US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 22 for "Maintenance device and inkjet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,465, issued on Sept. 22, 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: "The maintenance device includes a cap and a suppression member. The cap, including an air supply port and an air discharge port, is to be fitted to a nozzle surface of an inkjet head. The suppression member is opposed to the air supply port, provided between the air supply port and the nozzle surface, and separate from the air supply port and also separate from the nozzle surface."

The pat...