US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 14 for "Drive method of liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,084, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Drive method of liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Matsubayashi (Matsumoto, Japan), Ken Yamagishi (Shiojiri, Japan), Toshiyuki Yamagata (Shiojiri, Japan) and Kento Nawa (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a drive method of a liquid discharge apparatus including a liquid discharge head that includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, a drive line, and a resistor that is made of the same material as any of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the drive line. The method includes: executing a n...