US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 14 for "Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,109, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuma Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: an actuator substrate; an electromechanical transducer held by the actuator substrate; a damper; and a damper holding substrate holding the damper, wherein the damper disposed between the actuator substrate and the damper holding substrate and joined to the actuator substrate and the damper holding substrate with an adhesive, the damper has a jo...