US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on Sept. 30 for "Printer and cleaning method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,774, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printer and cleaning method" was invented by Minoru Ueyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique allows satisfactory removal of ink droplets adhering to the ejection surface of an ejection head while preventing the occurrence of performance degradation of the ejection surface. A printer performs printing by ejecting ink droplets to an upper surface of a long band-like base material (M). The printer includes an ejection head and a cleaner. The ejection head has an ejection surface in which a plurality of ink ejection outlets for ejec...