US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 29 for "Supply unit, liquid discharge device, and liquid container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,951, issued on April 29, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Supply unit, liquid discharge device, and liquid container" was invented by Seiya Sato (Matsumoto, Japan), Seiji Tojo (Shiojiri, Japan) and Akihiko Maruyama (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply unit in which a liquid container including a coupling portion is detachably mounted includes a liquid introducing portion to which the coupling portion of the liquid container is coupled, a pressing member configured to press the liquid container in an uncoupling direction, which is a direction opposite to a coupling direction, when a direction in which th...