Patents by Inventor Toshikazu Nagatsuka

Toshikazu Nagatsuka 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).

  • Patent number: 9630405
    Abstract: A printing element substrate is provided that can provide an accurate temperature detection of a printing element substrate and that can suppress the printing element substrate from having a larger size. In order to realize this, sensors are arranged along the heating resistor elements arranged in the printing element substrate so that more diode sensors are arranged at a higher density in a part having a higher temperature change of the printing element substrate during the liquid ejection operation from the ejection openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Masaki Oikawa, Atsushi Omura
  • Patent number: 9283749
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid ejecting method, a liquid ejecting device, and a liquid ejecting system which can avoid damage of an electro-thermal conversion element caused by cavitation and can prolong a life thereof even in a case that handling with a configuration of an ejecting port is difficult. For that purpose, ejection is performed for a low-duty region by controlling such that variation in an ejection speed is made smaller, and ejection is performed for a high-duty region by controlling such that variation in the ejection speed is made larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamada, Michinari Mizutani, Yasunori Takei, Toshikazu Nagatsuka
  • Publication number: 20160009078
    Abstract: A printing element substrate is provided that can provide an accurate temperature detection of a printing element substrate and that can suppress the printing element substrate from having a larger size. In order to realize this, sensors are arranged along the heating resistor elements arranged in the printing element substrate so that more diode sensors are arranged at a higher density in a part having a higher temperature change of the printing element substrate during the liquid ejection operation from the ejection openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Masaki Oikawa, Atsushi Omura
  • Patent number: 9138995
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head in which the adverse effect of a heating resistor element due to cavitation is reduced and a printing apparatus employing this liquid ejection head are provided. When a length of a heating resistor element in a direction in which ink is to be supplied is defined by L, the center of an ejection port is shifted, at a distance equal to or longer than L/7 toward a location of an ink supply port, from the center of the heating resistor element, viewed in a direction in which ink is to be ejected. When a length of the ejection portion in the direction in which ink is to be ejected is defined as l and a length of a bubble generation chamber in the direction in which the liquid is to be ejected is defined as h, l/h is equal to or less than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michinari Mizutani, Yasunori Takei, Yoshihiro Hamada, Masaki Oikawa, Toshikazu Nagatsuka
  • Publication number: 20150239240
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid ejecting method, a liquid ejecting device, and a liquid ejecting system which can avoid damage of an electro-thermal conversion element caused by cavitation and can prolong a life thereof even in a case that handling with a configuration of an ejecting port is difficult. For that purpose, ejection is performed for a low-duty region by controlling such that variation in an ejection speed is made smaller, and ejection is performed for a high-duty region by controlling such that variation in the ejection speed is made larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamada, Michinari Mizutani, Yasunori Takei, Toshikazu Nagatsuka
  • Patent number: 9044944
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a substrate including an energy generating element that generates energy used to discharge liquid and a discharge port member having a discharge port surface with a discharge port line including discharge ports, through which the liquid is discharged, arrayed in a first direction. The discharge port surface includes a groove portion disposed between the discharge port line and a first end of the discharge port member in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The groove portion extends along the discharge port line. The discharge port surface further includes an inclined surface disposed between an end of the discharge port line and a second end of the discharge port member in the first direction. The inclined surface is inclined toward the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Omura, Shuichi Murakami, Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Keiji Tomizawa, Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade
  • Patent number: 9004630
    Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can perform stable ejection also in successive printing at high speed even in a case of performing printing in use of a print head provided with an ejection opening surface having hydrophilic properties. The inkjet printing apparatus comprises an inkjet print head wherein the control unit controls the print head such that, in a case where the ejection number of the ink ejected from the print head after removing the ink on the ejection opening surface by the ink removal unit is equal to or more than a threshold, a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation is larger than a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation in a case where the ejection number is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Shuichi Murakami, Keiji Tomizawa, Atsushi Omura, Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade
  • Publication number: 20150029268
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head that the adverse effect of a heating resistor element due to cavitation is reduced and a printing apparatus employing this liquid ejection head are provided. When a length of a heating resistor element in a direction in which ink is to be supplied is defined by L, the center of an ejection port is shifted, at a distance of equal to or longer than L/7 toward a location of an ink supply port, from the center of the heating resistor element, viewed in a direction in which ink is to be ejected. When a length of the ejection portion in the direction in which ink is to be ejected is defined as l and a length of a bubble generation chamber in the direction in which the liquid is to be ejected is defined as h, l/h is equal to or smaller than 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Michinari Mizutani, Yasunori Takei, Yoshihiro Hamada, Masaki Oikawa, Toshikazu Nagatsuka
  • Publication number: 20140307028
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a substrate including an energy generating element that generates energy used to discharge liquid and a discharge port member having a discharge port surface with a discharge port line including discharge ports, through which the liquid is discharged, arrayed in a first direction. The discharge port surface includes a groove portion disposed between the discharge port line and a first end of the discharge port member in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The groove portion extends along the discharge port line. The discharge port surface further includes an inclined surface disposed between an end of the discharge port line and a second end of the discharge port member in the first direction. The inclined surface is inclined toward the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Omura, Shuichi Murakami, Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Keiji Tomizawa, Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade
  • Publication number: 20130307889
    Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can perform stable ejection also in successive printing at high speed even in a case of performing printing in use of a print head provided with an ejection opening surface having hydrophilic properties. The inkjet printing apparatus comprises an inkjet print head wherein the control unit controls the print head such that, in a case where the ejection number of the ink ejected from the print head after removing the ink on the ejection opening surface by the ink removal unit is equal to or more than a threshold, a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation is larger than a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation in a case where the ejection number is less than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Shuichi Murakami, Keiji Tomizawa, Atsushi Omura, Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade
  • Patent number: 8449078
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharge head including a discharge port; an energy application chamber that includes a heat generating element, and communicates with the discharge port; and a flow path that supplies the liquid to the energy application chamber, wherein the energy application chamber includes a first energy application chamber communicating with the discharge port, and a second energy application chamber communicating with the first energy application chamber and the flow path, a distance between facing side walls of the second energy application chamber is larger than that of the first energy application chamber in a section perpendicular to a liquid supply direction from the flow path to the energy application chamber, and for side walls of the energy application chambers formed on a back side in the liquid supply direction, the first energy application chamber and the second energy application chamber share the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshikazu Nagatsuka
  • Publication number: 20110292132
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharge head including a discharge port; an energy application chamber that includes a heat generating element, and communicates with the discharge port; and a flow path that supplies the liquid to the energy application chamber, wherein the energy application chamber includes a first energy application chamber communicating with the discharge port, and a second energy application chamber communicating with the first energy application chamber and the flow path, a distance between facing side walls of the second energy application chamber is larger than that of the first energy application chamber in a section perpendicular to a liquid supply direction from the flow path to the energy application chamber, and for side walls of the energy application chambers formed on a back side in the liquid supply direction, the first energy application chamber and the second energy application chamber share the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshikazu Nagatsuka