US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 8 for "Wiping device, head maintenance device, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,642, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Wiping device, head maintenance device, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Tetsu Morino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiping device includes a cleaning liquid tank, an endless web, a circulation path, a liquid feeder, and a filter. The cleaning liquid tank stores a cleaning liquid. The endless web is rotatably movable and has a part immersed in the cleaning liquid in the cleaning liquid tank and another part outside the cleaning liquid to wipe an object in a wiping direction. The cleaning liquid is circulated through the circulation ...