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. 12,552,165, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Discharge head, discharge head unit, discharge apparatus, and printer" was invented by Masaya Shingyoh (Kanagawa, Japan), 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 multiple nozzles and a recess. The multiple nozzles are arrayed in a first direction. A liquid is dischargeable from the multiple nozzles in a discharge direction. The recess is recessed from the nozzle face in a second direction, is disposed at one side of a nozzle row in a third direction, and has a wall face extend...