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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1996
Alessandro Scardovi, Ivrea, IT;
Vitantonio D'Amico, Turin, IT;
Olivetti-Canon Industriale S.p.A., Ivrea, IT;
Abstract
An ink jet printhead comprising a plurality of ejection resistors and at least one additional resistor, integrated on the same semiconductor substrate; the additional resistor is constituted by a material with a positive coefficient of variation of resistance with temperature of between 0.3 and 1.0%/.degree.C. and is used both for heating of the substrate and for measuring its temperature. Various circuits based on using the additional resistor are defined for implementing a method for stabilizing temperature of the substrate; also defined are a method for obtaining a stabilization temperature that remains constant with variation of the characteristics of the head and a method for setting the energetic operating point of the ejection resistors.