Abstract: The liquid ejecting head includes a first individual flow path and a second individual flow path for supplying liquid to a pressure chamber, a first common flow path for supplying liquid to the first individual flow path, and a second common flow path for supplying liquid to the second individual flow path. A first circulation for causing liquid to flow in the order of the first individual flow path, the pressure chamber, and the second individual flow path and a second circulation for causing liquid to flow in the reverse order of the first circulation are switched. A flow path resistance of the first common flow path is designed to be less than a flow path resistance of the second common flow path and a flow path resistance of the first individual flow path is designed to be less than a flow path resistance of the second individual flow path.

Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes a tank; and a cartridge configured to be attached to the tank and having a first storage chamber configured to store liquid. The cartridge is formed with a communicating opening in communication with the first storage chamber. The tank has a second storage chamber configured to store the liquid, a liquid passage, a gas passage, a joint, an outer wall, an inner wall, an air communication portion, and a narrow-width portion. The liquid passage is in communication with the second storage chamber and has a first vertical portion. The gas passage has a second vertical portion. The first vertical portion, the second vertical portion, and the air communication portion are arranged in this order in the first direction and a direction away from the fifth end portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a first pressure chamber row having a plurality of first pressure chambers respectively communicating with a plurality of ejection orifices that eject liquid and arranged along a predetermined direction, a second pressure chamber row having a plurality of second pressure chambers respectively communicating with a plurality of ejection orifices that eject liquid and arranged along the predetermined direction, a first flow path for supplying the liquid to the plurality of first pressure chambers, and a second flow path for recovering the liquid from the plurality of second pressure chambers. Part of the first pressure chamber row is disposed to overlap the first flow path, and part of the second pressure chamber row is disposed to overlap the second flow path, as viewed from an ejection direction of the liquid.

Abstract: The second terminal is disposed between the first terminal and the third terminal. The fifth terminal is disposed between the fourth terminal and the sixth terminal. The first cable and the second cable are disposed to at least partially overlap with each other in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the first terminal and the second terminal are lined up.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a pressure chamber communicating with a nozzle through which liquid is discharged; a piezoelectric element having a lamination structure in which a first electrode, a piezoelectric body layer, and a second electrode are laminated in this order; a vibration plate installed between the first electrode of the piezoelectric element and the pressure chamber; a protective substrate in which an internal space for housing the piezoelectric element is formed; and a lead-out wiring connected to the second electrode, in which a column portion is provided at a position overlapping with the piezoelectric element in the internal space of the protective substrate when viewed in a plan view, and the lead-out wiring is provided on a wall surface of the column portion.

Abstract: Provided is an element substrate with suppressed variations in resistance though having a high resistance. In an element substrate equipped with a heat generating resistor that generates thermal energy for ejecting a liquid, the heat generating resistor is a stacked structure having stacked a plurality of resistor layers including a first resistor layer and a second resistor layer containing a metal silicon nitride and the first resistor layer and the second resistor layer are different from each other in at least one of a silicon content in the metal silicon oxide and a metal element contained in the metal silicon nitride.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head substrate having a base, a heat generating resistor layer formed on or above the base and including an electrothermal conversion portion, a wiring electrically connected to the heat generating resistor layer and defining the electrothermal conversion portion and a protecting film covering at least the electrothermal conversion portion and the wiring of the heat generating resistor layer. In the liquid ejection head substrate, the wiring is made of an alloy containing Al as a main component and Cu and having an average crystal grain size of 300 nm or less.

Abstract: A drying device H is provided with: a first heating roller part 10 and a second heating roller part 20 that guide a printed object X and are capable of heating the printed object X; a first heating part 11 that is formed so as to be opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the first heating roller part 10 and a second heating part 21 that is formed so as to be opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the second heating roller part 20, wherein after the printed object X has been guided to the first heating roller part 10 on the upstream side, it is guided to the second heating roller part 20 on the downstream side, with the setting temperature of the second heating roller part 20 being made higher than the setting temperature of the first heating roller part 10, and an ink-jet printing device I equipped with such a heating device.

Abstract: An inkjet amount measuring system, an inkjet amount measuring method and an inkjet amount controlling method. The inkjet amount measuring system includes: an inkjet printing spray head; and electricity applying device configured to apply electric charges to ink droplets passing through a nozzle of the inkjet printing spray head; a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a magnetic field to deflect the charged ink droplets; a test board having a surface for carrying ink droplets; and a processor configured to calculate an amount of ink droplets according to positions of falling points of the ink droplets on the surface of the test board, an electric charge amount of the ink droplets, and a magnetic field intensity.

Abstract: A print module includes a printhead cartridge releasably engaged with a supply module. The supply module has an ink inlet module and an ink outlet module positioned on opposite external sidewalls of the body and flanking the body, each of the ink inlet and ink outlet modules having a respective ink coupling engaged with complementary inlet and outlet couplings of the printhead cartridge. The ink inlet and outlet modules each include a respective lever mechanism for slidably moving the ink inlet and outlet modules relative to the opposite external sidewalls of the body between a coupled position in which the supply module is fluidically coupled to the printhead cartridge and a decoupled position in which the supply module is fluidically decoupled from the printhead cartridge.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a mounting unit where a recording medium is mountable, a head unit that ejects ink droplets to the recording medium, a planar direction driving unit that drives at least one of the head unit ejecting the ink droplets and the mounting unit to move in a planar direction and that changes a relative positions of the head unit and the mounting unit in the planar direction, and a height direction driving unit that changes a relative positions of the head unit and the mounting unit in a height direction perpendicular to the planar direction. The planar direction driving unit has a moving speed changing mechanism that changes a carriage speed between the head unit and the mounting unit in the planar direction. The height direction driving unit has a distance changing mechanism that changes a distance between the head unit and the mounting unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid droplet ejection head and a liquid droplet ejection apparatus in which viscosity resistance of a liquid to be ejected is reduced on an ejection side of a nozzle to prevent pointed-end ejection and to improve accuracy of an ejection angle. This object is achieved by the following. That is, a channel 28 having a volume to be changed by a pressure generation element and a nozzle 23 communicating with the channel 28 are included. The inside of the nozzle 23 has a conical portion 23a with a diameter becoming gradually smaller toward an outside, and a cylindrical portion 23b continuous with the conical portion 23a and communicating with the outside. A connecting part of the conical portion 23a to the cylindrical portion 23b has the same opening cross-sectional shape as a connecting part of the cylindrical portion 23b to the conical portion 23a.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a vibration plate, and a first piezoelectric element and a second piezoelectric element that vibrate the vibration plate. The first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element include a piezoelectric layer extending between the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element. In a region between the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element in the piezoelectric layer, a first opening portion and a second opening portion are formed in a second direction intersecting a first direction in which the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element are disposed so as to interpose a vibration suppressing portion, which is a portion of the piezoelectric layer.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric element which includes a piezoelectric layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode sandwiching the piezoelectric layer therebetween, a leading-out wiring provided on an upper portion of the piezoelectric element and including a wiring layer made of gold or platinum and an underlayer which are patterned, and an insulating protective film which covers at least an exposed portion on the underlayer of the leading-out wiring.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a nozzle plate having a nozzle; and a channel unit joined with the nozzle plate. The channel unit is formed with a first pressure chamber, a second pressure chamber, and a link channel linking the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber. In the channel unit, a dent portion is formed on an inner wall, which defines the link channel, at a part overlapping with an axis line of the nozzle. The dent portion is dented in a direction away from the nozzle.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of individual liquid chambers, a common supply channel, and a common collection channel. The plurality of nozzles discharges a liquid. The plurality of individual liquid chambers communicates with the plurality of nozzles, respectively. The common supply channel communicates with the plurality of individual liquid chambers. The common collection channel communicates with the plurality of individual liquid chambers. At least a part of at least one of the common supply channel and the common collection channel is disposed at a position overlapping with the plurality of individual liquid chambers when the plurality of individual liquid chambers is projected in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes nozzles that eject a liquid, communication paths in which the respective nozzles are disposed and which are arrayed and partitioned from adjacent ones of communication paths by partition walls, pressure chambers which communicate with the respective communication paths and which are arrayed and partitioned from adjacent ones of pressure chambers by partition walls, pressure generating portions that are provided in the respective pressure chambers and that vary a pressure of the pressure chambers to cause the liquid to be ejected from the nozzles, and common flow paths through which at least one of supplying and discharging the liquid is performed to and from flow paths including the communication paths and the pressure chambers. A compliance of the partition walls of the communication paths is made larger than a compliance of the partition walls of the pressure chambers.

Abstract: In some examples, a control circuit for a bypass capacitor includes a switch assembly that is activatable between a first state to connect the bypass capacitor between nodes, and a second state to disconnect the bypass capacitor between the nodes. The switch assembly includes a first switch to activate a first path comprising a first resistance to begin charging the bypass capacitor, and a second switch to, a delayed time after the activating of the first path, activate a second path comprising a second resistance lower than the first resistance, the activated second path connecting the bypass capacitor between the nodes.

Abstract: Herein is described an ink set for use in inkjet printing, comprising: a first cyan ink comprising from 1 wt % to 2.5 wt % of a cyan pigment, from 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a latex binder, and an ink vehicle; a second cyan ink comprising from 0.25 wt % to 0.64 wt % of a cyan pigment, from 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a latex binder, and an ink vehicle; a first magenta ink comprising from 2 wt % to 4 wt % of a magenta pigment, from 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a latex binder, and an ink vehicle; and a second magenta ink comprising from 0.4 wt % to 0.97 wt % of a magenta pigment, from 5 wt % to 15 wt % of a latex binder, and an ink vehicle, and methods of printing using the inkset.

Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection die. Examples comprise an ejection nozzle and an ejection chamber fluidly connected to the ejection nozzle. A fluid input hole is fluidly connected to the ejection chamber. A fluid output channel is also fluidly connected to the ejection chamber, and a fluid output hole is fluidly connected to the fluid output channel. Examples further comprise a fluid pump disposed in the fluid output channel to pump fluid from the ejection chamber out of the fluid output hole.