Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Ppg Industries Ohio, Inc.

Texas Instruments Corporation

Vincent C Korthuis

Eric T Martin

Scott A Linn

James P Thiel

Caroline S Harris

Charles B Greenberg

Luke A Kutilek

Janos Szanyi

David E Singleton

Michael W Cumbie

James Michael Gardner

Tsuyoshi Yamashita

Mona M Eissa

Donald J Milligan

Dennis J Schloeman

Huyen Pham

Erik D Torniainen

Randy Hoffman

Yaojian Leng

James Richard Przybyla

Garrett E Clark

David Maxfield

Jason Cassidy Hower

Cary G Addington

Rogelio Cicili

Basab Chatterjee

Peter S Nyholm

Stanley J Wang

Pere Esterri

Barry Lanier

Satyavolu Papa Rao

Andrew Queisser

Chad J Kaneshige

Jeremy Spencer

Rodrigo N Henriquez

Syed Hamid

In example implementations, a printhead die is provided. The printhead die includes a substrate, a chamber layer formed on the substrate, a plurality of printing fluid ejection chambers coupled to opposite sides of the chamber layer and along a length of the chamber layer, and a top hat layer formed on the chamber layer and the plurality of printing fluid ejection chambers. The chamber layer includes a void to store printing fluid. The top hat layer includes an initial unsupported top hat layer portion over the void, wherein the initial unsupported top hat layer portion comprises a first end that is narrower than a second end.

Unsupported top hat layers in printhead dies

A fluidic die includes fluid-transfer elements, and a temperature sensor to monitor a temperature on the fluidic die. The fluidic die includes a trickle-warming circuit to warm fluid transferrable by the fluid-transfer elements, and a pulse-warming circuit to warm the fluid. A warming control circuit selectively activates the trickle-warming and pulse-warming circuits.

Fluidic die having trickle-warming and pulse-warming circuits

According to an example, a method for performing maintenance routines in a plurality of actuators comprises firing a set of actuators at different energies, determining turn on energy values for the set of actuators based on measurements measured via chamber sensors associated with the set of actuators at the different energies, determining turn on energy differences for the set of actuators based on the turn on energy values determined for the set of actuators and threshold turn on energy values associated with the set of actuators, and performing maintenance routines corresponding to the determined turn on energy differences.

Maintenance routines

According to examples, an apparatus may include a fluidic chamber, in which fluid is to be temporarily held. The apparatus may also include a heating component to generate heat to form a drive bubble in the fluid held in the fluidic chamber and a cavitation plate may be provided between the fluidic chamber and the heating component. The cavitation plate may be in communication with the fluidic chamber and may physically separate the fluidic chamber from the heating component to protect the heating component. In addition, a controller may determine a condition in the fluidic chamber based on an electrical signal received from the cavitation plate.

Cavitation plate to protect a heating component and detect a condition

A fluidic die includes a number of actuators to eject fluid from the fluidic die. The number of actuators form a number of primitives. The fluidic die includes a plurality of delays within a column of the primitives, and a processing device to control the delays through which a number of activation pulses pass. The activation pulses activate each of the actuators associated with the primitives. The activation pulses are delayed between the primitives via at least one of the delays to reduce peak power demands of the fluidic die.

Fluidic die

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic die is described. The fluidic die includes an array of firing subassemblies grouped into zones. Each firing subassembly includes 1) a firing chamber, 2) a fluid actuator disposed, and 3) a sensor plate. The fluidic die also includes a measurement device per zone to determine a state of a selected sensor plate. The fluidic die includes a selector per firing subassembly to couple the selected sensor plate to the measurement device. The fluidic die also includes a transmission path between each selector and its corresponding sensor plate. A first transmission path for a particular sensor plate has physical properties such that a parasitic capacitance along the first transmission path corresponds to a parasitic capacitance for a second transmission path of a second sensor plate in the zone, regardless of a difference in transmission path length.

Fluidic dies with transmission paths having corresponding parasitic capacitances

A fluidic die includes primitives arranged to form a number of primitive zones, each primitive zone including a memory to store adjustment data, and at least one signal adjuster to receive a fire signal, and to adjust the received fire signal based on the stored adjustment data to provide an adjusted fire signal to each primitive of the primitive zone. The fluidic die includes an address bus and a set of data lines, each data line corresponding to a different one of the primitives. Mode circuitry directs address data from the address bus to each primitive and print data from each data line to the corresponding primitive when a mode signal has a first value, and directs data representing adjustment data from one of the address bus and the set of data lines to at least one of the memories when the mode signal has a second value.

Fluidic die with fire signal adjustment

In some examples, a fluid ejection device includes a communication interface comprising a plurality of communication channel circuits capable of communicating over respective communication channels, and a configuration controller, responsive to an input, to selectively activate at least one communication channel circuit of the plurality of communication channel circuits, wherein different inputs to the configuration controller are to cause selective activation of different numbers of the plurality of communication channel circuits. The fluid ejection device further includes a nozzle controller responsive to data received through the activated at least one communication channel circuit to cause activation of at least one corresponding nozzle to eject fluid.

Configuring communication interfaces of fluid ejection devices

A fluid ejection device may include fluid ejectors, fluid pumps to circulate fluid to the fluid ejectors, a first actuation signal line and at least one second actuation signal line. The first actuation signal line is connected to each of the fluid ejectors and each of the fluid pumps along which a first signal is transmittable to actuate a selected one of fluid ejectors and the fluid pumps. The at least one second actuation signal line is connected to the fluid pumps along which a second signal is transmittable to actuate a selected one of the fluid pumps.

Fluid pump actuation on a fluid ejection device

A thermal fluid ejection heating element may include a first conductive trace, and an at least partially perforated resistive thin film material electrically coupling the first conductive trace to a second conductive trace. The perforations within the perforated resistive thin film material defines a resistance of the thermal fluid ejection heating element.

Thermal fluid ejection heating element

In some examples, a fluid ejection device includes a nozzle to dispense fluid, and a recirculation controller to control recirculating of the nozzle. The recirculation controller is to receive, from a fluid ejection controller, an indication corresponding to a start of a sampling time interval, determine, during the sampling time interval, whether a firing event corresponding to firing of the nozzle has occurred, and in response to determining that the firing event has not occurred, cause activation of a recirculation pump to recirculate fluid through a chamber of the nozzle.

Controlling recirculating of nozzles

A fluid ejection system includes a group of actuators and a controller. The controller can determine an operational mode of the fluid ejection system. Examples of operational modes include a service mode. In response to determining the fluid ejection system is in the service mode, the controller can modify a firing event sequence of each actuator in the group of actuators. The modification of the firing event sequence can be based in part on determining the fluid ejection system is operating in the service mode.

Modifying a firing event sequence while a fluid ejection system is in a service mode

A fluidic die may include a fluid actuator comprising an electrical resistor, a power node to supply electrical current to the resistor to drive the fluid actuator, a low side switch transistor connected to a ground node and having a gate to control the flow of electrical current through the resistor, a voltage regulator to receive electrical power from the power node and to output a predetermined voltage and a level shifter to control to output a low side switch transistor gate drive voltage using the predetermined voltage and based upon control signals to control the gate to control fluid displacement by the fluid actuator. The predetermined voltage is greater than a voltage of the control signals and is independent of a resistance of the ground node.

Voltage regulator for low side switch gate control

A fluid ejection device may include a substrate, a first group of fluid drivers on the substrate, a second group of fluid drivers on the substrate, a memory element storing a predetermined offset value and electronics to receive an address of one of the fluid drivers of the first group for actuation control. The electronics may select one of the fluid drivers of the second group for actuation control based on the address and the stored offset value.

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Vincent C Korthuis