Image-forming apparatus

• Main Author: SANADA KAZUO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.04.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL; GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICALVIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; NOZZLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

An image-forming apparatus includes an application device for applying an image-forming solvent to an image-recording material. The application device has a plurality of nozzle holes for ejecting and applying the image-forming solvent to the image-recording material. The application device applies the image-forming solvent to the image-recording material such that sets of three drops of the image-forming solvent, which are ejected from the plurality of nozzle holes and applied onto the image-recording material, are applied onto the image-recording material so as to contact each other without any spaces therebetween. Accordingly, a uniform film (coat) of the image-forming solvent can be formed on the image-recording material.