US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 27 for "Liquid application apparatus and liquid application method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,716, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Liquid application apparatus and liquid application method" was invented by Yohsuke Konishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Niihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukihiro Wakabayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid application apparatus includes an applicator, a maintenance device, a conveyor, a first conveyance path, and a second conveyance path. The applicator applies a liquid to an object. The maintenance device maintains an applying condition of the liquid by the applicator. The conveyor conveys the object and the maint...