US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 7 for "Maintenance device and inkjet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,497, issued on July 7, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Maintenance device and inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Yiquan Nie (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Somete (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance device includes: a cap to be attached to a nozzle surface of an inkjet head; and a supply portion which accumulates a humidifying medium therein, generates humidified air by causing air to pass through the humidifying medium, and supplies the humidified air to the cap via an air supply pipe that is in communication with the cap, and inside the supply portion, the air supply pipe i...