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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2019
Applicant:
Hiroshi Nishimura, West Hills, CA (US);
Inventor:
Hiroshi Nishimura, West Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/145 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/145 (2013.01);
Abstract
Printheads for a jetting apparatus. In one embodiment, a printhead includes inlet ports each configured to receive one of four or more types of print fluids. The printhead further includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in one or two nozzle rows, where each of the nozzles is fluidly coupled to one of the inlet ports. In groupings of four or more adjacent nozzles of the plurality, the adjacent nozzles are each configured to jet a different one of the types of print fluids.