ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,156, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kaisei Kajihara (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention aims to propose a structure excellent in the maintenance operability of a cleaning member in a printing apparatus provided with the cleaning member for cleaning at least one of a wiper and a cap. In a printing apparatus according to the invention, a cleaning member for cleaning a wiper or a cap of a maintenance part is integrated with a printing head in a relative movement between the printing head and the maintenance part and arranged to at l...