Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drive circuit for driving a capacitive load
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Application No.: US15140864Application Date: 2016-04-28
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Publication No.: US09793891B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Tetsuo Takagi , Hidekazu Uematsu
- 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: JP2014-164129 20140812
- Main IPC: B41J2/045
- IPC: B41J2/045 ; H03K17/687 ; H03K5/04 ; H03K5/24

Abstract:
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: an modulation circuit that generates a modulated signal by pulse-modulating a source signal through self-oscillation; a transistor that amplifies the modulated signal to generate an amplified modulated signal; a low-pass filter that includes an inductor and a capacitor and smoothes the amplified modulated signal to generate a drive signal; a feedback circuit that allows the drive signal to return to the modulation circuit; a piezoelectric element that is displaced by application of the drive signal thereto; a cavity that is filled with a liquid inside and has an internal volume which changes when the piezoelectric element is displaced; and a nozzle that is provided to discharge the liquid inside the cavity in response to the change of the internal volume of the cavity. In this configuration, a self-resonant frequency of the capacitor is higher than a frequency of the self-oscillation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160241238A1 DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR DRIVING A CAPACITIVE LOAD Public/Granted day:2016-08-18
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