support the substrate, and a plurality of heaters that heat the pl...