Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Liquid discharge device, method for controlling liquid discharge device, and device driver
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Application No.: US15434680Application Date: 2017-02-16
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Publication No.: US10011133B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Atsushi Muto , Ryosuke Tsuchihashi , Hiroshige Owaki , Nobuaki Azami
- Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2016-036139 20160226
- Main IPC: B41J29/377
- IPC: B41J29/377 ; B41J2/045 ; B41J2/14

Abstract:
A liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge head that includes a nozzle from which liquid is discharged and a liquid channel communicating with the nozzle, and that discharges liquid from the nozzle. The nozzle has an inner wall surface having an uneven pattern including a recess where the inner diameter of the nozzle is increased and a projection where the inner diameter of the nozzle is smaller than that in the recess. In a case where ink is continuously discharged from an identical nozzle, at a time when a meniscus in the nozzle after previous discharge is located closer to an initial position before discharge than a center position between the initial position and a position at which the meniscus is most greatly drawn toward the liquid channel, subsequent discharge is performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170246893A1 LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE, AND DEVICE DRIVER Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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