US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 19 for "Liquid consuming device including air tank and liquid tank each communicable with atmosphere when connected to liquid container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,049, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid consuming device including air tank and liquid tank each communicable with atmosphere when connected to liquid container" was invented by Masahiro Hayashi (Nishio, Japan), Naoya Okazaki (Hashima, Japan), Yuma Tanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Satoru Oki (Nagoya, Japan), Nanami Abe (Niigata, Japan) and Yuji Fukuta (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid consuming device includes a liquid container, an air tank, a liquid tank, and an ejection head. The liquid container is connectable to the air tank and the liquid tank. The air tank includes: an ai...