US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Liquid discharge head" (Dutch, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,213, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head" was invented by Kyosuke Nagaoka (Tokyo), Hirotomo Taniguchi (Saitama, Japan), Roy Josephus Stephanus Derks (Venray, Netherlands), Peter Joseph Hollands (Baarlo, Netherlands) and Hans Reinten (Velden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a discharge port through which a liquid is discharged, an element for discharging the liquid from the discharge port, a channel through which the liquid is supplied to the discharge port, and a film member that is provided so as to be in contact with the liquid in a liquid chamber...