Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shuichi Ide

Ken Tsuchii

Mineo Kaneko

Keiji Tomizawa

Toru Yamane

Masaki Oikawa

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Kansui Takino

Naozumi Nabeshima

Shuichi Murakami

Kiyomitsu Kudo

Yukuo Yamaguchi

Chiaki Muraoka

Mikiya Umeyama

Hiroshi Arimizu

Arihito Miyakoshi

Yasuhiko Osaki

An inkjet printing apparatus is provided which can print images with no print quality variations. For this purpose, the fluid viscosity resistances between the print head and the print medium beneath respective nozzle arrays that occur as the print head moves in the forward direction are made equal to those that occur as the print head moves in the backward direction.

Inkjet printing apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet print head having plural types of nozzles arranged on the same substrate and through which ink droplets of different sizes are ejected, the ink jet print head exhibiting acceptable ejection performance regardless of the type of the nozzle. Thus, according to the present invention, each of the plural types of nozzles includes a bubbling chamber having an ejection energy generating element allowing an ink droplet to be ejected to a position located opposite an ejection port and an ejection port portion allowing the ejection port and the bubbling chamber to communicate with each other. Ratio of opening area of the ejection port portion at a position where the ejection port portion and the bubbling chamber communicate with each other, to the opening area of the ejection port is higher for the nozzle with a smaller ejection amount.

Ink jet print head

The present invention provides a print head that allows the characteristics of ejected ink to be adjusted for each ejection port in spite of a variation in the distance from an ink supply port to the heating element. In the print head according to the present invention, the area of the heating element decreases with increasing distance from the ink supply port and increases with decreasing distance from the ink supply port. The heating element is shaped like a rectangle that is longer in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the plurality of ejection ports are arranged than in the direction in which the plurality of ejection ports are arranged. The aspect ratio of the heating element depends on the length of an ink channel through which ink is introduced into the bubbling chamber.

Print head

An ink jet print head is capable of creating a state where the direction of ink-drop ejection is not likely to be influenced by air currents generated by the ink ejection, and is capable of printing an image without causing the shifting of dots. To this end, air currents generated by the ejection of ink and the interference among the air currents are reduced by blowing out gas in a direction parallel with the direction of the ink ejection. Accordingly, even with a print head that ejects, at high ejection frequency, ink from multiple ejecting openings formed densely, the advancing direction of the ink drops is unlikely to be deflected. As a consequence, a high-quality, uniform image can be outputted.

Ink jet print head and ink jet printing apparatus

A reliable print head with improved reliability is less likely to be damaged by possible cavitation in ink inside a bubbling chamber. A plurality of ink supply paths through which the ink is supplied to the bubbling chamber are connected to the bubbling chamber. Communication positions where the plurality of ink supply paths communicate with the energy acting chamber are formed such that distances from a heater formation surface of the communication positions are different from each other along a direction orthogonal to the heater formation surface.

Liquid ejection head and printing apparatus

An ink jet recording head and an ink jet recording apparatus are provided to prevent occurrence of a white line or recording unevenness due to a head tilt, and realize a high image quality recording. For this purpose, in a recording head provided with nozzles ejecting three types of droplets, a large droplet, medium droplet and small droplet, nozzles are configured such that no nozzles are arranged on the same line at the centers thereof in the main scanning direction.

Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus

A liquid discharge head includes a substrate having a plurality of energy generating elements for generating heat energy for use in discharging liquid and a plurality of nozzles provided correspondingly to the plurality of energy generating elements. Each of the nozzles includes a chamber provided with the energy generating element, a second discharge portion, and a first discharge portion. The central axis of the second discharge portion is offset from the central axis of the first discharge portion in the nozzle arrangement direction.

Liquid discharge head

A liquid ejecting head includes plural ejection outlets for ejecting droplets; liquid flow paths in fluid communication with the ejection outlets; and a liquid supply opening for supplying the liquid to the liquid flow paths. The ejection outlets include first and second ejection outlets disposed at least at one side of the liquid supply opening and are staggered. The first ejection outlets are nearer to the liquid supply opening than the second ejection outlets. Each of first recording elements corresponding to the first ejection outlets includes one rectangular heat generating resistor having a long side extending along a direction crossing with an arranging direction of the ejection outlets. Each of second recording elements corresponding to the second ejection outlets comprises plural rectangular heat generating resistors which are adjacent to each other at long sides thereof and are electrically connected in series.

Liquid jet head

A liquid ejecting head includes a plurality of nozzles, each including an ejection outlet for ejecting a droplet, an ejection energy generating element, disposed at a position opposing the ejection outlet, for generating energy for ejecting a droplet, a pressure chamber provided with the ejection energy generating element and fluidly communicating with the ejection outlet, and a supply passage for supplying the liquid to the pressure chamber. The nozzles include a first nozzle and a second nozzle, which are connected with respective supply passages having lengths different from each other. The first nozzle and the second nozzle are disposed at one end portion with respect to a widthwise direction of an elongated supply chamber for supplying the liquid to the first nozzle. The supply passage for the first nozzle extends in a direction perpendicular to a direction of liquid ejection from the ejection outlet and fluidly communicates with the supply chamber, and wherein the supply passage for the second nozzle extends in a direction parallel with the direction of liquid ejection.

A liquid recording head includes a thermal energy generating element, having a flat plate configuration, for generating a bubble by thermal energy; a pressure chamber in which the thermal energy generating element is provided; a flow path for introducing liquid into the pressure chamber; a supply port in fluid communication with the flow path; and an ejection outlet provided at a position opposing the thermal energy generating element in fluid communication with the pressure chamber. The thermal energy generating element includes a first major surface facing the ejection outlet and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a distance between the first major surface and a ceiling surface of the pressure chamber in which the ejection outlet is formed is shorter than a distance between the second major surface and a bottom surface of the pressure chamber.

Ink jet recording head and liquid jetting method

A scanning speed for a carriage and a number of multi-pass are set in accordance with print density information of dots obtained from image data. This makes it possible to preferably output an image free from the occurrence of an end deviation without reducing throughput to a required extent or more.

Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method

An ink jet head movable in a main scan direction includes first and second groups of ejection outlet arrays disposed on either side of a common liquid chamber and including plural ejection outlet arrays. In the first group, amounts of liquid ejected from outlets of first and second ejection outlet arrays, which are staggered, differ from each other. In the second group, a common ejection amount ejection outlet array ejects the same amount of liquid as that of one of the first and second ejection outlet arrays and a non-common ejection amount ejection outlet array ejects an amount of the liquid that differs from that of the first ejection outlet array group. The ejection outlets of the common and non-common ejection amount ejection outlet arrays are disposed in a staggered arrangement. The ejection outlets of the second ejection outlet array group are disposed with deviation of &#xbd; of an interval at which the ejection outlets of the first ejection outlet array group are arranged. Different sets of the same cyan and magenta colors in the non-common ejection amount ejection outlet arrays are disposed with deviation of &#xbd; of an interval at which the ejection outlets of the non-common ejection amount ejection outlet arrays of other sets are arranged.

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Shuichi Ide