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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5439554 | Liquid jet recording head fabrication method There is disclosed a method for fabricating a liquid jet recording head having heat acting portions, communicating to orifices for liquid discharge, for applying heat energy to a liquid to form a bubble therein, electricity-heat converters for generating ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5420620 | Recording apparatus having a recording head using an electrically conductive sheet An electrically conducting sheet comprises a plurality of electrically conductive members arranged in a insulator, for electrically connecting a plurality of wiring pads on a first substrate and a corresponding plurality of wiring pads on a second substra... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5420623 | Recording head having multi-layer wiring An electricity-heat converter is provided on a substrate for a recording head. The recording head generates heat energy for discharging recording liquid by causing the state change of the liquid to occur. A multi-layer wiring is sandwiched between insulat... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5420627 | Inkjet printhead In a print cartridge according to the preferred embodiment of the invention, a polymer tape having orifices formed therein and containing conductive traces has a substrate containing heater elements affixed to a back surface of the tape. Each of the heate... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5414245 | Thermal-ink heater array using rectifying material A heater array for an ink jet printhead includes an insulating substrate, which can be a layer of ceramic, flexible plastic, insulated flexible metal, polysilicon, or single crystalline silicon. A first material layer is deposited atop the insulating subs... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5400063 | Method for optimizing a conductor-path layout for a print head of an ink printing device, and a conductor-path layout for such a print head A substantially uniform and nevertheless low feed line resistance of the conductor paths (Li) can be realized for all heating elements in an ink jet printer by a suitable dimensioning of a transition structure (UV) of a conductor path layout di... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5300959 | Efficient conductor routing for inkjet printhead A novel, nozzle member for an inkjet print cartridge and method of forming the nozzle member are disclosed. In this method, the nozzles or orifices are formed in a flexible polymer tape by Excimer laser ablation. In one embodiment, a substrate containing ... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5258781 | One-step encapsulation, air gap sealing and structure bonding of thermal ink jet printhead A one-step process bonds a manifold to a printhead die and interconnection board located on a heat sinking substrate, encapsulates wire bonds extending from the interconnection board and the printhead die, and seals air gaps between the manifold and print... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5258638 | Thermal ink jet power MOS device design/layout A layout of a MOSFET current driver is disclosed which improves the fabrication yield and the current drive capability over that of the prior art while keeping the layout area the same as the prior art. In this design, the gate is laid out to have a later... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5257042 | Thermal ink jet transducer protection The present invention provides an ink jet printhead that is provided a bias voltage and that includes at least one ink channel, a heating element, and an interconnect. The ink channel has an open end that serves as a nozzle, and the heating element is pos... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5227812 | Liquid jet recording head with bump connector wiring In the wiring portion in the wiring substrate constituting a recording head of a liquid jet type recording apparatus, two electroconductive layers are connected through a protective layer that includes at least two unit layers. One unit layer is formed wi... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5208611 | Arrangement for heating the ink in the write head of an ink-jet printer A heating device of a write head based on layer technology for an ink jet printer is furnished as a heating resistor (15) in the form of a heating conduit meander directly from an electrically conductive thin film, disposed in the empty spaces on a substr... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5204689 | Ink jet recording head formed by cutting process An ink jet recording head comprising a plurality of discharge openings for discharging ink, a plurality of liquid passageways for holding ink and a plurality of heat generating members. Each of the heat generating members corresponds to a liquid passagewa... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5182577 | Ink jet recording head having an improved substance arrangement device A recording head is equipped with a plurality of liquid discharge portions, each having a discharge opening for discharging ink, and a substrate. The substrate is provided with a plurality of electrothermal transducers for generating thermal energy to be ... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5157418 | Ink jet recording head with through-hole wiring connector A substrate for a liquid emission recording head, comprises: a support member, plural electrothermal converting elements formed on the support member and each provided with a heat generating resistor layer, a common electrode wiring layer and an individua... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5150129 | Liquid jet recording method and apparatus having electro-thermal transducer connected to a higher power source potential side through a switch An apparatus for liquid-jet recording comprises an electro-thermal transducer and discharge openings for jetting a liquid by thermal action of the electrothermal transducer. The electro-thermal transducer is connected directly to a lower potential side of... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5144341 | Thermal ink jet drivers device design/layout A thermal ink jet printer utilizes a printhead whose electrical connections to the heating elements used to expel the ink droplets has been modified to reduce the effects of parasitic resistance of a first power bus when a number of resistors are simultan... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5144336 | Method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of thermal ink jet and thermal printheads that have a heating matrix system This disclosure presents methods for controlling the temperature of a thermal ink jet and thermal printhead so that the quality of black and white printing, gray-scale printing, and color printing is improved. The methods control the average residual powe... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5134425 | Ohmic heating matrix Several embodiments of an apparatus for directly driving all addressed and unaddressed resistive heating elements in a matrix of heating elements is disclosed. Since the unaddressed heating elements are directly driven, the parasitic voltages that are fou... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5121143 | Ink printing head with variable-size heat elements This invention relates to an ink jet printing head comprising in combination: a thermal head member having at least one thermal element consisting of a plurality of thermal dot elements, a guide member having ink-supplied grooves contacting the thermal el... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5103246 | X-Y multiplex drive circuit and associated ink feed connection for maximizing packing density on thermal ink jet (TIJ) printheads A X-Y multiplex drive circuit and associated ink feed arrangement for an ink jet printhead wherein resistive heater elements, X-Y electrical interconnects thereto and closely adjacent ink feed ports are integrated on or within a given printhead substrate ... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5019675 | Thick film substrate with highly thermally conductive metal base A novel hybrid thick film substrate is enabled by utilizing a highly thermally conductive base metal such as copper. The base metal is passivated by a suitable technique to prevent oxidation. One or more dielectric layers are then screened onto the passiv... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4999650 | Bubble jet print head having improved multiplex actuation construction A multiplex drop ejection construction for a drop-on-demand, ink jet printer. The construction includes a support substrate; a first circuit portion having branches that include a resistive heater element and a diode device formed in spaced relation on th... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4989317 | Method for making tab circuit electrical connector supporting multiple components thereon A flexible interconnect circuit having at least two connected components within its periphery is formed with electrically conductive traces on a nonconductive plastic support. The components are interconnected to each other, and to external locations, wit... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4940999 | Liquid jet recording head A liquid jet recording head is provided with a liquid discharging portion having an orifice provided to discharge liquid and form flying liquid droplets and a liquid flow path communicating with the orifice and having as a part of the construction thereof... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4922269 | Liquid jet recording head unit, method of making same and liquid jet recording apparatus incorporating same A liquid jet recording head unit comprises a recording head, for forming flying liquid droplets which are discharged through an orifice by the action of energy generated by an energy generating member provided on a substrate and connected to an electrode ... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4907020 | Driving circuit for an ink jet recording head having resistor elements respectively connected parallel to the electrothermal converting elements A driving circuit for an ink jet recording head that includes electrothermal converting elements for causing liquid emission by thermal energy. Electric energy is supplied to the electrothermal converting elements for actuation. Resistor elements are resp... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4887098 | Thermal ink jet printer having printhead transducers with multilevelinterconnections A thermal ink jet printer utilizes a printhead whose electrical connections to the heating elements used to expel the ink droplets has been modified to reduce the effects of parasitic resistance of the common return when a number of resistors are simultan... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4881318 | Method of manufacturing a liquid jet recording head A liquid jet recording head comprises a recording head unit for discharging liquid from an orifice by applying an energy to the liquid from an energy generator mounted on a substrate in order to form flying droplets, and a substrate member having an exter... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4878070 | Thermal ink jet print cartridge assembly A thermal ink jet printer is provided with an improved interconnection between the heater elements in the printhead and the remote source for the thermal energy print signals. The printhead is bonded to a first electrode board which has a plurality of ele... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4866460 | Ink jet recording head and base plate therefor This specification discloses a base plate for an ink jet recording head provided with an electrothermal converting member having a substrate, a pair of first electrodes provided at a predetermined interval on the substrate, a pair of second electrodes pro... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4841312 | Thermal-electrostatic ink jet recording apparatus A thermal-electrostatic ink jet recording head is formed of two spaced-apart insulating substrates with an electrostatic field forming electrode and an array of electric heating elements in the slit between the substrates. The heating elements are paired ... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4806106 | Interconnect lead frame for thermal ink jet printhead and methods of manufacture Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for interconnecting a flexible (flex) circuit, printed circuit or the like to an ink jet printhead or other similar electronic device. This approach includes providing a flexible lead frame member between the fle... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4791440 | Thermal drop-on-demand ink jet print head A thermal drop-on-demand ink jet print head in which an array of heating means is provided on one surface of a substrate member. A common electrode provides electrical contact to the heating means, and an array of data electrodes provides electrical conta... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4727384 | Liquid jet recording head A liquid jet recording head comprises a recording head element having a discharge port for discharging liquid to form flying droplets and an energy generating element for generating an energy to form the droplets, an ink tank for storing the liquid to be ... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4725859 | Liquid jet recording head A liquid jet recording head comprises an electro-thermal transducer having a heat-generating resistance layer provided on a substrate, a pair of electrodes connected electrically to said heat-generating resistance layer and disposed with a gap so as to co... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4635073 | Replaceable thermal ink jet component and thermosonic beam bonding process for fabricating same This application discloses a new and improved thermal ink jet printhead and method of manufacture wherein a tape automated bond (TAB) flexible circuit is sequentially thermosonically bonded in a one-by-one wire bonding process to aligned conductive traces... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4631555 | Liquid jet type recording head A liquid jet type recording head comprises a liquid discharge section including an orifice for discharging the liquid to form flying droplets and a liquid passage providing part of a heat acting portion at which thermal energy acts on the liquid to form d... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4612554 | High density thermal ink jet printhead An ink jet printhead composed of substantially two identical parts and method of batch fabricating the parts. Each part has V-grooves anisotropically etched between a linear array of heating elements having selectively addressable electrodes which are par... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4602261 | Ink jet electrode configuration A liquid jet recording head is provided with a liquid discharging portion having an orifice for discharging liquid and forming flying liquid droplets, and a liquid flow path communicating with the orifice and having as a part of the construction thereof a... | 07/22/1986 |
