US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on July 28 for "Liquid ejecting apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,679, issued on July 28, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Nobumasa Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Ryuji Horata (Gamagori, Japan) and Takafumi Nakase (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle and configured to eject a liquid from the nozzle; a signal output part having an electrode and configured to output a signal in accordance with an electric change in the electrode in a case that the liquid is ejected from the nozzle; and a voltage applying circuit having a plurality of charge p...