Abstract:
A printing head has a plurality of heater boards, each of which includes a shift register to which printing data and selection data for selecting preheating pulse signals are applied as inputs, a latch circuit for latching the printing data, a selection-data latch circuit for latching the selection data, a selection circuit for selecting any one of a plurality of preheating pulse signals inputted in accordance with the latched selection data, and a plurality of heating resistors driven by the printing data or preheating pulse signals. Correction data, obtained by a head correcting apparatus, for performing printing at an average density by correcting the characteristics of each heater board is stored in a memory of the printing head. A printing apparatus decides the selection data in accordance with the correction data and sets the selection data in the selection-data latch circuit.
Abstract:
An ink jet head (100) for ejecting ink, has an ink ejecting portion (101) having an ink ejecting port formed thereon so as to eject ink through the ink ejecting port, a positioning portion (104) for definitely determining the position of the ink jet head (100) relative to an apparatus using the ink jet head (100) when the ink jet head (100) is fitted to the apparatus, an ink supplying portion (102) adapted to be connected to ink supplying unit while ink is supplied to the ink jet head (100), and an electric connecting portion (103) adapted to be electrically connected to an electric connecting portion on the apparatus side so as to send and receive signals, the positioning portion (104), the ink supplying portion (102) and the electric connecting portion (103) are disposed on a different surface from a surface on which the ink ejecting portion (101) and at least one of the electric portion (103) and the ink supplying portion (102) is disposed on an opposite side surface to a surface on which the positioning portion (104) is disposed.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a liquid discharging head comprising a substrate having a plurality of heat generating elements for generating a bubble in liquid and a grooved member having a plurality of grooves constituting a plurality of liquid passages and wherein the liquid passages for respective heat generating elements are formed by joining the grooved member to the substrate and further wherein the grooved member has an opening portion into which the substrate is inserted and the opening portion has the plurality of grooves which constitute the liquid passages for the respective heat generating elements when the substrate is inserted into the opening portion.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a component provided with a number of liquid paths having movable members for use of liquid discharging comprises the steps of displacing the movable members provided for thin film material by use of such thin film material having the movable members on it, and a component provided with a plurality of recessed portions, and of placing the movable members, which are in the state of being displaced with respect to the recessed portions of the component correspondingly, hence making it possible to fabricate a liquid jet head without damaging or deforming such thin film material constituting the movable members. With the provision of the movable members, the discharging power and efficiency of the liquid jet head are significantly enhanced to obtain recorded images of high quality at higher speeds.
Abstract:
A liquid ejection head includes an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid; a bubble generating region for generating a bubble; a movable member disposed faced to the bubble generating region and movable between a first position and a second position which is farther form the bubble generating region than the first position; wherein the movable member moves from the first position to the second position by pressure produced by the generation of the bubble to permit expansion of the bubble more in a downstream side closer to the ejection outlet than in an upstream side; and a first common liquid chamber having a height, measured in a direction perpendicular to a plane including the movable member at rest, which is larger than that of the first liquid flow path, wherein the movable member has a fulcrum in the first common liquid chamber and a free end in the first liquid flow path.
Abstract:
An ink jet head manufacturing method, includes steps of disposing a plurality of heater boards each having a plurality of energy generating elements, on a base plate; mounting on the base plate a top plate having a plurality of ink passage forming grooves corresponding to respective energy generating elements; the improvement residing in that in said disposing step, said heater boards are directly disposed with a gap between adjacent ones, and that in said mounting step, the top plate is bonded on the base plate.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a component provided with a number of liquid paths having movable members for use of liquid discharging comprises the steps of displacing the movable members provided for thin film material by use of such thin film material having the movable members on it, and a component provided with a plurality of recessed portions, and of placing the movable members, which are in the state of being displaced with respect to the recessed portions of the component correspondingly, hence making it possible to fabricate a liquid jet head without damaging or deforming such thin film material constituting the movable members. With the provision of the movable members, the discharging power and efficiency of the liquid jet head are significantly enhanced to obtain recorded images of high quality at higher speeds.
Abstract:
An ink jet recording head is produced by forming in a first substrate (308) a plurality of orifices (317) for ejecting an ink droplet and a reference object for registration; forming in a second substrate (307) ejection energy generating elements (315) for supplying energy for ejecting the ink placed in liquid passages (314) communicating with the orifices (317); and joining the first substrate 308 and the second substrate (307) together on the basis of the reference object for registration.