US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 15 for "Ink tank and inkjet printer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,294, issued on July 15, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Ink tank and inkjet printer" was invented by Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, Japan) and Taichi Shirono (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink tank having an ink tank body, a first electrode member, and a second electrode member, is provided. The ink tank body includes an ink inlet, an ink reservoir chamber, an ink supplying section, a first restrictive side wall, a second restrictive side wall, a leaked-ink flow path, a first surface, a second surface, a connecting surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, and a restrictive section....