摘要:
An ink jet recording head includes an ink discharging portion having a discharge opening for discharging ink, a substrate having an electrical/thermal converting element for generating thermal energy supplied to the ink discharging portion and used to discharge the ink, and a temperature detecting element, and an information bearing means for carrying information providing the feature of the temperature detecting element. The output from the temperature detecting element are used to adjust the temperature of the ink jet recording head.
摘要:
A recording apparatus has a recording operation that is performed after a disposable liquid ejection recording head is mounted. The discrimination is made as to whether the recording head mounted is proper or not relative to the main assembly to which the recording head is mounted, when the main switch is actuated or the recording head is mounted. The discrimination is made with use of a part of a structure in the recording head: a temperature sensor, a temperature keeping heater, an ejection heater or a driving semiconductor function element, for example. If it is not proper, the recording operation is prevented, and/or the improperness is displayed.
摘要:
A liquid jet recording apparatus includes an ink container. A pair of electrodes are provided to be immersed in the ink in the container. By applying a voltage between the electrodes, the remainder of the ink is detected by a change in the electric resistance between the electrodes. The voltage application is not continuous but is intermittent and is performed at a predetermined time associated with the recording operation (at the time of carriage reversal) to detect the remainder of the ink. When the ink remainder detecting operation is not performed, the voltage is not applied to the electrodes. During a stand-by period the execution of the remainder of ink detection process is carried out only once to prevent degradation of the ink caused by electrolysis.
摘要:
In order to prevent change in the properties of recording liquid such as surface tension, viscosity, etc. a recording head is provided with an integral temperature sensor. The temperature controlling operation is performed in response to an output of the temperature sensor to maintain the recording liquid within a predetermined temperature range. In order to correct the variation in the properties of the individual temperature sensors, the main apparatus contains a reference temperature sensor. The temperature sensor of the recording head is corrected in its output on the basis of comparison between the temperature sensors. The recording head is provided with information representative of a property of the temperature sensor of the recording head. By the mounting of the recording head into the apparatus, the information is read, and the output of the temperature sensor is corrected on the basis of the read information.
摘要:
A device for use with a liquid jet recording head, and such a head, include a substrate having a semiconductor functional element, an electrothermal transducer electrically connected to the semiconductor functional element for generating thermal energy to be utilized to discharge liquid from the liquid jet recording head, and an insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor functional element and having a contact hole. An electrode is disposed within the contact hole and another insulating layer is disposed on the electrode and has a through hole. The transducer is disposed on the other insulating layer and has a resistor layer and a pair of electrodes, and that resistor layer includes a portion disposed between the electrode within the contact hole and one of the pair of electrodes within the through hole.
摘要:
A device for detecting a quantity of remaining ink includes first and second electrodes provided in an ink supply passage which connects an ink tank for storing an ink to a recording head for emitting the ink, and a detection means for detecting a resistance between the first and second electrodes. The second electrode is provided in the ink supply passage in an area relatively close to the recording head, whereas the first electrode is provided in the ink supply passage in an area relatively far from the recording head with the second electrode therebetween. The second electrode is maintained at the same potential as that of a substrate which constitutes the recording head and on which emission energy generating elements driven to emit the ink are disposed, whereas the first electrode is maintained at a potential different from that of the second electrode. Consequently, the amount of remaining ink can be detected by measuring changes in the resistance between the first and second electrodes.
摘要:
The present invention involves recording apparatus having such a recording head that records using thermal energy. The recording head has a substrate which includes plural thermal energy generating elements for generating thermal energy, plural wiring lines electrically connected with associated said thermal energy generating elements, and a temperature detecting element built in the substrate. This temperature detecting element is either a diode or a transistor.
摘要:
A substrate usable for a liquid jet recording head having a semiconductor substrate, transistors, and electricity-heat converting elements for generating heat energy to be utilized for discharging a liquid, which is electrically connected to said transistors, in which a plurality of said transistors is provided and the collector region of said transistors is made common.
摘要:
A substrate for use with a liquid jet recording head has a semiconductor substrate, functional elements formed on said semiconductor substrate, and electro-thermal transducers electrically connected to the functional elements for generating thermal energy to be utilized to discharge liquid. The substrate comprises a common electrode electrically connected to the functional elements in common. The common electrode has a notch at a position facing control electrodes formed between adjacent functional elements. The notch minimizes the overlap of the common electrode and the control electrodes to decrease the probability of an electrical defect.
摘要:
A recording apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus includes a recording head for ejecting liquid ink for recording by heat energization, a temperature change rate detecting device for detecting the temperature change rate of the recording head in a normal state, a storage device for storing the temperature change rate information, a determining device for determining the average ejection duty cycle from recording data, an obtaining device for obtaining information relating the temperature change rate in the normal state to the average ejection duty cycle, and a discriminating device for discriminating an abnormality of the recording head determined by the information relating the temperature change rate in the normal state to the average ejection duty cycle, and the temperature change rate detected by the temperature change rate detecting device.