US Patent Issued to FUJI on Aug. 25 for "Cap device and discharge device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,174, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Cap device and discharge device" was invented by Shunji Morikawa (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap device is used in a discharge device including a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid substance from a nozzle, and the cap device includes a wet cap body including a fixing portion configured to abut on the nozzle in a wet state and cap the nozzle, and a cap support section configured to position the wet cap body and detachably support the wet cap body."

The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2021, under Application No. 18/700,049.

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