ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,185, issued on July 22, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inkjet recording device and cartridge" was invented by Hiroshi Miyauchi (Osaka, Japan) and Mamoru Idaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ROM unit mounted to a bottle has a plurality of terminal plates on the front end surface of the ROM unit. The ROM unit is movable in a direction orthogonal to a bottle axis Ax, and can be positioned at a retreat position where an interference with a contamination preventing eaves is avoided, and a contact position projected more front than the retreat position. The terminal plates can be electrically contacted with ...