US 12,441,125 B2
Energy ray irradiation device and inkjet image forming apparatus
Shoji Oda, Higashimurayama (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/449,063.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-137054 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0066892 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/00214 (2021.01) [B41J 11/0022 (2021.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An energy ray irradiation device comprising:
an irradiator that faces a conveyance surface and irradiates an ink on a recording medium conveyed on the conveyance surface with an energy ray;
an enclosure part that encloses a space between the irradiator and the conveyance surface by a plate member including a first plate member that extends from an end of the irradiator on an upstream side in a conveyance direction toward the conveyance surface on an upstream side of the end; and
a first blowout part that supplies a non-reactive gas that does not react with the ink from an end of the first plate member on the upstream side in the conveyance direction into the enclosure part.