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Carrier recovery apparatus of liquid electrophotographic printer

US5905928A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 16, 1998
Grant dateMay 18, 1999
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Expiry dateJun 16, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/107
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A carrier recovery apparatus of a liquid electrophotographic printer includes a condenser for condensing a gas carrier recovered from a photoreceptor belt, a filtering tube having a cavity, whose first end is connected to the condenser, and whose second end has a plurality of throughholes leading to the cavity radially formed thereat, a filter bonded on the outer surface of the filtering tube and which filters the gas carrier contained in air passing through the throughholes, and an exhaust tube having an internal diameter larger than the outer diameter of the filtering tube, and whose first end is tightly fitted to the second end of the filtering tube to which the filter is coupled, for exhausting the air to the outside.

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