ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,893, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transport device and printing apparatus" was invented by Junpei Yamashita (Azumino, Japan), Nobuaki Kamiyama (Matsumoto, Japan) and Azusa Nei (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transporting belt constituting a transport device transports a medium supported by a front surface in a transport direction. A removal unit includes a blade that comes into contact with the front surface to remove an adhering substance. A plurality of detectors detect a force received by the blade from the transporting belt or a change in the force. A display unit displays infor...