US Patent Issued to FUJI on Nov. 3 for "3D printer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,869, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"3D printer" was invented by Akihiro Kawajiri (Chiryu, Japan), Shunji Morikawa (Toyoake, Japan) and Sayaka Hirose (Tougou-cho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As described above, three-dimensional printer 10 includes inkjet head 200 configured to eject ink, head tank 210 configured to store the ink to be supplied to inkjet head 200, ink tank 220 configured to store the ink to be supplied into head tank 210, pipe 230 that connects head tank 210 and ink tank 220, vacuum pump 242 configured to generate a high negative pressure, first pressure line 271 that connects h...