US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 14 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,121, issued on July 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Saito (Yamagata-mura, Japan) and Masaki Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance belt that supports a medium, a carriage where a printing head is disposed for printing on a medium, and a gap adjusting unit that adjusts the gap between the conveyance belt and the printing head. The gap adjusting unit includes a gap adjusting motor, a power transmission unit including a rotation shaft that rotates with the driving force of the motor, a lifting unit, and a relative di...