US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on April 1 for "Printing apparatus for performing printing to an elongated print medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,672, issued on April 1, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing apparatus for performing printing to an elongated print medium" was invented by Yuki Tsutsui (Kyoto, Japan), Mitsuru Tanemoto (Kyoto, Japan), Takahiro Uda (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaki Era (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a printing apparatus in which web paper is transported to a printing face contact roller in a swirling form while a direction thereof is turned by first to fourth turning rollers. Heating units are arranged so as to face a printing face of the web paper between the two first and second turning rollers, bet...