ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,779, issued on April 7, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Adhesive removing device and recording device" was invented by Sho Shimizu (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yusuke Yamazaki (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive removing device includes a scraping member scraping an adhesive layer adhering to a front surface of a belt transporting a medium being a transport target object, and a support portion supporting the scraping member. The support portion supports the scraping member such that a support state of the scraping member is changeable. For example, the support portion supports a different type of scrapin...