Hot air impingement drying system for inkjet images

US6463674B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• John J. Meyers · Penfield, US
• Roger G. Leighton · Hilton, US
• Dawn Api · Rochester, US
• Gerald A. Domoto · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Elias Panides · Great Neck, US
• Narayan V. Deshpande · Penfield, US
• Andrew W. Hays · Fairport, US
• S. Warren Lohr · Sleepy Hollow, US
• Thomas N. Taylor · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 27, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Nov 27, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F26B21/086
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A dryer uses a two-phase drying system having a brief water condensation interval, followed by impinging parallel laminar recirculating hot air jets which impinge on wet ink to increase the copy rate of inkjet printing and to increase the quality of the printed image.