US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 3 for "Liquid discharging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,067, issued on June 3, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid discharging apparatus" 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: "A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head, a reservoir section including a liquid reservoir chamber and an atmosphere communication path, a liquid flow path connecting the head with the liquid reservoir chamber, a switching assembly to switch states of the atmosphere communication path between a connecting state and a disconnecting state, and a cont...