US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Nov. 4 for "Contact member, drying apparatus, and printing apparatus for treating liquid-coated substrates" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,276, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Contact member, drying apparatus, and printing apparatus for treating liquid-coated substrates" was invented by Chikako Hatta (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuuki Mizutani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a contact member which prevents a component derived from a liquid composition, from being transferred from a contacted member to a contact member, even in a case where the contact member and the contacted member are used for a long period of time in a manner of being in contact with each other (Means of Achieving the object) A contact member configured t...