Stmicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Limited

Stmicroelectronics Gmbh

The Procter Gamble Company

Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Teck Khim Neo

Simon Dodd

Dana Paul Gruenbacher

Faiz Feisal Sherman

Domenico Giusti

Stephan Gary Bush

Steven L Webb

David S Hunt

Joseph Edward Scheffelin

Dave Hunt

Joe Scheffelin

Roberto Brioschi

Luca Molinari

Mauro Pasetti

Andrea Nicola Colecchia

Franco Consiglieri

Archit Giridhar

Madanagopal Kunnavakkam

Kenneth Wayne Smiley

Ning Ge

Trudy L Benjamin

Joseph M Torgerson

George H Corrigan

Neel Banerjee

Jin Li

Joseph Edward Schefflin

Chun Chek Bong

Steven Webb

Domenco Giusti

Judy Benjamin

Microfluidic delivery systems for dispensing a fluid composition into the air comprising microfluidic die and at least one heating element that is configured to receive an electrical signal comprising a certain on-time and wave form to deliver a fluid composition into the air.

Microfluidic delivery system

A resistive microelectronic fluid sensor implemented as an integrated voltage divider circuit can sense the presence of a fluid within a fluid reservoir, identify the fluid, and monitor fluid temperature or volume. Such a sensor has biomedical, industrial, and consumer product applications. After fluid detection, the fluid can be expelled from the reservoir and replenished with a fresh supply of fluid. A depression at the bottom of the sample reservoir allows a residual fluid to remain undetected so as not to skew the measurements. Electrodes can sense variations in the resistivity of the fluid, indicating a change in the fluid chemical composition, volume, or temperature. Such fluctuations that can be electrically sensed by the voltage divider circuit can be used as a thermal actuator to trigger ejection of all or part of the fluid sample.

Microelectronic fluid detector

The present disclosure is directed to a microfluidic die that includes ejection circuitry and one time programmable memory with a minimal number of contact pads to external devices. The die includes a relatively large number of nozzles and a relatively small number of contact pads. The die includes decoding circuitry that utilizes the small number of contact pads to control the drive and ejection of the nozzles and the reading/writing of the memory with the same contact pads.

Fluid ejection device

Microfluidic delivery systems and methods for dispensing a fluid composition into the air comprising microfluidic die and at least one heating element that is configured to receive an electrical signal comprising a certain on-time and wave form to deliver a fluid composition into the air.

Method of delivering a dose of a fluid composition from a microfluidic delivery cartridge

Embodiments are directed to microfluidic refill cartridges and methods of assembling same. The microfluidic refill cartridges include a microfluidic delivery member that includes a filter for filtering fluid passed therethrough. The filter may be configured to block particles above a threshold size to prevent blockage in the nozzles. For instance, particles having a dimension that is larger than the diameter of the nozzles can block or reduce fluid flow through the nozzle.

Microfluidic delivery member with filter and method of forming same

Embodiments are directed to microfluidic refill cartridges and methods of assembling same. The microfluidic refill cartridges include a microfluidic delivery member that includes a filter for filtering fluid passed therethrough. The filter may be configured to block particles above a threshold size to prevent blockage in the nozzles. For instances, particles having a dimension that is larger than the diameter of the nozzles can block or reduce fluid flow through the nozzle.

An ink jet printhead device includes a substrate and at least one first dielectric layer above the substrate. A resistive layer is above the at least one first dielectric layer. An electrode layer is above the resistive layer and defines first and second electrodes coupled to the resistive layer. At least one second dielectric layer is above the electrode layer and contacts the resistive layer through the at least one opening. The at least one second dielectric layer has a compressive stress magnitude of at least 340 MPa.

Ink jet printhead device with compressive stressed dielectric layer

An ink jet printhead device includes a substrate and a plurality of thermal resistors on the substrate. Each thermal resistor includes first and second electrodes and a resistive layer extending therebetween. A polarity-changing driver is coupled to the plurality of thermal resistors and configured to change a driving polarity between the first and second electrodes of each of the plurality of thermal resistors.

Ink jet printhead with polarity-changing driver for thermal resistors

An integrated circuit (IC) erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) structure for a thermal inkjet printhead includes: a fire line to provide fire line data; a select line to provide selecting data; a firing cell coupled to the fire line; an EPROM cell coupled to the fire line; a selector cell coupled to the select line, the firing cell and the EPROM cell; and a data switching circuit to provide address data to the firing cell or the EPROM cell. The data switching circuit and the selector cell selectively enable transfer of the fire line data from the fire line to the firing cell or the EPROM cell as a function of state of the selecting data on the select line and the address data from the data switching circuit.

EPROM structure using thermal ink jet fire lines on a printhead

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