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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,103, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Eiri Sagae (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoko Kurosawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Makito Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiro Kanematsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a discharge port through which a liquid is discharged in a discharge direction; a valve body to openably close the discharge port; and a driver coupled to the valve body to move the valve body in the discharge direction, wherein the valve body includes: an elastic member including: a first elast...