Abstract:
A solid type semiconductor device structured in the solid form comprising energy converting means for converting energy from outside; operating means operated by energy converted by said energy converting means; information acquiring means for acquiring external environmental information; information accumulating means for accumulating information to be compared with acquired information by said information acquiring means; and discriminating means for discriminating the necessity to communicate information by comparing the acquired information acquired by said information acquiring means with the corresponding information accumulated on said information accumulating means, wherein said information communicating means displays the information acquired by said information acquiring means externally or communicates said information to the outside when said discriminating means discriminates the necessity of communicating information, and said information acquiring means, said information accumulating means, and said discriminating means are also operated by energy converted by said energy converting means.
Abstract:
An ink jet head circuit board is provided which has heaters to generate thermal energy for ink ejection as they are energized. This circuit board reduces areas of the heaters to achieve higher printing resolution and image quality. This board also prevents a degradation of thermal energy efficiency and reduces power consumption. The protective insulation layer for the electrode wire layer (103) is formed of two layers (108a,108b) and one of the two layers, (108a), is removed from above the heater (102) to improve the heat energy efficiency. The resistor layer (107) is deposited over the electrode wire layer (103). The patterning for removing the protective insulation layer (108a) is done in a wider range than a gap of the electrode wire layer (103), the gap being used to form the heater. Further, by forming the electrode wires in two layers, a possible reduction in an effective bubble generation area of the heater (102) can be prevented.
Abstract:
The present inventions allow the detection of ink in the printing head by significantly simplified their configurations and on which various printing systems can be widely applied. There are a heater (101) for supplying an energy to ejecting ink, a driver (102) for driving heater (101), and a detection electrode (118) capable of detecting a voltage variation between the heater (101) and the driver (102) to be occurred depending on the driving of the heater (101). Furthermore, an insulating film (410) that covers the surface of the detection electrode (118) prevents a chemical or physical change from the detection electrode (118). Furthermore, a reference element group or a reference unit that produces a signal as a reference of the detection signal avoids the influence of noise. Furthermore, an energy-generating element (101) and another signal source (101) improve the accuracy of ink-detection. A drive pulse which is insufficient to ejecting ink may be supplied to the heater (101) to improve the accuracy of ink-detection.
Abstract:
An ink jet recording method in which an ink jet recording head is mounted on a carriage and the carriage produces records while moving by discharging ink from recording means of said ink jet recording head, wherein an electric wave is transmitted from fixed communication means to the solid semiconductor element fixed on said ink jet recording head, said solid semiconductor element receives said electric wave and detects a position of said recording means based thereon, and controls timing of ink discharge according to it.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ink jet head substrate comprising a heat generating resistance member forming a heat generating portion, an electrode wiring electrically connected to the heat generating resistance member, and an anti-cavitation film provided on the heat generating resistance member and the electrode wiring via an insulation protection layer, and wherein the anti-cavitation film is formed from different materials with more than two layers.
Abstract:
A stable operation is realized without any malfunction of a driver even under a voltage condition that a supplied voltage is 3.3 V or lower. For this purpose, in an ink-jet printhead having an ink orifice for discharging ink, a plurality of heat generation elements for generating heat energy used to discharge ink, and an ink channel which incorporates the heat generation elements and communicates with the ink orifice, a driver for driving the heat generation elements, and a logic circuit for controlling the driver are formed on a single board. The gate oxide film thickness of an enhancement NMOS transistor which forms the driver is larger than that of an enhancement NMOS transistor which forms the logic circuit.
Abstract:
A substrate for use in a liquid discharge head for discharging liquid by giving thermal energy thereto, the substrate being provided with a heat generating member for providing said thermal energy to the liquid and a movable member so positioned as to be opposed to said heat generating member and to be fixed at the upstream side in the flowing direction of the liquid and to have a free end at the downstream end, wherein two wiring layers for applying a voltage to said heat generating member are provided in a superposed manner with an interlayer insulation layer therebetween and are mutually connected electrically via a through hole, and said through hole is provided in a position different from the boundary between a fixing portion and a movable portion of said movable member.