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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001

Filed:

Jul. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Fukumoto, Tokyo, JP;

Jyunichi Aizawa, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuhiko Ozaki, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05B 1/08 ; B05B 3/04 ; B41J 2/17 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05B 1/08 ; B05B 3/04 ; B41J 2/17 ;
Abstract

At a dot cycle (T3), a dummy burst signal as well as a jet burst signal are supplied for a vibration exciter to drive it so that the vibration exciter can provide liquid with a periodic radiation pressure. The dummy burst signal is so determined as to jet no droplet, with a smaller number of pulses and so on. That allows a stable motion of meniscus of ink and it is thereby possible to stably jet the droplets. With this control provided is a technique to improve a shape of an ink surface from which the droplets are created and stably jet the droplets when a liquid jet unit for jetting the droplets from a liquid surface is driven.


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