US Patent Issued to HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS on March 24 for "Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording apparatus management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,232, issued on March 24, was assigned to HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording apparatus management method" was invented by Yusuke Okamoto (Tokyo), Takahiro Arima (Tokyo) and Akira Miyao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus is made capable of preventing ink from sticking during inactivity of the apparatus and, when viscosity of ink contained in a main ink container has fallen outside an appropriate range of viscosity, adjusting ink viscosity to fall within the appropriate range. The apparatus is configured to perform repetitively supplyi...