ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,220, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording device" was invented by Yusuke Saito (Yamagata-mura, Japan), Kenichiro Kaneko (Okaya, Japan) and Masaki Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The recording device includes an elongated member 79 and a housing section 60. The housing section 60 houses the elongated member 79, and has a fixed end 61, a moving end, and an elongated variable section. A curved portion, which is a portion where the variable section is folded back on the way, moves following the movement of the carriage. In the height direction HD of the housing section 60, fi...