Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryuji Katsuragi

Makoto Shioya

Masahiko Kubota

Hidehiko Kanda

Teruo Ozaki

Koromo Shirota

Hideto Yokoi

Mayumi Yamamoto

Hisashi Teraoka

Takeshi Miyazaki

Yoshifumi Hattori

Osamu Kanome

Yoshihisa Takizawa

Yasuharu Notoya

Eriko Saito

Akira Nagashima

Shoji Koike

Shinichi Sato

Akio Kashiwazaki

Mikio Sanada

Ichiro Onuki

Keiichi Murai

Tsuyoshi Eida

Kohei Watanabe

Kumiko Mafune

Takao Yamamoto

Koichi Osumi

Osamu Nishiwaki

Masataka Eida

Eriko Namazue

Masahiko Tonogaki

An ink-jet recording liquid composition which is used together with a colored ink to form images and is capable of causing reaction upon contact with the colored ink; the composition being characterized by containing at least (a) a polyvalent metal salt, (b) a substance selected from cryptands and (c) a liquid medium; or an ink-jet recording ink characterized by containing at least (a) a polyvalent metal salt, (b) a substance selected from cryptands, (c) a liquid medium and (d) a coloring material.

Liquid composition, ink-jet recording process, ink-jet recording ink set, recording unit, ink cartridge, ink-jet recording apparatus, and ink-jet recording ink

An ink used in an ink jet recording method in which ink droplets are ejected from a recording head by the action of thermal energy to record an image on a recording medium; the ink being characterized by containing (a) a pigment, (b) a dispersing agent, (c) a liquid medium, (d) a polyglycerol and (e) at least one selected from a potassium salt of a carboxylic acid, a rubidium salt of a carboxylic acid and a cesium salt of a carboxylic acid.

Ink and ink jet recording method

An ink jet recording method of ejecting ink using an ink jet head substrate provided with a heat generating resistor which is coated with a protecting film, wherein the ink is ejected by a pressure produced by generation of a bubble created by film boiling of the ink caused by application of thermal energy to the ink through the protecting film, the thermal energy being generated by driving of the heat generating resistor, the improvement residing in that:

Ink jet head substrate having heat generating resistor and ink jet head and recording method using same

An ink jet recording method for ejecting ink using an ink jet head substrate provided with a heat generating resistor, which is coated with a protection film, wherein the ink is ejected by a pressure produced by generation of a bubble, the bubble being created by film boiling of the ink caused by the application of thermal energy to the ink through the protection film, the thermal energy being generated by driving of the heat generating resistor, the improvement residing in that:

A process for producing a light amount-adjusting member, such as an ND filter, that comprises the steps of providing a transparent base material and a coloring liquid; and applying a coloring liquid to the base material by ejecting the coloring liquid to the base material to form a colored portion having a specified optical density, wherein the coloring liquid contains at least one coloring material of with a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 630 to 750 nm, when measured on the transparent base material.

Production process of light amount-adjusting member, light amount-adjusting member, light amount-adjusting device and photographing apparatus

A light amount adjustment member, which causes little deterioration of image quality by diffraction at a grain boundary between ink dots in a colored portion, can be simply produced at low production cost and high yield. The light amount adjustment member has a density distribution such that an optical density varies continuously or stepwise. The process comprises steps of providing a transparent base material having a receptive layer comprised of a material capable of absorbing a coloring liquid and containing a resin and crosslinking agent, applying the coloring liquid to the layer using an ink-jet recording method to form a light amount adjustment region having a particular optical density region, storing the layer under a prescribed environment after application of the coloring liquid to the layer to cause dots formed by the coloring liquid to bleed and crosslinking the resin contained in the layer by the crosslinking agent.

Production process of light amount adjustment member, light amount adjustment device and photographing apparatus

An ink for ink-jet recording which includes (a) a coloring material, (b) a liquid medium, (c) a compound selected from the group consisting of polyphosphoric acid, dicarboxylic acid, polyaminocarboxylic acid, aldonic acid, hydroxycarboxylic acid, polyolphosphate and salts thereof, and (d) an acid having an amino group and a sulfonic acid group in a molecule, or a salt thereof, the use of which reduces kogation of the ink-jet head heater having an outermost protecting layer containing at least one of a metal and a metal oxide.

INK, INK-JET INK, METHOD FOR REDUCING KOGATION ON SURFACE OF HEATER OF INK-JET RECORDING HEAD, METHOD FOR INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING UNIT AND METHOD FOR PROLONGING INK-JET RECORDING HEAD LIFE

A liquid composition for ink-jet recording, or an ink set for ink-jet recording which produces an image having water resistance and excellent print quality, and which can reduce color bleeding that occurs in formation of color images, and furthermore, which can extend a life-span of ink-jet recording heads, as well as an ink-jet recording method, a recording unit, an ink cartridge and an ink-jet recording apparatus are provided. The liquid composition or a color ink constituting the ink set comprising a polyvalent metal salt, a material selected from the group consisting of acids including amino groups and salts thereof, and a liquid medium is used.

Liquid composition, ink for ink-jet, ink set for ink-jet recording, ink-jet recording method, recording unit, ink cartridge, and ink-jet recording apparatus

In an liquid discharging head used in an ink-jet recording apparatus, in order to prevent damage of a face surface of orifices and degradation of a blade and maintain orifices in an excellent state preventing adherence of contamination to the face surface for a long time, the face surface is coated with a material having an ultrahigh water-repellent property.

Liquid discharging head, method for manufacturing a liquid discharging head, and liquid discharging apparatus

An ink for ink-jet recording which comprises (a) a coloring material, (b) a liquid medium, and (c) an ammonium salt of an acid having a methyl or methylene group and a carboxylic group, or an ammonium aldonate, or an ammonium salt of citric acid, to alleviate kogation of the ink-jet head heater having an outermost protecting layer containing at least one of a metal and a metal oxide.

INK-JET INK, METHOD FOR ALLEVIATING KOGATION ON SURFACE OF HEATER OF INK-JET RECORDING HEAD, METHOD FOR INK-JET RECORDING, INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING UNIT AND METHOD FOR PROLONGING INK-JET RECORDING HEAD LIFE

A method of reducing the kogation of the surface of the heater of a recording head for applying thermal energy to the ink in the recording head in order to discharge the ink from the recording head can effectively reduce the kogation to make it possible to print high quality images and prolong the service life of the recording head. With the method of reducing the kogation of the surface of the heater of the ink-jet recording head of an ink-jet printer, the ink-jet recording head is provided with a heater for applying thermal energy to ink in order to discharge ink from an orifice and the heater has a top surface protecting layer containing a metal and/or a metal oxide, while the ink is adapted to ink-jet recording and contains (a) a coloring material, (b) a liquid medium and (c) diglycollic acid or iminodiacetic acid or salts thereof.

Method of reducing kogation of heater of ink-jet recording head, ink-jet recording method, ink-jet recording apparatus, recording unit and method for prolonging service life of recording head

Liquid composition, ink for ink-jet, ink set for ink-jet recording, ink-jet recording method, recording unit, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording apparatus

A liquid composition for cleaning and removing koga on a heater formed after long-term use of an ink-jet recording head, or contaminants introduced during manufacture of the ink-jet recording head is provided. The liquid composition includes an effective amount of a cleaner to clean an ink-jet recording head, and the cleaner is at least one selected from an organic acid, a salt of organic acid, an organic acid ester, and a salt of organic acid ester.

Cleaning ink-jet recording head with liquid composition

Liquid composition, ink set for ink-jet recording, ink-jet recording process, recording unit and ink-jet recording apparatus

A liquid discharge head provided with a pair of substrates mutually adjoined in a laminar state, plural liquid flow paths formed on the adjoined surface of said substrates, plural drive elements respectively formed in a predetermined position of said liquid flow paths, and orifices communicating with ends of said liquid flow paths in which liquid discharged from said orifice by the action of said drive element, wherein a face constituting an external surface of a member forming said orifices is coated with a material with superhydrophilicity.

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