US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 4 for "Head, head module, liquid discharge apparatus, printer, module, and apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,236, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Head, head module, liquid discharge apparatus, printer, module, and apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Miyazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head includes: an attachment attached to a holder with a screw, the attachment having a through hole to which the screw is inserted, and the through hole having: a female screw having a valley and a crest; and a first concave having a diameter larger than a diameter of the valley of the female screw, the first concave opening toward the holder."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2022, under Application No. 17/9...