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Yasushi Takatori

Yoshiaki Shirato

Toshitami Hara

Yukuo Nishimura

Michiko Takahashi

Naoki Ayata

Mitsuaki Seki

Yasushi Sato

Masahiro Haruta

Tokuya Ohta

Katsuhiko Nishide

Hiromitsu Hirabayashi

Sadayuki Sugama

Yuji Akiyama

Nobuyuki Kuwabara

Miyuki Fujita

Mitsunobu Nakazawa

Akemi Shimosawa

Michiko Tanaka

Takeshi Miyazaki

Katsuhiro Shirota

Akio Kashiwazaki

Masashi Hirose

Yoshifumi Hattori

Yasuhiro Yano

Eiichi Inoue

Shigeyuki Matsumoto

Koichiro Nakazawa

Isao Yamaguchi

Yohji Matsufuji

Asao Watanabe

Hakaru Muto

Haruo Uehara

Takutoshi Fujiwara

Sadasuke Kurabayashi

Yashushi Sato

An ink jet recording method includes the steps of providing an ink jet recording head having a plurality of discharge openings for discharging ink, a plurality of liquid passageways for holding ink and a plurality of heat generating members. Each of the heat generating members corresponds to a liquid passageway and each heat generating member has a pair of electrodes for driving the heat generating member individually and the electrodes and corresponding heat generating member form a U-shaped wiring portion. The recording head may be manufactured using a cutting process. A voltage is applied to selected pairs of electrodes for driving selected heat generating members individually for providing thermal energy to the ink in the liquid passageway for abruptly forming a bubble and discharging ink from the discharge opening and recording on a recording medium.

Ink jet recording apparatus and method using ink jet head having u-shaped wiring

A leather coloring process for carrying out coloring on a natural leather, or a natural leather which has been subjected to degreasing. The coloring process is accomplished by ink-jet coloring on at least a partial area of the natural leather.

Leather coloring process, leather coloring apparatus and colored leather produced by such process

A liquid droplet forming method is used with an apparatus that includes a liquid jet recording head having a plurality of blocks of thermal elements, each of which blocks includes a plurality of the thermal elements arranged on a substrate at a pitch of at least ten thermal elements per millimeter, with each thermal element ejecting a liquid droplet from the head upon application thereto of a drive signal pulse. Each drive signal pulse comprises a multi-part signal that includes a first part that pre-heats the liquid to an extent that a droplet is not ejected followed by a second part which heats the pre-heated liquid to an extent that a bubble is formed and a liquid droplet is ejected from the head. The plural blocks of thermal elements are driven in accordance with the generated drive signal pulses in a time-division manner such that no two blocks are driven simultaneously. In addition, the thermal elements in each block are driven in successive activation cycles by permitting time-divided application of drive signal pulses to all of the thermal elements in each block during each cycle.

Liquid jet recording using a multi-part drive signal sequentially applied to plural blocks of thermal elements

An information recording apparatus has a large plurality of heat energy generating elements corresponding to a like plurality of ejection ports for ejecting ink. The heat energy generating elements cause a change in the state of the ink by heating the ink in response to a drive signal, thereby ejecting ink droplets from corresponding ejection ports. A selection signal sequentially selects from among plural groups of plural heat energy generating element and an information storing device stores recording information, portions of which correspond respectively to selected groups of the heat energy generating elements. A drive circuit supplies drive signals to the selected groups of heat energy generating elements, the drive signals for each group being supplied in accordance with the corresponding stored portion of the recording information.

Information recording apparatus that records by driving plural groups or

A method for making a color filter substrate includes the steps of: forming barriers on a substrate; placing an ink having a surface tension of 20 to 60 dyne/cm onto regions between the barriers; and curing the ink to form color filters. The volume of the ink charged onto one region is three to ten times the volume of the region. A color filter substrate is produced by the above-mentioned method. A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal encapsulated between the pair of substrates, wherein one of the pair of substrate is the above-mentioned color filter substrate.

Method for making color filter substrate, color filter substrate

Processes for coloring leather by an ink-jet printing method using

Ink jet recording apparatus and method using ink jet head having

An information recording apparatus comprises a recording unit for recording on a recording medium and control means for controlling the recording unit to twice eject droplets to the same position on the recording medium so that the tone of the recording is emphasized. In another aspect of the disclosure, an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit for storing recording material, an image forming unit in which an image is formed without contacting the recording material and a discharge unit for discharging the recording material on which the image has been formed. A transporting mechanism transports the recording material from the storage unit, through the image forming unit to the discharge unit along a U-shaped transporting path.

Recording apparatus which twice ejects droplets to the same position and

An ink jet recording head comprising a plurality of discharge openings for discharging ink, a plurality of liquid passageways for holding ink and a plurality of heat generating members. Each of the heat generating members corresponds to a liquid passageway for providing thermal energy to the ink in the liquid passageway for abruptly forming a bubble for discharging ink from the discharge opening. Each heat generating member has a pair of electrodes for driving the heat generating member individually and the electrodes and corresponding heat generating member form a U-shaped wiring portion. The recording head may be manufactured using a cutting process.

Ink jet recording head formed by cutting process

An information read-out and recording apparatus includes an optical information read-out device for converting optical information into electrical information signals. A serial-input/parallel-output shift register stores information signals from the optical information read-out device and a latch circuit stores information from the shift register for supply to a recording device. The recording device records on a recording medium in accordance with the output of the latch circuit, which parallelly stores the contents of the shift register after a predetermined number of bits of information have been serially stored in the shift register.

Information read-out and recording apparatus

A device for recording comprising ejecting a liquid recording medium by heat energy which comprises a recording head composed of a discharging orifice for ejecting the liquid recording medium in a form of droplets, an inlet for introducing the liquid recording medium, a liquid chamber for holding the liquid recording medium, and a heating element for applying heat energy to the liquid recording medium in the liquid chamber, and a means for applying voltage pulse to control heating by the heating element, the distance between the surface of the heating element and the liquid recording medium being not more than 100 microns.

Ink jet recording device

This invention discloses a recording apparatus having at least transistors, gates and a latch circuit for driving plural heating elements, and also discloses a recording head in which a conductive member is connected electrically to heating elements.

Droplet generating method and apparatus therefor

A liquid jet recording device comprises a liquid discharging portion, a driving control portion, a connecting wiring portion and a matrix wiring portion, and these are mounted on one substrate. The liquid jet recording device preferably has a substantially uniform roughness at the peripheral surfaces of the orifices of a value of 0.5.mu. or less.

Liquid jet recording device

This invention provides a method of and apparatus for emitting a droplet from an orifice by generating a bubble in a small liquid chamber in response to a droplet generating instruction. The method and apparatus are particularly characterized having gradual contraction of the bubble to prevent excessive recession of the orifice in the liquid chamber which recession would hinder subsequent droplet generation. For achieving the above-mentioned functions the droplet generating apparatus, or the droplet emitting head, is provided with a structure which allows effective generation and annihilation of the bubble. The present invention also provides a novel apparatus having emission heads in a staggered block arrangement for improving alignment density of the devices and elements and time-division drive circuitry.

Droplet generating method and apparatus thereof

A liquid jet recording device comprises: a recording head having liquid discharging orifice for discharging liquid in a predetermined direction, a heat generating member, a heat acting zone where heat energy generated from the heat generating member acts on the liquid, and liquid feeding path for feeding the liquid to the heat acting zone; and drive signal feeding means for generating drive signals to drive said heat generating member to discharge the liquid in the predetermined direction, wherein the direction of the liquid flowing into said heat acting zone from said liquid feeding path differs from the direction of the liquid flowing out of said heat acting zone toward said liquid discharging orifice.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Yasushi Takatori