18823874. DRYING APPARATUS (CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
DRYING APPARATUS
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DRYING APPARATUS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18823874 titled 'DRYING APPARATUS
Original Abstract Submitted
A drying apparatus includes an opening portion, a conveyance unit, and an adjusting unit. The opening portion receives the sheet conveyed from the printer unit. The conveyance unit includes an endless belt configured to convey the sheet, a first roller configured to stretch the belt, a second roller arranged upstream of the first roller in the conveyance direction and configured to stretch the belt, and a sheet conveyance surface configured to convey the sheet from the second roller toward the first roller on a surface of the belt. The adjusting unit adjusts height of an upstream side in the conveyance direction of the sheet conveyance surface of the belt by pivoting the conveyance unit at a position further downstream than a center of the sheet conveyance surface in the conveyance direction around a pivot shaft arranged along a rotational axis direction of the first roller as a center.
