US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Oct. 27 for "Printing unit and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,848, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing unit and recording apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Eto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing unit includes a carriage which reciprocates in a main scanning direction, a plurality of ink heads mounted on the carriage and arranged in at least one column along the main scanning direction, and a plurality of tanks mounted on the carriage along the main scanning direction. The plurality of ink heads include a pair of first ink heads at both ends in the main scanning direction and configured to discharge ink of a same color, and the plurali...