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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,093, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge module, liquid discharge head, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Kiyoshi Amari (Kanagawa, Japan), Hisayoshi Ohshima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinji Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge module includes a valve body configured to openably close a nozzle; a driving body configured to expand contract in a longitudinal direction of the driving body; a holding body holding the driving body and supporting the valve body at one end of the holding body in the longitudinal direction; a housing having a cylindrical...