Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inkjet head
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Application No.: US17357897Application Date: 2021-06-24
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Publication No.: US11691417B2Publication Date: 2023-07-04
- Inventor: Meng Fei Wong , Ryutaro Kusunoki
- Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kim & Stewart LLP
- Priority: JP 20206189 2020.12.11
- Main IPC: B41J29/38
- IPC: B41J29/38 ; B41J2/045 ; B41J2/14

Abstract:
An inkjet head includes a pressure chamber storing ink, a nozzle communicating with the chamber, an actuator ejecting the ink through the nozzle by changing a volume of the chamber, and a circuit outputting a drive signal to the actuator with a drive waveform having a cycle based on a number of gradation levels being used for printing. When printing is performed using three or more gradation levels, the circuit outputs the signal that has a multi-drop drive waveform including two or more first waveforms for ejecting first to (n−1)-th droplets of the ink where n is equal to or greater than 3, a second waveform for ejecting an n-th droplet of the ink, and an intermediate time between the first waveform for ejecting the (n−1)-th droplet and the second waveform for ejecting the n-th droplet. The intermediate time is longer than a time between two adjacent first waveforms.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220184943A1 INKJET HEAD Public/Granted day:2022-06-16
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