US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Aug. 12 for "Openable cover automatic opening mechanism and printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,180, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Openable cover automatic opening mechanism and printing device" was invented by Haruki Miyasaka (Matsumoto, Japan), Narihiro Oki (Matsumoto, Japan), Keisuke Sasaki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hiroki Shinagawa (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An openable cover automatic opening mechanism includes a lever rotatable about a rotation fulcrum, a locking section that is positioned at one end of the lever and that maintains the openable cover, which is in a closed state and which receives an opening force, in the closed state by locking with the openable cover, an...