US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on May 20 for "Sub-tank and inkjet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,215, issued on May 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sub-tank and inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Masanobu Maeshima (Osaka, Japan), Noriaki Furukawa (Osaka, Japan) and Takuma Araki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sub-tank is disposed in a flow path from a main tank to a recording head. The sub-tank includes a tank main body, a level sensor and a flow restricting part. In the tank main body, ink replenished from the main tank is contained. The level sensor detects a liquid level of the ink in the tank main body. The flow restricting part restricts flowing of the ink in an u...