US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Sept. 1 for "Cartridge, printing device, and printing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,383, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge, printing device, and printing system" was invented by Takumi Nagashima (Matsumoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Koizumi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Shun Oya (Kiso-machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge detachably mounted to a printing device cartridge mounting portion includes a second fixing structure including a groove guiding a first fixing structure, and a locking portion provided to the groove. The cartridge is brought from a cartridge insertion state to a cartridge mounting portion predetermined position by being moved along a horizontal direction to...