US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 17 for "Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge module, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,642, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge module, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Kazuto Nagahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Keishi Miwa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiaki Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles from each of which a liquid is to be discharged, the multiple nozzles arrayed in a longitudinal direction of the nozzle plate; a channel substrate on the nozzle plate in a lamination direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the channel substrate including: mul...