Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyoraku Co., Ltd.

Shozo Hattori

Hajime Yamamoto

Eiichiro Shimizu

Hiroki Hayashi

Kenji Kitabatake

Hiroshi Koshikawa

Hidehisa Matsumoto

Masanori Takenouchi

Sadayuki Sugama

Tatsuo Nanjo

Jun Hinami

Hiroyuki Tokuda

Toshimi Chiba

Mikio Sanada

Hirofumi Okuhara

Tomoyuki Kaneda

Yasuo Kotaki

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Shuzo Iwanaga

Kenta Udagawa

Masashi Miyagawa

Toshiaki Kaneko

Fumitaka Goto

Teruo Arashima

Teruo Tamada

Masaru Iketani

Ryoichi Matsumoto

Tetsuya Fukumoto

Motoaki Sato

Yoshio Koike

Chiyoshi Inoue

A liquid ejection head including an ejection device substrate having a substrate provided with an energy-generating element that generates energy for ejecting a liquid, a liquid supply member that supplies the liquid to the ejection device substrate, and a support member that is provided between and joined to the ejection device substrate and the liquid supply member. The support member has at least two liquid supply flow paths that are through-holes extending through the support member and has a projected or depressed portion at its joint surface with respect to the liquid supply member. A spacing between two adjoining liquid supply flow paths at the joint surface with respect to the liquid supply member is larger than a spacing between the adjoining two liquid supply flow paths at a joint surface of the support member with respect to the ejection device substrate.

Liquid ejection head

The invention provides, between a discharge element substrate and a supply member, a support member containing a mixture that contains: a material having an affinity for a material forming the supply member; and another material.

Liquid discharge head having resin supply and support members

A liquid container includes an outer wall constituting a casing, an inner wall constituting an inner bladder for accommodating liquid, with the inner bladder having an outer shape substantially equivalent to an inner shape of the outer wall, and the inner bladder having a flexibility and being separable from the casing, and a pinch-off portion where portions of the inner wall are welded to each other and are pinched by the outer wall to be supported by the outer wall. The inner wall includes a thicker portion having a larger thickness than another portion of the inner wall at both sides of the welded portion, and a cavity is provided between an outer surface of the thicker portion of the inner wall and an inner surface of a corresponding portion of the outer wall.

Liquid container, liquid container manufacturing method, and metallic mold for liquid container manufacturing method

A method for manufacturing a fiber aggregate formed by fiber having reforming surface comprises the steps of providing a fiber surface having thermoplastic resin at least on the surface layer thereof with a hydrophilic processing liquid containing polymer having a first portion with more hydrophilic group than the surface, and a second portion having interfacial energy different from that of the hydrophilic group, and interfacial energy substantially equal to the surface energy of the fiber; orientating the second portion toward the fiber surface, while orientating polymer to the side different from the surface of the first group; and forming a fiber absorber by heating the fiber having the reformed surface in the step of orientating polymer to thermally bond the contact points of fibers themselves. With this method of manufacture, it becomes possible to enhance the uniform property of the fiber aggregate still more, which is formed subsequent to making the property of such fiber aggregate uniform per unit of single fiber or small aggregate existing in any one of stages before the formation thereof.

Method for manufacturing fiber aggregate, fiber aggregate, and liquid container using such fiber aggregate

A liquid container which is in detachably connectable to a supply tube which is in fluid communication with a liquid ejection recording head, the liquid container including a liquid accommodating portion for accommodating liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejection recording head and a supply port for permitting supply of the liquid to the recording head from the liquid accommodating portion by connection of the liquid container to the liquid ejection recording head, the liquid container includes a capillary force generating member for generating a capillary force to absorb the recording liquid deposited on the surface of the supply tube and in the supply port into a space, other than the liquid accommodating portion, in the liquid container; wherein a capillary force A generated in an absorption region for absorbing the recording liquid remaining in the supply port adjacent the supply port of the capillary force generating member and a capillary force B in a storing region for storing the recording liquid absorbed in the absorption region, satisfy A&#x3c;B.

Liquid container and method for disconnecting liquid container

A liquid supplying system comprises a capillary force generating member accommodating container which stores therein a capillary force generating member for retaining liquid, and is provided with a liquid supply portion for supplying outward the liquid retained in the capillary force generating member, and an air vent through which the capillary force generating member is in fluid communication with ambience; and a liquid reservoir container which is provided with a liquid reservoir portion for storing therein the liquid to be supplied to the capillary force generating member accommodating container, and a communication path portion for supplying the liquid to the capillary force generating member accommodating container, and forms therein a virtually sealed space except for the presence of the communication path portion; wherein the capillary force generating member is provided with a layer in which the primary direction in which fiber strands therein are arranged is substantially horizontal, and this layer is in the region connecting the liquid supply portion and communication path portion; and wherein the communication path portion is positioned at a level higher than the liquid supply portion, and lower than the top surface of the capillary force generating member.

Liquid supplying system, liquid supply container, capillary force generating member container, ink jet cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus

A fiber body which exhibits sufficient ink supplying characteristics for keeping up with the trend toward diversification of ink and high printing speed while ensuring an easy and simple ink injection operation and a liquid container having the same. The ink tank has a PP fiber body (crosshatched area of the figures), as a negative pressure generating member for an ink jet head which ejects liquid to perform recording, arranged almost all over the interior thereof, so as to allow the fiber body to hold a liquid to be supplied to an ink jet head. On the top of the tank casing, provided is an atmosphere communication port. And as a PP fiber body, used is an assembly of intertwined PP fibers of which surface has been subjected to surface treatment of giving hydrophilic nature thereto.

Surface reformed fiber body, liquid container using fiber absorber, and method of producing fiber absorber for use in liquid ejection

A liquid container having a negative pressure generating member containing chamber containing therein a negative pressure generating member formed of a fiber material and provided with a liquid supplying portion and an atmosphere communicating portion, a liquid containing chamber provided with a communicating portion communicating with the negative pressure generating member containing chamber and forming a substantially hermetically sealed space and storing therein liquid to be supplied to the negative pressure generating member, and a partition wall for partitioning the negative pressure generating member containing chamber and the liquid containing chamber and forming the communicating portion is provided with gas introduction blocking means cooperating with the partition wall and the liquid contained in the negative pressure generating member containing chamber to block the introduction of gas from the communicating portion into the liquid containing chamber except during the supply of the liquid from the liquid supplying portion to the outside.

LIQUID CONTAINER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE CONTAINER, PACKAGE OF THE CONTAINER, INK JET HEAD CARTRIDGE IN WHICH THE CONTAINER AND A RECORDING HEAD ARE MADE INTEGRAL WITH EACH OTHER, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE RECORDING APPARATUS

An ink container detachably mountable to a portion to be mounted includes a substantially prism-shaped casing having an opening, a multi-layer inner bladder deformable with discharge of liquid, the inner bladder having an outer surface which is equivalent or similar to an inner surface of the casing, the casing and the inner bladder constituting a liquid reservoir, and a discrimination member for discriminating the liquid in the liquid reservoir.

Ink container, valve unit, ink container manufacturing method, ink jet head cartridge and recording apparatus

To provide a recording liquid feed path, recording liquid container, and recording liquid feed device having the same, as well surface modifying method for the recording liquid feed device to feed efficiently a recording liquid for ejection through a feed tube. If the interior of the feed tube is not rendered hydrophilic as shown in FIG. A, air which has passed through a wall of the feed tube forms a bubble, which bubble adheres to an inner surface of the feed tube and obstructs a flow of the recording liquid. But if the inner surface of the feed tube is rendered hydrophilic to form a hydrophilic surface as shown in FIG. B, the recording liquid is conducted along the hydrophilic surface at the inner surface portion of the feed tube with the bubble adhered thereto, so that the adhesion area of the bubble to the feed tube inner surface is reduced and the bubble floats from the inner surface. Consequently, when the recording liquid is fed, the bubble can be removed easily by the flow of the recording liquid and thus the flow of the recording liquid can be prevented from being obstructed by the bubble.

Recording liquid feed path, recording liquid container, and recording liquid feed device having same, as well as surface modifying method for the recording liquid feed device

An ink tank producing a stable negative pressure regardless of material used is provided. In the ink tank, inner and outer walls include a bonding region having a bonding force distribution. With this arrangement, since the inner wall separates from the outer wall as ink in the ink tank is being guided out, the area of a non-bonding region increases.

Ink tank

A liquid supply system includes a liquid supply container provided with a liquid supply portion for supplying liquid to outside; and a detector which detects presence or absence of the liquid in the liquid supply container, using an electrostatic capacity between the liquid in the liquid supply container and the electrode. The electrode is disposed to be parallel with and spaced from a bottom surface of the liquid supply container, and the bottom surface is inclined relative to a horizontal plane from one end to another end of the liquid supply container, and has a connecting portion at a lower side end.

Liquid supplying system and liquid supply container

Liquid supply system, liquid supply container, capillary force generating member container, ink jet cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus

There is disclosed a liquid supply method in which a bubble is prevented from being retained or accumulated in a communication part. An upper wall surface of a joint pipe for connecting a negative pressure control chamber container to an ink container is inclined upward to the ink container from the negative pressure control chamber container. Since the upper wall surface of the joint pipe is inclined, the bubble flows into the ink container without being retained or accumulated on the upper wall surface of the joint pipe during gas-liquid exchange.

Liquid supply method, liquid supply container, negative pressure generating member container, and liquid container

A liquid container which is in detachably connectable to a supply tube which is in fluid communication with a liquid ejection recording head, the liquid container including a liquid accommodating portion for accommodating liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejection recording head and a supply port for permitting supply of the liquid to the recording head from the liquid accommodating portion by connection of the liquid container to the liquid ejection recording head, the liquid container includes a capillary force generating member for generating a capillary force to absorb the recording liquid deposited on the surface of the supply tube and in the supply port into a space, other than the liquid accommodating portion, in the liquid container; wherein a capillary force A generated in an absorption region for absorbing the recording liquid remaining in the supply port adjacent the supply port of the capillary force generating member and a capillary force B in a storing region for storing the recording liquid absorbed in the absorption region, satisfy A<B.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shozo Hattori