US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on April 15 for "Drying apparatus, printing medium anti-drop method and non-contact support member position adjusting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,235, issued on April 15, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Drying apparatus, printing medium anti-drop method and non-contact support member position adjusting method" was invented by Kenta Hiramatsu (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshikuni Takeichi (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryota Uemura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The anti-drop members 7l and 7r are provided to each of the air turn bars 6u and 6l, and the respective anti-drop peripheral surfaces 711 of the anti-drop members 7l and 7r adjoin the support peripheral surface 611 of each of the air turn bars 6u and 6l. In this configuration, on the occurrence of oblique...