Patent ID: 11945226
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. An air blowing device comprising:
a support portion including a support surface configured to support a medium; and
an air blowing portion configured to blow air to the medium upstream of an ejecting unit configured to eject liquid to the medium in a transport direction of the medium; wherein
the air blowing portion includes
a first fan configured to blow air toward the support surface,
a second fan that is aligned with the first fan in a width direction intersecting the transport direction and that is configured to blow air toward the support surface, and
a facing member that faces the support surface in a height direction intersecting the transport direction and the width direction and that faces a portion of the first fan and a portion of the second fan in the height direction,
the facing member includes an opening that opens in the height direction,
the opening is located between the first fan and the second fan in the width direction when viewed in the height direction, and
when a spacing in the width direction of the opening at a first position in the transport direction is a first spacing and a spacing in the width direction of the opening at a second position upstream of the first position in the transport direction is a second spacing, the second spacing is larger than the first spacing.