Patents by Inventor Lawrence H. White
Lawrence H. White has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11440331Abstract: A fluid ejection system may include a media transport assembly and a printhead assembly having a fluid ejection device opposite the media transport assembly. The fluid ejection device may include a drop ejecting element and a fluid ejection chamber containing the drop ejection element. The fluid ejection chamber has an inlet and an outlet for fluid circulation through the fluid ejection chamber across the drop ejecting element. A particle tolerant architecture is between the inlet and the drop ejecting element.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nick McGuinness, Lawrence H White, Paul A Richards
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Patent number: 11331918Abstract: Printheads and printers are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink drops of different sizes wherein a low drop weight (LDW) drop is ejected through a nozzle with a circular bore (CB), and a high drop weight (HDW) drop is ejected through a nozzle with a non-circular bore (NCB).Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H. White, Arun K. Agarwal, Ron Burns
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Patent number: 11230098Abstract: A passivation stack can include a laminated film, including from 8 to 40 alternating layers of HfO2 and SiO2. The layers can individually have a thickness from 8 Angstroms to 40 Angstroms, and the laminated film can have a total thickness of 280 Angstroms to 600 Angstroms. The passivation stack can also include a barrier film of HfO2 having a thickness from 50 Angstroms to 300 Angstroms applied to the laminated film.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Zhizhang Chen, Lawrence H. White
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Patent number: 11186089Abstract: Printheads and methods for forming printheads are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a single resistor window in a conducting layer within the printhead. The printhead also includes a number of resistors formed in a resistor film deposited over the single resistor window. The resistors have two different widths, and each of the two different widths ejects a different droplet size when energized.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H. White, Thomas J. Cardinali, Michael Hager
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Publication number: 20210331471Abstract: A passivation stack can include a laminated film, including from 8 to 40 alternating layers of HfO2 and SiO2. The layers can individually have a thickness from 8 Angstroms to 40 Angstroms, and the laminated film can have a total thickness of 280 Angstroms to 600 Angstroms. The passivation stack can also include a barrier film of HfO2 having a thickness from 50 Angstroms to 300 Angstroms applied to the laminated film.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Zhizhang Chen, Lawrence H. White
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Publication number: 20210046757Abstract: In some examples, a printhead can include a main printer fluid line, a firing chamber in fluid communication with the main printer fluid line to receive printer fluid from the main printer fluid line, and a resistor positioned in the firing chamber. The resistor can, for example, receive an electronic current to cause the resistor to heat up and eject printer fluid droplets from the printhead. The printhead can further include a photolithographically fabricated check valve positioned in the firing chamber. The check valve can, for example, be openable to allow filling of the firing chamber with printer fluid and closeable to at least partially seal the main printer fluid line from printer fluid blowback caused by the resistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Rio Rivas, Lawrence H. White, Ed Friesen, Erik D. Torniainen
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Publication number: 20210039391Abstract: A fluid ejection unit may include a fluid supply passage, a fluid circulation loop having a first segment extending from the fluid supply passage, a second segment extending from the fluid supply passage and a bend connecting the first segment and the second segment, a fluid ejector along the second segment, the fluid ejector comprising a fluid ejection orifice and a fluid actuator and a fluid bypass spaced from the fluid actuator and in parallel with the bend to connect the first segment and the second segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H. White, Angel L. Morales, Erik D. Torniainen
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Publication number: 20210023853Abstract: A fluid ejection system may include a media transport assembly and a printhead assembly having a fluid ejection device opposite the media transport assembly. The fluid ejection device may include a drop ejecting element and a fluid ejection chamber containing the drop ejection element. The fluid ejection chamber has an inlet and an outlet for fluid circulation through the fluid ejection chamber across the drop ejecting element. A particle tolerant architecture is between the inlet and the drop ejecting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Nick McGuinness, Lawrence H White, Paul A Richards
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Patent number: 10828908Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a fluid slot, a fluid ejection chamber communicated with the fluid slot, a drop ejecting element within the fluid ejection chamber, a fluid circulation channel communicated at a first end with the fluid slot and communicated at a second end with the fluid ejection chamber, and a particle tolerant architecture within the fluid circulation channel at the second end.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nick McGuinness, Lawrence H White, Paul A Richards
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Patent number: 10828892Abstract: In some examples, a printhead can include a main printer fluid line, a firing chamber in fluid communication with the main printer fluid line to receive printer fluid from the main printer fluid line, and a resistor positioned in the firing chamber. The resistor can, for example, receive an electronic current to cause the resistor to heat up and eject printer fluid droplets from the printhead. The printhead can further include a photolithographically fabricated check valve positioned in the firing chamber. The check valve can, for example, be openable to allow filling of the firing chamber with printer fluid and closeable to at least partially seal the main printer fluid line from printer fluid blowback caused by the resistor.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Rio Rivas, Lawrence H White, Ed Friesen, Erik D Torniainen
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Patent number: 10780695Abstract: Printheads and printers are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a number of drop generators disposed in a first array and a second array. The drop generators in both the first array and the second array are spaced one dot pitch apart perpendicular to the motion of a print medium, and alternate between a high drop weight (HDW) drop generator and a low drop weight (LDW) drop generator. Each drop generator in the first array is in a line of the motion of the print medium with a corresponding drop generator in the second array, wherein each HDW drop generator in the first array is in line with an LDW drop generator in the second array, and each LDW drop generator in the first array is in line with an HDW drop generator in the second array.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H White, Arun K Agarwal, Ron Burns
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Publication number: 20200254759Abstract: Printheads and printers are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink drops of different sizes wherein a low drop weight (LDW) drop is ejected through a nozzle with a circular bore (CB), and a high drop weight (HDW) drop is ejected through a nozzle with a non-circular bore (NCB).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H. White, Arun K. Agarwal, Ron Burns
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Patent number: 10717278Abstract: An inkjet nozzle includes an aperture with a noncircular opening having a first segment substantially defined by a first polynomial equation and a second segment substantially defined by a second equation.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James A. Feinn, David P. Markel, Albert Nagao, Paul A. Richards, Thomas R. Strand, Erik D. Torniainen, Lawrence H. White
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Patent number: 10661564Abstract: Printheads and printers are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink drops of different sizes wherein a low drop weight (LDW) drop is ejected through a nozzle with a circular bore (CB), and a high drop weight (HDW) drop is ejected through a nozzle with a non-circular bore (NCB).Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H White, Arun K Agarwal, Ron Burns
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Patent number: 10562300Abstract: Thermal inkjet printing wherein a printhead has ink ejection elements which are energizable by electrical pulses of a given energy with fire pulses of an amplitude (V) and a fire pulse width (fp). A printer controller sends commands to the printhead to spit ink drops, one or more temperature sensors coupled to the printhead measure a temperature of the printhead, and a calibration component coupled to the temperature sensor variably adjusts the fire pulse energy provided to the having ink ejection elements of the printhead.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Diana Canto Estany, Lawrence H White, Macia Sole Pons
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Patent number: 10562304Abstract: An inkjet nozzle includes an aperture with a noncircular opening substantially defined by a polynomial equation. A droplet generator is also described which includes a firing chamber fluidically coupled to a fluid reservoir a heating resistor and a nozzle. The nozzle includes an aperture forming a passage from the firing chamber to the exterior of the droplet generator through a top hat layer. The nozzle is defined by a closed polynomial and has a mathematically smooth and mathematically continuous shape around aperture's perimeter wall, with two protrusions extending into the center of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James A. Feinn, Albert Nagao, Thomas R. Strand, David R. Thomas, Erik D. Torniainen, Lawrence H. White
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Publication number: 20200009867Abstract: Printheads and methods for forming printheads are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a single resistor window in a conducting layer within the printhead. The printhead also includes a number of resistors formed in a resistor film deposited over the single resistor window. The resistors have two different widths, and each of the two different widths ejects a different droplet size when energized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Lawrence H. White, Thomas J. Cardinali, Michael Hager
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Patent number: 10493757Abstract: Printheads and methods for forming printheads are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a number of drop generators, wherein a pitch between each adjacent drop generator is substantially the same, and the drop generators alternate between a high drop weight (HDW) drop generator and a low drop weight (LDW) drop generator. The printhead also includes a flow channel from an ink source leading into an ejection chamber associated with each drop generator, wherein the flow channel comprises an inflow region proximate to the ink source, wherein an area of the inflow region is adjusted to control the flux of ink into the ejection chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H White, Melinda M Valencia, Michael Hager
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Patent number: 10457048Abstract: Printheads and methods for forming printheads are described herein. In one example, a printhead includes a single resistor window in a conducting layer within the printhead. The printhead also includes a number of resistors formed in a resistor film deposited over the single resistor window. The resistors have two different widths, and each of the two different widths ejects a different droplet size when energized.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Lawrence H White, Thomas J Cardinali, Michael Hager
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Patent number: 10336070Abstract: According to an example, a fluid ejection device may include a fluid feed slot, a plurality of fluid ejection chambers in fluid communication with the fluid feed slot, a plurality of drop ejecting elements, in which a drop ejecting element of the plurality of drop ejecting elements is positioned within each of the plurality of fluid ejection chambers, a fluid circulation channel in fluid communication at a first end of the fluid circulation channel with the fluid feed slot and in fluid communication at multiple second ends of the fluid circulation channel with the plurality of fluid ejection chambers, and a fluid circulating element within the fluid circulation channel. The fluid ejection device may also include a bubble dissipating structure positioned within the fluid circulation channel outside of the plurality of fluid ejection chambers.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Matthew Cooper McGuinness, Alexander Govyadinov, Chris Bakker, Lawrence H. White, Paul A. Richards