US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Printing apparatus and cleaning apparatus for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,899, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and cleaning apparatus for the same" was invented by Kaisei Kajihara (Kyoto, Japan) and Mitsuru Tanemoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a printing apparatus including: a printing head including at least one or more nozzle blocks each having a nozzle opening plane from which ink is discharged downward; and a maintenance part including a maintenance member for maintenance on the nozzle opening plane from below the printing head, especially, relates to a technique for cleaning the mainte...