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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7914112 | Printing apparatus with switchover section that switches over patterns of velocity data The invention relates to a printing apparatus that performs printing by scanning a carriage that has a print head in a main scan direction. The printing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a carriage motor that drives the carriage; a ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7381444 | Color filter manufacturing method and apparatus, ink-jet device, color filter, display device, and apparatus having display device A color filter manufacturing apparatus of this invention includes a plurality of ink-jet heads (120a, 120b, 120c) each having a first ink discharging nozzle group (108) in which the pitch of a plurality of ink dischar... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7270846 | Color filter manufacturing method and apparatus, ink-jet device, color filter, display device, and apparatus having display device A method of manufacturing a color filter having a plurality of colored pixels on a substrate by discharging an ink from an ink-jet head having a plurality of ink discharging nozzles while performing relative movement of the ink-jet head and the substrate, includes t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270393 | Inkjet printer incorporating a spool-fed flexible capping member A printer is disclosed which has (a) a pagewidth printhead assembly having a pagewidth printhead and a plurality of nozzles located along the printhead for delivering ink onto print media as it is transported past the printhead, and (b) a c... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7226225 | Printing apparatus, printing method, and program In a case (101) with the shorter side at the top, a tray (121) is placed substantially vertically, an optical disk (170) is substantially vertically supported on the tray (121), and a printer section (135) is provided to be opposit... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7108197 | Droplet ejector with oscillating tapered aperture A fluid injection device for ejecting fluid droplets in response to electrical signals comprises an oscillating surface that has one or more tapered apertures, each aperture having a first and second opening. The first opening of each aperture is larger than the sec... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7086716 | Fluid-ejection assembly A fluid-ejection assembly of one embodiment is disclosed comprising first and second arrays of fluid-ejection mechanisms, first and second service stations, and first and second drive mechanisms. The first array ejects fluid onto media; the first service station is ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6964358 | EM-actuated liquid dispenser A liquid dispenser that dispenses liquid via the action of a collapsing tube. The illustrative dispenser includes a liquid-carrying tube, a wire, and a magnet. The magnet is shaped to receive the tube and the wire between an elongated North pole and an elongated Sou... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6932457 | Apparatus provided with carriage An apparatus provided with a carriage is guided and supported by at least two guide members, a guide shaft and a guide rail, arranged to be parallel to each other to enable the carriage to reciprocate. The guide members are arranged apart from each other substantial... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6819448 | Printer with print mode masking periodic carriage vibration A shuttle-type printer has a movable carriage to carry and position at least one pen over a printing surface. The printer also has a carriage positioning system coupled to move the carriage at a slew rate in swaths over the printing surface. The carriage positioning... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6612032 | Manufacturing method for ink jet pen The invention relates to a method for attaching a semiconductor chip to an ink jet pen body and improved construction techniques therefor. According to the method a first adhesive have a cure time greater than about 15 minutes is dispensed in a predetermi... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6575568 | Recording apparatus In a serial recording apparatus having three recording modes, i.e., normal, high-quality, and high-speed recording mode, sheet feed control satisfying requirements in these modes is performed. More specifically, high-speed sheet feed control is performed ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6290319 | Controlling residual fine errors of dot placement in an incremental printer A memory holds calibration data that are applied to compensate imperfections in a printhead-carriage guide rod, improving alignment between marks printed with different heads. Commonly heads and a carriage encoder are spaced from the rod at different dist... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6264304 | Ink jet recording apparatus and method The invention features a method and apparatus for an ink jet recording apparatus in which a carriage lock is provided. When a return of the carriage to the home position HP is detected, the waiting time at the home position HP is counted. When this waitin... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6012798 | Recording method and apparatus in which complementary images are recorded with non-parallel drive sets A recording method and apparatus in which a recording head is driven, moved or scanned a plurality of sets of times in corresponding sets of drive directions relative to a recording medium. At least one of the drive directions in a corresponding drive set... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5864349 | Recording apparatus with plural heads A shuttle type recording apparatus having a plural recording heads spaced apart on a common carriage that is mounted to scan over an entire recording area for recording, respectively, in each of plural divided recording areas of the entire recording area.... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5825378 | Calibration of media advancement to avoid banding in a swath printer A calibration technique for determining media advance calibration in a swath printer includes drawing a series of lines on media which correspond to an angle of rotation of the platen, and then using an optical sensor to read the actual positions of the l... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5402161 | Serial recording apparatus In a serial recording apparatus wherein a recording head is carried on a carriage movable in the direction of a print column and the recording head is driven on the basis of printing data while scanning by the recording head, to thereby form a dot image o... | 03/28/1995 |
| 4922271 | Matrix printer means Matrix printer means having plurality of write heads. In order to be able to achieve a print width in matrix printer means that is greater than that of an individual write head and in order to simultaneously enhance the resolution beyond the basic resolut... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4890122 | Method and apparatus for increasing inking resolution in an ink mosaic recording device A method and apparatus for increasing inking resolution in an ink-mosaic recording device. In order to increase the inking resolution in a simple manner, a recording head is periodically deflected transversely to a direction of ejection of the drop of flu... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4686540 | Compact plotter for generation of accurate plotted images of long length A compact plotter is disclosed, having a small area in which a plurality of print heads (10) are laterally scanned to print impressions on the paper (14), and the paper (14) is incrementally advanced by an indexer (42) past the print heads (10). A paper t... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4622560 | Line-wise interference/band suppression printing system The line-wise printing of an image composed of an assembly of image elements (pixels) by means of a printing head which includes a row of N (Nࣙ2) printing elements which are arranged along an image line at a mutual distance from each other. The printing... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4553147 | Method and a liquid jet printer for generating at least two separately disposed points on a recording medium In an exemplary embodiment writing fluid is continuously supplied from a nozzle toward a recording medium. The nozzle is subjected to excursion by a corresponding angle in order to change between the two points to be printed. In order to improve the recor... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4524364 | Circuitry for correcting dot placement for oscillating carriage ink jet printer A circuit for use in an ink jet printer in which the carriage motion either approximates a sinusoidal vibratory pattern, or which has any variable velocity pattern that reliably repeats from cycle to cycle. It is further assumed that the printer will prin... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4520368 | Ink jet printing method and apparatus An ink jet printing method and apparatus having an oscillating printing bar with multiple nozzles. The nozzles emit continuous streams of ink droplets which are charged and deflected to the recording medium or the gutter for recirculation. The recording m... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4509058 | Ink jet printing using horizontal interlacing Horizontal interlacing is used in an oscillating bar drop-on-demand ink jet printer to improve image quality, particularly in solid black areas. The disclosed system provides a method for printing that allows the image-receiving surface to be forwarded co... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4439779 | Serial dot printer for office machines The printer comprises a solid or liquid ink jet head 100 arranged to print one dot at a time on paper running over a platen 80. The head is carried by a carriage 48 movable transversely with simple harmonic reciprocating motion. In order to reduce the eff... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4395720 | Configurational reduction of pulse ejector crosstalk A method of minimizing crosstalk between transducer driven pulse liquid droplet ejectors in ejector arrays. An array mounted on a scanning carriage and having nozzles inclined to the direction of relative motion between the carriage and the print-receivin... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4389652 | Bidirectional ink jet printing The invention relates to an oscillating bar drop-on demand ink jet printer where printing occurs while the bar is moving bidirectionally over a transversely moving record-receiving surface. Specifically, the invention relates to a method of increasing the... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4386358 | Ink jet printing using electrostatic deflection Electrostatic deflection is used in an oscillating bar drop-on-demand ink jet printer to compensate for about one half of the droplet displacement caused by bar velocity. The disclosed system provides a method for printing that is not sensitive to variati... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4382263 | Method for ink jet printing where the print rate is increased by simultaneous multiline printing Electrostatic deflection is used to provide multiline printing from a single pass in an oscillating bar ink jet printer.... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4380017 | Method for ink jet printing In moving carriage ink jet printers, the motion of the carriage may be imparted to droplets expressed offsetting the droplets' position on the record surface from one another where bidirectional printing is utilized. To eliminate print distortion resultin... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4379300 | Ink jet printing An oscillating bar drop-on-demand ink jet printer is used to print on a continuously moving record-receiving surface. The record-receiving surface moves in a direction orthogonal to the direction of oscillation of the oscillating bar, the resultant trace ... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4379301 | Method for ink jet printing Electrostatic deflection is used to correct velocity induced droplet placement errors in an oscillating bar ink jet printer.... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4349828 | Method and apparatus for oscillating an array of marking elements A method and apparatus for marking wherein an array of marking elements is used to mark on a continuously moving mark-receiving surface. In order to provide a rectangular grid in an efficient manner, the array is oscillated both perpendicular and parallel... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4349829 | Non-impact printing method A non-impact printing method with selective emission of solid ink particles is disclosed. A rod of solid ink is spring-pressed in an insulating housing against an end wall with a nozzle therein. A pulsed high voltage applied between the ink rod and a coun... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4323907 | Valve for ink jet printer A valve member is positioned in an ink cavity carried by a bidirectionally movable print head and is operable to open and close the inlet and the outlet of the cavity to minimize fluctuations of the ink due to acceleration and deceleration of the print he... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4314282 | Multifunction graphic engine based on an oscillating scanner A simple graphic engine in which a document reading array and an array of marking elements are supported on the same support member. The support member is scanned in a direction orthogonal to the direction of relative movement between the support member a... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4293863 | Ink jet printer with laterally movable print head An ink jet printer deposits ink drops from a plurality of jet drop streams along a plurality of parallel adjacent print lines on a sheet of paper. The printer includes a sheet supporting drum, means for rotating the drum, and a print head which is slidabl... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4281331 | Variable rate ink jet printing A method of simulating variable rate printing in an ink jet printing system employing a fixed frequency vibrating reed. By varying several printing parameters, a range of quantized values is derived for character size and the rate of character generation.... | 07/28/1981 |
