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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2014
Applicants:

Atsushi Yanaka, Saitama, JP;

Takahiro Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuu Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Yanaka, Saitama, JP;

Takahiro Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuu Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/15 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04588 (2013.01);
Abstract

A head drive control unit generates and outputs a pulse formed of a first expansion waveform element to expand individual liquid chambers, a first contraction waveform element to contract the individual liquid chambers, a second expansion waveform element to expand the individual liquid chambers, and a second contraction waveform element to return the individual liquid chambers that have repeatedly expanded and contracted to an initial state. The first contraction waveform element serves as a waveform element that contracts the individual liquid chambers at a timing of resonance with a change in a pressure in the individual liquid chambers due to the first expansion waveform element. The second contraction waveform element serves as a waveform element that suppresses the change in the pressure in the individual liquid chambers.


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