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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2020
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kei Yamaguchi, Matsumoto, JP;
Daisuke Matsumoto, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure has a nozzle configured to eject a liquid, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, a piezoelectric element that varying pressure in the pressure chamber, an endless transport belt transporting a medium, an electrifying section electrifying the transport belt, and a driving circuit that supplying, to the piezoelectric element, a micro-vibration pulse that generates micro-vibration in the liquid in the pressure chamber without causing the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle. The micro-vibration pulse is varied according to first data related to the state of a meniscus in the nozzle in a first state in which the nozzle and the transport belt electrified by the electrifying section face each other.