US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 16 for "Printhead design with multiple fluid paths to jetting channels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,355, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Printhead design with multiple fluid paths to jetting channels" was invented by Hiroshi Nishimura (West Hills, Calif.), Giang Vo (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Cesar Hurtado (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Printheads and design of printheads. In one embodiment, a printhead comprises a plurality of jetting channels, and a manifold apparatus fluidly coupled to the jetting channels. For each jetting channel, the printhead includes a first fluid path between the jetting channel and the manifold apparatus, and a second fluid path between the jetting channel ...