Abstract: In an ink jet printing apparatus, preliminary ejection for a print head involving a plurality of distances from a common ink supply port to respective ejection openings is optimized. Specifically, for a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array with different distances from the ink supply port to the ejection opening, the ratio of a driving pulse width to a lower limit pulse width for the second nozzle array with the longer distance is set to be higher than the ratio for the first nozzle array with the shorter distance. This enables a reduction in the time required for preliminary ejection of the apparatus as a whole.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes a large nozzle array including a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting ink and a small nozzle array including a plurality of ejection outlets, each having an opening area smaller than an opening area of ejection outlets of the large nozzle array. The ink jet recording head is mountable to an ink jet recording apparatus which is capable of causing the ink jet recording head to eject ink for a purpose of maintenance of the ink jet recording head without image formation on a recording material, the large nozzle array is supplied with light ink such as yellow, light cyan or light magenta ink, and the small nozzle array is supplied with dark ink such as cyan, magenta or black ink. The number of ejections of the dark ink is greater than the number of ejections of the light ink.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in

Abstract: An apparatus includes nozzles and an ink passage. Each nozzle includes a pressure chamber which houses an electrothermal transducer provided on a substrate to apply ejection energy to ink, an ink ejection orifice which faces the electrothermal transducer, and an ink passage along which the ink is supplied to the pressure chamber. The ink supply port is provided on the substrate and communicates with the ink passages. A distance between a center of gravity of the electrothermal transducer and the ink supply port differs between the nozzles which are next to each other. In at least one of the nozzles, a center of gravity of the ink ejection orifice is shifted from that of the electrothermal transducer in a direction toward the ink supply port by an amount which is increased as the distance increases.

Abstract: A liquid jet recording head includes a substrate on which are formed recording elements that generate energy for ejecting liquid, and a flow passage forming member that is in contact with the substrate and in which are formed ejection ports that eject liquid and flow passages that supply liquid to the ejection ports. The flow passage forming member has a groove formed along the longitudinal direction of the flow passage forming member, and each end of the groove is located nearer to the middle in the width direction of the flow passage forming member than the other part of the groove is.

Abstract: A recording head includes a substrate provided with a recording element that generates energy for ejecting liquid and electrical wiring that supplies power to the recording element; and a passage-forming member provided in contact with one face of the substrate and having a nozzle for ejecting the liquid and a passage for supplying the liquid to the nozzle. A groove formed by a through-hole provided in the passage-forming member is disposed such that a bottom face of the groove is located along and above the electrical wiring and positioned so as not to overlap an edge of the electrical wiring.

Abstract: A present invention improves the impact accuracy of ejected droplets, the quality of printed images, and print speed. A print head according to the present invention has an ink channel for which the width thereof in a direction orthogonal to an ink supply direction in which ink is supplied from an ink supply port to a pressure chamber is smaller than that of a pressure chamber. In the print head, the center of a heater along the ink supply direction is offset from the center of the pressure chamber along the ink supply direction, toward the side of the pressure chamber far from the ink supply port in the ink supply direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid ejection head which includes a plurality of ejection ports 302 arranged so as to form an ejection port row and which, after a recovery process of expanding and transferring a bubble toward an ink supply port, allows the bubble to be smoothly removed from a nozzle 310. electrothermal transducing element A plurality of nozzle filters 306 are arranged between an ink supply port and the ink channel 304 so that ink supplied to the bubbling chamber 303 through the ink supply port is passed between the nozzle filters 306 to separate impurities contained in the ink, from the ink. When a distance between an ink channel inlet 311 and the nozzle filter 306 is defined as L1 and a distance between the adjacent nozzle filters 306 is defined as L2, a relationship between L1 and L2 satisfies L1?L2.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes a large nozzle array including a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting ink; a small nozzle array including a plurality of ejection outlets each having an opening area smaller than an opening area of ejection outlets of the large nozzle array; wherein the ink jet recording head is mountable to an ink jet recording apparatus which is capable of causing the ink jet recording head to eject ink for a purpose of maintenance of ink jet recording head without image formation on a recording material, and wherein the large nozzle array is supplied with light ink consisting of yellow, light cyan or light magenta ink, and the small nozzle array is supplied with dark ink consisting of cyan, magenta or black ink, and wherein the number of ejections of the dark ink is larger than the number of ejections of the light ink.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a substrate having a supply port through which liquid is supplied and a plurality of energy generating elements provided along the supply port and generating energy for ejecting the liquid, a nozzle plate having nozzles provided therein in correspondence with the energy generating elements, and a channel provided between the substrate and the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate has a groove surrounding the channel. The groove includes a first groove provided in one surface of the nozzle plate at which the nozzle plate is bonded to the substrate, and a second groove provided in another surface of the nozzle plate in which the nozzles are provided. Edges of the first groove have sawtooth shape with a number of very small notches and edges of the second groove are substantially straight.

Abstract: When paper dirt that could not be removed completely by the wiping gets trapped in the recessed portions formed in the ejection port face, the paper dirt may interfere with ejection ports, giving rise to a possibility of image impairments. To deal with this problem, the ejection ports and the recessed portions in the print head are shifted from each other so that their positions are not aligned in the wiping direction.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes at least three nozzle array groups; each of the nozzle array group including, a first nozzle array including a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting ink, and a second nozzle array including a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting the ink, the second nozzle array being disposed adjacent to the first nozzle array with an ink supply port for supplying the ink interposed therebetween, wherein an opening area of the ejection outlets of second nozzle array is smaller than an opening area of the ejection outlets of first nozzle array, wherein the nozzle array groups eject three different kinds of inks, respectively, when the ink jet recording head moves relative to a recording material, wherein the nozzle arrays of adjacent ones of the nozzle array group are arranged in the order of the first nozzle array of one of the adjacent nozzle array groups, the second nozzle array of the one of the adjacent nozzle array groups, the second nozzle array of the other one of the adjac

Abstract: In an ink jet printing apparatus, preliminary ejection for a print head involving a plurality of distances from a common ink supply port to respective ejection openings is optimized. Specifically, for a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array with different distances from the ink supply port to the ejection opening, the ratio of a driving pulse width to a lower limit pulse width for the second nozzle array with the longer distance is set to be higher than the ratio for the first nozzle array with the shorter distance. This enables a reduction in the time required for preliminary ejection of the apparatus as a whole.

Abstract: An inkjet recording head includes a substrate having a discharge port surface on which discharge ports configured to discharge a liquid are formed. The discharge port surface of the substrate includes a plurality of point-symmetrical continuous grooves which are centered around each discharge port. The plurality of point-symmetrical continuous grooves differs in shape between in a region near each discharge port and in another region.

Abstract: A method for precisely manufacturing a liquid supply orifice of an ink-jet recording head, even if a masking material includes pinholes which may affect the forming of the ink supply orifice, is provided. The substrate face provided with a mask used for forming the ink supply orifice has an area covered with the mask for anisotropic etching, the area consisting of a part provided with OSF layers and a part not provided with the OSF layers which are determined by considering the amount of a side etching.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes three sets of nozzle arrays each having a large nozzle array including a first ejection outlet group and an adjacent small nozzle array including a second ejection outlet group. The ejection outlets of the second ejection outlet group have smaller diameters than those of the first ejection outlet group. In nozzle arrays constituted by two adjacent ones of the three nozzle array sets, a large nozzle array, a small nozzle array, a small nozzle array, and a large nozzle array are arranged in the order named, in the main scanning direction. One of the two adjacent nozzle array sets ejects cyan ink, the other one of the two adjacent nozzle array sets ejects magenta ink, and a nozzle array set other than the two adjacent nozzle array sets ejects yellow ink.

Abstract: In a method for producing an ink-jet recording head, a plurality of through-holes is formed in a heat storage layer formed on one surface of a silicon substrate, subsequently, heating elements are formed, and a protective layer is formed on the substrate. A passage-forming member forming discharge ports and ink passages is formed on the protective layer and an ink supply port is then formed by anisotropic etching from the other surface of the silicon substrate. In this step, since the protective layer serves as an etching stop layer, the passage-forming member is not in contact with an etchant. Subsequently, the protective layer formed in the through-holes is removed so that the ink supply port includes a filter.

Abstract: An ink jet head includes a substrate having a flow path construction member constructing a plurality of discharge ports for discharging ink and a plurality of ink flow paths corresponding thereto, and a plurality of energy generating elements corresponding to the plurality of discharge ports. The substrate has an ink supply port for supplying ink to the ink flow paths. The ink supply port includes a first liquid chamber disposed on a plane on which the energy generating elements are formed, and having a grooves with island-shaped columns left, and a second liquid chamber disposed on the opposed plane, and having a plurality of through holes partitioned at positions corresponding to the island-shaped columns. In the ink jet head, the island-shaped columns and a partition wall for the through holes are left as a beam construction section, thereby improving a mechanical strength of a semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step of forming an ink supply port communicating with the plurality of ink channels in the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching from a second surface facing the first surface of the substrate; and a step of forming a filter in a portion of the close contact enhancing layer positioned in an opening of the in