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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186806 | Head unit, liquid droplet discharging apparatus, method for discharging liquid, and methods for manufacturing color filter, organic EL element and wiring substrate A head unit includes a plurality of nozzle groups. Each group has a plurality of nozzles discharging liquid as liquid droplets. The nozzles are arranged at an approximately equal distance from one another when viewed from a first direction. The nozzle groups are arr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8118401 | Printing apparatus Provided is a printing apparatus that superposedly forms an image layer representing an image and a specific glossy layer that is different from the image layer on a printing medium, including: a first connection unit, a second connection unit, a reception unit, a p... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109606 | Printing images and flavors on substrates In general, a fluid delivery system includes a plurality of fluid delivery printheads, a first reservoir for holding an ink, the first reservoir coupled to a first one of the plurality of fluid delivery printheads, and a second reservoir for holding a flavored liqui... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8079665 | Printing apparatus For a serial color ink jet printing apparatus that forms an image using a symmetric printing head that ejects large dots and small dots, the configuration of a printing head is provided for suppressing, to the extent possible, a cyclic fluctuation in the main scanni... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8070256 | Ink jet head An ink jet head includes (A) a first black nozzle column having a plurality of nozzles arranged at a predetermined pitch in a transportation direction of a medium and discharging black ink, (B) a second black nozzle column having a plurality of nozzles arranged at t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070257 | Liquid ejecting apparatus A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first head having a first nozzle group in which nozzles from which a first liquid is ejected are aligned in a nozzle-row direction at a predetermined pitch and a second nozzle group in which nozzles from which a second liquid i... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8029096 | Printing system for depositing layers of material to form 3-D objects A device for depositing layers of material to form three dimensional objects using a plurality of printheads that can print multiple layers simultaneously and different materials into the same layer, wherein some of the printheads can be maintained at a temperature ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8016386 | Ink jet printing apparatus In an ink jet printing apparatus using many types of inks to execute bidirectional printing, if ejection opening rows for yellow, magenta, and cyan inks are symmetrically arranged, ejection opening rows for a black ink are arranged adjacent to the most inside ejecti... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011756 | Imaging method and inkjet recording apparatus An imaging method is disclosed for realizing full color printing using an ink head configured to discharge black ink and a plurality of color inks. The imaging method involves printing a monochrome image portion by printing a plurality of first rasters using black i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8002385 | Head unit, droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing panel from base, image display apparatus and electronic apparatus A head unit for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base as droplets. In each of the droplet ejection heads, first and second nozzle arrays are arrang... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7942498 | Liquid discharging device Provided is a liquid discharging device including: a first head unit which discharges liquid; a second head unit which faces a portion of a medium, in which the liquid is discharged from the first head unit, and discharges liquid; and a support member which faces th... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7926908 | Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method There is provided an ink jet printing apparatus and a printing method capable of reducing unevenness due to a time lag. An ink jet printing apparatus comprise a printing head including a first and a second eject port array. The second eject port array is shorter tha... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922288 | Printing system A printing system includes a first image applying component configured for applying one or more primary colorants to print media for rendering an image. A second image applying component is configured for applying a second colorant, such as black colorant, to print ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7896466 | Printing apparatus and printing method A smooth, uniform image is produced by minimizing the occurrence of satellites of secondary color and dispersing landing positions of the satellites as uniformly as possible. For this purpose, the printing operation performed so that satellites of the two inks (cyan... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7874639 | Ink jet recording head, ink jet cartridge with ink jet recording head, and ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording head includes at least three nozzle array groups, each including at least two nozzle arrays with an ink supply port interposed therebetween and each ejecting a different ink. Opening areas of the ejection outlets of the nozzle arrays in each arr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7871149 | Head unit and ink-jet recording apparatus having the same A head unit comprises: first and second heads, each having an ink ejecting face including a nozzle group, the nozzle group including plural nozzle rows extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction orthogonal, each nozzle row including a pluralit... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7862149 | Ink jet printing apparatus and printing method By suppressing deviation of dot-formation positions stemming from insufficient accuracy in conveying a printing medium due to eccentricity of a conveying roller, a printed image in which unevenness is less visible is obtained. An accumulated amount of conveyance err... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7810903 | Head unit, liquid droplet discharging apparatus, method for discharging liquid, and methods for manufacturing color filter, organic EL element and wiring substrate A head unit includes a plurality of nozzle groups. Each group has a plurality of nozzles discharging liquid as liquid droplets. The nozzles are arranged at an approximately equal distance from one another when viewed from a first direction. The nozzle groups are arr... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7806512 | Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method The order of the arrangement of ejection opening arrays of two types of ink overlapping in reciprocating scan is decided as follows. An ejection order is decided so that the case where the fixing areas of a main droplet and a satellite are different (dot area is inc... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7758156 | Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and ink jet recording apparatus An image forming method using a black ink containing a pigment, a black ink containing a dye, and a reactive color ink capable of unstabilizing the dispersion state of the pigment in the black ink, wherein the method includes one of the steps of, on at least part of... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7758157 | Image forming apparatus and method The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by using coloring materials of at least three colors of cyan, magenta and yellow, wherein: at least one of the cyan and magenta color materials is a coloring material of lower density than the yellow; ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7748826 | Printing head and ink jet printing apparatus A printing head, having symmetrically-arranged ejection openings, can suppress deterioration in image quality as caused by manufacturing errors or problems in mounting accuracy thereof. Specifically, in the case the printing head inclines, for example, by 0.5 degree... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7735964 | Printing system, printing method, and medium storing control program for the printing system Heretofore there has been a case where a monochromatic image having a sufficient power of expression cannot be printed because of a narrow selection range of saturation. According to the present invention, in a predetermined print head, there is adopted a constructi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731332 | Ejection head, image forming apparatus and image forming method The ejection head comprises: n (where n is an integer not less than 2) pieces of ejection aperture groups arranged in a sub-scanning direction, each of the groups including ejection aperture rows arranged at prescribed intervals in a main scanning direction, each of... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7703887 | Head unit, droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing panel from base, image display apparatus and electronic apparatus A head unit includes first to fourth droplet ejection heads. The first and second droplet ejection heads are arranged along a first direction parallel to nozzle arrays so that the nozzles constitute a first consecutive long nozzle array when viewed from a second dir... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7681986 | Methods and apparatus for depositing ink onto substrates Embodiments of an ink jet printing system include a motion stage adapted to move a substrate having a display object in a printing direction and a first printing assembly mounted over the motion stage including a set of print heads aligned and arranged consecutively... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7651195 | Color inkjet recording apparatus and copier with increased reliability A color inkjet recording apparatus includes a multi-nozzle inkjet recording head which ejects a process liquid to a recording medium, and a plurality of multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads which eject inks of respective colors. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7641309 | Data processing apparatus, data processing method, ink jet printing apparatus, and ink jet printing method A present invention reduces the generation of periodic uneven print density in the image in a main scanning direction. The present invention focuses attention on a fact that, when a printing head including a plurality of nozzle arrays for ejecting different inks is ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7641310 | Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus and image processing method Lattice point data of each lattice point on W-C line in a color separation table reproducing primary color C is determined so that C ink monotonically increases from W point to C point. Also, particular color G for toning is used to monotonically increase from the h... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7625065 | Ink jet print head and ink jet printing apparatus The present invention provides an ink jet print head that allows for a fast printing of high-density, high-quality images without increasing cost and size of the print head. To this end, the ink jet print head has orifices for ejecting ink of a first volume and orif... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7625066 | Mixing apparatus, dispersion manufacturing apparatus and dispersion manufacturing method A mixing apparatus including a plurality of nozzle groups each formed of nozzles for ejecting the same fluid arranged in group, the nozzles being provided with openings for ejecting fluid, to cause the plurality of nozzle groups to separately eject a plurality of fl... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7621621 | Ink jet printing apparatus In an ink jet printing apparatus using many types of inks to execute bidirectional printing, if ejection opening rows for yellow, magenta, and cyan inks are symmetrically arranged, ejection opening rows for a black ink are arranged adjacent to the most inside ejecti... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7618119 | Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet printing method and print head An ink jet print head is provided which can print a high-quality image with no density variation-caused lines at high speed and which can be manufactured at low cost and with ease. For this purpose, the print head of this invention has a plurality of nozzle groups e... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7591537 | Ink jet recording head An ink jet head movable in a main scan direction includes first and second groups of ejection outlet arrays disposed on either side of a common liquid chamber and including plural ejection outlet arrays. In the first group, amounts of liquid ejected from outlets of ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7549726 | Inkjet printhead with a wafer assembly having an array of nozzle arrangements A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer assembly defining a plurality of spaced apart groups of ink supply channels and a plurality of groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements in fluid communication with respective ink supply ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7537310 | Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet printing method, and ink jet print head For a horizontally arranged print head, in which nozzle rows are arranged parallel with a scanning direction of the print head, two of a plurality of ink colors used, which have the greatest hue difference, are selected. Between the nozzle rows for these two colors,... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7520590 | Inkjet recording device An inkjet recording device having droplet ejection heads that respectively eject ink liquids of plural colors and a reaction liquid at a recording medium; a preparation section, that prepares dot data representing ejection-amounts of the ink liquids and the reaction... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7513600 | Liquid droplet discharge head and image forming apparatus The liquid droplet discharge head comprises: a plurality of nozzles which discharge liquid droplets onto a recording medium, wherein the nozzles are arranged two-dimensionally in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction in which the recordin... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7488053 | Printing system, printing method, and medium storing control program for the printing system Heretofore there has been a case where a monochromatic image having a sufficient power of expression cannot be printed because of a narrow selection range of saturation. According to the present invention, in a predetermined print head, there is adopted a constructi... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7472983 | Intelligent print mask A multi swath printing method for printing an image on an ink jet printing system is used to reduce image banding. The ink jet printing system includes a printhead with one or more ink ejection nozzles. The method entails forming a set of individual print masks. Eac... | 01/06/2009 |
