摘要:
An ink jet printing apparatus comprising: a print head for ejecting ink droplets; an ink cartridge (10',20') containing ink therein for supplying the ink to said print head; a memory device (32) for storing data related to the ink cartridge; and a control device (60) accessible to said memory device (32) for controlling said print head whereby the control device uses data stored in the memory device to manage recycling of the ink cartridge.
摘要:
An ink cartridge for an ink jet printing apparatus having a printhead which ejects ink droplets onto a recording medium and an ink supply needle introducing ink to the printhead, the ink cartridge comprising: a substantially rectangular housing containing ink therein, the housing having a first outer wall and a second outer wall which is substantially perpendicular to the first outer wall; an ink supply port formed in the first wall for directing ink in the housing to the printhead; a valve mechanism arranged in the ink supply port comprising: a valve seat allowing the ink supply needle to pass therethrough; a valve body movable along the axis of the ink supply port; and an elastic member biasing the valve body against the valve seat, and a memory device for storing information relating to ink mounted on the second wall of the housing and substantially in parallel therewith, the memory device being formed in the vicinity of the ink supply port, which wall directing in parallel with a direction along which the ink supply needle is inserted into the valve seat.
摘要:
An ink supply port (4) is sealed with a seal material (7) made up of two layers of at least a physical protective layer and an airtight hold layer and formed with slits in the physical protective layer. When an ink cartridge (1) is mounted, a tip (42a) of an ink introduction member (42) breaks the seal material (7) sealing the ink supply port (4) along the slits made in the seal member, and air is released to the atmosphere without raising pressure of a space of packing. Then, the ink introduction member penetrates the packing.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an ink jet printer head comprising: a spacer (4, 200) including path holes (5, 90) for forming pressure generating chamber (48, 201) continuous to nozzle openings (2, 210a, 204), ink supply paths (104, 202), and reservoirs (203), a cover member (1, 210) for sealingly covering the pressure generating chambers (48, 201), and pressure generating means (30) for generating pressure in the pressure generating chambers (48, 201) in accordance with print data. The spacer (4, 200) is a silicon single-crystal substrate (60, 72, 130) vertically oriented in (110) that is processed by anisotropic etching process in such a manner that a bridge means (95, 102) is formed across one or more of the path holes (5, 7, 90, 92) forming the pressure generating chamber (48, 201) and the ink supply path (104, 202), respectively.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an ink jet recording head wherein the movement of a piezoelectric element (1) moves part of an ink flow passage substrate (5) so as to jet out ink stored therein in the form of ink droplets. This ink jet recording head comprises: a fixing plate (2), a plurality of piezoelectric vibrators (11) obtainable by cutting and dividing said plage-shaped piezoelectric element (1) while said piezoelectric element is fixed on said fixing plate (2), holding means (3) for positioning and holding at least one of said piezoelectric vibrators (11) and said fixing plate (2) in a direction perpendicular to the displacement direction of said piezoelectric vibrators (11), and an ink flow passage substrate (5) mounted on said holding means (3) and including a nozzle plate (6), an ink flow passage forming plate (7) and an elastic plate (8).
摘要:
An ink cartridge for an ink jet type printing apparatus having a print head, the ink cartridge including: a container (11,21) having an ink chamber for containing ink therein; an ink supply port for ejecting the ink from the ink chamber to the print head; a memory device (32) for storing data related to the ink or the ink cartridge, the memory device has an area in which the data is stored in a rewritable manner; and a contact device enabling the transmission of data between the memory device and an external device.
a sub-tank unit (4) provided with a record head (5); and a main tank capable of replenishing said sub-tank unit (4) with ink, wherein an ink storage chamber (25) and the record head (5) of said sub-tank unit (4) are connected through backflow prevention valve (26,27,28) for enabling ink to flow into the record head (5) from the ink storage chamber (25), and wherein an ink replenishment unit (8) for replenishing said sub-tank unit (4) with ink from the main tank by reducing pressure in the ink storage chamber by negative pressure generation means is provided.