ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,046, issued on May 6, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Holding unit and liquid discharge device" was invented by Katsumasa Tanaka (Ina, Japan), Takuya Ota (Shiojiri, Japan), Hiroyuki Santo (Matsumoto, Japan), Keita Hanawa (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kenji Kojima (Fujimi-Machi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding portion is held by a main body portion. The holding portion includes at least one recording head, a carriage, a cover portion, and a blowing unit. The recording head is capable of discharging ink. The carriage has a bottom wall portion to which at least one recording head is attached, and accommodates the at ...