US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on May 6 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,022, issued on May 6, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Hiruma (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction; a printing unit configured to cause ink to adhere to the medium to perform printing; and a blowing device including an air blowing port and configured to blow air from the air blowing port to the medium to which the ink adheres. A guide member is disposed, at the air blowing port, downstream in an air blowing direction. Of end portions of the guide member, a third e...