US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 14 for "Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,092, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yukio Otome (Ibaraki, Japan) and Tomoaki Murakami (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: multiple nozzles; multiple individual chambers respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles; a common chamber communicating with each of the multiple individual chambers; multiple fluid restrictors between each of the multiple individual chambers and the common chamber; and multiple actuators driven to cause a liquid in the multiple indi...