Array Of Ejectors Patents (Class 347/40)
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Publication number: 20140085379Abstract: A liquid jet head including: a nozzle plate including a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row each formed of a plurality of nozzles; and a piezoelectric plate including a plurality of first ejection grooves communicating to the plurality of nozzles of the first nozzle row, and a plurality of second ejection grooves communicating to the plurality of nozzles of the second nozzle row, in which each of the plurality of first ejection grooves and each of the plurality of second ejection grooves are separated from each other by a partition wall located between the each of the plurality of first ejection grooves and the each of the plurality of second ejection grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: SII PRINTEK INC.Inventor: Satoshi HORIGUCHI
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Patent number: 8678549Abstract: A printhead integrated circuit includes: an elongate silicon substrate having a frontside and a backside; a row of nozzle chambers disposed at the frontside of the substrate, each nozzle chamber having a respective nozzle opening defined in a roof thereof and a respective inlet defined in a floor thereof; a row of inlet channels defined in the substrate, each inlet channel having a first end defining the inlet of a respective nozzle chamber and an opposite second end; and an ink supply channel defined in the backside of the substrate, each ink supply channel having a depth sufficient to meet with the second ends the inlet channels. Each ink supply channel is elongate and extends longitudinally along a length of the substrate so as to provide fluidic communication between the backside and the nozzle chambers.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Zamtec LtdInventors: Kia Silverbrook, Akira Nakazawa, Christopher Hibbard, Paul Ian Mackey, Norman Michael Berry, Garry Raymond Jackson
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Patent number: 8678534Abstract: A system and a method for printing a desired pattern on a substrate, the method may include: receiving or generating printing instructions for printing multiple patterns during multiple printing iterations, wherein at least two different printing iterations are expected to be executed by different sets of nozzles of an array of nozzles, wherein a superposition of the multiple patterns is expected to differ from the desired pattern by a tolerable difference even when a nozzle of the array of nozzles malfunctions; and printing the multiple patterns during multiple printing iterations, wherein at least two different printing iterations are expected to be executed by different sets of nozzles of the array of nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Camtek Ltd.Inventors: Noam Rozenstein, Avi Levy, Michael Litvin, Yaron Mazor, Einat Cohen, Muhammad Iraqui
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Patent number: 8672438Abstract: A printing device performs band printing during two-way printing, wherein the band printing uses black pigment ink and dye ink. In this printing device, in an advancing printed area for which a print head moves in an advancing direction, pigment ink dots are formed first and dye ink dots are formed second. In a retreating printed area for which the print head moves in a retreating direction, dye ink dots are formed first and pigment ink dots are formed second.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Naoki Sudo, Mai Kubota, Akito Sato
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Patent number: 8672433Abstract: According to the liquid ejection head and the liquid ejection apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to reduce wasted nozzles in a joint section by reducing the total number of nozzles NA included in a joint section between head units that are positioned and fixed with high accuracy, while diminishing discontinuity of liquid ejection in joint sections between head units and joint sections between intermediate units, and furthermore, it is possible to make the replacement of each intermediate unit easy and hence to reduce the work involved in replacing intermediate units by further increasing the total number of nozzles NB included in joint sections between intermediate units which are fixed with less strict positioning accuracy than the head units.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tsutomu Kusakari
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Patent number: 8668308Abstract: A printhead assembly includes a plurality of inkjet ejector arrays having corresponding ink receptacles. Each inkjet array is formed from a plurality of inkjet stack layers that are bonded to a single aperture layer that flexes to position the inkjet arrays at a predetermined distance from a curved image receiving surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Trevor Snyder, Brent Rodney Jones
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Patent number: 8668294Abstract: A method for operating an inkjet printer to form images that include both high density and low density segments has been developed. The method includes operating one printhead to eject ink drops with a large size to form high density segments of the image, and operating a second printhead to eject ink drops with a small size to form low density segments of the image. The large ink drops provide high coverage in the high density segments, and the small ink drops provide improved image quality in the low density segments of the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David Mantell, Jeffrey J. Folkins
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Patent number: 8665485Abstract: A method for printing including preparing an image at a first resolution in a first direction, selecting pixels from the prepared image, reordering the selected pixels to create a translated image having a second resolution in the first direction, where the second resolution is different from the first resolution, and printing the translated image. Also included are a printing system and an article of computer readable code.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: David Allen Mantell
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Patent number: 8662613Abstract: An inkjet recording system including a separation unit configured to obtain separated data which corresponds to each of a plurality of nozzle arrays from input image data, a gradation correction unit configured to perform gradation correction by one-dimensional conversion on the separated data obtained by the separation unit, and a quantization unit configured to quantize the data on which the gradation correction is performed by the gradation correction unit to generate the recording data, wherein the separation unit obtains the separated data so that first separated data and second separated data corresponding to at least a pair of nozzle arrays for adjusting an effect of an air current have a same value, and the gradation correction unit performs different gradation correction on the first separated data and the second separated data which have the same value.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Kato, Okinori Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 8657424Abstract: An ink supply container includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is configured to hold a first volume of ink and is configured to be releasably connectable to a printhead. The second portion is configured to hold a second volume of ink and is in communication with the first portion. The second portion is configured to extend over a top of at least one other ink supply container upon releasable connection of the first portion of the container to a printhead assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: William Jon Rittgers, Michael Mulloy, Odhran Hendley, Mark Loughlin, Eduardo Macias
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Patent number: 8657408Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes an ink-jet head having a plurality of nozzles and configured to jet ink droplets from the nozzles; a carriage configured to carry the ink-jet head, and reciprocate in a predetermined scanning direction; a transport mechanism configured to transport the recording medium, on which the ink droplets jetted from the nozzles land, in a transport direction intersecting the scanning direction; and a control device configured to control the ink-jet head, the carriage and the transport mechanism to perform recording of the image. The nozzles include a plurality of first nozzles which are aligned at first interval with respect to the transport direction and from which first-type ink droplets are jetted, and a plurality of second nozzles which are aligned at second interval with respect to the transport direction and from which second-type ink droplets different from the first-type ink droplets are jetted.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Ito, Takashi Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20140043394Abstract: An embodiment of this invention is directed to a printing apparatus capable of providing an output result without a printing density difference between two surfaces in two-sided printing. In the printing apparatus, one subtank is provided for each type of ink. The nozzles of printheads that receive inks supplied from the subtank and are used for printing of the front surface of a printing sheet and printing of the back surface, respectively, are aligned to almost the same level in the vertical direction, thereby making the water head pressures match.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Ishikawa, Atsushi Saito, Shinya Asano, Takatoshi Nakano, Yutaka Kano
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Patent number: 8641170Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes a head and a liquid-receiving section. The head has a plurality of nozzles configured and arranged to eject a liquid. The liquid-receiving section has a sloped face for receiving a liquid ejected from the nozzles when flushing is carried out by the head. The sloped face is formed on an elongated member and is configured and arranged to receive the liquid ejected downward from the nozzles. The nozzles forming at least one nozzle row extending in a direction along a longitudinal direction of the elongated member. The head being configured and arranged to carry out the flushing while travelling above the sloped face.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Nobuaki Kamiyama
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Patent number: 8641172Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes first and second element substrates including: a discharge port array; energy generating elements; and electric contacts electrically connected to the energy generating elements and including first and second electric contacts disposed linearly along one end and the other end. The first and second element substrates are configured such that a distance between the gravity center of the first electric contact and that of a discharge port provided at an end of the discharge port array on the first electric contacts side is different from a distance between the gravity center of the second electric contact and that of a discharge port provided at an end of the discharge port array on the second electric contacts side. The first electric contacts of the first element substrate and the second electric contacts of the second element substrates are disposed linearly, and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Chiaki Muraoka, Yukuo Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20140028748Abstract: A print head module (20) for depositing a substance has an axis and a plurality of print heads (22) provided with nozzles (23). The heads are distributed along the axis to form an elongate compound head having nozzle redundancy by arranging the heads in partially overlapping relation to one another. This allows deposition of the substance from the nozzles in uniform swathes having different angles transverse to the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: TEN CATE ADVANCED TEXTILES B.V.Inventors: Alan Hudd, Gerrit Koele, James E. Fox, Paul Wallace
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Publication number: 20140015897Abstract: A droplet ejection apparatus supplies liquid materials onto a base with performing a positional change of at least one of the base and first, second and third droplet ejection heads relative to the other. The base includes a first area to which the first droplet ejection head ejects the first liquid material, a second area to which the second droplet ejection head ejects the first liquid material and a third area to which the third droplet ejection head ejects the second liquid material. The first droplet ejection head, the second droplet ejection head and the third droplet ejection head are arranged so that the first area, the second area and the third area overlap partially when performing the positional change in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tomomi KAWASE
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Ink jet printing apparatus that identifies a region adjacent to a character for a thinning operation
Patent number: 8630017Abstract: An ink jet printing apparatus that improves the visibility of a character and its background in different colors or of outline characters is provided. Specifically, outline character bold data is inverted and each of the pixels in the data is expanded to adjacent eight pixels. Then, the expanded outline character is processed into expanded inverted data. The logical AND of the inverted expanded data and K data on a background image is then calculated to generate K data with the outline character expanded. This results in an image with the outline character expanded. That is, the present invention enables characters with improved visibility and free from blurredness to be printed while preventing the adverse effect of bleeding on the outline character.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daigoro Kanematsu, Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Tomomi Furuichi, Masaharu Shimakawa -
Patent number: 8622522Abstract: An ink jet print head having a reduced size still can prevent an overall temperature increase in a printing element board. To this end, among ink supply port arrays formed on both sides of each nozzle array, the heat resistance of the portion (beams) of the printing element board between the adjoining ink supply ports is lowered in those arrays that are close to the end portions of the common liquid chamber. In one embodiment, the volume of the beams is greater in those arrays that are close to the end portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akiko Saito, Ken Tsuchii
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Patent number: 8622520Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ejecting apparatus including: an upper body which includes an inlet through which ejectable fluid flows in from an external source, a channel which fluidly communicates with the inlet and through which the ejectable fluid flows, and an upper mounting portion which fluidly communicates with the channel and is opened downwardly; a lower body which includes a lower mounting portion which is opened upwardly to correspond to the upper mounting portion, and a nozzle slit which fluidly communicates with the lower mounting portion to eject the ejectable fluid to an outside, the lower body being fastened to the upper body, and a nozzle chip which is interposed between the upper mounting portion and the lower mounting portion to receive the ejectable fluid from the channel and discharge the ejectable fluid into the nozzle slit by being driven by an actuator.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Ho Shin, Byung Hun Kim, Jong Beom Kim, Jae Chang Lee, Won Chul Sim
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Patent number: 8622517Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes: defining a first imaginary reference line along the longitudinal direction of a base member and measuring the distances between the first imaginary reference line and at least two liquid supply port portions of a liquid supply port row, including defining a second imaginary reference line passing the liquid supply port portion at the shortest distance from the first imaginary reference line and the liquid supply port portion at the longest distance from the first imaginary reference line respectively from among the at least two liquid supply port portions and defining the second imaginary reference line between two imaginary lines parallel to the first imaginary reference line.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Ishikawa, Takayuki Ono, Masao Furukawa
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Patent number: 8622502Abstract: An adverse effect of air flows occurring near the nozzle line with high print duty is reliably avoided by appropriately dividing and allocating the print data to a plurality of ink ejection nozzle lines. When the print head is scanning in a forward direction, a combination of a magenta ink nozzle line and a yellow ink nozzle line that do not adjoin each other is mainly used. When the print head is scanning in a backward direction, another combination of a magenta ink nozzle line and a yellow ink nozzle line that do not adjoin each other is mainly used.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michinari Mizutani, Torachika Osada
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Patent number: 8622516Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording head, including multiple ejection orifices for ejecting droplets to a recording medium, in which a normal of a plane formed of the following straight lines is tilted with respect to an axis line of each of the ejection orifices: a straight line obtained by connecting points, which are positioned on peripheries of the respective ejection orifices and are at shortest distances from a face plane, in a longitudinal direction of an ejection orifice array; and a straight line obtained by connecting points, which are positioned on the peripheries of the respective ejection orifices and are at longest distances from the face plane, in the longitudinal direction of the ejection orifice array.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yohei Hamade
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Patent number: 8619326Abstract: Disclosed is process of forming a regular array of rows of subpixels on a workpiece. The subpixels having four different colors, and a subpixel pitch s. Of the four colors, q colors are formed by printing and r colors are formed by a non-printing method.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Nugent Truong, Matthew Stainer
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Patent number: 8616681Abstract: A recording head includes flange portions to which spacers are anchored on both sides of the recording head with a head case therebetween. Spacer attachment holes are provided in the flange portions in the center of the width direction orthogonal to a nozzle row in the recording head, and a round hole and an oblong hole relative to the spacers are provided in the flange portions in positions that are distanced from a center line in the width direction. Positioning holes for the flange portions are provided in the spacers in positions that correspond to the round hole and the oblong hole in the flange portions, and the spacers are anchored to the flange portions on both sides so as to be oriented symmetrically to each other, in a positioned state in which the positions of the positioning holes are aligned with the round hole and the oblong hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Hagiwara, Masayuki Eguchi
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Patent number: 8616666Abstract: There is provided a method of printing a regular array of rows of subpixels on a workpiece. The subpixels have c different colors and have a subpixel pitch s. A printing head has z nozzles arranged in a row with a spacing p, where z=n1(c) and p=n2(s), the printhead being at a first position relative to the workpiece. There are c different printing inks, one for each of the c colors, and each of the printing inks is supplied to the nozzles in a regular alternating pattern. The method includes steps of printing a first set of z rows of subpixels with the printing head; moving the workpiece laterally relative to the printing head by a distance d1, where d1=n3(s); printing a second set of z rows of subpixels with the printing head; repeating the printing steps for a total of n2 sets of z rows of subpixels. Variables include: c, an integer greater than 1; n1, n2, and n3 which are the same or different and are independently selected from integers greater than 0, with the proviso that n2 is not a multiple of c.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Nugent Truong, Matthew Stainer
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Publication number: 20130328956Abstract: A printhead and a method of ejecting liquid droplets are provided. The method includes providing a printhead operable to eject liquid drops having a plurality of drop volumes Vi, for i equal to 1 through n, where n?2, with Vj>Vi when j>i. One of the plurality of drop volumes is a minimum drop volume Vmin, and a difference in drop volumes between successively larger drops equals (Vk+1?Vk) which is less than Vmin, for k equal to 1 through n?1. The method also includes ejecting liquid drops through the printhead.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventor: Yonglin Xie
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Patent number: 8602538Abstract: A turning operation of a headset lever is completed, and a printing head can be detached from a carriage part. By the above described turning operation of the head set lever, a supply port insertion and extraction part connected via a link slides, a needle pipe of the supply port insertion and extraction part is brought into a state of being the farthest from the printing head, and a needle insertion and extraction lever is brought into state in which it moves under a case wall. Thereby, an operator cannot turn only the needle insertion and extraction lever when the head set lever is in an opened state. In this manner, when the headset lever is in the opened state, the operation of the needle insertion and extraction lever which is used for connection of the supply port insertion and extraction part to ink supply port is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Sekino, Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8602524Abstract: An ink jet recording method according to an aspect of the invention includes: discharging droplets of a glitter ink composition containing a glitter pigment onto a recording medium to form a glitter region on the recording medium; and discharging a colored ink composition containing a colorant onto the glitter region to form a colored glitter region on the recording medium, wherein when light is irradiated on the colored glitter region at an angle of 45 degrees, with a normal direction with respect to the colored glitter region as 0 degrees, the ratio [(C*45°)/(C*0°)] between the saturation of the colored glitter region measured based on light reflected at an angle of ?45 degrees (C*45°) and the saturation of the colored glitter region measured based on light reflected at an angle of 0 degrees (C*0°) is equal to or greater than 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shiki Hirata, Takayoshi Kagata, Atsushi Denda
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Publication number: 20130321529Abstract: In the case where a slit is provided in a projection portion of an outlet plate, patterning property of a slit can be improved, and a desired slit can be formed. The present invention is a manufacturing method of a liquid ejection head including a substrate; an ejection outlet plate; a channel; and the supply ports formed between the substrate and the ejection outlet plate by joining of the ejection outlet plate onto the substrate; and a projection portion having a slit at a position facing the supply port of the ejection outlet plate, the method including the steps of: forming a first member on the substrate; forming a mold material for forming the slit between first member on the substrate; forming a second member serving as the ejection outlet plate on the mold material; forming the projection portion by removing the mold material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyomitsu Kudo, Yuichiro Akama
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Patent number: 8596758Abstract: A liquid ejection head including: a base plate member having ejection holes and an ejection face having ejection openings; and an actuator; wherein the ejection face has first and second recessed portions extending in one direction and arranged in a perpendicular direction, wherein the ejection openings are formed in bottom portions of the respective first recessed portions; wherein each second recessed portion and a corresponding first recessed portion are arranged side by side such that a separation distance therebetween is not smaller than a separation distance between two first recessed portions located side by side at the shortest distance among first recessed portions and is shorter than a separation distance between two first recessed portions located side by side at the greatest distance among the first recessed portions; and wherein on the bottom portions is formed a liquid repellent layer having not been removed due to a masking material having entered into the first recessed portions to cover the lType: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Hiraide
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Patent number: 8596756Abstract: An inkjet array has been developed that enables inlets for one group of inkjet ejectors to be laterally offset from the nozzles of the inkjet ejectors in the group and also enables inlets for another group of inkjet ejectors to be laterally offset from the nozzles of the inkjet ejectors in the other group. The lateral offset distance increases the distance between the inlets of the two groups to provide a wider bonding area between the two groups and improve the fluidic isolation between the two groups of inkjet ejectors.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: John R. Andrews, Terrance L. Stephens
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Patent number: 8591003Abstract: A fluid ejection apparatus includes a printhead having a substrate. The substrate includes a nozzle face having a width direction and a length direction. The nozzle face includes a set of four columns of nozzles oriented in a column direction substantially along the width direction of the nozzle face, and the nozzles in each column are positioned on a straight line along the column. A spacing between two adjacent columns of the four adjacent columns is different than a spacing between another two adjacent columns of the four adjacent columns. In some implementations, a controller can control timing of ejection of fluid droplets from the nozzles to deposit lines of fluid droplets on a medium, and the medium can travel relative to the nozzle face.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Kusakari, Kevin Von Essen, Paul A. Hoisington
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Patent number: 8591004Abstract: A head unit for fixing a liquid jet head which ejects liquid includes a base component and movable component that slides on the base component and to which the liquid jet head is fixed. A fixing screw fixes the movable component to the base component. A locating member attached to the base component limits a movement direction in which the movable component moves. The movable component has a contact portion touching the locating member and first and second tapered surfaces formed thereon. A vector normal to the first tapered surface has a first component vector extending in the movement direction. A vector normal to the second tapered surface has a second component vector that is opposite the first component vector and extends in the movement direction. The base component has first and second pins accessible to the first and second tapered surfaces, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Satoshi Tsukahara
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Patent number: 8579410Abstract: The hand-held printer includes a print module configured for multidirectional printing, a print head in communication with the print module. The print head includes a plurality of nozzle arrays and wherein the nozzles in each of the plurality of nozzle are disposed substantially equidistant from a reference point. The hand-held printer further includes a circular cap configured to rotatably cooperate with the print head, wherein the circular cap cooperates with the print head to define a seal when the circular cap is disposed in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventor: Asher Simmons
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Publication number: 20130293635Abstract: A liquid ejecting head unit includes a plurality of liquid ejecting heads each having a liquid ejecting surface provided with a nozzle row in which nozzle openings through which liquid is discharged are aligned in a first direction, and a holding member having a holder to which the liquid ejecting head is attached. Further, in the above liquid ejecting head unit, a positioning reference that specifies relative positions between the liquid ejecting heads is provided to the holder, and the liquid ejecting head is fixed to the holder being positioned in compliance with the positioning reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Seiko Epson corporationInventors: Hiroshige OWAKI, Katsuhiro OKUBO
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Patent number: 8573728Abstract: One of the two flow passages branches from one of two ink cartridges to one of the two discharging portions and one of the two individual discharging portions. The other flow passage branches from the other ink cartridge to the other discharging portion and the other individual discharging portion. A ratio of frequency of use of each of the discharging portions, Ra, and frequency of use of each of the individual discharging portions, Rb, satisfies Ra:Rb=1:½.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Manabu Munakata
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Patent number: 8573739Abstract: A wide-array inkjet printhead assembly with die carriers includes a backbone which delivers fluid through a manifold with a number of openings. The openings are spaced apart according to a opening pitch. A plurality of inkjet die includes trenches with a trench pitch which is smaller than the opening pitch. A plurality of die carriers include a plurality of oblique tapered channels, with one end of the oblique tapered channels having pitch matching the opening pitch and interfacing with the backbone and the opposite end of the oblique tapered channels having a pitch matching the trench pitch and interfacing with the inkjet die. A method for assembling a wide-array inkjet printhead assembly is also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Silam J. Choy, Patrick V. Boyd
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Patent number: 8567936Abstract: An enhanced printing system comprises a drum structure, a print carriage for delivering LED curable ink there from, such as from one or more print heads, and one or more LED light sources for curing the delivered ink. Some embodiments may preferably further comprise one or more LED pining stations, such as to control, slow or stop the spread of ink drops. As well, some printer embodiments may comprise a mechanism to deliver any of an inert gas, e.g. nitrogen, or other gas that is at least partially depleted of oxygen, between the LED energy source and the substrate. The disclosed LED printing structures typically provide higher quality and/or lower cost as compared to prior art systems, for a wide variety of printing matter output, such as for but not limited to super wide format (SWF) output, wide format (WF) output, packaging, labeling, or point of sale displays or signage.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Electronics for Imaging, Inc.Inventor: Paul Andrew Edwards
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Patent number: 8567906Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of heads and a head support member. Each head has multiple nozzles arrayed in at least one row to eject liquid droplets. The support member has first and second positioning portions to position each head. Each head has a first positioning face to position each head in a nozzle array direction and a second positioning face to position each head in a direction perpendicular to the nozzle array direction. The first positioning face and the second positioning face are cut faces formed by cutting. Each of a first distance between the first positioning face and a first reference nozzle and a second distance between the second positioning face and a second reference nozzle is uniform between the heads. Each head is mounted to the support member with the first and second positioning faces contacting the first and second positioning portions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Shinozaki
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Publication number: 20130278677Abstract: A printhead includes a nozzle membrane and a plurality of liquid chambers. Portions of the nozzle membrane define an array of nozzles. The nozzle array includes a length and each nozzle of the nozzle array includes an axis. Each of the plurality of liquid chambers is in fluid communication with a respective one of the nozzles of the nozzle array. Each of the plurality of liquid chambers includes a height dimension and a width dimension. The height dimension extends in a direction parallel to the axis of the respective nozzle. The width dimension extends in a direction along the length of the nozzle array. The height dimension and the width dimension have an aspect ratio of less than or equal to 9:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Kathleen M. Vaeth, Hrishikesh V. Panchawagh
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Patent number: 8564840Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure provides a halftoning method for annular rasters comprising: using annular rasters with uniformly spaced raster lines and uniformly spaced pixels within the raster lines; angularly tiling wedge shaped halftone cells around at least a partial circumferential print medium wherein an integer number of wedge tiles fills a disc space; wherein the annular rasters are considered in arcs and wherein pixel thresholds in the wedge shaped halftone cells are considered in arcs so as to conform to the annular rasters upon tiling the wedge shaped halftone cells; and, setting the number of pixel thresholds in each arc raster of the cell to an integer value near a desired writing resolution to enable seamless tiling wherein the number of thresholds increase as a function of a wedge cell radius.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Robert Paul Loce, Edgar A. Bernal
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Patent number: 8564827Abstract: A control device for a printer includes a master controller and a slave controller, and the constituent elements of the master controller and the slave controllers are configured symmetrically. The master controller includes a virtual mechanical controller.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hirotsuna Miura, Hayato Takahashi, Katsuhiko Otani
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Publication number: 20130271528Abstract: The object is to provide an inkjet head unit having: head chips having nozzles arranged on nozzle faces, and capable of discharging ink by respective independent pressure generating module from pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles; and a tabular head unit base on which the head chips are arranged and which is capable of holding the head chips, of abutting faces of the head unit base and the head chip, at least one of the abutting face on the head unit base side and the abutting face on the head chip side is formed in a stepped shape, so that the height of the abutting face of the head chip relative to the surface of the head unit base is partially changed, and the head chip is thereby attached to be inclined relative to the surface of the head unit base.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shigekazu Sakai, Yoshifumi Takafuji, Yuichi Machida, Naomi Kubo, Koujiro Yoshida, Yasuo Nishi
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Patent number: 8556380Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyer, a liquid discharge head, and a supporter. The conveyer is configured to convey a recording medium in a conveying direction parallel to a reference line. The liquid discharge head includes a discharge surface that includes discharge portions and a non-discharge portion. The non-discharge portion is disposed between two adjoining discharge portions and extends to converge on the reference line from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the conveying direction. The supporter includes a projection that includes a top portion facing the non-discharge portion and extending along the non-discharge portion. The top portion is configured to support the recording medium. The top portion is sloped, such that a distance between the top portion and the discharge surface increases from the upstream side toward the downstream side in the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoshi Murata
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Patent number: 8550595Abstract: In an inkjet printing apparatus, degraded image quality due to ink viscosity increasing is suppressed without forming ink dots unrelated to the print image as in what is called on-sheet preliminary ejection. More specifically, print data is generated for each pass in a multi-pass printing, such that the ratio of dots continuously formed by the same nozzle during the same scan becomes greater in low-duty areas than in high-duty areas. Thus, the lengthening of nozzle nonuse time can be suppressed, even in the case of printing a low-duty area. As a result, it becomes possible to suppress degraded image quality due to ink viscosity increasing.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takumi Kaneko
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Patent number: 8549750Abstract: A method of processing a liquid discharge head substrate includes the step of providing a recessed portion in the back surface of the substrate by discharging a manufacturing liquid in a linear trajectory to the back surface of the substrate and by irradiating the back surface of the substrate with laser light that passes along and in the manufacturing liquid.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masataka Kato, Keisuke Kishimoto
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Publication number: 20130250001Abstract: Improved output quality of a printer used in UV curable ink jet printing is achieved by minimizing or eliminating a print artifact referred to as gloss banding or tire tracking. A same or a similar number of nozzles as used in conventional printers is used to achieve a desired throughput, but the nozzles are arranged so that any given square inch of substrate to which ink is being applied receives a lower amount of ink. A longer effective print head is provided by arranging the print heads into a longer array, where the print heads are butted substantially end-to-end. As a result, the net throughput of the printer is the same as that of a conventional printer because the printer uses the same number of print heads, but the amount of ink that is applied to any given square inch is less on a pass.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Joseph A. LAHUT, Dwight CRAM, John DUFFIELD, Peter HEATH
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Patent number: 8542369Abstract: A printer having multiple stages of nozzles is controlled to avoid or minimize blank space between print portions when printing on roll paper. A controller in communication with the printer is configured to determine if last partial print data to be printed contains blank raster data. If so, the controller calculates the difference between a total number of rasters in the first through the last partial print data and the number of blank rasters in the last partial print data, prints the last partial print data, and controls the paper transportation mechanism to advance the roll paper only the calculated distance to eliminate excess blank space between print portions. The functionality of the controller is also embodied in a method for controlling a printer as described above.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Hyogo, Hiroshi Wanibuchi, Mitsuhisa Ando
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Publication number: 20130241996Abstract: Pressure applying sections applying a pressure to ink in pressure chambers are arranged in a staggered array in a sheet feed direction to form a row. Four of such rows of the pressure applying sections are aligned in the scanning direction. One part of inspecting sections among plural inspecting sections detecting resonance frequencies are arranged respectively at positions deviating from both end parts and an approximately center part, in the sheet feed direction, of each row of the pressure applying sections toward both sides in the scanning direction, and are aligned in the sheet feed direction. The other inspecting sections are arranged on both sides, in the sheet feed direction, of the rows of the pressure applying sections, and are aligned in the scanning direction. Further, plural dummy electrodes are aligned with the one part of inspecting sections, the inspection electrodes, and the pads in the sheet feed direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koichiro HARA
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Patent number: 8534796Abstract: A liquid-discharging recording head includes first and second substrates each having an energy generating element and a supply port, and a support member on which the substrates are arranged. The first substrate is provided on one side in a longitudinal direction of the support member, and the second substrate is provided on an other side in the longitudinal direction of the support member. A driving circuit configured to drive the energy generating element is provided in a larger region between an end of a supply port in the first substrate on the other side in the longitudinal direction and an end of the first substrate on the other side and in a larger region between an end of a supply port in the second substrate on the one side in the longitudinal direction and an end of the second substrate on the one side.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Omata, Yoshiyuki Imanaka, Hideo Tamura, Takaaki Yamaguchi, Kousuke Kubo, Ryoji Oohashi, Yuuji Tamaru