US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 12 for "Maintenance unit and liquid ejection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,460, issued on May 12, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Maintenance unit and liquid ejection device" was invented by Hisashi Sato (Shiojiri, Japan) and Koji Tanaka (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance unit configured to receive liquid discharged as a waste liquid from an ejection section that ejects the liquid onto a medium, the liquid being cured by a hardening process, the maintenance unit includes a belt-shaped absorbing member configured to absorb the liquid and to receive the liquid at a receiving region of the absorbing member, a rotor configured to transport the absorbing member in a feeding ...