US Patent Issued to RICOH on May 27 for "Powder container with a nozzle receiver" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,987, issued on May 27, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Powder container with a nozzle receiver" was invented by Hiroshi Hosokawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunji Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Tamaki (Tokyo), Hiroshi Ikeguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Seiji Terazawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Junji Yamabe (Shizuoka, Japan), Kaori Mitsuishi (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshihide Tomotaka (Shizuoka, Japan), Tsunehiro Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Kikuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder container including a nozzle receiving opening at one side of the powder container in a longitudinal direction of the powder container, a s...