US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on May 20 for "Printing apparatus and ink discharge head maintenance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,207, issued on May 20, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and ink discharge head maintenance method" was invented by Kaisei Kajihara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The seal member can be held in close contact with the head unit by being elastically deformed according to the shape of the head unit including the head (seal close contact operation). Accordingly, the drying of the nozzles can be prevented by isolating the nozzles inside the seal members from the atmosphere outside the seal members. Further, the cap can be brought into contact with the head unit while the seal member...