Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masayoshi Ohkawa

Kimiyuki Hayasaki

Takayuki Ono

Tsuyoshi Orikasa

Hiroyuki Kigami

Hisashi Fukai

Toshio Kashino

Kiyomitsu Kudo

Yoshie Asakawa

Koji Yamakawa

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Aya Yoshihira

Kouji Yamakawa

Yutaka Koizumi

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 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

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Masayoshi Ohkawa