US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Oct. 21 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,756, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Washio (Shiojiri, Japan), Kazutoshi Fujisawa (Okaya, Japan) and Satoru Katagami (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying unit includes a housing and a first contact heating unit. The first contact heating unit is provided inside the housing. The first contact heating unit includes a first contact heating surface configured to come into contact with a back surface of a medium after printing. The first contact heating unit can change posture from first posture to second posture, in a state where a first engage...