US Patent Issued to RICOH on June 16 for "Head maintenance device and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,451, issued on June 16, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Head maintenance device and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Isamu Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Muneyuki Okeguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head maintenance device includes a housing, a wiper, and a cap. The housing is detachably attachable to a conveyor of a liquid discharge apparatus. The conveyor conveys a medium in one direction. The wiper is disposed in the housing to wipe a nozzle face of a liquid discharge head of the liquid discharge apparatus. The cap is disposed in the housing to cover nozzles arrayed on the nozzle face of ...