ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,176, issued on July 22, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Yu Shiozawa (Shiojiri, Japan) and Eiju Hirai (Azumino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a channel substrate having one or more pressure chambers, an absorbing chamber that absorbs vibration of a liquid; a vibration plate that is stacked on the channel substrate; a first piezoelectric element that is provided on a first surface of the vibration plate, which is on a side opposite to a side on which the pressure chamber is present, at a position overlapping the pressure chamber when vie...