US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 28 for "Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,675, issued on July 28, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Makito Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Amari (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihiro Kanematsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Shusei Murai (Tokyo), Tatsumi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a discharge port, from which a liquid is to be discharged; and an openably closing valve configured to move in a moving direction toward the discharge port to openably close the discharge port, the openably closing valve including a core, wherein the...