Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoki Ishiwata

Takatsugu Moriya

Shuzo Iwanaga

Tomohiro Sato

Yoshiyuki Nakagawa

Koichi Ishida

Shintaro Kasai

Akiko Saito

Ayako Iwasaki

Ayako Tozuka

Keiji Tomizawa

Akiko Hammura

So Aizawa

Nobuyuki Hirayama

Masaki Oikawa

Chiaki Muraoka

Shinya Asano

Ryosuke Araki

Shimpei Yoshikawa

Yoshihiro Hamada

Kanto Kurasawa

An aspect of the present disclosure is a liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head including a conversion element that generates energy required to eject liquid, a first protection layer that blocks contact between the conversion element and the liquid, a second protection layer that partially covers the first protection layer and functions as a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode through the liquid, and an ejection port that ejects the liquid, and a control unit configured to control a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode in printing to a predetermined value by changing at least one of potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode. The control unit sets the potential difference based on at least one of a condition and a configuration of the liquid ejection head.

Liquid ejection apparatus and control method

An aspect of the present invention is a liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head including a heating element, a first protection layer, a second protection layer that functions as a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode, and an ejection port; and a control unit configured to perform control of setting a potential difference between potentials of the first and second electrodes to a predetermined value by changing at least one of the potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the control unit sets the potential difference to a first value in a case where printing is performed, and the control unit sets the potential difference to a second value different from the first value and feeds power to at least one of a plurality of the heating elements in a case where printing is not performed.

A recording apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, where the liquid ejection head includes: an ejection port, a first substrate, and a temperature detection element. The ejection port ejects liquid and includes a protrusion extending toward an ejection port inside. The first substrate includes a heating element that ejects liquid from the ejection port using heat. The temperature detection element detects temperature of the first substrate. Driving of the heating element is controlled based on whether a difference between a voltage value Vp1 measured by the temperature detection element and a preset voltage value Vp01 has a positive value within or outside a predetermined range or a negative value outside the predetermined range. The voltage value Vp1 is measured when a temperature change amount becomes maximum in a temperature falling process of a second substrate located, after the heating element is driven, at a position corresponding to the heating element.

Recording apparatus and method of controlling recording apparatus

A liquid injection head improving electric reliability includes: a substrate including: energy generating elements configured to apply energy for ejection to a liquid, and a substrate upper surface on which terminals respectively connected to electric wirings are provided, an ejection port forming member having: an ejection port forming surface in which the ejection ports for ejecting a liquid are formed, and a back surface on a side opposite to the ejection port forming surface, which is arranged so as to opposite to the substrate upper surface, and a sealant configured to cover connecting portions between the electric wirings and the terminals.

Liquid ejection head and method of manufacturing the same

A liquid ejection head including first and second recording element substrates adjacent in a direction intersecting a relative movement direction include ejection opening rows that include ejection openings arranged in the intersecting direction. A straight line connecting the ejection openings in end portions on a second recording element substrate side in the first recording element substrate and a straight line connecting the ejection openings in end portions on a first recording element substrate side in the second recording element substrate are inclined towards a middle area side of the first recording element substrate, and arrangement intervals of the ejection openings in an end portion area on the second recording element substrate side of a first ejection opening row is larger than arrangement intervals of the ejection openings in an end portion area on the first recording element substrate side of a second ejection opening row.

Liquid ejection head and recording apparatus

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head including a discharge port configured to discharge liquid and a discharge port surface provided with the discharge port. A head cleaning member including a contact portion contacts the discharge port surface, and is configured to cause the contact portion to contact the discharge port surface and to move relative to the discharge port surface in order to clean adherents attached to the discharge port surface. The discharge port includes a plurality of protrusion portions extending toward a discharge port inner side. The contact portion includes a fiber, and the fiber in the contact portion includes a portion having a size greater than a minimum protrusion distance among protrusion distances between the protrusion portions.

Liquid discharge apparatus and cleaning method for liquid discharge head

A print element substrate and a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing degradation of a print quality caused by a white stripe/black stripe etc., is actualized without using a high degree of microfabrication technology. As a result of asymmetric deformation by swelling in a direction of relative movement to a print medium, print elements having different liquid droplet ejection directions are made to coexist and arrayed for that purpose.

Print element substrate and liquid ejection head

A liquid discharging head includes a discharge port that discharges a liquid, a pressure chamber that communicates with the discharge port, and an energy generating element that is disposed in the pressure chamber. In the liquid discharging head, the discharge port is provided with a plurality of projections that project towards a central portion of the discharge port from an inner peripheral edge of the discharge port, and an interval between the projections at a location where the projections are closest to each other is 5 &#x3bc;m or less.

Liquid discharging head and liquid discharging device

A printing element substrate includes a substrate, an energy generating element, and an ejection-port formed member. The energy generating element is disposed on one surface of the substrate and configured to generate energy for use in ejecting liquid. The ejection-port formed member includes ejection ports that eject the liquid. A protrusion protruding toward inside of each of the ejection ports is provided on an inner surface of the ejection port. In a surface of the ejection-port formed member remote from the substrate, a tip portion of the protrusion is positioned closer to the substrate than an outer periphery of the ejection port.

Printing element substrate and liquid ejection head

A liquid ejection module and a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing unevenness in printing are provided. Accordingly, openings are disposed so that a center position of at least one of openings in a plurality of ejection opening rows is not disposed on the same line extending in a print medium movement direction in a relative movement with respect to center positions of the other openings.

Liquid ejection module and liquid ejection head

A liquid is reliably supplied to a liquid ejection head through a plurality of supply paths. The liquid is supplied to a plurality of areas of the liquid ejection head through the plurality of supply paths and a liquid ejection amount per unit time from the liquid ejection head is controlled so that a liquid flow amount of each of the areas becomes a predetermined flow amount or less.

Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method

Multiple recording elements are disposed on one face of a recording element board, and a groove-shaped liquid supply channel is provided on the other face in common for the recording elements. Multiple supply ports passing through the recording element board and communicating the liquid supply channel with pressure chambers, and supply-side openings serving as supply ports of liquid to the liquid supply channel are further provided. When discharging liquid, the sum of pressure drop of the liquid from any supply-side opening to the supply port at a position farthest removed from that supply-side opening, and the pressure drop of the liquid at the supply port, is 5000 Pa or less.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tomoki Ishiwata