ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,326, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording device" was invented by Kazuo Otsuka (Azumino, Japan), Takuya Tsukatsune (Matsumoto, Japan), Shun Ito (Matsumoto, Japan), Mitsuru Murata (Matsumoto, Japan), Atsuhiko Takeuchi (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yosuke Nakano (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device includes a recording section, a discharge section 38 that discharges the medium, a pivot shaft 39 that pivots the discharge section 38, a contact member 48 that configure to swing around the pivot shaft 39 and to contact the medium to be discharged, and a detection section 45 that d...