US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on May 27 for "Ink jet recording apparatus having an inert gas supply portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,655, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Ink jet recording apparatus having an inert gas supply portion" was invented by Yoshinobu Yoshida (Shiojiri, Japan), Toshiyuki Yoda (Matsumoto, Japan), Kiyoshi Nakamura (Matsumoto, Japan), Shohei Namikoshi (Shiojiri, Japan), Takuya Ota (Shiojiri, Japan) and Keita Hanawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording apparatus including an ink jet head for ejecting and attaching a radiation-curable ink jet composition to a recording medium, an inert gas supply portion for supplying an inert gas to the recording medium to which the radiation-curab...