US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,098, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Tomida (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Ishimi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroto Kango (Tokyo), Kazuo Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Taku Yokozawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Rie Takekoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimitsu Danzuka (Tokyo) and Akiko Aichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes an ejection unit that forms an image on a print medium by ejecting liquid from an ejection port using drive of an ejection energy generation element in a pressure chamber, the liquid flowing into the pressure chamber from a first flow passage, a c...