Patent ID: 9340041
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: B41J,H01L,H01S

Claim Text:
1. A drying device comprising a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements each having a plurality of laser elements and arranged along a feeding direction of a recording medium, wherein each of the surface-emitting laser elements has electrodes arranged on a laser illumination surface and a backside which is an opposite surface of the laser illumination surface, respectively, wherein first power supplying pads are respectively provided at both ends of the electrode on the laser illumination surface in a width direction of the recording medium intersecting with the feeding direction of the recording medium and a second power supplying pad is provided at one end of the electrode on the backside in the feeding direction of the recording medium, and wherein the respective first power supplying pads of the surface-emitting laser element arranged at an upstream-side with respect to the feeding direction of the recording medium and the second power supplying pad of the surface-emitting laser element arranged at a downstream-side with respect to the feeding direction of the recording medium are connected to each other by wires.