Abstract: A printing head has a plurality of heater boards, each of which includes a shift register to which printing data and selection data for selecting preheating pulse signals are applied as inputs, a latch circuit for latching the printing data, a selection-data latch circuit for latching the selection data, a selection circuit for selecting any one of a plurality of preheating pulse signals inputted in accordance with the latched selection data, and a plurality of heating resistors driven by the printing data or preheating pulse signals. Correction data, obtained by a head correcting apparatus, for performing printing at an average density by correcting the characteristics of each heater board is stored in a memory of the printing head. A printing apparatus decides the selection data in accordance with the correction data and sets the selection data in the selection-data latch circuit.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a liquid passage for ejection of ink; a liquid chamber for supplying ink to the passage; a device for mounting the recording head on the ink jet recording apparatus at an angle not more than 45 degrees relative to the horizontal plane; wherein the chamber has an internal surface which is slanted in a direction from an ink inlet thereof toward the liquid passage at the angle of 5-40 degrees relative to an extension of the liquid passage.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a liquid discharge head comprising a discharge port for discharging liquid, a liquid flow path provided with a bubble generation means for generating bubbles in liquid and communicated with the discharge port, and a movable member provided facing said bubble generation means in said liquid flow path and having a free end on a downstream side toward the discharge port, a first surface provided with the bubble generation means being continued to at least one second surface of the side wall surface of said liquid flow path and the front end surface having the opening of the discharge port with a curved surface, the first surface being one of surfaces forming the liquid flow path.

Abstract: A container for containing printing liquid for supplying to an ink jet head for an ink jet recording apparatus. The container includes a first chamber containing negative pressure producing material and having an air vent communicating with ambient air and a supply port for supplying printing liquid to the ink jet head. The container also includes a second chamber communicating with the first chamber via a communication port and providing a printing liquid reservoir for the first chamber. The capillary force provided by the negative pressure producing material adjacent a wall extending from the communication port and decreasing in a direction perpendicular to and towards the wall at least adjacent a part of the communication port which is uppermost in use of the container.

Abstract: The invention provides a cooling device with a heat pipe, which is capable of effectively radiating heat from electronic equipment such as a small-sized computer. The cooling device with the heat pipe comprises a plate-like container made of heat transferring metal for containing a working fluid, and having a heat absorbing surface larger than that of the body to be cooled, a heat transferring metal column, and a hollow portion in which the working fluid exists. An alternating embodiment of the cooling device with the heat pipe comprises a plate-like container made of heat transferring metal, a heat absorbing wall having a large heat absorbing surface, and a plurality of protrusion portions.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording head comprises a plurality of liquid flow paths having discharge openings for discharging an ink, and a plurality of thermoelectric transducers provided for each liquid flow path in order to discharge the ink, wherein, a frontward thermoelectric transducer located on the discharge opening side is so provided that, when the ink is discharged by the frontward thermoelectric transducer alone, a value of (discharge velocity v/discharge quantity Vd) with respect to a distance OH extending from an end of its discharge opening side to the discharge opening is at a distance OH of the first region in a regional classification into a first region in which the value of v/Vd increases with a decrease in the distance OH and a second region in which it comes to be substantially constant with an increase in the distance OH.

Abstract: An ink jet head includes a base member, a first member having recesses and coupled with the base member to form ink passages using the recesses and a second member integral with the first member and extending at an angle from an end of the first member, the second member having ink ejection outlets communicating with the ink passages.

Abstract: An ink cartridge is described which is connectable to an ink jet recording head of an ink jet recording apparatus. The cartridge is generally formed by a front wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and two side walls providing major inner surfaces of the cartridge. The cartridge includes a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber contains negative pressure producing material and has an ink outlet connectable to the ink jet head to supply ink from the cartridge to the ink jet head and an air vent for allowing air into the cartridge. The second chamber has a communication port adjacent to the bottom wall, and communicates with the first chamber through the communication port. The second chamber provides an ink reservoir for the first chamber. Inner corner portions, formed by intersection of the inner side of the side walls adjacent to the communication port and the bottom wall, and which extend toward the communication port, are rounded.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device including, as formed on a piezoelectric substrate, one or a plurality of resonators connected together, each of the resonators comprising an interdigital transducer and a grating reflector, the object of the invention is to compact the device by improving the reflection efficiency of the grating reflector. When the grating reflector is a metal strip array reflector of the open type, the grating reflector has an electrode occupancy ratio of 0.7 to 0.8. Alternatively, when a metal strip array reflector of the short-circuit type is used, the grating reflector has an electrode occupancy ratio of 0.45 to 0.55, or when a metal strip array reflector of the interdigital type is used, the grating reflector has an electrode occupancy ratio of 0.7 to 0.85.

Abstract: A container for containing printing liquid for supplying to an ink jet head for an ink jet recording apparatus. The container includes first and second chambers, with the first chamber containing negative pressure producing material and having an air vent communicating with ambient air and a supply port for supplying printing liquid to the ink jet head. The second chamber communicates with the first chamber via a communication port and provides a printing liquid reservoir for the first chamber. In an area adjacent a wall extending from the communication port, a capillary force provided by the negative pressure producing material decreases in a direction perpendicular to and towards that wall at least adjacent a part of the communication port which is uppermost when the container is in use.

Abstract: Provided is an ink-jet color recording process to form color images on a recording medium by an ink-jet system applying a plurality of colored pigment-based inks, wherein each of the colored pigment inks comprises a pigment dispersant, and a pigment dispersant contained in at least one of colored pigment-based inks is different from a pigment dispersant contained in the remaining colored pigment-based inks.

Abstract: A liquid jet recording head for discharging liquid droplets onto a recording medium includes a support, heat-generating resistance layer provided on the support for generating heat energy to discharge the liquid droplets, a pair of electrodes electrically connected to the heat-generating resistance layer, and heat-generating sections each serving as a portion for generating the heat energy, each head generating section comprising the heat-generating resistance layer sandwiched by the pair of electrodes. Plural discharge openings serve to discharge liquid droplets, a liquid chamber houses liquid, and there are plural liquid paths, each liquid path having an associated heat generating section, and communicating with an associated discharge opening and with the liquid chamber to supply liquid to the associated discharge opening from the liquid chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink comprising a pigment, a water-soluble resin, a water-soluble monomer to be set by application of energy and a photopolymerization initiator in an aqueous liquid medium.

Abstract: An ink absorbent member is prepared for holding an ink stored in an ink storing section in an ink jet cartridge. The ink absorbent member contains not more then 0.20% by weight, on the basis of the member, of a fraction of soluble matters in a liquid containing an organic polar solvent incapable of reacting with the ink absorbent member such as monohydric alcohols or alkyl ethers of polyhydric alcohols.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head for effecting recording with ejection of ink includes a plurality of element substrates each having a plurality of ejection energy generating elements for ejecting the ink; a base plate for supporting the plurality of element substrates on one surface thereof in an array; a grooved member having a length corresponding to a length of the array and having passages corresponding to the ejection energy generating elements of the plurality of element substrates.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method using a number of ejection outlets for ejecting ink includes grouping a number of ejection outlets into a plurality of groups such that ejection regions are partly overlapped; and supplying driving signals in such an order that ejection regions of groups of ejection outlets are partly overlapped.

Abstract: A liquid jet element substrate having a plurality of ejection energy generating elements for generating ejection energy for ejecting liquid, arranged in an array in a direction at predetermined intervals, wherein an interval between the ejection energy generating element at an end, in the direction of the array, and the ejection energy generating element adjacent thereto is smaller than an interval between adjacent central ejection energy generating elements.

Abstract: In a liquid discharging recording head having recording liquid discharging heaters for generating an energy for discharging the recording liquid and a plurality of compensating heaters for heating recording liquid, both of which are disposed on the same substrate, the plurality of compensating heaters are selectively energized in response to an output from a thermistor for sensing a temperature of the recording liquid, the energization of the compensating heaters is interrupted when a temperature of the substrate exceeds a predetermined temperature, thereby attaining temperature compensation of the recording head.

Abstract: A process for producing a printing medium is disclosed wherein a composition is applied to a substrate and cured by heat treatment, said composition comprising a water soluble cationic polymer (P1) selected from the group consisting of polymer (A) obtained by the addition polymerization of epichlorohydrin and a dialkylamine or dialkanolamine; polymer (B) derived from the addition polymerization of a glycidyl groups-terminated hydrophilic oligomer and an asymmetric diamine, dialkylamine or dialkanolamine; acrylic polymer (C) with a cationized hydroxyl group-containing molecular side chain; and polyvinyl alcohol (D) with a cationized hydroxyl group-containing molecular chain; and a condensable functional group-containing polymer (P2) selected from the group consisting of alkylolacrylamide copolymer and a hydrolyzable trialkylsilyl group-containing copolymer.

Abstract: The character reader device of the present invention is capable of reading as read data characters written in a portion corresponding to a given read field on a manuscript; detecting a reject character in the read data; generating a pattern image corresponding to the reject character; displaying the read data, the reject character, and the pattern image; computing the position of a display area for the read data; deciding whether or not the computed display area is overlapped with the display area for the pattern image; shifting the pattern image to the area which is the outside of the display area for the read data if overlapped; and displaying it on the latter area.