US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 29 for "Drying apparatus and image forming apparatus capable of improving heat conductivity and abrasion resistance of heat-transfer portion" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,813, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Drying apparatus and image forming apparatus capable of improving heat conductivity and abrasion resistance of heat-transfer portion" was invented by Nobuhiro Maezawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying apparatus includes a heater and a heat-transfer portion. The heat-transfer portion comes into contact with a second surface of a belt-like medium to transmit thermal energy supplied from the heater to the medium, the second surface being a surface on a back side of a first surface of the medium onto which ink is ejected. Further,...