ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,871, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Satake (Osaka, Japan), Shogo Yoneda (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Ishida (Osaka, Japan) and Shun Tsuboi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink container, one or more recording heads, an ink flow path, a negative pressure regulation valve, a cap, a suction pump, and a waste ink discharge path. The negative pressure regulation valve includes an inflow-side pressure chamber, an outflow-side pressure chamber, a communication hole, a first outflow hole and a...