US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on Nov. 3 for "Printing apparatus and roller maintenance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,855, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cleaning roller extends in the width direction inclined with respect to the Y direction. The cleaning liquid is supplied to this cleaning roller from above. The cleaning liquid supplied to the cleaning roller in this way moves downward by gravity. At this time, since the cleaning roller is inclined with respect to the Y direction, the cleaning liquid spreads also in an extension direction of the cleaning roller (i.e. width dir...