摘要:
A method of driving an ink jet recording head comprising the steps of: retreating a vibrating plate to a predetermined position from a nozzle opening at such a speed as to allow a meniscus at the nozzle opening to be jetted from the nozzle opening while applying a drive voltage to a piezoelectric vibrating element; holding the vibrating plate at the position; and advancing the vibrating plate toward the nozzle opening when the meniscus has returned to a position 1/3 or more of the farthest retreat position thereof. As a result, a pressure chamber contracted to thereby apply pressure to ink when inertial stream of the ink become stable and heads toward the nozzle opening, producing an ink droplet to be jetted at a predetermined speed irrespective of the position of the meniscus.
摘要:
An on-demand type ink jet print head having a nozzle plate which is arranged horizontally so that its nozzle openings face upward and cantilevered vibrating members the free ends of which confront the nozzle openings. Ink is held by a capillary force in a gap between the vibrating members and the nozzle plate and is supplied by surface tension in a gap formed between a plurality of members from an ink tank up to the vicinity of the vibrating members. Since the ink is supplied by a capillary force between the ink level in the tank and the vibrating members, the ink supply is stable irrespective of the ink level in the tank. Further, since the ink is ejected in the form of ink droplets produced by a dynamic pressure associated with vibration of the vibrating members within the ink, it is possible to produce fine ink droplets.
摘要:
A device detects an air-fuel ratio of a fuel mixture by causing an electric current to flow through an oxygen ion-conductive solid electrolyte to cause migration of oxygen ions between an atmospheric air and a gas receiving portion into which the exhaust gases resulting from combustion of the fuel mixture are diffused via gas diffusion restricting means. The device includes means for detecting the electric current.
摘要:
An air/fuel ratio monitoring system in an IC engine, using an oxygen sensor of the concentration cell type which has a laminate comprising an inner electrode layer, a microscopically porous layer of oxygen ion conductive solid electrolyte and an outer electrode layer exposable to exhaust gas and which exhibits a sharp change in output voltage level in response to a change in the air/fuel ratio in the engine across a stoichiometric ratio. To ensure accurate monitoring of the air/fuel ratio even when the engine is operated under conditions which cause a large rise or fall in an average level of the output of the oxygen sensor, the monitoring system has a signal treatment means for producing a variable reference voltage, with which the sensor output is compared, by first adding a definite voltage to or subtracting a definite voltage from the output of the oxygen sensor depending on the result of comparison between the sensor output and the reference voltage and then smoothing the voltage resulting from the addition or subtraction of the definite voltage.
摘要:
An air/fuel ratio detection system for an IC engine, using an oxygen sensor element of the concentration cell type which has a laminate of a measurement electrode layer exposed to the exhaust gas, a porous layer of oxygen ion conductive solid electrolyte and a reference electrode layer and requires the supply of a small DC current thereto to produce a reference oxygen partial pressure at the reference electrode by a balance between migration of oxygen ions to the reference electrode and diffusion of oxygen molecules therefrom. To prevent excessive rise in the reference oxygen partial pressure even when the engine continues to discharge exhaust gas high in the content of oxygen, the detection system has a control circuit which controls the intensity and flow direction of the current for the sensor element with reference to a voltage which is produced by adding a definite voltage to, or subtracting the definite voltage from, the sensor output voltage depending on the level of oxygen content in the exhaust gas indicated by the sensor output voltage and smoothing the voltage resulting from the addition or subtraction.
摘要:
A liquid material arrangement method includes a first patter generating step, a dot deleting step and a liquid material arranging step. In the first pattern generating step, a first dot pattern is generated in which a first prescribed number of dots is set. In the dot deleting step, a second prescribed number of dots is deleted to generate a second dot pattern. In the liquid material arranging step, a liquid material is arranged in the prescribed region on the substrate by causing a nozzle and the substrate to scan in relative manner and discharging the liquid material based on the second dot pattern. In the dot deleting step, a dot indicator for each the first prescribed number of dots is determined based on discharge information of the nozzle, and the second prescribed number of dots is deleted based on the dot indicator.
摘要:
A liquid material arrangement method includes performing a first pattern generating step, a dot deleting step, and a liquid material arranging step. The first pattern generating step includes generating a first dot pattern in which a first prescribed number of dots is set according to the prescribed region. The dot deleting step includes deleting a second prescribed number of dots from the first prescribed number of dots to generate a second dot pattern. The liquid material arranging step includes arranging a liquid material in a prescribed region on a substrate by causing a nozzle and the substrate to scan in relative manner and discharging the liquid material from the nozzle based on the second dot pattern. The performing of the dot deleting step further includes deleting at least one prohibited dot with priority with the prohibited dot being determined based on discharge information of the nozzle determined in advance.
摘要:
A piezoelectric vibrator unit comprises: at least one piezoelectric vibrator including: common internal electrode layers and segment internal electrode layers arranged alternately; piezoelectric layers, each interposed between adjacent pair of the common and segment internal electrode layers; and external electrodes formed on an exterior of the piezoelectric vibrator and electrically connected respectively to the common internal electrode layers and the segment internal electrode layers; and a fixing member to which a surface of the piezoelectric vibrator is fixed. The piezoelectric vibrator is displaceable in a direction perpendicular to a lamination direction in which the internal electrode layers and piezoelectric layers are laminated. The magnitude of electric fields applied to the piezoelectric layers is non-uniform.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibration element unit used for an inkjet recording head. The method includes the steps of alternately laminating conductive layers and piezoelectric material layers, sintering a laminated structure after the conductive layers and the piezoelectric layers are laminated to a predetermined thickness, forming external connection electrodes on surfaces of the sintered structure, and fixing a non-vibration region of the sintered structure onto a fixing plate. A region of the structure where the conductive layers are formed is cut into drive piezoelectric vibration elements, and a region of the structure where the conductive layers are not formed is cut into a dummy piezoelectric element.
摘要:
A nozzle plate of the invention has nozzle opening including a taper part 2 for guiding ink in a pressure generation chamber and a straight pore part 3 formed contiguous with the taper part.