US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 30 for "Liquid discharge head, head module, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,771, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, head module, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Katsuhiro Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a housing; a nozzle plate attached to the housing, the nozzle plate having a nozzle from which a liquid is to be discharged; a valve in the housing, the valve configured to move in an opening and closing direction and openably close the nozzle; a driver having one end coupled to the valve in the opening and closing direction, the driver configured to drive the valve; and a fixing membe...