ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,199, issued on May 20, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Supply device for roll medium and recording device" was invented by Mitsuru Murata (Matsumoto, Japan) and Keiichi Yato (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply device for a roll medium includes a drawer-type lower holding unit configured to support a shaft of a roll medium to hold the roll medium, and a guide member configured to be pressed in a direction toward the shaft from below to come into contact with the roll medium held by the lower holding unit, and be displaced in accordance with a change in an outer diameter of the roll medium. In addition...