Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyosuke Toda

Satoshi Kimura

Naoko Tsujiuchi

Hiromasa Amma

Yukuo Yamaguchi

Yasushi Iijima

Shimpei Yoshikawa

Satoshi Oikawa

Takuya Iwano

Mikiya Umeyama

Yosuke Takagi

Chiaki Muraoka

Kiyomitsu Kudo

Keiichiro Tsukuda

Takeho Miyashita

Sayaka Seki

Yasuo Kotaki

Ryo Sato

Hiroki Tajima

Tomotsugu Kuroda

Yasuaki Kitayama

Yuichiro Akama

Wataru Takahashi

Koichi Kubo

Hiroshi Koshikawa

Tatsuo Nanjo

Kenta Udagawa

Naozumi Nabeshima

Kazuya Yoshii

Soji Kondo

Shigeki Fukui

Masafumi Seki

Naoko Shimizu

Kenji Yabe

Yuji Tamaru

Kazuhiko Okito

Hiroki Hayashi

Ryoji Inoue

Tetsuya Ohashi

Akira Goto

Takashi Fukushima

Takayuki Ono

Hideo Saikawa

Norihiro Ikebe

Hironori Murakami

Hitoshi Takada

Keisuke Iinuma

Atsushi Omura

Takatoshi Kitagawa

Hironori Fukuchi

Hirotaka Miyazaki

Tomohisa Atsuta

Tatsunori Fujii

Satoshi Ideta

In a circulation channel, which is configured at least with an ejection unit, a first pressure adjusting unit, a second pressure adjusting unit, a pump, and a temperature adjusting unit, liquid supplied from the outside flows into the first pressure adjusting unit and then flows out of the first pressure adjusting unit into the ejection unit and the second pressure adjusting unit. The liquid that has flowed out of the ejection unit and the liquid that has flowed out of the first pressure adjusting unit flow into the second pressure adjusting unit and then flow out of the second pressure adjusting unit into the pump. The pump sends the liquid that has flowed out of the second pressure adjusting unit to the first pressure adjusting unit, and the temperature of the circulating liquid is adjusted by the temperature adjusting unit.

Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a printing element board, supply and collection flow passages, a liquid feeding mechanism, and first and second bubble reservoir units. The printing element board includes a pressure chamber having an ejection port from which the printing element board ejects a liquid. The supply and collection flow passages communicate with the pressure chamber. The liquid feeding mechanism generates a difference in pressure between the supply and collection flow passages to supply the liquid from the supply flow passage to the pressure chamber and to recover the liquid in the pressure chamber from the collection flow passage. The first bubble reservoir unit connects the supply flow passage to the liquid feeding mechanism. The second bubble reservoir unit connects the collection flow passage to the liquid feeding mechanism. A volume of the first bubble reservoir unit is larger than a volume of the second bubble reservoir unit.

A liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus, which are capable of preventing deterioration in ink circulation efficiency in the vicinities of ejection ports, includes a common supply channel and a common collection channel as separate channels. Ink supplied from the common supply channel is supplied to pressure chambers through supply connection channels, and collected from the pressure chambers into the common collection channel through collection connection channels. Also, the common supply channel and the common collection channel extend in a direction crossing a main scanning direction in which the liquid ejection head is scanned and the ejection direction of the liquid.

A liquid discharge head includes a discharge port array having a plurality of discharge ports and a supply port array having a plurality of supply ports. The discharge port array and the supply port array extend from a first to a second end of the liquid discharge head. The plurality of discharge ports includes a first-end discharge port closest to the first end and a second-end discharge port closest to the second end. The plurality of supply ports includes a first-end supply port closest to the first end and a second-end supply port closest to the second end. Seen from a position facing openings of the plurality of discharge ports, an end of an opening of the first-end supply port adjacent to the first end is at a position nearer to the first end than an end of an opening of the first-end discharge port adjacent to the first end.

Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus

A liquid ejection head includes an ejection unit, a channel member, and a circulation unit. The ejection unit includes an ejection port array in which ejection ports configured to eject a liquid are arrayed, and a communication channel communicating with the ejection port array. The channel member includes a channel that supplies and collects the liquid to and from the communication channel. The circulation unit supplies the liquid to the channel of the channel member and collects the liquid from the channel of the channel member. The ejection unit further includes a plurality of ejection port arrays that eject a liquid of the same type, and a plurality of communication channels corresponding to the plurality of ejection port arrays. The channel member includes a plurality of individual channels respectively through which the plurality of communication channels communicate with one of the circulation unit as a single circulation unit.

A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection head that ejects a liquid, a container that stores the liquid, and a reservoir that supplies the liquid to the ejection head and stores the liquid supplied from the container. The reservoir includes a first chamber that stores the liquid, a second chamber that is arranged downstream of the first chamber and stores the liquid, and a first flow path and a second flow path that communicate the first and second chambers with each other. A communication port between the first chamber and the second flow path is located lower than a communication port between the first chamber and the first flow path in a usage posture of the liquid ejection apparatus. The second flow path is configured so that a rate of a pressure loss increases as a flow rate of the liquid flowing inside the second flow path increases.

Liquid ejection apparatus

A liquid ejection head and a liquid ejection apparatus suppressing the occurrence of an ejection failure without increasing the size of the apparatus are provided. To this end, between a circulation unit and a supply flow path communicating with a pressure chamber, a flow path is provided, having a vertical cross-sectional area in a liquid circulation direction, which is double or more a vertical cross-sectional area in a liquid circulation direction in the supply flow path and having a flow path inner wall inclined with respect to the gravitational direction and whose component force of a normal vector has a component in the gravitational direction.

A liquid ejection head has: a frame having a plurality of ejection ports for ejecting a liquid; a common liquid chamber; a plurality of individual liquid chambers through which the common liquid chamber communicates with each of the ejection ports; and a plurality of energy generating elements disposed in respective individual liquid chambers. A part of a wall of the frame that forms the common liquid chamber is formed of an elastic member capable of deforming elastically, so that a volume of the common liquid chamber can be modified.

Liquid ejection head

A liquid discharge head includes an electric connecting portion between a flexible wiring substrate and a contact wiring substrate. The contact wiring substrate has a first surface on which a contact pad is provided and a second surface opposite the first surface. The electric connecting portion is disposed on the second surface side of the contact wiring substrate.

Liquid discharge head

A liquid discharge head includes a channel member and a recording element substrate. The channel member includes a discharge port configured to discharge liquid and at least one channel configured to supply the liquid to the discharge port. The recording element substrate includes a supply path and an energy generating element. The supply path connects to the at least one channel with a connection and is configured to supply the liquid to the at least one channel. The energy generating element is configured to discharge the liquid from the discharge port. The channel member further includes, at positions of the channel member facing the connection, a plurality of spaces, the spaces being formed by covering part of recesses of the channel member with a covering portion, the spaces each including an opening communicating with the at least one channel.

A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate having a substrate provided with a plurality of flow paths for liquid to be ejected on a recording material by a recording element and a cover member that is provided with a plurality of communication holes in communication with the plurality of flow paths and that is joined to the substrate, a liquid supply member supplying the liquid to the plurality of flow paths through the plurality of communication holes of the cover member, and an adhesive member adhering the cover member and the liquid supply member. At least a part of an abutment region of the cover member in abutment against the substrate and apart from a region provided with the plurality of communication holes has a cover member opening for contacting the adhesive member and the substrate to each other.

Liquid storing container and liquid ejection device

A liquid supply member includes a first member, a second member, and a damper member disposed between the first member and the second member, wherein the first member is a member configured to form a liquid chamber, wherein the damper member is a flexible member configured to form the liquid chamber together with the first member, wherein the second member is a member configured to form an atmosphere communication chamber communicating with an ambient atmosphere at a position between the damper member and the second member and opposing the liquid chamber with the damper member in between, and wherein a protrusion portion is formed on a surface of the second member facing the atmosphere communication chamber at a position corresponding to a central part of the damper member, the protrusion portion protruding toward the damper member beyond a connection surface between the damper member and the second member.

Liquid supply member and liquid discharge head

An image recording apparatus includes a liquid chamber that stores liquid, a first electrode pin and a second electrode pin to be inserted into the liquid chamber, applying unit for applying voltage across the first electrode pin and the second electrode pin, with the first electrode pin as an anode side and the second electrode pin as a cathode side, and detecting unit for detecting electric current flowing, and detection operation of detecting amount of liquid in the liquid chamber by the detecting unit detecting the electric current when the applying unit applies voltage. Prior to the detection operation, an oxidization aging operation is performed, in which the applying unit applies voltage across the first electrode pin and the second electrode pin. An amount of an oxide layer formed on at least a portion of the first electrode pin exposed inside the liquid chamber is greater than the second.

Image recording apparatus

A liquid ejection head includes a flow path-forming part having a flow path for liquid supplied from a liquid reservoir and a plurality of outlet ports for discharging the liquid, a liquid ejecting unit having a plurality of inlet ports into which the liquid flows and a plurality of ejection element rows corresponding to the inlet ports and each having a plurality of ejection elements to eject the liquid, and a sealing member having a sealing opening which allows communication between the plurality of outlet ports and the plurality of inlet ports. sealing member seals a portion between the flow path-forming part and the liquid ejecting unit so that the plurality of outlet ports and the plurality of inlet ports are in communication. A plurality of the sealing openings are provided for the sealing member, and at least one of the sealing openings has at least two inlet ports.

There is provided a method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head. The liquid ejection head includes a recording device substrate, an electric wiring member configured to be connected to the recording device substrate at an electric connection portion, and a support member including a concave portion and a convex portion. The convex portion includes a first surface and a second surface. The method includes applying an adhesive to the surface of the concave portion on which the recording device substrate is to be placed and to the first surface, pressing the applied adhesive after the recording device substrate is placed on the surface of the concave portion on which the recording device substrate is to be placed, to fill, with the adhesive, a gap between the convex portion and the recording device substrate to a position higher than the first surface, and sealing the electric connection portion.

Liquid ejection head and method of manufacturing liquid ejection head

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Kyosuke Toda