US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 25 for "Liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,217, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yoshiyuki Inamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Araki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tetsuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes a holding unit to hold a discharge head, a cap to cap a discharge surface of the discharge head, a positioning unit to position the discharge head at a cap position, and a separation member to separate the cap from the discharge surface positioned at the cap position when the separation member is in a first posture and to bring the cap into contact with the di...