US Patent Issued to RICOH on April 15 for "Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,247, issued on April 15, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kaname Morita (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiko Kuroda (Hyogo, Japan), Naoko Kitaoka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Arata Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle member. The nozzle member includes a nozzle, a deformable laminar member, and an electromechanical transducer. The nozzle discharges liquid. The deformable laminar member has an opening forming the nozzle. The electromechanical trans...