US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 14 for "Printing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,099, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device" was invented by Kazumasa Hattori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a printing device that suppresses remaining of a mixture of an ink and a washing solution in a case of washing a print head. In a case where a length of a nozzle surface of a print head, which jets the ink from a plurality of nozzles disposed on a nozzle surface, in a first direction is defined as Lp, a length of a nozzle region of the nozzle surface, which has liquid repellency, in the first direction is defined as Ln, and a length of the washing solution holdi...