US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Feb. 4 for "Inkjet recording device maintaining valve at closing position to close air communication opening formed in ink storage portion during execution of printing process" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,597, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Inkjet recording device maintaining valve at closing position to close air communication opening formed in ink storage portion during execution of printing process" was invented by Fumio Nakazawa (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, Japan), Taichi Shirono (Nagoya, Japan) and Sosuke Kuroyanagi (Nishio, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an inkjet recording device including a head, a support member, a storage portion, a valve, an actuator, and a controller. The head includes a nozzle and is configured to eject ink from the nozzle. The s...