US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Printing apparatus including an application unit that applies an amount of wiping liquid based on an adhesion amount of ink" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,226, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus including an application unit that applies an amount of wiping liquid based on an adhesion amount of ink" was invented by Rie Takekoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimitsu Danzuka (Tokyo), Akihiro Tomida (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Ishimi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akiko Aichi (Tokyo) and Hiroto Kango (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing unit with an ejection port surface, on which is formed an ejection port array with a plurality of ejection ports that ejects ink, a wiping unit with a wiping member for wiping a predetermined ar...