US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 8 for "Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,638, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yu Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a piezoelectric element, a flexible damper, a first holding substrate, and a second holding substrate. The first holding substrate is bonded to a first face of the flexible damper. The first holding substrate has a recess accommodating the piezoelectric element, a first partition having a first width, and first side spaces partitioned by the first partition. The first side spaces ...