US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Oct. 6 for "Ink jet recording apparatus including blade for cleaning nozzle surface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,538, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Ink jet recording apparatus including blade for cleaning nozzle surface" was invented by Yasutaka Inui (Osaka, Japan), Shunsuke Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan), Shuhei Kawamata (Osaka, Japan) and Yuko Yano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a blade, and a cleaning liquid dispensing unit. The recording head includes a nozzle surface including a plurality of nozzles each having an ink outlet oriented downward, and is supported so as to move in an up-down direction. The blade wipes the nozzle...