摘要:
A liquid ejection head is provided that is adapted, when the ejection of comparatively small ink droplets by one print head is required, to not only increase a printing speed and a printing resolution but also to prevent the occurrence of cavitation. The liquid ejection head includes: nozzles, for which heaters are formed to generate thermal energy used to eject ink; and bubble generation chambers, for which ejection ports are formed for ejecting ink upon the application of thermal energy provided by the heaters. Further, a partition wall is formed in each bubble generation chamber at a position opposite the ejection port.
摘要:
An ink jet recording head can, when a smaller liquid droplet is obtained, suppress or reduce stagnation of liquid in a second discharge port portion, prevent an offset meniscus in a discharge port, reduce unstable satellite(s) and realize stable discharging with less image deterioration and less floating mist. Two heaters are provided for each bubble generating chamber and the heaters are arranged substantially symmetrically with respect to a center or a center of gravity of a second discharge port portion. In a plan view viewed from a direction perpendicular to a main surface of an element substrate, at least one of two heaters is positioned to straddle an inner area of the second discharge port portion and an outer area outside of the second discharge port portion at a region where the bubble generating chamber is communicated with the liquid supply path.
摘要:
The present invention provides an ink jet recording head which, when a smaller liquid droplet is obtained, can suppress or reduce stagnation of liquid in a second discharge port portion, prevent an offset meniscus in a discharge port, reduce unstable satellite(s) and realize stable discharging with less image deterioration and less floating mist. In the present invention, two heaters 1a and 1b are provided for each bubble generating chamber and the heaters 1a and 1b are arranged substantially symmetrically with respect to a center or a center of gravity of a second discharge port portion. In a plan view viewed from a direction perpendicular to a main surface of an element substrate, at least one of two heaters is positioned to straddle an inner area of the second discharge port portion and an outer area out of the second discharge port portion.
摘要:
An ink jet head includes a substrate provided with heat generating members for generating a bubble in ink on a surface of the substrate, a plurality of discharge ports for discharging the ink, the ports opposed to the surface of the substrate, and a plurality of ink flow passages communicating with the plurality of discharge ports to feed the ink. A plurality of the heat generating members is provided in each of the ink flow passages, and the discharge port is arranged on an extension line extending from a center of a pressure generating area composed of the plurality of heat generating members toward the surface of the substrate in a normal direction. Moreover, a distance dhc between centers of each of two heat generating members arranged most apart from each other among the plurality of heat generating members is set to be larger than a diameter do of an aperture of the discharge port. In the ink jet head, even if the center position of the discharge port and the center position of the pressure generating area are somewhat shifted from each other, main liquid droplets of the ink are discharged from the discharge port without generating no shift in their discharge directions.
摘要:
When a plurality of heaters in the printing head are driven and the pulse width is controlled according to a change in the voltage drop corresponding to the number of driven heaters, the control range of the pulse width is properly determined to ensure a stable ink ejection. More specifically, the driving bit number for each block representing the number of heaters to be driven is counted; and based on this count value, a table is referenced to determine the pulse width of a single pulse. Then, in an inappropriate range of pulse width where the ink ejection amount varies largely, the single pulse is changed into a double pulse by referencing the table with the pulse width to obtain a double pulse driving waveform.
摘要:
An ink jet recording apparatus is to record by discharging ink and colorless record processing liquid to a recording medium from ink discharge ports and record processing liquid discharge ports. A detector detects discharge or non-discharge from every discharge port. The discharge recovery process for the processing liquid discharge ports is executed by discharging record processing liquid out of non-discharged ports to the recording medium. With the discharge recovery process thus arranged to be executable on the surface of a recording medium, not only the slowdown of printing speed is prevented, but also, the apparatus main body can be made smaller because there is no need for any provision of receptacle for receiving exhausted processing liquid.
摘要:
An ink jet recording head of high printing quality including a plurality of electro-thermal transducers arranged on a substrate corresponding to respective nozzles, wherein each protective layer placed on a resistor constituting each of the plurality of electro-thermal transducers has a thickness-reduced portion at a part thereof so as to increase the distance between the center point of the air bubble of each of the plurality of electro-thermal transducers to longer than the distance between the centers of gravity of each of the plurality of electro-thermal transducers. With the ink jet recording head, the relationship between the amount and the speed of ejected ink droplets can be optimized in accordance with the size of areas of the electro-thermal transducers.
摘要:
A printing apparatus has an ink-jet printing head having one nozzle array for ejecting an ink, and the other nozzle array for ejecting a printing improvement liquid containing a substance making a coloring agent in the ink insoluble or coagulate. When the printing improvement liquid is ejected in advance of ejection of the ink, the ejection speed of the ink is set to be lower than the ejection speed of the printing improvement liquid. When the ink is ejected in advance of ejection of the printing improvement liquid, the ejection speed of the printing improvement liquid is set to be lower than the ejection speed of the ink. The printing apparatus is capable of preventing ejection failure or deflection of the ejecting direction due to rebounding of the printing improvement liquid or mist thereof.