Abstract:
An ink jet recording head comprising a plurality of discharge ports (104) for discharging ink droplets, a plurality of ink flow paths (109) communicated with the respective discharge ports, a common liquid chamber (105) communicated with said ink flow paths and adapted to hold ink to be introduced into said ink flow paths, electrothermal converting portions (102,103) disposed in said ink flow paths and adapted to generate heat for bubbling the ink, and bubble trapping portions (107,110) disposed at communicating portion between said ink flow paths and said common liquid chamber and including stepped structures each having a cross-sectional area smaller than a main cross-sectional area of said common liquid chamber and greater than a cross-sectional area of the corresponding ink flow path in a direction perpendicular to an ink introducing direction, wherein each of said ink flow paths is provided with an inclined portion located between an upstream end of said electrothermal converting portion and the communicating portion of said ink flow path with said common liquid chamber in the ink introducing direction and having a cross-sectional area, in the direction perpendicular to the ink introducing direction, gradually increasing toward the upstream bubble trapping portion, and a surface extended from said inclined portion intersects with a ceiling surface of said bubble trapping portion.
Abstract:
An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink jet recording head provided with a discharge port (205) for discharging ink, an ink flow path (202) communicating with the discharge port, and at least two heat generating elements (501,502) provided in the ink flow path along the direction thereof, wherein the ink is pigment-based ink and the recording head comprises drive signal supply means for varying the supply timing of drive signals to the plural heat generating elements for ink discharge in such a manner that the drive signal is at first given to the heat generating element at the side of the discharge port at room temperature and the supply timings to the plural heat generating members become simultaneous or closer thereto with an increase in the temperature of the recording head.
Abstract:
An ink jet head including a base member (100); a first member (1300) having recesses and coupled with the base member to form ink passages using the recesses; a second member (400) integral with the first member (1300) and extending at an angle from an end fo the first member, the second member (400) having ink ejection outlets (41) communicating with the ink passages.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an ink-jet cartridge including an ink-jet head body (100) and an ink storage portion (110) which include coupling members (109, 120), respectively. The ink storage portion (110) includes an absorbing member (112), while the ink-jet head body includes an ink communication pipe (109).