Printing apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9884486
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15152565

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A printing apparatus is provided and includes: a head that ejects ink onto a medium; a driver that relatively moves the positions of the head and the medium; a cover member that is positioned on the downstream side from the head in the movement direction of the medium relative to the head, so as to cover at least a portion of the medium; an air blowing fan that sends a drying air flow for drying ink ejected on the medium, into a gap between the medium and the cover member; and a cord type heater that heats at least one of the drying air flow and a preliminary air which is the previous stage of the drying air flow. An air-flow-direction changing wall part is provided so as to change the flow direction of the preliminary air which is the previous stage of the drying air flow, at least once.

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MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO LTD2182-3 SHIGENO-OTSU TOMI-CITY NAGANO 389-0512

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Akuta, Shunsuke Nagano, JP 8 15
Amari, Tomonori Nagano, JP 7 16
Furukawa, Yoshikazu Nagano, JP 10 28
Harayama, Ryuta Nagano, JP 3 10
Kamimura, Hiroki Nagano, JP 1 6
Kudo, Yusaku Nagano, JP 1 6
Yamabe, Katsutoshi Nagano, JP 11 28

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