ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,023, issued on May 6, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium conveyance device and recording device" was invented by Soichiro Kii (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plunger of a solenoid includes a pin member that moves in a groove portion of a link member in association with a displacement operation, the solenoid regulates the posture of a path switching member in a suction state, a contact surface that is an inner surface of the groove portion and with which the pin member comes into contact when the plunger moves in a suction direction is formed in a non-linear shape to have a first region extending in a...