摘要:
An ink-jet recording apparatus records an image onto a recording medium by flying an ink-droplet from an ink surface by a pressure of an ultrasonic beam. The apparatus including an ultrasonic generating element array having a plurality of ultrasonic elements arranged in an array for emitting ultrasonic beams, a driving device for applying a plurality of pulses having different phases from each other, and a converging device for converging the ultrasonic beams by interfering the ultrasonic beams with each other. The generating elements are simultaneously driven and sequentially shifted in an array direction, and the converging device converging the ultrasonic beams in a direction perpendicular to the array direction.
摘要:
A driving circuit controls a time for applying a drive signal to a piezoelectric element so as to bring a control in the number of ink droplets squirted from a liquid surface of liquid ink according to a gray scale level of an image to be printed on a printed object. According to application of the drive signal, acoustic waves emitted from a piezoelectric element array are focused in a main scanning direction, made incident to an acoustic lens via an acoustic matching layer, further focused in a direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction and focused in a vicinity of the liquid surface in a point form. In the vicinity of the liquid surface, an ink liquid mound is formed by means of pressure (discharging pressure) generated by the focused acoustic waves and then from a tip of the ink liquid mound an ink droplet according to the application time is squirted. The squirted ink droplet is ejected and stuck to the printed object. By performing main and subscanning to the printed object, a two-dimensional image is printed thereon.
摘要:
An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink holding chamber, an ultrasonic wave generator having a piezoelectric transducer structure consisting of a piezoelectric member, and first and second electrodes formed on opposing surfaces of the piezoelectric member, and a driver for driving the piezoelectric transducer structure. The piezoelectric transducer structure is coupled acoustically with the ink liquid. The apparatus further includes ultrasonic wave focusing member formed on the ultrasonic wave generator and including an acoustic lens for focusing an ultrasonic wave generated from the ultrasonic wave generator in a vicinity close to a surface of the ink liquid, and a supporting member for supporting the ultrasonic wave generator on an opposite side to the ultrasonic wave focusing member. The supporting member supports the ultrasonic wave generator via an ultrasonic wave canceling medium, in a region corresponding to an overlapping region between the piezoelectric transducer structure and the acoustic lens.
摘要:
An ink jet recording apparatus uses supersonic waves focused on an ink holding container to inject ink from the ink surface onto a recording medium. A piezoelectric element driven by a first driving signal serves as the supersonic wave generator. The piezoelectric element can also be driven by a second driving signal to effectively circulate the ink in the holding container. The second driving signal results in an acoustic pressure at the ink surface lower than the acoustic pressure necessary for injecting the ink onto a recording medium.
摘要:
An ink jet recording device comprises an ultrasonic generating element array having a plurality of ultrasonic generating elements, a driving circuit for emitting ink droplets for each of element groups by setting a predetermined number of the ultrasonic generating elements out of the plurality of ultrasonic generating elements as one element group to drive individually each of the ultrasonic generating elements in the element group in accordance with the driving data corresponding to the image data, a driving data series buffer for storing a driving data series comprising at least one set of driving data for driving each of the ultrasonic generating elements in the element group, and a driving data generation circuit for reading repeatedly the driving data series which is stored in the driving data series buffer to generate the driving data corresponding to the image data.
摘要:
A method for driving an image sensor, the image sensor including a pair of first and second main electrodes fabricated on a semiconductor layer in such a manner that the first and second main electrodes are separated with each other via a light receiving region. An insulating layer is stacked on the semiconductor layer and an auxiliary electrode then stacked on the insulating layer. The method includes the steps of applying a constant bias voltage to the auxiliary electrode over both a read time period and a non-read time period of a signal current of the image sensor.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes actuators configured to pressurize ink. The actuators include piezoelectric elements provided on an insulating layer, first electrodes electrically connected to the piezoelectric elements, and second electrodes connected to the piezoelectric elements and configured to hold the piezoelectric elements in cooperation with the first electrodes. The first electrodes of all the actuators are electrically connected to a common first energization pattern. The second electrodes of all the actuators are individually electrically connected to second energization patterns. The first energization pattern and the second energization patterns are separated from each other without overlapping each other on the insulating layer.
摘要:
The invention provides an inkjet printer that gives an excellent print quality by accelerating the traveling speed of an ink droplet ejected from a nozzle of the inkjet head. The inkjet printer includes the inkjet head having a surface forming a nozzle and adapted to eject droplets from the nozzle, an ultrasound radiator mounted on both sides of the surface and adapted to radiate ultrasound in the direction of the ink droplets that have been ejected and imparting a pressure, in flight, to the ink droplets that have been ejected, and a recording medium conveying unit for moving a recording medium relative to the inkjet head.
摘要:
Disclosed is an ink jet head which can eject an ink droplet while preventing failure of ink ejection, resulting in printing an image having good print quality. The ink jet head comprises a plurality of pressure chambers, a nozzle fluidly communicating with respective pressure chamber, first common ink chamber provided on one edge of the pressure chamber, second common ink chamber provided on the other edge of the pressure chamber, and an ink channel fluidly communicating the first common ink chamber with the second. An ultrasonic transducer arranged in a part of the ink channel causes the ink in ink channel to circulate through a passage way formed of the ink channel, the first and second common, ink chambers and pressure chamber.
摘要:
An inkjet recording head of an embodiment includes: an elastic film provided to form a part of a pressure-generating chamber connected to a nozzle opening; and a piezoelectric film-laminated part, an end thereof being fixed to the elastic film, a central part thereof facing the elastic film having an air gap in-between, the piezoelectric film-laminated part including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode.