US 12,117,753 B2
Pressing device and pressing process apparatus using the same
Shogo Kamiya, Kanagawa (JP); Takashi Ohashi, Kanagawa (JP); Kouichi Kimura, Kanagawa (JP); Shingo Akiyama, Kanagawa (JP); and Toyohiko Awano, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/958,444.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-052965 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0314994 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2064 (2013.01) [G03G 2215/2009 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2025 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pressing device comprising:
a first pressurization unit, wherein the first pressurization unit is a pressurization roll;
a second pressurization unit that is provided to face the first pressurization unit, and sandwiches and pressurizes a medium moving in a contact region formed between the first pressurization unit and the second pressurization unit, wherein the second pressurization unit is a pressing member; and
a contact region variable unit that changes a width dimension of the contact region along a moving direction of the medium in a state of maintaining a contact pressure on an outlet side of the contact region, in varying a contact state of the contact region, wherein the contact region variable unit comprises a motor,
wherein the contact pressure on the outlet side of the contact region remains unchanged as the contact state of the contact region varies.