US 12,269,256 B2
Medium drying device and recording device
Nobuhiko Hamada, Shiojiri (JP); and Koki Fukasawa, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/160,091.
Claims priority of application No. JP2022-010755 (JP), filed on Jan. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0234376 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0024 (2021.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medium drying device that dries a liquid applied to a medium, the medium drying device comprising:
a front surface portion in contact with the medium at a first face side of the front surface portion;
a heat source unit provided on a second face side of the front surface portion, the second face being opposite to the first face;
a rear surface portion provided at a position opposing the second face with the heat source unit therebetween;
a side surface portion disposed at a position opposing the heat source unit in a direction intersecting both the front surface portion and the rear surface portion; and
a heat insulating material, wherein
the heat source unit opposes the second face without the heat insulating material therebetween,
the heat insulating material is disposed at a position opposing the rear surface portion and the heat source unit, and
a thermal conductivity of the heat insulating material is lower than a thermal conductivity of the front surface portion.