Patent ID: 9186912
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A liquid ejection device comprising: a recording medium supply part configured and arranged to supply a recording medium; a recording medium conveyance part having a support surface with adhesiveness to support the recording medium, and configured and arranged to convey the recording medium; an ejection head configured and arranged to eject liquid toward the recording medium; a recording medium collecting part configured and arranged to collect the recording medium that has been supplied from the recording medium supply part along a conveyance path of the recording medium; and a drying part disposed downstream of the conveyance path of the recording medium with respect to the ejection head between the recording medium conveyance part and the recording medium collecting part along the conveyance path of the recording medium, and configured and arranged to dry the liquid applied to the recording medium, the drying part being a heater block having a contact surface to which the recording medium contacts, and at least a part of the contact surface being positioned higher in a vertical direction than a part of the support surface that is disposed closest to the drying part, the contact surface further having a first slope gradually downwardly extending toward the recording medium conveyance part with respect to an uppermost location of the contact surface in the vertical direction and a second slope gradually downwardly extending away from the recording medium conveyance part with respect to the uppermost location of the contact surface in the vertical direction.