US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 5 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,671, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Mitsugi Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan) and Kenji Samoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a printing apparatus including a casing; a conveyor; a head; a tank; a passing port; and a cutter. The cutter includes a blade, and a moving mechanism configured to move the blade. In an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction and a cutting direction, at least a part of the passing port is located at a same position as the tank. In the orthogonal direction, at least a part of the cutter is located...