ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,045, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Aiichiro Otana (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance belt, a control portion, an ink collector, and a suction portion. The ink collector includes a plurality of ink receivers that receives ink that has passed through openings of the conveyance belt during execution of flushing and a suction path leading from each of the ink receivers to the suction portion. The suction path includes a plurality of first flow paths each connecte...