US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on June 16 for "Transport device and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,976, issued on June 16, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transport device and recording apparatus" was invented by Sho Shimizu (Shiojiri, Japan), Hiroki Aoki (Nagano, Japan) and Ryosuke Ban (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device includes a transport belt configured to alternately repeat a transport operation of transporting a medium and a non-transport operation of not transporting the medium, a detection mechanism configured to detect a movement amount of the transport belt in the transport operation, and a control section configured to determine a magnitude of tension of the transport belt bas...