US Patent Issued to MIMAKI ENGINEERING on Nov. 3 for "Ultraviolet irradiation device and printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,879, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MIMAKI ENGINEERING Co. Ltd. (Nagano, Japan).

"Ultraviolet irradiation device and printing device" was invented by Tatenori O (Nagano, Japan), Soichiro Takehana (Nagano, Japan), Yuichi Narishima (Nagano, Japan) and Noriyuki Miyagoshi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ink landed on a print object is quickly irradiated with an ultraviolet ray. An ultraviolet irradiation device includes a rotating mechanism that holds a print object and rotates the print object about an axis of the print object, and an ultraviolet irradiator that irradiates an outer peripheral surface of the print obj...