ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,265, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Inkjet recording device" was invented by Takahiro Arima (Tokyo), Yusuke Okamoto (Tokyo), Sho Mizoguchi (Tokyo), Akira Miyao (Tokyo) and Tatsuo Matsumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of solvent vapor floating around when a print head is cleaned in an inkjet recording device. In addition, an object is to reduce ink stains on a periphery of the print head. An inkjet recording device includes a main body portion and a print head. The main body portion includes an ink container t...