ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,498, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Kohnotoh (Tokyo), Takashi Abe (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Takenaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Naratani (Tokyo) and Kousuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a support member configured to support a printhead, a rotating member configured to be supported by the support member so as to be rotatable to an open position at which the printhead is capable of being attached to or detached from the support member and a closed position, a shaft portion arranged on one of the rotating member and the suppor...