US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Oct. 14 for "Liquid ejection apparatus and abnormality detection method capable of detecting abnormality of nozzle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,102, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Liquid ejection apparatus and abnormality detection method capable of detecting abnormality of nozzle" was invented by Daichi Kawano (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Inoue (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Maeyama (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Morimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Minori Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an acquisition processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamb...