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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7461921 | Method of redirecting ejected ink droplets A method of redirecting ejected ink droplets from a printhead is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a printhead assembly comprising: a printhead including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink droplets onto a print medium, the plurality of ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461923 | Inkjet printhead having inkjet nozzle arrangements incorporating dynamic and static nozzle parts An inkjet printhead includes a substrate defining a plurality of ink supply channels. CMOS micro-processing drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate and includes a pair of aligned metal contact layers. A layer of ink passivation material is positioned over the... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7458661 | Method and apparatus for promoting the complete transfer of liquid drops from a nozzle A printhead device for transferring liquid droplets from a nozzle includes a liquid source coupled to a nozzle via a microchannel. The nozzle is formed from an orifice having an inner circumferential surface, wherein at least a portion of the inner circumferential s... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458664 | Liquid ejection apparatus A liquid ejection apparatus for accurately supplying a plurality of nozzle rows with liquid having an adjustable hydrodynamic flow pressure to eject the liquid. Black ink, cyan ink, magenta ink, and yellow ink are supplied to first to fourth valve units through firs... | 12/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7458660 | Recording apparatus, recording method, storage medium having a program stored thereon, and computer system that perform ejection operations using nozzles with a predetermined pitch A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a head 21 having a plurality of nozzle groups (21A to 21C), and each nozzle group has a plurality of nozzles that are arranged with a predetermined nozzle pitch (k·D). The recording appara... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7455393 | Mist spraying apparatus and method, and image forming apparatus The mist spraying apparatus comprises: a pressure chamber into which liquid is filled; a charging electrode which is in contact with the liquid and charges the liquid; a vibration generating device which converts the liquid into droplets by applying vibrational ener... | 11/25/2008 |
| RE40581 | Printer including an ink cartridge An ink jet printer including a carriage which moves along a print area, a head mounted on the carriage, an ink cartridge mounted on the carriage for supplying ink to the head, a lever on the carriage for mounting or demounting the ink cartridge with respect to the c... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7452065 | Ink bubble removal from ink jet printer An ink jet printer includes a carriage movable on a body frame, including at least one printing head; an ink tank that stores the ink; and an ink path that supplies the ink from the ink tank to the printing head. The carriage has a bubble collecting chamber that col... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7448725 | Inkjet printhead assembly that incorporates an ink jet capper An inkjet printhead includes a support assembly. An elongate ink delivery assembly is mounted on the support assembly and is configured to deliver ink from an ink supply. A series of inkjet printhead integrated circuits is mounted on the ink delivery assembly and de... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445315 | Thin film and thick film heater and control architecture for a liquid drop ejector A liquid drop ejector comprising a jet stack, thin film or thick film heaters formed on the surface of the jet stack, and at least one thin film or thick film temperature sensor operative to provide feedback temperature control for the thin film or thick film heater... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445308 | Inkjet image forming apparatus comprising a nozzle cleaning unit and method of using the same Provided is an inkjet image forming apparatus and method. The inkjet image forming apparatus comprises an inkjet head comprising a nozzle unit with a plurality of nozzles through which ink is ejected, at least one wiper cleaning the nozzle unit, a mount part on whic... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445304 | Line head inkjet printer A line head inkjet printer includes an inkjet head, a storage unit, and a controller. The inkjet head includes a flow path unit and individual electrodes. The flow path unit is formed with pressure chambers communicating with nozzles. The individual electrodes corre... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441877 | Substrate having a plurality of common power supply wires and a plurality of common ground wires for inkjet recording head and inkjet recording head using the same Limitations on the number of recording elements capable of being simultaneously driven are relaxed so that driving voltage fluctuation falls within an allowable range. The substrate includes arrays of recording elements, common power supply wires extended from porti... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441870 | Protection of nozzle structures in a liquid-ejection integrated circuit device A liquid-ejection integrated circuit device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of liquid inlet channels. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle chamber s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441863 | Method of sealing nozzles on a printhead A method of sealing nozzles on an ink ejection face of a printhead is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing an elastically deformable pad having a contact surface for sealing engagement with the ink ejection face; and (b) moving the pad from a s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441876 | Inkjet printhead with suspended heater elements A printhead has a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement includes a substrate, side walls and a nozzle plate which together define a chamber. The substrate defines a fluid inlet and the nozzle plate defines a nozzle. Each c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441878 | Ink jet recording head including temperature adjustment heater An ink jet recording head can discharge a droplet of differently colored ink, so that the volume of the ink discharged is efficiently stabilized, without the apparatus size and the manufacturing costs being increased. Three ink supply ports are formed in a recording... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441879 | Unit cell of a printhead for an inkjet printer The invention provides for a unit cell of a printhead for an inkjet printer. The unit cell includes a wafer substrate, a layer of micro-electromechanical drive circuitry deposited on the wafer substrate, and an interlayer dielectric deposited on the drive circuitry ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441874 | Insulated heat unit for ink jet printer, an ink jet printer including an insulated head unit and signal transmission board used for the ink jet printer A head unit has a head main body for discharging ink, a driver IC and an FPC, which is interposed between the driver IC and the head main body. The FPC has through holes each of which is embedded with a conductor. The conductor is bonded to an output terminal of the... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438386 | Nozzle guard suitable for redirecting ejected ink droplets A nozzle guard for a printhead is provided. The nozzle guard has a plurality of channels therethrough, each channel corresponding to a respective nozzle on the printhead such that, in use, ink droplets ejected from each nozzle pass through their respective channel t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438381 | Method of removing flooded ink from a printhead A method of removing ink flooded across an ink ejection face of a printhead is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing an elastically deformable pad having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead; and (b... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438396 | Inkjet printing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for inkjet printing by means of a plurality of inkjet nozzles arranged in at least one row and having spaced, parallel nozzle axes for emitting liquid ink drops towards the substrate, and multi-level charging and deflecting plates controlled t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438390 | Printhead module assembly with A flexible PCB The invention relates to a printhead module assembly for a pagewidth printer system. The module assembly includes a printhead integrated circuit (IC) manufactured using a micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) process, and a flexible printed circuit board electrical... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434914 | Inkjet recording head An inkjet recording head including a channel unit which includes an electrically conductive member and has a plurality of pressure chambers which communicate with a plurality of nozzles, respectively; a plurality of individual electrodes which are associated with th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434913 | Inkjet head, method for producing inkjet head, inkjet recorder and inkjet coater An inkjet head for jetting an ink from a nozzle 6 which is formed on the main body 1 of the nozzle of a metal member, wherein an SiO2 film 2 comprising SiO2 as the main component is formed on the surface of the nozzle main ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434917 | Ink jet recording head having temperature control heaters and nozzle arrays of differing discharge amounts In an ink jet recording head which can discharge ink droplets having different discharge amounts, stabilization of the ink discharge amount is efficiently achieved without upsizing and cost increase. In the ink jet recording head of the invention, three ink supply p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434903 | Droplet ejection head driving method, droplet ejection head and droplet ejection device A droplet ejection head driving method applies a driving voltage waveform to pressure-generating means, thus pressurizing a liquid in a pressure chamber and causing a droplet to be ejected. The driving voltage waveform includes a first voltage change process, which ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434915 | Inkjet printhead chip with a side-by-side nozzle arrangement layout An inkjet printhead chip includes an elongate wafer substrate that incorporates a drive circuitry layer. A plurality of nozzle arrangements is positioned side-by-side on the wafer substrate. Each nozzle arrangement has a generally rectangular layout when viewed in p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431430 | Liquid ejecting head having selectively controlled heat-energy evolving element regions A liquid ejecting head having a plurality of heat evolving elements formed on an integral substrate without being divided into more than one part, so that it is capable of controlling the direction of liquid ejection. The liquid ejecting head has heat-energy evolvin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431428 | Image forming apparatus including line head An image forming apparatus has a recording head portion constituted of head modules having a configuration in which a plurality of small heads are detachably attached in a head mount at alternate positions in a recording medium width direction and a drive portion is... | 10/07/2008 |
| RE40529 | Ink jet recording apparatus and method using ink jet head having u-shaped wiring An ink jet recording method includes the steps of providing an ink jet recording head having 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 generat... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429097 | Thermal ink jet printhead with symmetric bubble formation An inkjet printhead (1) which a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling. Each heate... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427115 | Fluid ejector including a drop size symbol, a method of disposing a drop size symbol in a fluid ejector, and an image forming device including a marking fluid ejector with a drop size symbol A fluid ejector includes a drop size symbol that is based on the fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The drop size symbol is formed by comparing the fluid ejector's drop size to the one or more fixed drop sizes. An image forming devic... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427124 | Ejection head, image forming apparatus, and ejection control method The ejection head comprises: an ejection aperture which ejects onto a receiving medium a liquid in which charged dispersion particles are dispersed in a solvent; a pressure chamber which contains the liquid; an ejection channel which connects the ejection aperture w... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7422299 | Compensation for malfunctioning jets A method of modifying a single color bi level bitmap including selecting a marked pixel, determining whether the selected marked pixel is in a half-toned uniform region, marking a first unmarked pixel of a first sequence of potential destination pixel locations if t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419246 | Flexible circuits, flexible circuit assemblies and assemblies for use with fluid ejection apparatuses Assemblies for use with a fluid ejection apparatus, flexible circuit assemblies and flexible circuits. One such flexible circuit includes a flexible substrate and conductive lines adjacent the substrate. The conductive lines are capable of being operably connected w... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419252 | Ink jet head, piezo-electric actuator, and method of manufacturing them An ink jet head is provided with a channel body and a piezo-electric actuator connected with the channel body. The channel body is provided with a plurality of ink flow channels. Each of the ink flow channel has a pressure chamber and a nozzle connected with the pre... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419253 | Channeling fluid flow In one embodiment, a fluid flow channel includes a first part and a second part connected to and positioned downstream from the first part such that fluid can flow from the first part to the second part. The first part has opposing sidewalls, a floor extending betwe... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419251 | Overmolded tube header A tube interconnect includes a tube and a header overmolded about the tube. ... | 09/02/2008 |
