ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,776, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid supplying apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, Japan), Taichi Shirono (Nagoya, Japan), Fumio Nakazawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Sosuke Kuroyanagi (Nishio, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid supplying apparatus having a tank with a hole, a reservoir chamber to store a portion of liquid in the tank, and a flow path to store another portion of the liquid in the tank, is provided. The flow path connects the reservoir chamber and the hole. The flow path has a first funnel section to reduce a cross-sectional area of a part of the flow...