US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Liquid discharge apparatus and cleaning method that remove an adhered substance from an electrode in first and second operations" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,096, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus and cleaning method that remove an adhered substance from an electrode in first and second operations" was invented by Shinya Iwahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuzuru Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus including a liquid chamber for a liquid, a liquid discharge unit including a heat-generating resistor imparting discharge energy to the liquid, first and second electrodes in the chamber, a first voltage application unit for applying a voltage to the heat-generating resistor, a second voltage application...