US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Oct. 14 for "Energy ray irradiation device and inkjet image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,125, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Energy ray irradiation device and inkjet image forming apparatus" was invented by Shoji Oda (Higashimurayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy ray irradiation device includes: an irradiator that faces a conveyance surface and irradiates an ink on a recording medium conveyed on the conveyance surface with an energy ray; an enclosure part that encloses a space between the irradiator and the conveyance surface by a plate member including a first plate member that extends from an end of the irradiator on an upstream side in a conveyance direction toward t...