HEATING APPARATUS, IMAGE APPLIER, AND IMAGE APPLYING METHOD

• US 20190111710A1
• Filed: 10/18/2018
• Published: 04/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Enomoto, Tadayasu, Obata, Yuuzoh, Kemma, Tsuguyori
• Granted Patent: US 10,562,321 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/002 Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/0022 using convection means, e.g. by using a fan for blowing or sucking air
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/06 Flat page-size platens or smaller flat platens having a greater size than line-size platens B41J11/0085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 13/10 Sheet holders, retainers , movable guides, or stationary guides
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4078 Printing on textile
• CPC Class Codes: D06P 5/30 Ink jet printing

Abstract

A heating apparatus includes an apparatus body, a receiver, a heating device, and a partition. The receiver holds a heating target so that the heating target is insertable into and removable from the apparatus body. The heating device is disposed above the receiver, to heat the heating target. The partition partitions an upper space above the heating device into a first space facing the heating device and a second space facing an upper surface portion of the apparatus body.

Claims

1. A heating apparatus comprising:

an apparatus body;

a receiver to hold a heating target so that the heating target is insertable into and removable from the apparatus body;

a heating device disposed above the receiver, to heat the heating target; and

a partition that partitions an upper space above the heating device into a first space facing the heating device and a second space facing an upper surface portion of the apparatus body.

2. The heating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a ventilation path communicating the first space with an outside of the apparatus body.

3. The heating apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the ventilation path includes a ventilation port of the apparatus body and a duct connecting the ventilation port and the first space.

4. The heating apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the ventilation port has a cross-sectional shape that widens from an inside of the apparatus body toward the outside of the apparatus body.

5. The heating apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the duct has a cross-sectional shape that widens from the first space toward the ventilation port.

6. The heating apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a protective cover between the duct and the receiver.

7. The heating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein at least a part of the duct is made of metal.

8. The heating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a heat insulator between the second space and the upper surface portion of the apparatus body.

9. The heating apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the partition is a heat shield or a heat insulator.

10. The heating apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the heating device is held by the partition.

11. The heating apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the heating target is a cloth.

12. The heating apparatus according claim 1, further comprising a cloth holder to removably hold the heating target,

wherein the receiver holds the cloth holder so that the cloth holder is insertable into and removable from the apparatus body.

13. An image applier comprising:

a cloth holder to hold a cloth;

a printer to print an image on the cloth held by the cloth holder; and

the heating apparatus according to claim 1 to heat the cloth on which the image has been printed by the printer, with the cloth being held by the cloth holder.

14. An image applying method comprising:

holding a cloth on a cloth holder;

printing an image on the cloth with the cloth being held by the cloth holder;

holding the cloth holder with the cloth being held by the cloth holder; and

heating the cloth with the cloth holder being held on the receiver of the heating apparatus according to claim 1.