ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,207, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Kawamata (Osaka, Japan) and Yasutaka Inui (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes a holder, a blade and a biasing member. The holder faces a nozzle surface of an inkjet head and moves in a predetermined traveling direction along the nozzle surface. The blade is provided in the holder and swung about a shaft crossing the traveling direction. The biasing member is provided in the holder and biasing the blade in a direction in which a tip end portion of th...