Abstract: According to an embodiment, an ink jet head includes a discharge unit, a first storing unit, a second storing unit, a waveform generating unit, and a voltage applying unit. The discharge unit discharges ink according to the operation of an actuator. The first storing unit stores a pattern of a voltage to be applied to the actuator. The second storing unit stores a plurality of timer sets. The waveform generating unit generates, on the basis of the timer sets stored by the second storing unit and the voltage pattern stored by the first storing unit, a waveform of the voltage to be applied to the actuator. The voltage applying unit applies the voltage to the actuator on the basis of the waveform generated by the waveform generating unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an ink jet head includes a discharge unit, a first storing unit, a second storing unit, a waveform generating unit, and a voltage applying unit. The discharge unit discharges ink according to the operation of an actuator. The first storing unit stores a pattern of a voltage to be applied to the actuator. The second storing unit stores a plurality of timer sets. The waveform generating unit generates, on the basis of the timer sets stored by the second storing unit and the voltage pattern stored by the first storing unit, a waveform of the voltage to be applied to the actuator. The voltage applying unit applies the voltage to the actuator on the basis of the waveform generated by the waveform generating unit.

Abstract: A driving device of an ink jet head including a plurality of ejection channels, including a plurality of driving waveform generation portions that are provided which respectively correspond to the plurality of ejection channels, a random number generation portion that generates a random number, and a connection portion. The driving waveform generation portions receive printing data and correction data, generate a driving signal of the ejection channels on the basis of the received printing data, correct a waveform of the driving signal by using the received correction data, and then output the corrected waveform to the correction data and to the corresponding ejection channels. The connection portion connects the random number generation portion of the driving waveform generation portions such that a random number is supplied to each of the driving waveform generation portions as correction data having a value independent for each of the driving waveform generation portions.

Abstract: An ink jet head includes an actuator configured to cause ejection of ink, and a driver. The driver is configured to receive serial data including a first command, a second command subsequent thereto, and print data for printing or setting data for setting of the ink jet head that is subsequent to the second command, detect the first command in the serial data, decode the second command, and control the actuator based on the decoded second command.

Abstract: There is provided a controller which sets electrodes which are respectively disposed on wall surfaces of a plurality of ink chambers which are arranged in parallel so as to be separated from each other by partitions made of a piezoelectric material, to a high impedance state. In addition, at a timing when an identical potential is applied to the electrodes of at least three ink chambers which are arranged in parallel so as to be separated from each other by mutually adjacent partitions, the controller sets electrodes of ink chambers other than ink chambers located on both sides to a high impedance state.

Abstract: An ink jet head includes an actuator configured to cause ejection of ink, and a driver. The driver is configured to receive serial data including a first command, a second command subsequent thereto, and print data for printing or setting data for setting of the ink jet head that is subsequent to the second command, detect the first command in the serial data, decode the second command, and control the actuator based on the decoded second command.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inkjet head driving device includes a load-voltage generating circuit and a plurality of channel driving circuits provided to respectively correspond to a plurality of channels of an inkjet head. The load-voltage generating circuit selects any one voltage out of a reference voltage and a driving voltage having potential other than the reference voltage and outputs the voltage. Each of the channel driving circuits includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, an output terminal, a series circuit, and a parallel circuit.

Abstract: There is provided a controller which sets electrodes which are respectively disposed on wall surfaces of a plurality of ink chambers which are arranged in parallel so as to be separated from each other by partitions made of a piezoelectric material, to a high impedance state. In addition, at a timing when an identical potential is applied to the electrodes of at least three ink chambers which are arranged in parallel so as to be separated from each other by mutually adjacent partitions, the controller sets electrodes of ink chambers other than ink chambers located on both sides to a high impedance state.

Abstract: A driving device of an ink jet head including a plurality of ejection channels, includes a plurality of driving waveform generation portions that are provided so as to respectively correspond to the plurality of ejection channels, a random number generation portion that generates a random number, and a connection portion. The respective driving waveform generation portions receive printing data and correction data, generate a driving signal of the ejection channels on the basis of the received printing data, correct a waveform of the driving signal by using the received correction data, and then output the corrected waveform to the corresponding ejection channels.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a direct current voltage which has positive and negative potentials relative to a ground potential interposed therebetween is used as a drive voltage for electric charging/discharging to/from an actuator.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a drive circuit of a capacitive load adjusts an impedance of at least one of the switches that are turned on to discharge a charge stored in the capacitive load back to a direct-current power source.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a direct current voltage which has positive and negative potentials relative to a ground potential interposed therebetween is used as a drive voltage for electric charging/discharging to/from an actuator.

Abstract: Channel data obtained from a reproduced signal is input to a demodulation ROM as an address and demodulated. In the demodulated channel data, the data whose data pattern is not consistent with a 2-7 modulation method is recognized as an error data. When a resync code, given in the channel data at every 15 bytes is not detected within a predetermined time period, a resync code undetected signal is generated. The demodulated data is arranged in a matrix, and the position of the error data in the matrix and the resync code undetected generation position are specified. An error correction circuit carries out the error correction (erasure correction) by using these positions and an error correction code relating to one direction of a row or a column of the matrix.

Abstract: An optical disc is constructed for operation in an alloying mode and includes first recording sublayer of Ge--Sb--Te and a second recording sublayer of Bi--Te. Apparatus is provided for recording information on an optical disc in the alloying mode or phase transformation mode in accordance with disc type information associated with the disc and readably by the apparatus. There is also provided an environmental aging technique for use in constructing optical discs to obviate significant dimensional changes in the discs during use between the extremes of the operating environment. There is further provided an optical disc construction and method in which an inorganic dielectric deposited on an organic substrate includes a hydrocarbon. There is additionally provided an optical disc construction and method in which a plasma polymer layer is disposed between an inorganic dielectric layer over the recording layer and a resin layer.

Abstract: An optical disk apparatus records data on an optical disk or reproduces data therefrom. The optical disk has a plurality of zones each including a plurality of tracks, and the optical disk apparatus records or reproduces data with respect to the zones on the basis of clock signals having different frequencies. The optical disk apparatus comprises first and second phase comparators. The first phase comparator is a pull-in type and outputs a signal corresponding to the phase difference between a clock signal generated by a PLL circuit and a binary signal of reproduction data. The second phase comparator is a lock-in type and outputs a signal corresponding to the phase difference between a signal obtained by frequency-dividing the clock signal generated by the PLL circuit and a signal obtained by frequency-dividing a fundamental clock signal.

Abstract: The recording scheme of an optical disk is initially determined by a cartridge identifier housing the optical disk. The optical disk is then rotated at a rotational speed corresponding to the initially determined recording scheme, and a signal processing circuit is switched. Management data recorded on the optical disk is read to also determine the recording scheme, thereby improving the reliability of the determination. When no management data can be read, a recording scheme and associated rotational speed are changed. The management data representing the recording scheme is then read according to the changed recording scheme. A medium type determined based on the management data has priority over that of the medium type obtained by the identifier of the cartridge.

Abstract: An apparatus, having a spindle motor for rotating a circular optical disk, for recording information on the optical disk rotated by the spindle motor, and reproducing information recorded on the optical disk, wherein whether the recording scheme of the optical disk is a mark interval or mark length recording scheme is discriminated, and information is recorded or recorded information is reproduced while the optical disk is rotated at a rotational speed corresponding to the discriminated recording scheme. In an apparatus for recording/reproducing information in accordance with both the mark interval and mark length recording schemes, a signal amplifier, a demodulation circuit, a modulation circuit, an error correction circuit, a buffer memory, an interface circuit, and the like can be commonly used between the two recording schemes, thereby decreasing the number of signal processing circuits.

Abstract: The present invention aims at preventing erroneous data reproduction even when the amplitude center of a signal of a data part read out from an optical disc is displaced. An information reproducing apparatus comprises read means for reading data stored in each of block units on an optical disc and outputting a read signal, digitizing means for digitizing the read signal by using a slice level, generating means for comparing the signal digitized by the digitizing means and clock signals output at predetermined intervals, thereby generating a charge width signal representing a phase difference between the digitized signal and the clock signals, while the data stored in a data storing portion of the block unit is read by the read means, and changing means for changing the slice level of the digitizing means on the basis of the charge width signal generated by the generating means.

Abstract: In this invention, in an optical disk on which information is recorded by a mark length recording method, an average value of detection signals of sync codes recorded on the optical disk beforehand is calculated, and a difference between the average value and a level "0" is determined to be a bias voltage. The bias voltage is superposed on a detection signal of the recorded information, and the signal is binarized by the level "0".

Abstract: A memory device for recording information on a recording medium includes a recording mechanism for recording information on the recording medium. A control device controls the recording mechanism such that information is recorded in a first predetermined arrangement on a first portion of the recording medium and in a second predetermined arrangement on a second portion of the recording medium.