US Patent Issued to RICOH on Jan. 20 for "Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge head unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,292, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge head unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Keishi Miwa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuma Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles; a diaphragm facing an inner face of the nozzle plate; multiple individual chambers between the nozzle plate and the diaphragm, the multiple individual chambers respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles; multiple actuators on a first face of the diaphragm opposite to a second face of the diaphragm...