US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 23 for "Inkjet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,896, issued on June 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Yuko Yano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes a head unit, a wipe unit, and a control part. The head unit is provided with a nozzle surface on which a plurality of ink ejection ports is opened downward. The wipe unit performs a wiping operation in which a blade is moved along the nozzle surface while applying a cleaning liquid to the nozzle surface to wipe the nozzle surface. The control part controls the head unit and the wipe unit to perform a first main...