US Patent Issued to RICOH on Dec. 23 for "Liquid discharge apparatus including separated discharge path and exhaust channel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,897, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus including separated discharge path and exhaust channel" was invented by Atsushi Yanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head to discharge a liquid onto a medium along a discharge path; an irradiator adjacent to the head to irradiate the liquid on the medium with a curing light to cure the liquid on the medium, the irradiator including a housing; a suction port from which air is inhaled into the housing to cool the irradiator, an exhaust port from which the air is exhausted outside the ...