US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 20 for "Liquid container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,297, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid container" was invented by Yu Katano (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Ota (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Ikegame (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuto Kodera (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masao Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object is to provide a liquid container that can prevent foreign substances from flowing into a liquid ejection apparatus with a simple configuration. The liquid container for containing liquid to be ejected by a liquid ejection apparatus, the liquid container includes a bag body configured to contain the liquid inside and a flow path for supplying ...