ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,235, issued on June 10, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Droplet discharge head and droplet discharge apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A droplet discharge head includes a lower housing, an upper housing, a nozzle plate, a shaft-shaped member, and a driver. The lower housing includes a flow channel. The upper housing is on the lower housing and detachable from the lower housing. The nozzle plate is on a lower surface of the lower housing. The shaft-shaped member includes a valve element at a tip end of the shaft-shaped member to open and close a nozzle orifice of the...