Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes a nozzle array and discharge energy generation elements. The nozzles include discharge ports to discharge liquid when recording, pressure chambers to communicate with respective discharge ports, and liquid flow paths to supply liquid to the respective pressure chambers. The discharge energy generation elements apply discharge energy to the pressure chambers to discharge liquid from the nozzles in a predetermined order during time-division driving. Arranging intervals of the liquid flow paths take at least two different values. When a drive timing difference average between the adjacent discharge energy generation elements is calculated by a particular expression, a relationship of D?Y is satisfied between an interval D and an interval Y in a k-th discharge energy generation element and a k+1-th discharge energy generation element positioned adjacent to the k-th discharge energy generation element.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head is arranged in a manner that in the cross section of a discharge port in a liquid discharge direction, the discharge port includes: at least one projection that is convex inside the discharge port; a first area, for holding a liquid surface connecting a pillar-shaped liquid that is elongated outside the discharge port; and second areas where a fluid resistance is lower than that in the first area so as to pull the liquid in the discharge port in a direction opposite to the liquid discharge direction; and the first area is formed in the direction in which the projection is convex, and the second areas are formed on both sides of the projection.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head is arranged in a manner that in the cross section of a discharge port in a liquid discharge direction, the discharge port includes: at least one projection that is convex inside the discharge port; a first area, for holding a liquid surface connecting a pillar-shaped liquid that is elongated outside the discharge port; and second areas where a fluid resistance is lower than that in the first area so as to pull the liquid in the discharge port in a direction opposite to the liquid discharge direction; and the first area is formed in the direction in which the projection is convex, and the second areas are formed on both sides of the projection.

Abstract: A liquid ejection method is provided which ejects small-volume droplets from ejection openings and causes them to reliably combine together on the fly into a large droplet that is less susceptible to influences of air flows, thus realizing a printing with reduced droplet landing position deviations. To that end, each of the ejection openings is constructed of two openings spaced apart and a slit-like constricted connection portion that connects the two openings together.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head is arranged in a manner that in the cross-section of a discharge port in a liquid discharge direction, the discharge port includes at least one projection that is convex inside the discharge port; a first area, for holding a liquid surface connecting a pillar-shaped liquid that is elongated outside the discharge port; and second areas where a fluid resistance is lower than that in the first area so as to pull the liquid in the discharge port in a direction opposite to the liquid discharge direction. The first area is formed in the direction in which the projection is convex, and the second areas are formed on both sides of the projection.

Abstract: A microstripline filter in which characteristics of a plurality of resonators which are connected to one another in a manner of inductive coupling are precisely set. The microstripline filter includes a ground electrode, main-surface lines, common electrodes, short-circuit electrodes, and input/output electrodes. The ground electrode is arranged on a lower surface of a dielectric substrate having a rectangular plate shape. The plurality of main-surface lines are arranged on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate and form respective resonators. The common electrodes connect some of the main-surface lines to one another in conduction states. The plurality of short-circuit electrodes connect a group of the main-surface lines which are brought to conduction states by the common electrodes to the ground electrode through an identical side surface of the dielectric substrate. The input-and-output electrodes are connected to corresponding ones of the resonators including the main-surface lines.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid ejecting head which inhibits the possible generation of satellites and possible inappropriate ejection during liquid ejection, enabling printing with improved image quality and reliability. Thus, ejection openings in the liquid ejecting head each selectively have projections or a circular shape depending on the characteristics of a liquid to be ejected.

Abstract: A resonant element is manufactured through a process including a setting step and a forming step. A substrate of the resonant element is made of a dielectric material. A ground electrode is formed on a rear principal surface side of the substrate. Principal-surface electrodes that define resonators together with the ground electrode and the dielectric material are formed on a front principal surface side of the substrate. An electrode protecting layer is formed on substantially entire surfaces on a front principal surface side of the principal-surface electrodes and the substrate. A coupling adjusting electrode with both ends facing a plurality of the principal-surface electrodes is formed on a front principal surface side of the electrode protecting layer. In the setting step, the shape of the coupling adjusting electrode is set in each manufactured lot.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting method using a liquid ejection head including a first ejection port for ejecting an ink containing a color material, a first energy generating element for generating energy utilized for ejecting the ink from the first ejection port, a second ejection port for ejecting an improvement liquid for improving recording property of the ink, and a second energy generating element for generating energy utilized for ejecting the improvement liquid from the second ejection port. The method includes ejecting the ink from the first ejection port by driving the first energy generating element, and ejecting the improvement liquid from the second ejection port by driving the second energy generating element, in a state where a liquid level of the improvement liquid in the second ejection port has moved forward in a liquid ejection direction than a liquid level of the ink in the first ejection port when the first energy generating element is driven.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head capable of achieving satisfactory printing without nozzle misfiring in an area close to an end of a nozzle row and droplet misdirection is provided. The ejection orifices, except for dummy orifices, are provided with protrusions. Four operative ejection orifices located close to each of the ends of each ejection orifice row are defined as end-located ejection orifices. Each of the protrusions provided in the end-located ejection orifices has a shorter length than that of the protrusion provided in the ejection orifice located in the central portion of the nozzle row.

Abstract: The element size of a stripline filter that achieves a high efficiency percentage with optional stable filter characteristics, is reduced. A stripline filter includes substantially L-shaped top surface resonant lines. The top surface resonant lines include connection electrode parts, first line parts, and second line parts. The connection electrode parts are formed so as to have a width greater than line widths of side surface resonant lines. Each line part faces an edge of a corner portion of a central top surface resonant line at an interval. An edge of each first line part on an edge side of a dielectric substrate, other than a connection portion with the connection electrode part, faces an edge of the dielectric substrate at an interval.

Abstract: A stripline filter includes a ground electrode, input and output electrodes, top-surface resonant lines, side-surface resonant lines, side-surface line portions, connection electrode portions, and top-surface line portions. The ground electrode is provided on the bottom side of a dielectric substrate. The input and output electrodes are provided on the bottom surface of the substrate so as to be separate from the ground electrode. The top-surface resonant lines are provided on the top surface of the substrate. The side-surface line portions, the connection electrode portions, and the top-surface line portions connect two of the top-surface resonant lines to the input and output electrodes. The line width of the two top-surface resonant lines is smaller than the line width of the remainder of the top-surface resonant lines.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a printhead tolerant of switching noise occurred when concurrently driving plural printing elements, a head cartridge using the printhead, and a printing apparatus. To achieve this object, a printhead includes plural printing elements and plural driving elements for driving the plural printing elements, and prints by these printing elements. The printhead includes the following arrangement. More specifically, the printhead includes a shift register which receives print data in synchronism with a clock signal, and a latch circuit which latches the print data input to the shift register in synchronism with a latch signal. The printhead further includes a restriction circuit which restricts input of the print data and clock signal to the shift register and input of the latch signal to the latch circuit in synchronism with input of an enable signal for driving the plural driving elements.

Abstract: A printhead tolerant of switching noise that occurs when concurrently driving plural printing elements, a head cartridge using the printhead, and a printing apparatus can be provided. The printhead includes plural printing elements and plural driving elements for driving the plural printing elements, and prints using these printing elements. The printhead also includes a shift register which receives print data in synchronism with a clock signal, and a latch circuit which latches the print data input to the shift register in synchronism with a latch signal. The printhead further includes a restriction circuit which restricts input of the print data and clock signal to the shift register and input of the latch signal to the latch circuit in synchronism with input of an enable signal for driving the plural driving elements.

Abstract: A chip device having a ground electrode and a plurality of top-surface electrodes on a plate-like dielectric substrate. Two of the top-surface electrodes are connected to the ground electrode via respective short-circuit side-surface electrodes to form quarter wavelength resonant lines. A third top-surface electrode is provided between the two top-surface electrodes and both ends thereof are opened to form a half wavelength resonant line. The two top-surface electrodes each have a parallel portion arranged near and in parallel to the third top-surface electrode and a flexion that curves from the parallel portion, extends toward the remaining of the two top-surface electrodes, and is jump-coupled to the remaining of the two top-surface electrodes. The short-circuit side-surface electrodes are jump-coupled to each other, like the flexions.

Abstract: A microstripline filter in which characteristics of a plurality of resonators which are connected to one another in a manner of inductive coupling are precisely set. The microstripline filter includes a ground electrode, main-surface lines, common electrodes, short-circuit electrodes, and input/output electrodes. The ground electrode is arranged on a lower surface of a dielectric substrate having a rectangular plate shape. The plurality of main-surface lines are arranged on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate and form respective resonators. The common electrodes connect some of the main-surface lines to one another in conduction states. The plurality of short-circuit electrodes connect a group of the main-surface lines which are brought to conduction states by the common electrodes to the ground electrode through an identical side surface of the dielectric substrate. The input-and-output electrodes are connected to corresponding ones of the resonators including the main-surface lines.

Abstract: A recording head circuit is configured to drive a plurality of recording elements by dividing the plurality of recording elements into a plurality of blocks. The circuit delays not only heat signals, which are used to drive the recording elements in each of the blocks, but also block signals. Consequently, noises are prevented from appearing due to overlapping of signals.

Abstract: A plurality of flat-plate filter elements are placed on a pallet having a plurality of holding holes. Each of the filter elements includes a rear-principal-surface electrode pattern having a ground electrode provided on a rear principal surface and a front-principal-surface electrode pattern having a principal-surface electrode provided on a front principal surface. One of a first side surface and a second side surface of each of the filter elements is placed on a printing surface of the pallet. A first side-surface electrode pattern of a point-symmetric form in the side surfaces is formed on the side surfaces placed on the printing surface of the pallet. Then, the filter elements are vertically inverted, and a second side-surface electrode pattern having the same form as the first side-surface electrode pattern is formed on the side surfaces facing each other.

Abstract: A resonant element is manufactured through a process including a setting step and a forming step. A substrate of the resonant element is made of a dielectric material. A ground electrode is formed on a rear principal surface side of the substrate. Principal-surface electrodes that define resonators together with the ground electrode and the dielectric material are formed on a front principal surface side of the substrate. An electrode protecting layer is formed on substantially entire surfaces on a front principal surface side of the principal-surface electrodes and the substrate. A coupling adjusting electrode with both ends facing a plurality of the principal-surface electrodes is formed on a front principal surface side of the electrode protecting layer. In the setting step, the shape of the coupling adjusting electrode is set in each manufactured lot.

Abstract: A liquid ejection recording head includes a recording element substrate including a plurality of energy generating elements for generating energy for ejecting liquid, and includes a flow passage-forming member, connected to the recording element substrate, comprising a plurality of ejection outlets corresponding to the plurality of energy generating elements and comprising a plurality of flow passages communicating with the ejection outlets. The flow passage-forming member includes a hole array consisting of holes arranged so as to surround the flow passages and includes a communication passage, for establishing communication between adjacent holes, at a position close to the recording element substrate.