US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Nov. 18 for "Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid viscosity detection method capable of detecting viscosity of liquid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,740, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid viscosity detection method capable of detecting viscosity of liquid" was invented by Daichi Kawano (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Inoue (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Maeyama (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Morimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Minori Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, a count processing portion, and a detection processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber com...