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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8384749 | Thermal head, printer, and manufacturing method for the thermal head A thermal head has a support substrate that has a concave portion having an opening portion formed in a surface of the support substrate, and an upper substrate bonded to the surface of the support substrate in a stacked state to close the opening portion. The upper... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8379070 | Thermal head, manufacturing method therefor, and printer A thermal head includes a support substrate having a concave portion formed in its front surface, and an upper substrate bonded in a stacked state to the front surface of the support substrate. A heating resistor is provided on the front surface of the upper substra... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8339431 | Thermal head and printer Provided is a thermal head including an intermediate layer between a support substrate and an upper substrate, which is capable of suppressing heat dissipation toward the support substrate while maintaining printing quality. Employed is a thermal head (1) inc... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8334886 | Thermal head and printer A thermal head has a support substrate, an upper plate substrate having a back surface bonded to a top surface of the support substrate, and a heating resistor provided on the upper plate substrate. A concave portion is formed in a region of at least one of the top ... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8253765 | Thermal head and manufacturing method for the thermal head Provided is a thermal head (1) including: a substrate body (12) constituted through bonding a flat supporting substrate (13) and a flat upper substrate (11), which are made of a glass material onto each other in a stacked state; a heating... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8189019 | Thermal head, thermal printer, and manufacturing method for thermal head To improve printing quality and reduce manufacturing cost, a plurality of heating resistors (14) are arranged with spaces therebetween on a heat storage layer (13) laminated on a surface of a supporting substrate (11) via an adhesive layer (1... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8144175 | Heating resistor element, manufacturing method for the same, thermal head, and printer Provided is a heating resistor element (1), including: an insulating substrate (9); a heat accumulating layer (10) bonded to a surface of the insulating substrate (9); and a heating resistor (11) provided on the heat accumulating l... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139094 | Thermal head and thermal printer A thermal head which forms an image on a recording medium by pressing a protruding portion on which heating elements are arranged on the recording medium while driving the heating elements to be heated includes a head body portion in which the protruding portion and... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7944461 | Heating device, erasing device, information recording and erasing device, and transfer device A heating device capable of evenly heating a thermal recording medium without increasing the cost of the device is disclosed. The heating device evenly heats the recording surface of a thermally-reversible recording card by conducting the heat energy transferred fro... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7889219 | Thermal head A thermal head includes a substrate; a plurality of driver ICs configured to be arranged in a main scanning direction; a heater element configured to include a heat storage layer, a heating resistor layer which is made of a plurality of pairs of effective heating po... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880755 | Multi-segment multi-character fixed print head assembly A thermal print head assembly comprising a thin ceramic substrate, a thermal insulating glaze layer, an electrically conducive layer, an electrically resistive element layer, and a glass over-coating protective layer, plus an energizing schema that eliminates the ne... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7843475 | Thermal print head and method for manufacturing the same A thermal printhead (A1) includes an insulating substrate (1), a glaze (2), a plurality of pairs of first and second electrodes (3A, 3B) and heating resistors (5). Each of the heating resistors (5) includes a heating ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7791625 | Thermalhead, method for manufacture of same, and printing device provided with same A thermal head that includes a bonding portion and a protective layer. The thermal head prevents electrostatic discharge damage from occurring in the bonding portion of the thermal head due to the protective layer being electrostatically charged. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7616223 | Thermal printhead A thermal printhead (A) according to the present invention includes a substrate (1) having an obverse surface on which a glaze layer (2) is formed, an electrode (4) formed on the glaze layer (2) and a clip connector (5) attached to... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7612790 | Heating head for erasing a printed image on re-writable media A heating head which functions as an erase head for quick operation can be turned off while not in use yet it can turn on when it is used (on-demand operation) and operates stably without over-heating even for the long operation, re-writable media record erasing equ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7554567 | Thermal printhead A thermal printhead (A1) includes a substrate (1) and a plurality of heat-producing resistance sections (30) provided on the substrate (1). The heat-producing resistance sections (30) melt ink of an ink ribbon, which is transferred... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7542061 | Thermal image forming apparatus A thermal image forming apparatus includes a platen roller and a thermal printhead. A heating portion of the thermal printhead has a plurality of heating elements arranged along an area where the platen roller and the thermal printhead form a printing nip. A plurali... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7460143 | Thermal printhead with a resistor layer and method for manufacturing same A thermal printhead (A1) comprises an insulating substrate (1), a common electrode (31) which is formed on the insulating substrate (1) and includes a plurality of comb teeth (31a), a plurality of individual electrodes (4... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7365760 | Recording head with temperature sensor and printer with the recording head A recording head is provided with an element substrate and a circuit board fixed to a head substrate having heat radiation property. Plural heating elements are formed linearly in the element substrate, and plural driver ICs are attached to the element substrate. A ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365762 | Thermal printing head comprising a printable tape guiding member, in the form of a protection cover for a flexible control printed circuit A thermal printing head comprises a guide member made in a single-piece and designed as a jumper comprising two superimposed walls, covering, at least partly, respectively and jointly both surfaces of a flexible printed circuit board and providing between them a spa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7327377 | Exposure apparatus and method for exposing a photosensitive material with a plurality of exposure heads In order to obtain a preferable image without “stripe-shaped unevenness”, an exposure apparatus comprising first and second exposure heads having light emitting sections emitting light with first and second intensity arranged in main and sub scanning directions ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7250960 | Thermal head having adhesive interposed between adhesion surface of heat-dissipation plate and adhesion surface of head substrate and method for producing the same A thermal head includes a head substrate having a plurality of heating resistors which generate heat by electrical dissipation, a common electrode connected to one end of each heating resistor, and a plurality of individual electrodes connected to the other ends of ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248274 | Thermal head having adhesive layer partially disposed on heat sink and method for manufacturing such thermal head A thermal head has a head substrate including exothermic bodies which generate heat when electricity is supplied thereto, a common electrode connected with first ends of the exothermic bodies, and independent electrodes connected with second ends of the exothermic b... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7238404 | Thin sheet mica wedges with semi-conducting properties The present invention provides for thin sheet wedges that comprise a mica matrix impregnated with a conductive resin. The mica matrix is composed of mica flakes. The thin sheet wedge has a semi-conductive property of 500–500,000 ohms per square. In one embodiment ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7223668 | Method of etching metallic thin film on thin film resistor An Al film is formed on a barrier metal covering a thin film resistor to have a first opening. A photo-resist is formed on the Al film and in the opening, and is patterned to have a second opening having an opening area smaller than that of the first opening and ope... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212222 | Thermal head and thermal printer A heating element of a thermal head has a first electrode layer formed on a glaze layer and a second electrode layer formed opposite to the first electrode layer. A first insulation layer is formed on the first electrode layer to expose both ends of the first electr... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206009 | Heating head for erasing a printed image on re-writable media A heating head which functions as an erase head for quick operation can be turned off while not in use yet it can turn on when it is used (on-demand operation) and operates stably without over-heating even for the long operation, re-writable media record erasing equ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198343 | Image printing apparatus An image printing apparatus prints image data using a plurality of printheads. A correction parameter is set in accordance with a printing element positional relationship between the plurality of printheads. A density correction signal calculation unit calculates a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188922 | Recording apparatus equipped with heatsink A recording apparatus having: (a) a head unit including an actuator which generates energy required for recording predetermined patterns of image on a recording medium; (b) a circuit board including a driver element which drives the actuator of the head unit; and (c... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7154520 | Thermal transfer recording method and apparatus The invention provides a thermal transfer recording method which can improve surface flatness of a protective layer in the thermal transfer recording method in which the protective layer is transferred by a thermal head, and a thermal transfer recording apparatus wh... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145584 | Printer having compact thermal head A printer having a thermal head disposed such that when heater elements are in contact with a platen, the following formulas are satisfied: H1≦H≦Hmax; Hmax=(H1+H2)=L tan(θ1+θ3); and θ′=(θ2−θ1)=(3... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7118201 | Thermal ink jet printhead with non-buckling heater element There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles 3 and a bubble forming chamber 7 corresponding to each nozzle respectively. At least one heater element 10 suspended in each bubble forming chamber 7 to heat a... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110015 | Thermal printing device and methods for manufacturing the same A thermal printing device includes a substrate, an insulation layer on the substrate, and a plurality of microheaters on the insulation layer. Two adjacent ones of the microheaters are separated by a trench. Each of the microheaters includes a body having a heating ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108356 | Thermal ink jet printhead with suspended heater element spaced from chamber walls There is disclosed an ink jet printhead that has a plurality of nozzles 3 and a bubble forming chamber 7 corresponding to each nozzle 3. The bubble forming chamber of each nozzle having at least one side wall 6 and at least one heater ele... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106356 | Thermal head having wear-resistant protective film A method of producing a wear-resistant protective film for a thermal head comprises depositing a wear-resistant protective film by sputtering on a thermal head which includes a substrate, and a heat-developing layer and a pair of electrodes formed on either the subs... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7059707 | Ink jet print head To prevent corrosion and disconnection of an anisotropic conductor film due to ink and ink vapor and to eliminate discharge defects in an ink jet print head having a structure in which a head chip and a circuit substrate for driving the head chip are interconnected ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054540 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising: a first recording controlling element for recording moving images; a first detecting element for detecting scene changes in the moving images recorded by the first recording controlling element; a second recording cont... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046265 | Power-saving thermal head A thermal head of the present invention is provided with a thermal insulation layer formed on a radiative substrate, a plurality of heating resistors formed on a top face of the thermal insulation layer, a plurality of power suppliers connected to the heating resist... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6995783 | Thermal printer assembly There is described a thermal printer assembly including a plurality of elongated thermal print heads and a frame adapted to fixedly mount and align the plurality of print heads in parallel across a single print media path. The frame may be adapted to align the print... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6972782 | Thermal head In order to reduce creases of an ink film so as to offer excellent printing quality, a thermal head for use in a thermal-transfer printer includes a heat-insulating layer; a first projection serving as a part of the heat-insulating layer; a heating element formed on... | 12/06/2005 |
