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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,639, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Masami Iwama (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate, a common chamber substrate, a channel substrate, a first bridge, and a second bridge. The nozzle plate has multiple nozzles from each of which a liquid is dischargeable in a first direction. The common chamber substrate has a supply-side common chamber having a first supply sidewall and a second supply sidewall in a second direction, and a collection-side common cham...