Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively produce a liquid ejecting head while enhancing positional accuracy of a nozzle forming surface between head chips, and to eliminate occurrence of thermal stress or warp and positional shift possibly caused by temperature variation. SOLUTION: The liquid ejecting head comprises a plurality of head modules 10 each including a head chip 20 arranged with heating resistors, a nozzle sheet 13 on which nozzles are formed, and a module frame 11 for supporting the nozzle sheet 13 by being stuck thereto and provided with a hole for arranging the head chip 20, and a head frame 2 having a hole 2a for internally arranging a plurality of head modules 10 in series wherein the head frame 2 is coupled with the module frame 11 of each head module 10 and the head frame 2 has a linear expansion coefficient substantially equal to that of the module frame 11. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance productivity remarkably by ensuring nozzle position with high accuracy even when a wide nozzle sheet is used thereby reducing failure rate, and to realize good ejection characteristics by a nozzle exhibiting high positional accuracy. SOLUTION: A sheet 17' for forming a nozzle ejecting ink in the form of a liquid drop is stuck to a head frame 16 and then a nozzle 18 is formed in the sheet 17' thus ensuring highly accurate positional relation between the nozzle 18 and a heating resistor for imparting energy to ink. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove bubbles contained in liquid by replacing the liquid in a short time when the liquid is circulated between a liquid ejection head and a liquid tank by generating a negative pressure in the liquid ejection head. SOLUTION: When ink is fed from a plurality of ink ejection nozzles 27 formed in the nozzle surface 10 to an ink supply port 11 located substantially in the center of a print head 2 through a conduit 4 for supplying ink from an ink tank 3 storing ink 8 being fed to the print head 2 ejecting ink, thence returned from ink discharge ports 12a and 12b at the opposite end parts of the print head 2 back to the ink tank 3 through an ink circulation conduit 5, and a negative pressure is generated in the print head 2 by driving a liquid feed pump 6 arranged on the ink circulation conduit 5 in order to circulate ink between the print head 2 and the ink tank 3, a substantially identical ink discharge time is set for the ink discharge ports 12a and 12b at the opposite end parts of the print head 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove bubbles contained in liquid by generating a negative pressure in a liquid ejection head to circulate the liquid between the liquid ejection head and a liquid tank thereby preventing leakage of liquid from a nozzle during circulation. SOLUTION: The head cartridge comprises a print head 2 ejecting ink 8 from a plurality of ink ejection nozzles formed in the nozzle surface (10), a conduit 4 for supplying the print head 2 with ink from an ink tank 3 storing ink being fed to a liquid chamber 9 in the print head 2, a conduit 5 for circulating ink from the print head 2 back to the ink tank 3, and a liquid feed pump 6 arranged on the ink circulation conduit 5 and circulating ink between the print head 2 and the ink tank 3. A negative pressure is generated in the print head 2 by driving the liquid feed pump 6 and ink is circulated between the print head 2 and the ink tank 3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an ink jet head in which cleaning effect is enhanced in the vicinity of an ink ejection hole without damaging the ink ejection face. SOLUTION: In the cleaning method of a print head having an ink ejection face 6 arraged with an array of holes 13 for ejecting ink of one color or a plurality of colors, respectively, a cleaning roller 7 formed cylindrically of a material having continuos bubbles such that the diameter of a bubble on the central side is smaller than the diameter of a bubble on the outer circumferential surface side is moved relatively to the ink ejection face 6 of the print head while touching the ink ejection face 6. Ink 15 in the ink ejection hole 13 is sucked through pressure variation in the ink ejection hole 13 when the cleaning roller 7 moves while touching the outer circumferential surface thereof to the ink ejection face 6, and the sucked ink 15 is absorbed and held in the cleaning roller 7. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an ink discharge face from being damaged and to improve a cleaning effect near ink discharge holes in an inkjet head which discharges ink for imaging from ink discharge holes onto a recording medium. SOLUTION: In the method for cleaning a printing head which has the ink discharge face 6 where an array of ink discharge holes 13 is set for discharging the ink of one color or a plurality of colors color by color, a cleaning roller 7 formed of a material having either of independent bubbles and continuous bubbles into a cylindrical shape is moved relatively in a state in which the cleaning roller is kept in touch with the ink discharge face 6 of the printing head, and an ink 15 in the ink discharge holes 13 is sucked by a pressure change in the ink discharge holes 13 at a time when an outer circumferential face of the cleaning roller 7 moves in touch with the ink discharge face 6. Accordingly, the ink discharge face 6 is prevented from being damaged. Moreover, the sucked ink 15 is absorbed into holes formed by bubbles, so that the cleaning effect near the ink discharge holes 13 can be improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict a positional deviation between an energy generating element for discharging ink from an ink discharge nozzle and the ink discharge nozzle to be as small as possible. SOLUTION: A head frame 4 formed of a material having a coefficient of linear expansion approximately equal to the coefficient of linear expansion of a semiconductor substrate 7 which becomes a base of a substrate member 6, for example, a silicon substrate and larger than the coefficient of linear expansion of a nozzle sheet 2 is attached beforehand to the nozzle sheet 2 at a temperature lower than the room temperature. Then, base members 6, 6 and the like are attached to the nozzle sheet 2 at a temperature not lower than the attaching temperature of the head frame 4 and the nozzle sheet 2.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink jet printer and its head cartridge in which reduction in the size of the printer is facilitated by enabling effective use of the space in the printer. SOLUTION: The head cartridge 120a comprises an ink jet head 120, and a plurality of ink holding containers 122c containing ink being ejected from the head wherein each ink holding container is connected with one head chip 124 having a plurality of nozzles. A plurality of head chips are arranged along the longitudinal direction while being shifted alternately, in the way, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to have an overlap 124d at the end part. A space 122e is formed by shifting the space for containing the ink holding container at the end part in the longitudinal direction based on the overlap.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manual scanning type ink jet printer wherein printing of an image is not executed when a line head does not face a printing object. SOLUTION: There is disclosed the manual scanning type ink jet printer 10 that comprises a driving section 33 for driving the ink jet type line head 31, a guiding section 13 for guiding the line head 31 along a surface of a recording medium and a detecting section 14 for detecting the guided speed of the line head 31. The manual scanning type ink jet printer 10 further comprises a printing object detecting sensor 21 that detects whether or not the printing object is placed in a printing region opposite to the line head 31. Only when the printing object detecting sensor 21 detects the printing object, the driving section 33 drives the line head 31.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for controlling a printer and a printer head which is particularly applied to an ink-jet printer for expressing various gradations by controlling a quantity of ink to be diluted by a dilution solution, thereby reducing a variation in quantity of ink supplied to discharging nozzles and obtaining high-quality printing results in comparison with the prior art. SOLUTION: A quantity of ink to be diluted by a dilution solution is controlled by controlling the number of pulse waveforms according to the method.