METHOD OF DRYING PRINTED MATERIAL AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

• US 20100192402A1
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daido Sangyo Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Daido Sangyo Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Yasuo, Asakura, Kentaro, Yamaguchi, Toshiaki, Akiduki, Yuji
• Application Number:
  US12/667,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20100192402A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 34/443
• CPC Class Codes: B41F 23/0433 using steam
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 13/10 Arrangements for feeding, heating or supporting materials; Controlling movement, tension or position of materials heating processes F26B3/00
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 21/004 Nozzle assemblies; Air knives; Air distributors; Blow boxes F26B3/082, F26B13/104, F26B13/108, F26B21/006 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 3/04 the gas or vapour circulating over or surrounding the materials or objects to be dried F26B3/14 takes precedence

Abstract

To carry out drying of printing ink with the use of Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam. Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam being clustered on Nano oder is generated and jetted to the print side of printed material so that the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam imparts intramolecular vibrational energy to ink of the print side. Consequently, the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam being clustered on Nano oder not only passes through fiber pores in the printed material but also collides with the ink of the print side. The Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam having collided with the ink of the print side imparts thermally excited energy as intramolecular vibrational energy to the ink containing polar molecules. The ink is dried by the intramolecular energy.

Claims

1. A printed material drying method which performs drying processing on a printed material, the method comprising:

generating Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam in an excited state through jetting high-temperature dryness steam from a nozzle to perform Nano order clustering;

jetting the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam to a print side of the printed material; and

having a part of the clustered Nano order high-temperature dryness steam pass through fiber pores of the printed material, and having remainder of the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam collide with ink on the print side so as to excite intramolecular vibration to the ink on the print side by energy of the excited Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam.

2. The printed material drying method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam is clustered on the Nano order of several molecules to several tens of molecules which can pass through fiber pores of the printed material.

3. The printed material drying method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam is clustered on the Nano order of several molecules to several tens of molecules so as to have the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam pass through the fiber pores of the printed material and to have the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam collide with the ink on the print side.

4. The printed material drying method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam is collided with the ink on the print side to impart thermally excited energy of the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam to the ink having polar molecules as intramolecular vibrational energy.

5. The printed material drying method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam is jetted to both sides of the printed material.

6. A printed material drying apparatus which performs drying processing on a printed material, comprising:

a steam generating device which generates high-temperature dryness steam;

a cluster generating device which generates dried Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam in an excited state through jetting the high-temperature dryness steam generated by the steam generating device from a nozzle to perform Nano order clustering; and

an exciting device which jets the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam generated by the cluster generating device to a print side of the printed material, has a part of the clustered Nano oder high-temperature dryness steam pass through fiber pores of the printed material, and has remainder of the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam collide with ink on the print side so as to excite intramolecular vibration to the ink on the print side by energy of the excited Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam.

7. The printed material drying apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the cluster generating device clusters the high-temperature dryness steam on the Nano order of several molecules to several tens of molecules which can pass through fiber pores of the printed material.

8. The printed material drying apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the exciting device has the Nano order high-temperature dryness steam that is clustered on the Nano order of several molecules to several tens of molecules pass through the fiber pores of the printed material and has the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam collide with the ink on the print side.

9. The printed material drying apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the exciting device has the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam collide with the ink on the print side so as to impart thermally excited energy of the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam to the ink having polar molecules as the intramolecular vibrational energy.

10. The printed material drying apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the exciting device jets the Nano sized high-temperature dryness steam to both sides of the printed material.