US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Liquid ejection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,295, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Ideta (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyosuke Toda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shimpei Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection head that ejects a liquid, a container that stores the liquid, and a reservoir that supplies the liquid to the ejection head and stores the liquid supplied from the container. The reservoir includes a first chamber that stores the liquid, a second chamber that is arranged downstream of the first chamber and stores the liquid, and a first flow path and ...