Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Hiroto Takahashi

Masami Ikeda

Hiroto Matsuda

Makoto Shibata

Yasuyuki Tamura

Makoto Shioya

Hisanori Tsuda

Masayoshi Tachihara

Hirokazu Komuro

Tatsuo Kimura

Jun Ashiwa

Genji Inada

Tadashi Yamamoto

Koichi Sato

Seiichiro Karita

Shinji Takagi

Hideki Tanaka

Masanori Takenouchi

Toshiharu Inui

Hidemi Kubota

Hiroyuki Maeda

Kazuhiro Nakajima

Kunihiko Maeoka

Shinichi Hirasawa

Shin'ichi Hirasawa

Hirokazu Komur

Tatsumi Shohji

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Each of pixels of recorded image is formed by a plurality of dots composed with ink droplets ejected from a plurality of different orifices at individual different main-scannings. With this recording process, the variation of ink ejection characteristics between a plurality of orifices in a recording head can be reduced in forming pixels.

Recording apparatus and recording method

Tone recording method using ink jet recording head that records pixels using a plurality of liquid droplets

A recording head includes a liquid ejecting outlet, a liquid passage communicating with the ejection outlet, and a heat generating resistor for supplying heat to the liquid in a heat acting portion in the liquid to create a bubble in the liquid passage to eject the liquid through the ejection outlet. A cross-sectional area of the liquid passage increases from the heat acting zone toward the ejection outlet, and this improves performance while also improving head durability.

Liquid jet recording head having internal structure for controlling

A liquid jet recording head for discharging liquid droplets onto a recording medium includes a support, heat-generating resistance layer provided on the support for generating heat energy to discharge the liquid droplets, a pair of electrodes electrically connected to the heat-generating resistance layer, and heat-generating sections each serving as a portion for generating the heat energy, each head generating section comprising the heat-generating resistance layer sandwiched by the pair of electrodes. Plural discharge openings serve to discharge liquid droplets, a liquid chamber houses liquid, and there are plural liquid paths, each liquid path having an associated heat generating section, and communicating with an associated discharge opening and with the liquid chamber to supply liquid to the associated discharge opening from the liquid chamber. An layer on the support protects the heat-generating resistance layer and pair of electrodes, and the upper layer has an organic resin layer of organic material, and this organic resin layer is formed only on a whole region upstream of the heat-generating sections on the support in a liquid supply direction.

Liquid jet recording head

A fluid ejection head comprises a heater disposed in a fluid path. A bubble is generated by supplying electric power to the heater, and ink is ejected in a direction substantially parallel to a face of the heater. The fluid path is shaped to have a first part with a constant-sectional area adjacent to an ejection orifice a second part located behind the first part and containing the heater. The cross-sectional area of the second part increases by twice as large as the cross-sectional area of the ejection orifice, a length (A) between an end of the first part of the fluid path and a top end of the heater is greater than or equal to half of the height Ph of the ejection orifice, and a shortest gap between the ejection orifice and the heater is less than or equal to a sum of a half of the height Ph of the ejection orifice and a length (L) of the first part of the fluid path.

Fluid ejection head with multi-dimensional fluid path

An ink jet recording head comprises a discharging opening for liquid discharge and an electricity-heat convertor. The electricity-heat convertor comprises a heat-generating resistor and electrodes attached to the resistor. The heat-generating resistor and electrodes are formed from a single layer of electroconductive material which is anodically oxidized to change it into an insulating material except in the region where the resistor and electrodes are located. The resistor is formed by anodically oxidizing a portion of the layer which remained electroconductive after the first anodic oxidation to obtain a desired resistance value.

Process for manufacturing substrate for ink jet recording head using

A liquid jet recording method for recording on a recording material with liquid droplets discharged through plural scanning nozzles arranged in a width measured in a direction of main scan. The recording method includes a first main scan by relative movement between the nozzles and the recording material, in which pixels are recorded with numbers of droplets through a nozzle, the numbers of droplets corresponding to respective tone signals. The method also includes a sub-scan by relative movement between the nozzles and the recording material in a direction crossing with a movement direction of the first main scan. The method further includes a second main scan in which the pixels are recorded with numbers of droplets through a different nozzle, the latter numbers of droplets corresponding to tone level signals. The sub-scan and second main scan steps are repeated to record a tone image by discharging plural droplets for a pixel.

Liquid jet recording method using plural scanning nozzles and including

A method and apparatus for coating a liquid-repellant agent on a discharge port surface of an ink jet recording head having a plurality of discharge ports, where a porous member having the liquid repellant agent is contacted to the discharge port surface and the porous member is separated from the discharge port surface without rubbing the discharge port surface.

Liquid-repellent application process for a liquid ejection recording

A liquid jet recording head comprises a substrate comprising a support, a resistive heater layer, electrodes electrically connected with the resistive heater layer, a portion of the resistive heater layer located between the electrodes being an electrothermal transducer, and an upper layer comprising a first protective layer comprising an inorganic insulating material, a second protective layer comprising an inorganic material, and a third protective layer comprising an organic material, wherein and the second protective layer and the third protective layer overlap each other in the vicinity of a portion where heat is generated by the electrothermal transducer and the overlapping width of the second protective layer and the third protective layer ranges from 10 .mu.m to 500 .mu.m. In another embodiment, the second protective layer extends along plural liquid flow paths for substantially less than the length thereof in a continuous strip that covers adjacent transducers.

An ink jet recording head comprises a substrate including a heat-generating resistance layer disposed on a support to provide a heat-generating section with two ends, a pair of electrodes on the support being connected electrically to the ends of the heat-generating sections. A member, joined to the substrate, has a recessed portion for forming a liquid pathway connected to an orifice for ejecting liquid. The member and substrate are joined so that the ends of the heat-generating section correspond to the liquid pathway. An organic material protective layer on the electrodes proximate to the ends of the heat-generating section is omitted from the heat-generating section and in the vicinity of an edge of the support where the liquid pathway is connected to the orifice. This configuration prevents the organic material protective layer from being subjected to the high temperatures attained by the heat-generating section and to the mechanical stresses encountered when the edge of the head is machined.

Liquid jet recording head having a support with an organic protective

A liquid jet recording method of recording on a recording material with liquid droplets discharged trough plural scanning nozzles, in which:

Tone recording method using ink recording head

An ink jet recording head comprises a discharging opening for liquid discharge and an electricity-heat convertor. The electricity-heat convertor has a region formed by oxidation of at least part of an electroconductive material, and the region is adapted to generate heat.

Ink jet recording head having resistor formed by oxidization

This specification discloses a liquid injection recording head in which a support member provided with an energy generating member for generating energy utilized to discharge liquid and form flying droplets is flexible.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroto Takahashi