US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Oct. 21 for "Inkjet printing apparatus, sheet drying apparatus, and sheet drying method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,757, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Inkjet printing apparatus, sheet drying apparatus, and sheet drying method" was invented by Teruhiko Toyoizumi (Tachikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing apparatus comprises: a conveyance section that conveys a cut sheet; an ink ejection section that ejects an ink to form an image when the sheet passes a predetermined position; a first heat source that is provided on a downstream side of the ink ejection section and dries an ink ejection face of the sheet; and a second heat source that is arranged to face the first heat source and comes int...