US Patent Issued to MIMAKI ENGINEERING on Sept. 22 for "Wiper unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,466, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MIMAKI ENGINEERING Co. Ltd. (Nagano, Japan).

"Wiper unit" was invented by Tomoya Kawai (Nagano, Japan) and Soichiro Takehana (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a wiper unit capable of simplifying a mechanism. The wiper unit includes a wiping body extending in a band shape, a housing on which the wiping body is placed and provided to be movable in a predetermined direction, a conveyance mechanism that moves the housing in the predetermined direction, and a transmission mechanism that transmits a moving force of the housing in the predetermined direction and converts the ...