ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,430, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Thermal print head, thermal printer, and method of manufacturing heat sink" was invented by Kaoru Muraki (Kyoto, Japan) and Kuniaki Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal print head includes: a head substrate on which a plurality of heating resistance units are formed; a heat sink thermally connected to the head substrate, a recess being formed in a back surface of the heat sink which faces a surface to which the head substrate is connected; a metal member arranged in the recess; and an adhesive arranged between a bottom surface of the rec...