ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,364, issued on March 18, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and conveyance control method" was invented by Kenji Hatada (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a printing unit, and a control unit. The conveyance unit includes a feeding unit, a conveyance roller pair, a feed driving unit, a first encoder, and a second encoder. The control unit is configured to execute a feed adjustment operation of adjusting tension of the medium fed from the feeding unit by controlling the feed driving unit such that the control unit executes the feed adjustment ope...