US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 17 for "Discharge head, discharge head unit, discharge apparatus, and printer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,166, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Discharge head, discharge head unit, discharge apparatus, and printer" was invented by Kouichi Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinori Bandoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge head includes a nozzle face, multiple nozzles, and a projection. The multiple nozzles are arrayed in a first direction on the nozzle face to define a nozzle row; are dischargeable a liquid from each of the multiple nozzles in a discharge direction; and has an end nozzle at an end of the nozzle row in the first direction. The projection projects in the discharge dire...