US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 1 for "Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,995, issued on July 1, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge unit, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yudai Yumoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles from each of which a liquid is to be discharged; and a gap in each end of the nozzle plate in a longitudinal direction of the nozzle plate. The multiple nozzles are divided into P numbers of sub-nozzle groups, each of the sub-nozzle groups including the multiple nozzles as multiple sub-nozzles, where P is ...