ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,070, issued on June 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Takuro Ishikura (Ueda, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a head unit including an insertion port into which a flat cable is to be inserted; and a guiding portion configured to guide the flat cable when the flat cable is inserted into the insertion port. The guiding portion includes at least two guide members opposed to each other. The guide members opposed to each other each include a parallel surface to an insertion direction of the flat cable into the insertion port, and are disposed with the paral...