Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Kigami

Takayuki Ono

Kimiyuki Hayasaki

Tsuyoshi Orikasa

Hisashi Fukai

Toshio Kashino

Masayoshi Ohkawa

Yutaka Koizumi

Yusaku Azuma

Koji Yamakawa

Kiyomitsu Kudo

Tetsuya Ohashi

Yoshie Asakawa

Katsumi Ishihara

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Akira Goto

Hiroki Tajima

Aya Yoshihira

Yasuhiro Sawada

Junichiro Iri

Satoshi Shimazu

Masateru Yasuhara

Takeo Tanita

Kouji Yamakawa

Teruo Ozaki

Yukuo Yamaguchi

Daisaku Ide

Tetsuhiro Nitta

Yasushi Iijima

Hiroyuki Maeda

Satoshi Kudo

Noriyasu Asaki

Teiji Oosaka

Manabu Tanimoto

Noaki Nakajo

Masayoshi Okawa

Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a liquid jet recording head which includes a forming step of forming a recess portion between a flexible film wiring board and a recording element board, a providing step of providing in the recess portion an electrical connecting portion for electrically connecting the flexible film wiring board and the recording element board, a membrane curing step of injecting first resin into the recess portion to cure the first resin in a membrane form, and a covering step of covering an upper portion of the electrical connecting portion and the first resin with second resin subsequent to the membrane curing step. The electrical connecting portion is protected against liquid droplets and the like, and its electrical reliability is improved.

Method of manufacturing a liquid jet recording head

An ink jet print head is provided which includes: a print element substrate; a plate accommodating the print element substrate by enclosing a side peripheral portion of the print element substrate; an electric wiring tape member disposed on the plate and having electric wiring portions for the print element substrate; a first sealant filling a space surrounding the print element substrate enclosed by the plate; and a second sealant covering a part of the electric wiring portions. In this construction, stress concentrations in the electric connections are alleviated even if the electric wiring tape used to support the second sealant has a reduced stiffness due to a reduced thickness of the tape. For this purpose, the plate H' is provided with protrusions Has support members that support the second sealant Hthrough the extension portions Hof the electric wiring tape.

Ink jet print head

Ink jet recording head and manufacturing method therefor

An ink jet recording head comprises an ink tank, a nozzle for discharging ink, a liquid chamber for retaining a specific amount of ink supplied from the ink tank through a filter, while supplying ink to the nozzle, and a covering member to be bonded to the liquid chamber, and on the circumference of the liquid chamber, a groove is formed to enable bonding agent to be coated therefor, and on the circumference of the covering member, an extrusion is formed to be fitted into the groove. For this ink jet recording head, gas releasing means is provided for releasing gas remaining in the bonding agent to the outside of the groove when the covering member is bonded to the liquid chamber by fitting the extrusion into the groove after the bonding agent is coated in the groove. With the structure thus arranged, it is possible to prevent leakage form occurring between liquid chambers, because voids are not formed by gas remaining in the bonding agent, which may connect liquid chambers adjacent to each other, and each of the liquid chambers is airtightly closed in the ink jet recording head for a better performance thereof.

Ink jet recording head, ink jet recording apparatus using such ink jet recording head, and method for manufacturing ink jet recording head

A method of preserving a recording head which includes an ink flow path by which the ink is supplied and a discharge port in communication with the ink flow path to discharge the ink supplied into the ink flow path; is connected to an ink tank in the recording apparatus in such a way to be removably attached to or detached from the ink tank, to allow the ink to be discharged from the discharge port; and uses a reactive ink as the recording ink containing a colorant and reactive component reactive with another ink, comprises a step of examining discharging conditions of the recording head using an ink for examination of a composition free of the reactive component, which is supplied into the ink flow path, and a step of step of preserving the recording head for preservation by replacing the ink for examination remaining in the ink flow path in the recording head by an ink for preservation containing neither the colorant nor reactive component, after the step of examining discharging conditions is over.

Ink jet recording system and method of preserving recording head

A liquid discharging apparatus characterized by a mounting portion for mounting thereon a liquid discharging head provided with a discharge port for discharging liquid, a cap for covering the discharge port, suction means for effecting suction from the discharge port when the cap covers the discharge port, and control means for causing the cap to cover the discharge port when the liquid discharging head is mounted on the mounting portion, and causing the suction means to effect first suction from the discharge port by negative pressure having a first negative pressure curve, and then causing the suction means to effect second suction from the discharge port by negative pressure in a second negative pressure curve which is different than the first negative pressure curve with the cap caused to cover the discharge port.

Liquid discharging apparatus and discharge recovering method therefor

There is provided an ink-jet recording head comprising a printing head unit which has one or more discharge portions for discharging one or more types of fluids for printing, a tank holder unit in which one or more tanks for storing one or more types of fluids to be discharged by the printing head unit are loaded, and a fluid supply path which is formed in the tank holder unit and communicates with the printing head unit and the tank, wherein a buffer chamber for keeping gas is connected to the fluid supply path.

Ink-jet recording head and recording apparatus

A liquid discharge head unit wherein the position of the discharge ports are arranged in high precision with respect to the liquid discharge apparatus main body so that the liquid discharge head unit is capable of executing highly precise liquid discharges.

Liquid discharge head unit, head cartridge, and method for manufacturing liquid discharge head unit

A method for manufacturing a component provided with a number of liquid paths having movable members for use of liquid discharging comprises the steps of displacing the movable members provided for thin film material by use of such thin film material having the movable members on it, and a component provided with a plurality of recessed portions, and of placing the movable members, which are in the state of being displaced with respect to the recessed portions of the component correspondingly, hence making it possible to fabricate a liquid jet head without damaging or deforming such thin film material constituting the movable members. With the provision of the movable members, the discharging power and efficiency of the liquid jet head are significantly enhanced to obtain recorded images of high quality at higher speeds.

Method of manufacturing a liquid jet head having a plurality of movable members

A method for correcting a recording head is provided to solve the problems of density unevenness in recorded images. The density comparison is made with the reference density for a predetermined unit in the density distribution of an image recorded by the application of n kinds of signals. Then, one of the n kinds of signals which is close to the reference density is selected. The properties of the signal thus selected are transmitted to the recording head together with the correction data, hence correcting density unevenness.

Method for correcting a recording head, correction apparatus therefor, recording head corrected by use of such apparatus, and recording apparatus using such recording head

A method for manufacturing a liquid jet recording head comprises of the steps of calculating the difference between the distance B from the first heater on the element substrate to the cut face of the element substrate and the distance A from the first flow path groove on the ceiling plate to the abutment reference of the ceiling plate, measuring the amounts of deviation in the positional precisions in the state where the element substrates and the ceiling plates are actually positioned, working out a correction value from the distributional condition of such deviations, feeding back the correction value for determining the corrected amount of retraction. Then, after the abutment reference of the ceiling plate is allowed to abut upon the cut face of the element substrate by means of a push jig, retraction is performed by moving the ceiling plate by means of a retraction jig in the reverse direction with respect to the element substrate, hence positioning the ceiling plate and the element substrate. With the method thus arranged, it is made possible to perform positioning in a higher precision at lower costs with a shorter tact time, thus manufacturing a highly precise and highly reliable liquid jet recording head.

Method for manufacturing a liquid jet recording head

An apparatus and method for accurately and rapidly correcting a printing characteristic of a printhead, a printhead whose printing characteristic is corrected by the above apparatus, and a printing apparatus using the printhead. In the apparatus for correcting the printing characteristic of the printhead, n kinds of printing control signal patterns are used to a full line printhead, printing patterns are experimentally printed in response to the printing control signal patterns on a printing medium and a reference density distribution is generated from one of n kinds of the printing patterns printed. Then, one of the n kinds of printing control signal patterns is selected for each of a plurality of printing elements such that a density value on each pixel is equal or close to the reference density distribution. In this case, a similar selection is carried out on another reference density distribution generated on the basis of another one of the n kinds of printing patterns, and an optimum one of the n kinds of printing control signal patterns is determined as correction data.

Method and apparatus for correcting printhead, printhead corrected by this apparatus, and printing apparatus using this printhead

A liquid ejection head includes an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid; a plurality of liquid flow paths; a bubble generating region for generating a bubble; a movable member disposed faced to the bubble generating region and movable between a first position and a second position which is farther from the bubble generating region than the first position; wherein the movable member moves from the first position to the second position by pressure produced by the generation of the bubble to permit expansion of the bubble more in a downstream side closer to the ejection outlet than in an upstream side. In addition, a first common liquid chamber having a height, measured in a direction perpendicular to a plane including the movable member at rest, which is larger than that of the liquid flow paths, wherein the movable member has a fulcrum in the first common liquid chamber and a free end in the liquid flow paths.

Liquid ejection head having specific flow path structure

A manufacturing method for a liquid ejecting unit having a comb-like separation wall, a displaceable member and a grooved member mating with the comb-like separation wall includes engaging the separation wall with the grooved member while being positioned by an abutment reference.

Manufacturing method for the liquid ejection head

A robot apparatus includes a robot arm, a robot hand, an electrical/electronic device mounted on the robot hand for operating the robot hand, and a hand attaching/detaching device, arranged between the robot arm and the robot hand, for detachably mounting the robot hand on the robot arm. A signal transmission path, is connected to an external robot controller at one end thereof and to the electrical/electronic device at the other end thereof, extends through the hand attaching/detaching device, and is able to be disconnected between the robot hand side and the robot arm side in the hand attaching/detaching device. The signal transmission path drives the robot hand, and allows a plurality of kinds of signals for the electrical/electronic device to pass therethrough in a multiplexed serial format; a first signal conversion circuit, arranged on a robot hand side, converts the multiplexed serial format signal into original parallel signals, and output the parallel signals to the electrical/electronic device, or converts signals from the electrical/electronic device into a multiplexed serial format signals, and outputs the multiplexed serial signal to a robot controller.

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Hiroyuki Kigami