US Patent Issued to Canon on April 1 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,689, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kyohei Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Masakazu Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukimichi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Horita (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiki Hamanishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Nishiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a printing apparatus capable of reducing degradation of print quality. To this end, a chassis that guides movement of a carriage in an X-direction and a bridging member that connects the upper surface of a first sidewall and the upper surface of the chassis engage with and are positioned at a...