Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 12/06

20060290720 - Recording method and recording apparatus: A recording method includes transferring recording data to a recording head having a nozzle array at a read timing for each of nozzle groups of the nozzle array according to information on misalignment of the nozzle array, and a driving the recording head for each of the groups for predetermined... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060290722 - Ink tank holder and ink jet printing head cartridge: In a configuration to inform conditions of an ink tank such as an ink residual quantity by use of a light emitting portion such as a light emitting diode, a display in a position easily viewable to a user is achieved without requiring electric wiring that hinders user visibility and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290721 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided which includes a movable carriage on which a recording head and an ink tank are configured to be mounted thereto, the ink tank including a light-emitting unit; a conveying roller disposed upstream of the recording head; a discharging roller disposed downstream of the recording... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060290723 - Method and apparatus to detect ink level: A method and apparatus to detect an ink level includes an ink storage unit to store ink, an ink level detection unit to detect an initial ink level of the ink storage unit using a sensor and to output the detected result, a calculation unit to calculate a volume of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290724 - Color element forming method, electro-optical device manufacturing method, electro-optical device, and electronic device: A color element forming method includes providing a liquid droplet ejection apparatus having a moving section configured and arranged to relatively move a plurality of liquid droplet ejection heads with respect to a substrate in a state where the liquid droplet ejection heads and the substrate are disposed facing each... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20060290725 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes at least one liquid ejecting head having a nozzle surface formed with a nozzle array which is operable to eject liquid toward a target medium and extends in a first direction, a reference surface perpendicular to the nozzle surface, and two correctors arranged side by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290730 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing apparatus control method: The objective of the present invention is to provide an inkjet printing apparatus that can efficiently feed printing media stored in a media storage unit, while at the same time minimizing the reduction in a printing speed during the ejection recovery operation, and an inkjet printing method therefor. Thus, according... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290726 - Operation request accepting apparatus, computer-readable program, computer-readable storage medium, control method for operation request accepting apparatus, communication system and operating method for communication system: An operation request accepting apparatus is provided with a reading part to read from a detachable recording medium setting information that is used when a remote end sends an operation request with respect to the operation request accepting apparatus, and an accepting part having an essential setting that does not... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060290728 - Pattern forming method and pattern forming apparatus: A plurality of conductive patterns are formed so as to be arranged in a scanning direction of a recording head. A state of each of the conductive patterns and a state between the adjacent conductive patterns are electrically checked to detect a wire break and a short circuit in the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060290727 - Recording apparatus and recording control method: A recording apparatus performs recording with a recording head having a number of recording elements divided into blocks. The recording apparatus includes a signal generation unit to generate first enabling signals based on inclination information associated with each of the blocks of the recording elements. The first enabling signals are... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060290729 - Signaling module, liquid container, recording apparatus, and control method: An ink tank receives data signals from a printer and an LED provided on the ink tank is driven on the basis of the received data signals. The LED is driven in an inactive time period that is different from the time period in which the date signals are input... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060290731 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An image processing method generates a halftone-dot image by forming a halftone dot, which is represented by a set of one or plural output dots and corresponds to an intensity of an input image signal, while making a part of the dots constituting the halftone dot to be an actual... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290732 - Ink-jet image forming apparatus and high resolution printing method: An ink-jet image forming apparatus and a high resolution printing method capable of printing with a higher resolution than an actual resolution of a print head include selecting Q or P, printing data corresponding to a first pixel row of printing data while transferring a print head along a main... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290733 - Printing method: A printing method includes encapsulating gradation information about a gradation object for printing, transmitting the encapsulated gradation information to the rendering unit, generating a raster image by the rendering unit corresponding to the gradation object by using the encapsulated and transmitted gradation information, and performing a printing operation according to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060290734 - Printing device including head chip to eject ink droplets and method of adjusting temperature of head chip: A printing device that includes an auxiliary heater to heat a head chip and a plurality of temperature sensors to measure a temperature of the head chip. The temperature sensors include a temperature sensor installed near a nozzle nearest to the auxiliary heater and a temperature sensor installed near a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290736 - Circuit pattern forming method and circuit pattern forming device: The present invention provides a circuit pattern forming device and a circuit pattern forming method both of which can eliminate problems, such as open circuits and short circuits, when forming circuit patterns on the substrate and which can form circuit patterns of a thin film uniform in thickness. To this... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290735 - Inkjet printhead, inkjet image forming apparatus including the same, and method for performing maintenance operations in inkjet image forming apparatus: An inkjet printhead that enables a controller to determine whether or not refilled ink is qualified ink, an inkjet image forming apparatus that includes the inkjet printhead and a controller for controlling the operation of the printhead, and a method for performing maintenance operations in an inkjet image forming apparatus... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060290737 - Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus: The liquid ejection head comprises: an ejection hole which ejects liquid; a pressure chamber which accommodates the liquid to be ejected from the ejection hole; an ejection force generating element which applies an ejection force to the liquid inside the pressure chamber; and a pressure measurement device including a capacitance-type... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290738 - Maintenance/recovery device for liquid discharge device and image forming device: In a maintenance/recovery device for a liquid discharging device, a cap member covers a surface of a nozzle of a liquid discharging head, the liquid discharging head discharging a droplet of a recording liquid from the nozzle. A resilient contact member is provided in the cap member to come in... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20060290739 - Printing system, controller for printing apparatus, method of executing printing process, and program: For a low saturation and high density region in a printed sheet identified based on rasterized data, flushing ejection is executed, with landing positions dispersed in the above-mentioned region. For a region which is low in saturation but is not high in density, an edge portion of the above-mentioned region... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060290740 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head group. The head group includes a first array, including: a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array, each of which is operable to eject first liquid and extends in a first direction, and which are arranged in the first direction and define... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290741 - Inkjet printhead chip with a side-by-side nozzle arrangement layout: An inkjet printhead chip includes an elongate wafer substrate that incorporates a drive circuitry layer. A plurality of nozzle arrangements is positioned side-by-side on the wafer substrate. Each nozzle arrangement has a generally rectangular layout when viewed in plan with longer sides extending from one longitudinal edge of the wafer... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060290742 - Circuit board and inkjet head: Second individual electrodes are formed and arranged in zigzag in two rows on one surface of a flexible sheet, and wirings connected to the second individual electrodes are arranged to pass between adjacent second individual electrodes of the other row. Formed on the other surface of the flexible sheet are... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060290743 - Method for manufacturing monolithic ink-jet printhead: A monolithic ink-jet printhead includes a substrate which has an ink chamber to be supplied with ink, a manifold for supplying ink to the ink chamber, and an ink channel for providing communication between the ink chamber and the manifold, a nozzle plate including a plurality of passivation layers sequentially... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20060290744 - Wire bonding structure to electrically connect a printhead chip to a flexible printed circuit of an ink cartridge and method thereof: A wire bonding structure that electrically connects a printhead chip with a flexible printed circuit (FPC) using a wire includes a ball formed on a bonding pad provided on a surface of the printhead chip, a wire having a first end connected to the ball and a second end bonded... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290745 - Method and apparatus for separating particles by dielectrophoresis: Methods and apparatus for the micro-scale, dielectrophoretic separation of particles are provided. Fluid suspensions of particles are sorted and separated by dielectrophoretic separation chambers that have at least two consecutive, electrically coupled planar electrodes separated by a gap in a fluid flow channel. The gap distance as well as applied... Agent: Tomas Friend, Ph.d.

20060290746 - Array printhead having micro heat pipes: An array printhead has a plurality of head chips arranged in a predetermined configuration. Each of the head chips in the array printhead includes a substrate having a surface on which are formed a plurality of heaters and a plurality of wire electrodes to supply an electric current to the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290747 - Liquid-jet head and method of producing the same and liquid injection device: A liquid-jet head includes a channel substrate 10 which has pressure generation chambers 12 formed therein and communicating nozzle orifices for discharging liquid droplets, and piezoelectric elements 300 each of which is composed of a lower electrode 60, a piezoelectric layer 70, and an upper electrode 80 and which are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290748 - Liquid-jet head, method of manufacturing the same, and liquid-jet apparatus: Provided are, a liquid-jet head capable of enhancing durability thereof when it is driven, and of making an arrangement density of piezoelectric elements high-density, a method of manufacturing the same, and a liquid-jet apparatus. The liquid-jet head includes: piezoelectric elements which are provided on a passage-forming substrate with a vibration... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, PLLC

20060290750 - Liquid-jet head, method of manufacturing the same and liquid-jet apparatus: Included are a passage-forming substrate in which pressure generating chambers communicating respectively with nozzle orifices from which to eject ink droplets are formed; piezoelectric elements which are provided to one surface of the passage-forming substrate, and each of which is configured of a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer and an... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, PLLC

20060290749 - Method of driving piezoelectric ink jet head: The present invention is directed to a method for driving a piezoelectric ink jet head comprising a piezoelectric actuator AC that includes two piezoelectric ceramic layers 7a, 7b having such a size that covers the plurality of pressure chambers 2, wherein an electric field of opposite sense to the polarizing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20060290752 - Ink container and ink jet recording apparatus: To fill the ink cartridge with the ink, a first air introduction hole of a negative pressure generator chamber is sealed up, and a pressure pump is connected to a second air introduction hole of a storage chamber, to raise pressure inside the storage chamber so as to exhaust air... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290753 - Ink container and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink cartridge is partitioned into a negative pressure generator chamber containing a negative pressure generator and a storage chamber containing an ink bag. The ink bag stores ink and supplies the ink to the negative pressure generator chamber through an ink port. The negative pressure generator absorbs and holds... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290751 - Ink supply method and printing apparatus: The present invention relates to an ink supply method and a printing apparatus by which, when an ink supply operation is repeated by using a gas-liquid separation member, damage to the gas-liquid separation member can be reduced to improve the reliability. In order to realize this, an ink supply method... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290758 - Ink cartridge: An ink cartridge has a housing with at least one ink container having an ink outlet extending to the outside and in which a differential pressure valve is mounted. The valve has a valve opening and a valve body which can move relative to it and which (relative to the... Agent: Christopher J. Mcdonald, Esq. Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C.

20060290755 - Ink channel unit of ink cartridge and method of manufacturing the same: An ink channel unit usable in an ink cartridge and a method of manufacturing the same. After preparing a plurality of channel plates formed with ink channels through which ink passes, the plurality of channel plates are arranged and layered, and at least one adhesive sheet having a substantially uniform... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290754 - Liquid cartridge, contact device for contacting connection terminal portion of liquid cartridge with connector of recording apparatus, recording apparatus, and liquid consuming apparatus: A holder 204 which holds a connector 203 contacting with an electrical connection terminal portion 202 and can move with respect to a recording apparatus is provided, and a relative positioning unit 210 which allows the ink cartridge 11 to contact with the holder 204 and move the holder 204... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20060290756 - Method for controlling light emitting portion for liquid container and printing apparatus: The present invention reduces a variation in brightness among light emitting portions provided in a plurality of liquid containers to decrease power required to drive the light emitting portions, while allowing the light emitting portions to appropriately function as reporting means. Thus, to illuminate the light emitting portions provided in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290757 - Printing apparatus and ink cartridge therefor: To enable a coupling terminal member of an ink cartridge and a coupling terminal of a printing apparatus to be in certain and increase a degree of freedom on installation position of a coupling terminal member of the cartridge, a cartridge installed in a printing apparatus for supplying the printing... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20060290759 - Ink composition, ink cartridge to store the ink composition, and inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge: An ink composition including a colorant, a first surfactant including at least one of an ionic surfactant and a zwitter ionic surfactant, in an amount that is less than 150 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the colorant, a second surfactant including a nonionic surfactant, in... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290760 - Addressable irradiation of images: A marking system includes at least one image applying component for applying a marking material to a substrate in forming an image on the substrate. The marking material includes a radiation sensitive material. An addressable irradiation device receives the marked substrate from the image applying component. The irradiation device provides... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20060290761 - Sticky baffle: A printing medium baffle for protecting printheads printing on an image transfer member from particulates associated with the printing medium. The baffle may have one or more adhesive surfaces.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060290763 - Cloth holding frame: A cloth holding frame is removably set on a frame driving mechanism in a printer comprising a print head. The cloth holding frame holding the cloth to be printed is detachably provided with the ink tray to receive a jet of ink from the print head by a flushing, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290762 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer includes a single transport roller (4), two first driven rollers (A: A1, A2), two first driven rollers (B: B1, B2), and a single first driven roller (C). The rollers (A1, A2, B1, B2, C) are rotatably held by holders (8a to 8e) at respective downstream ends thereof.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290764 - Droplet discharge method, electro-optical device, and electronic device: A droplet discharge method includes performing a plurality of scans in which a discharge head and a substrate are scanned relative to each other, and discharging droplets of a plurality of types of functional liquid from the discharge head onto a plurality of prescribed portions on the substrate configured and... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20060290765 - Image-forming element: An image-forming element including a hollow drum body rotatable about an axis and having an outer wall surface, a plurality of circumferentially extending electrodes supported on an electrically insulating layer arranged on the outer wall surface of the drum body, an electronic control unit containing a drivers circuit for energizing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290767 - Color image forming apparatus: A color image forming apparatus includes coordinate conversion means which converts a ordinate value, for executing a misregistration correction in the unit of a pixel; gradation conversion means which converts a gradation level, for executing a misregistration correction in a unit less than a pixel; and judgment means which detects... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290766 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program: A technique can define a right position for forming a toner image on the transfer surface of an intermediate transfer body regardless of the size and the number of the sheets on which toner images are to be transferred. An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20060290768 - Image forming apparatus: In order to resolve the problem, an image forming apparatus of the invention is constructed by a constitution including exposing means including an exposure head comprising an organic electroluminescence element including at least an anode for injecting a hole, a luminescent layer having a luminescent region and a cathode for... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060290769 - Print head pulsing techniques for multicolor printers: In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing time is divided into portions, each of which is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060290770 - Parametric programmable thermal printer: A parametric programmable thermal printer is disclosed. The printer may include a controller that performs functions such as thermal history control and common mode voltage correction. The controller may be implemented in an integrated programmable medium such as a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Functions performed by the controller may be... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060290771 - Thermal image forming apparatus: A thermal image forming apparatus includes a platen roller, a thermal head facing a lower circumferential surface of the platen roller to form a first printing location and facing an upper circumferential surface of the platen roller to form a second printing location, a conveying part to convey a recording... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290772 - Method of manufacturing rapid prototyping workpiece by using laser transfer printing technology: The invention discloses a method of manufacturing rapid prototyping workpiece by projecting a laser beam or other light onto the photo-conductive drum to attach powder materials to form a thin layer, and then coat the thin-layer material on a working platform. A point, line or plane light source of stronger... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060290773 - Image forming apparatus having a plurality of laser scanner units: An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus which helps to achieve a reduction in cost, therefore, according to the present invention, there is provided an image forming apparatus including: a first laser scanner unit for emitting a first laser beam and a second laser... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290774 - Arrangement for, and a method of, reducing image distortion due to electrical interference: Electrical interference between resonant, drive and line frequencies in a drive is reduced by selecting the resonant frequency to be non-harmonically related to the drive and line frequencies. The drive is of beneficial use in a lightweight, compact image projection module operative for causing selected pixels in a raster pattern... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20060284905 - Dual mode printer output spectrophotometer and input document scanning system: A color printing system of integrated plural printers with an interconnecting internal sheet path system in which a color imaging bar is positioned to receive, via an alternative internal sheet path, original documents to be electronically imaged from an external sheet feeder in one mode, and to also function in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060284906 - Inkjet image forming apparatus and high-quality printing method of the same: An inkjet image forming apparatus and a high-quality printing method. The inkjet image forming apparatus for high-quality printing includes a plurality of printheads with lengths equal to a half-width of a print medium are arranged in a single line along a transferring direction of the print medium transferred in a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284907 - Ink tank position detection method: A recording apparatus and method for identifying positions of ink tanks within the recording apparatus whereby when an ink tank is correctly mounted within the recording apparatus, detection of the position of the ink tank is performed in a timely manner, and whereby when an ink tank is incorrectly mounted,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060284909 - Element body for recording head and recording head having element body: This invention enables to supply a stable voltage from a voltage converter circuit and suppress an increase in the area of the entire element body even if the number of recording elements increases and the element body becomes longer. An element body for a recording head includes a plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060284910 - Image forming apparatus and method: This is an image forming apparatus provided with a recording head obtained by overlapping and disposing a plurality of short recording heads with a nozzle array composed of ink-jet nozzles arrayed in one direction, for jetting ink from the ink-jet nozzle, based on an image signal value and forming an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060284908 - Ink jet printer, controlling method for an ink jet printer, and computer program product therefor: An ink jet printer is provided with an ink jet head and a controller. The ink jet head comprises a nozzle, an ink chamber communicating with the nozzle, a pressure chamber located between the nozzle and the ink chamber, and an actuator that changes volume of the pressure chamber. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20060284911 - Ink jet head driving method and apparatus: There is provided an ink jet head driving method for applying a drive pulse to an actuator to change capacities of a plurality of pressure chambers in which ink has been filled, ejecting an ink droplet from a nozzle formed in communication with the pressure chamber to print onto a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060284912 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises: a plurality of ejection ports through which liquid is ejected toward a prescribed recording medium; a plurality of pressure chambers which are respectively connected to the plurality of ejection ports; a plurality of first actuators which respectively change volume of the plurality of pressure chambers;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060284913 - Ink jet recording apparatus and method: By initially setting a tone value-drive signal relation in which an assumed ink jet volume determined from the number of times the jettings of ink droplets of a respective kind relative to a tone value does not monotonically increase, the actual jet ink volume is set to monotonically increase relative... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060284914 - Liquid droplet discharge unit and liquid droplet discharge apparatus: A liquid droplet discharge unit for discharging liquid droplets from nozzles is disclosed, and this liquid droplet discharge unit is constructed in such a way that plural nozzles are communicated with plural pressure chambers in which liquid is filled, the volumes of the respective pressure chambers are changed by plural... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060284915 - Method and apparatus to control a temperature of a printer head chip: A method and an apparatus to control a temperature of a printer head chip. The temperature control apparatus includes a heater, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The heater heats a predetermine portion of the printer head chip. The temperature sensor senses the temperature of the printer head chip. The... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284916 - Defective imaging element compensation: A method for forming an image with at least one linear array of imaging elements. Defective ones of the imaging elements associated with a particular color are detected. A first defective imaging element compensation operation is performed for portions of the image data that are associated with a first predetermined... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060284920 - Liquid discharger and method for discharging liquid droplets: To provide a liquid discharger and a method to discharge liquid in which lowering of the precision of the assembly and the discharge accuracy of the high-viscosity liquid caused by thermal deformation, such as thermal expansion, is suppressed when the discharge heads of the inkjet apparatus are heated to accurately... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060284919 - Recording apparatus and method for detecting the position of an ink container: A recording apparatus and method for detecting the position of an ink container in the recording apparatus, whereby when an ink tank is correctly mounted within the recording apparatus, detection of the position of the ink container is performed in a timely manner, and whereby when in container is incorrectly... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060284918 - Recording apparatus capable of checking positions of ink containers, and method for checking the positions: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, ink containers mounted in the carriage and including respective light emitters, a driving unit for moving the ink tanks, a light receiver receiving light from the light emitters, a light control unit controlling lighting the light emitter of a predetermined ink container, and a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060284917 - Recording apparatus for detecting position of ink tank and position detecting method of the ink tank: A recording apparatus and method for detecting the mounting position of an ink tank within the recording apparatus, whereby it is determined whether the ink tank is mounted in the correct position. In addition, it is also determined whether there an abnormality exists with a light receiving portion of the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060284921 - Maintenance station for an imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a frame and a maintenance sled movably coupled to the frame. The maintenance sled includes a carrier engagement member. A printhead carrier is coupled to the frame. A carrier motor is drivably coupled to the printhead carrier. A controller is coupled to the carrier motor. The... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060284922 - Array type inkjet printer and maintenance method thereof: An array type inkjet printer having an elongated print head and a plurality of nozzles disposed along a lengthwise direction, and a maintenance method thereof. The array type inkjet printer includes a discharge number calculating unit to calculate a number of times that each nozzle discharges ink based on an... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284923 - Print head cap: A print head cap includes a bottom surface; and a ring-like lip. The ring-like lip surrounds the bottom surface, protrudes toward a nozzle surface of a print head of an ink jet printer and is elastically deformable. The ring-like lip is pressed onto the nozzle surface to cover the nozzle... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060284924 - Device for washing an inkjet head and an inkjet printing system with the same: A device for washing an inkjet head and an inkjet printing system having the same is provided. The device includes a bath which holds a washing solution and a wiping device disposed above the bath. The wiping device has a holding portion and an elastic wiper coupled with the holding... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20060284925 - Bubble purging system and method: A method and system for purging bubbles from a fluid chamber of a micro-fluid ejection head containing a plurality of fluid chambers, an ejection actuator respectively associated with each of the fluid chambers, and a common fluid supply area for the fluid chambers. According to this exemplary method, one or... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060284926 - Printing apparatus with a priming device: The printing apparatus comprises at least one printhead provided with nozzles for ejecting droplets of ink in a firing direction towards a printing media, and at least one priming device for performing a priming operation by which an amount of ink is caused to flow through the nozzles for maintenance... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060284927 - Inkjet printhead with common chamber and actuator material: An inkjet printhead with an array of drop ejectors, each having a chamber for holding ink, an actuator and a nozzle. The actuation of the actuator ejects ink through the nozzle, and at least one internal surface of the chamber and an ink engaging face of the actuator are formed... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060284928 - Inkjet image forming apparatus and image-shift printing method thereof: An inkjet image forming apparatus and an image-shift printing method thereof. The image-shift printing method of the inkjet image forming apparatus that includes a printhead having a nozzle unit corresponding to the width of a print medium and iteratively prints identical data on a plurality of print media, includes shifting... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284929 - Inkjet recording method and inkjet printer: An inkjet recording method having: jetting recording ink containing a color material onto a recording medium by a recording head, and colorless ink for improving gloss onto the recording medium by the recording head, to perform image formation; and determining an adhered amount of the colorless ink per unit area... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060284930 - Methods and arrangements for adjusting and aligning fluid dispensing devices and the like such as continuous ink jet printheads: Methods and arrangements for adjusting and maintaining a lateral or radial position of a nozzle such as a nozzle in an ink jet print head. Since the alignment of an ink stream issuing from a nozzle in ink jet applications is usually critical in that the ink jet stream must... Agent: Ian K. Samways Reed Smith LLP

20060284932 - Fluid injector and method of manufacturing the same: A fluid injector and method of manufacturing the same. The fluid injector comprises a base, a first through hole, a bubble generator, a passivation layer, and a metal layer. The base includes a chamber and a surface. The first through hole communicates with the chamber, and is disposed in the... Agent: Richard P. Berg C/o Ladas & Parry

20060284931 - Print head having extended surface elements: Embodiments include forming internal or external extended surface elements on a print-head substrate, at least in part, using a light beam.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060284933 - Method for manufacturing liquid discharge head, liquid discharge head, and liquid discharge recording apparatus: A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head including an energy generating element for generating energy used to discharge a liquid, a discharge opening for discharging the liquid, and a channel for supplying the liquid to the discharge opening is provided. The method includes a step of forming a lamination... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060284935 - Inkjet printer head and fabrication method thereof: An inkjet printer head and fabrication method thereof. The inkjet printer head includes a substrate, a thermal layer formed on the substrate to generate thermal energy, a first electrode formed on the thermal layer except at a nozzle forming portion of the thermal layer, and a second electrode extending a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284934 - Thermal inkjet printhead apparatus to regulate pressure exerted by bubbles in an ink chamber and method thereof: A thermal inkjet printhead. The inkjet printhead includes a heater that heats an ink in an ink chamber to generate a bubble, conductors to supply an electric current to the heater, and a bubble separation wall protuberantly formed on the heater to protect the heater by inducing an extermination position... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284936 - Drop generator: A drop generator that includes an inlet, a pressure chamber and an outlet channel that includes circular outlet channel sections and a non-circular outlet channel section.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060284937 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head comprises: a plurality of nozzles through which liquid is ejected in an ejection direction; a plurality of pressure chambers which are connected respectively to the nozzles and filled with the liquid; and a plurality of piezoelectric elements which are provided respectively for the pressure chambers, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060284938 - Inkjet printhead and method of manufacturing the same: An Inkjet printhead and a method of manufacturing the same. The inkjet printhead includes a substrate having an ink feedhole, a chamber layer formed on the substrate to define an ink chamber filled with ink supplied though the ink feedhole, and a nozzle layer formed on the chamber layer and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060284939 - Ink jet head: An ink jet head is provided with a passage unit, an actuator unit, and a conductive adhesion layer. The passage unit comprises a nozzle and a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle. The actuator unit comprises a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode connected with a front surface of the piezoelectric... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060284940 - Ink jet head: An ink jet head is provided with a passage unit and an actuator unit. The passage unit comprises a nozzle and a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle. The actuator unit comprises a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode connected with a front surface of the piezoelectric layer, a second electrode... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060284942 - Ink jet printers and methods: A method and apparatus for printing a desired pattern on a substrate by discharging continuous streams of liquid ink drops from nozzles towards the substrate, and selectively charging the liquid ink drops with multi-level charges deflecting them different amounts. Some of the liquid ink drops are thus directed to different... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20060284941 - Liquid jetting device and liquid jetting method: Disclosed is a liquid jetting device which includes: a liquid chamber for containing a liquid to be jetted out; an energy generation element for imparting energy to the liquid in the liquid chamber; and a nozzle for jetting out the liquid in the liquid chamber as a droplet by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20060284943 - Ink-jet printing apparatus: An ink-jet printing apparatus that uniformly coats an alignment layer of an LCD device is provided. The ink-jet printing apparatus includes a head where the head has a head body and a supply pipe disposed inside the head body. The supply pipe allows the passage of a material through the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20060284944 - Ink container, inkjet printing head, and inkjet printing apparatus: The present invention solves problems attributable to color mixing occurring at a region where an ink container containing three or more different inks and an inkjet printing head are connected as a result of repetition of connection and disconnection of the components. An ink cartridge has a joint section which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060284946 - Ink-jet recording device and ink supply unit suitable for it: Ink maintained at a negative pressure state is supplied to an ink-jet recording head via an ink supply mechanism constructed as a differential pressure valve having a coil spring 51 and a movable membrane 54 normally contacted elastically with a valve seat by the coil spring 51.... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20060284945 - Liquid passage forming member guiding device: A guiding device guides, in a main body of a liquid ejection apparatus, a flexible passage forming member having a passage therein in a predetermined routing direction while curving the passage forming member. The guiding device includes a holding member. The holding member is engaged with a curved section of... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20060284947 - Printer and ink cartridge attached thereto: In a printer of the present invention, an EEPROM that carries out sequential access and has a relatively small storage capacity is applied for storage elements mounted on both black and color ink cartridges, which are detachably attached to the printer. Pieces of information relating to each ink cartridge, for... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20060284948 - Ink-jet recording apparatus, method of removing air of ink-jet recording apparatus and removing air device: An air removing device is connected to a tank to contain ink through a first supply tube, and an ink-jet head is connected to the air removing device through a second supply tube. The first supply tube and ink-jet head are heated and controlled. Air dissolved in ink is sucked... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060284949 - Determining power applied: Embodiments for determining power applied are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060284950 - Printing apparatus: An imaging drum maintenance assembly that includes an oil applicator device, and an elastomeric metering blade spaced from the applicator roller and having a bulk resistivity that is less than about 500,000 ohm*meter.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060284951 - Process and apparatus for forming pattern: The invention presents a pattern forming apparatus including: an intermediate transfer body; a particle supply unit, for forming a liquid receptive particle layer of a specified layer thickness by supplying liquid receptive particles, capable of receiving a recording liquid containing recording material and also capable of trapping the recording material... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060284952 - Positioning device for a large ink-jet printer: A positioning device for a large ink-jet printer, it comprises a supporting rack having on one end thereof a slide portion to be movably connected to rails provided on the ink-jet printer, and each having on the other end thereof a positioning portion; and a light beam emitter is connected... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20060284954 - Chitosan and use thereof as color-fixing agent in ink jet recording materials: To provide an ink jet recording material wherein, in particular, the problem of light fastness of the prints, i.e., the oxidative decomposition of the organic dyes in the inks, is eliminated, the use of chitosan or a derivative thereof is proposed as color-fixing agent in a color-receiving layer of ink... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20060284953 - Method for printing corrugated sheet: A method for printing corrugated cardboard sheets is effected by transferring the corrugated cardboard sheets while jetting ink droplets from ink jet nozzles onto the corrugated cardboard sheets to form dots thereon. Said method comprises the steps of transferring the corrugated cardboard sheets one by one while at the same... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284957 - Color filter and manufacturing method therefor: A color filter includes a transparent substrate, a black matrix formed on the transparent substrate, a plurality of banks superposed on the black matrix, and a color layer formed of R, G and B color portions. The black matrix defines a plurality of sub-pixels of the color filter. The banks... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20060284956 - Method for manufacturing color filter: A method for manufacturing a color filter includes the steps of: forming an organic black photoresist layer (304) on a transparent substrate (300); exposing the organic black photoresist layer using a photo-mask; developing the organic black photoresist layer to form an organic black matrix (3041) on the transparent substrate; forming... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20060284955 - Printer: A tray (3) having a setting area (6) on which an optical disc (100) is settable moves between a print position where the optical disc (100) is printable and a setting/removing position where the optical disc (100) is settable. When the tray (3) is at the print position, a printer... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060284958 - Neutralization unit and image forming apparatus having a neutralization unit for removing electric charge: A neutralization unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a support member made of an insulating material, an electric-charge removing member made of an electric conductive material, and a rib made of an insulating material. The electric-charge removing member, fixed on the support member, removes electric charge from... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060284959 - Image forming apparatus, light scanning apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus having a photosensitive drum and a developing roller for coating a developer on the photosensitive drum. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of light scanning units. Each of the light scanning units scans a light on the photosensitive drum to sharingly form an electrostatic latent... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060284960 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising: image forming means for forming a toner image on a recording material; first accommodating body for accommodating the image forming means; fixing means for fixing an image on the recording material formed by the image forming means; second accommodating body... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060284961 - Device for maintaining an edge of a print media against a printing drum: The invention relates to a device for maintaining an edge of a print media against a printing drum, said drum comprising a surface on which a print media is wrapped for printing thereon, wherein said device comprises at least one holder which comprises an abutment portion against which an edge... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060284963 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus allowing reduction of the thickness of a heat radiation member and allowing strong mounting of a holding member also when a print head is arranged on the forward end of a screw member is obtained. This image generating apparatus comprises a print head, a heat radiation... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060284962 - Inventory management for distribution of items in printed format: Information is distributed to various subscribers in printed format, e.g. in magazine editions. Individual subscribers must qualify to receive each edition. The individual subscribers qualify independently, and potentially asynchronously. Inventory is managed by determining in advance a number of subscribers that will qualify to receive the edition during a predetermined... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20060284964 - Print head assembly and image forming apparatus having the same: Provided is a print head assembly capable of preventing paper jam. The print head assembly has a print head for forming an image on a printing medium and is provided with a hinge axis. The print head assembly further includes a supporting unit for rotatably supporting the print head about... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060284965 - Printer and printing method for recording image during movement of recording paper: A printer comprises a feed roller to which driving force is transmitted from a motor via a reducer. While the feed roller moves a recording paper, an image is recorded by a line print head one line by one line. The feed roller is provided with a rotary encoder. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060284966 - Apparatus for disconnecting light scanning unit and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus has an image forming apparatus body. A developing unit is detachably mounted in the image forming apparatus body and includes an image carrier to form an image. A light scanning unit for scanning a light onto the image carrier of the developing unit is mounted in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060284967 - Apparatus for forming latent image using line head and control method for such apparatus: An apparatus includes: a latent image carrier which is freely rotatable in a predetermined sub scanning direction; a latent image carrier gear which is attached to an end portion of the latent image carrier; a drive motor which applies drive rotation force upon the latent image carrier via the latent... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20060284968 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device includes a light source, a deflector that deflects a light beam from the light source, a first optical system that guides the light beam to the deflector, a second optical system that guides the light beam from the deflector to a surface to be scanned, and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279587 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method: In a serial inkjet printing apparatus mounting a plurality of kinds of inks which have different properties and are arranged in parallel, high-speed bidirectional printing is realized without causing an influence of fixing period to prolong output time more than necessary. In order to realize the high-speed bidirectional printing, an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279586 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus including: (a) a recording head unit having actuators and operable to perform a recording operation using at least one recording material that is ejected by activation of the actuators; (b) a main circuit operable to output activator signals for activating the actuators, and drive waveform signals for... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060279588 - Apparatus that uses consumable items and a method of managing such apparatus: An apparatus is provided that uses a consumable item, of given type, requiring occasional renewal. The apparatus has a first operating mode in which it only works with a subset of consumable items of the given type; the apparatus also has a second operating mode in which it is not... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060279589 - Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a color separating apparatus for converting input image data into C,M,Y data; generating K data from the C, M, Y data; separating the K data into Bk data and Lk data; and generating C′,M′,Y′ data by conducting color conversion on any two... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279590 - Ink jet printer performance adjustment: An ink jet printer includes an ink supply system and a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink drops. The printer determines the average size of the ejected ink drops by comparing the number of ink drops ejected in a predetermined time with the quantity of ink delivered through the printers... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279591 - Inkjet printer capable of adjusting size of ink droplet: Provided is an inkjet printer, comprising a print head including a chamber, a heater to heat ink accommodated in the chamber, and an ejector from which the heated ink is ejected; an ink adjusting input to adjust the size of an ink droplet ejected from the print head; and a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060279592 - Piezo-injector driving apparatus: A piezo-injector driving apparatus overcomes disadvantages occurring at the start and the end of charging or discharging of a piezoelectric element while maintaining high responsiveness. At the start and the end of charging a piezoelectric element, the absolute value of a change rate of electrical energy of the piezoelectric element... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060279593 - Ink jet apparatus: A drop emitting device that includes a drop generator and a drive signal waveform that includes in sequence a pulse of a first polarity, a first pulse of a second polarity, a delay interval, and a second pulse of the second polarity that includes a high frequency segment.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279594 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium, including a recording head, a drive circuit and a control device. The head includes an ink passage, a nozzle communicated with the passage, an actuator applying energy to ink in the passage to eject a droplet of the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060279595 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printing apparatus includes a head and a drive signal generating section. The head has an element performing operation for ejecting ink and ejects a plurality of types of inks, an amount of each ink ejected by the head being different depending on a designated tone value. The drive signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279596 - Inkjet printing apparatus, inkjet printing method and inkjet printing system: For a serial inkjet printing apparatus that performs printing by employing ink having different properties, the occurrence of smear is prevented without the printing speed being deteriorated more than necessarily. Therefore, a high duty area, i.e., a unit area for which a large amount of ink is applied, is detected... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279597 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A correction of density is effectively performed. The printing method includes the following steps. A step of performing correction of density for only a predetermined color, among a plurality of colors, for each dot row region so as to suppress the unevenness in density between rows of dots on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279601 - Droplet discharge-condition detecting unit, droplet-discharging device, and inkjet recording device: A detection unit to optically detect a discharge condition of a droplet is disclosed. The detection unit includes a light emitting element and a light receiving element disposed on opposite sides of an area through which a droplet discharged from a droplet-discharger passes. A diaphragm plate having an aperture and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060279599 - Image forming apparatus displaying print data storage duration and method thereof: An image forming apparatus and method are provided for displaying the duration of print data storage, and include a storage unit for storing information about retention durations of previously printed data, a computing unit for computing a remaining duration for the print data based on the information on the retention... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060279600 - Image processing method and ink jet printing apparatus: An ink jet printing apparatus for performing maintenance ejection onto a printed image makes it possible to obtain a favorable printing image by rendering maintenance ejection ink dots inconspicuous. Pixel position comparison is performed between an objective pixel and data in a pixel position at the same address to detect... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279598 - Nozzle error correction method and image-forming apparatus using the same: The nozzle error correction method is provided for adjusting information of an output image to correct an error nozzle. A position of an error nozzle firing an ink amount different from a reference value is detected from a plurality of nozzles. A determination is made from an input image as... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060279602 - Method for accurately controlling the volume of ink droplets emitted from a print head: A method for controlling printing actions of a print head (1) comprising pumps (10) filled with ink (18), and actuators (16) for generating actuation pulses acting on the ink (18), comprises the step of determining a characteristic frequency of the pumps (10). As the characteristic frequency of the pumps (10)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279603 - Image forming apparatus having improved capability for maintaining ink delivery: An image forming apparatus having a recording head for discharging an ink includes a fuel cell unit and a water supply unit. The fuel cell unit generates power for the image forming apparatus and water when the power is generated in the fuel cell unit. The water supply unit supplies... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20060279604 - Inkjet printer and bubble removing method in inkjet printer: Disclosed is an inkjet printer including: a recording head having nozzles for ejecting ink; an ink tank for reserving the ink; an ink-flow passage for supplying the ink from the ink tank to the recording head; a valve for opening or closing the ink-flow passage; a filter disposed in the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20060279605 - Method of manufacturing nozzle plate, nozzle plate, liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The method manufactures a nozzle plate. The method comprises: a liquid-repelling film forming step of forming a liquid-repelling film on an entire surface of a nozzle plate forming substrate having been formed with nozzles for ejecting liquid droplets; a liquid-repelling film solidification step of solidifying the liquid-repelling film formed in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060279606 - Ink jet print head, ink jet printing apparatus, and method for manufacturing ink jet print head: The present invention is able to print high-grade images by reducing the adverse effect of misdirection of ink in the joining portion between adjacent nozzle lines. To achieve this, an ink jet print head includes a plurality of chips in each of which adjacent nozzle lines are formed. The relative... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279607 - Modular printhead assembly incorporating a capping device: A modular printhead assembly includes an elongate support structure. An ink feed member is mounted on the support structure. The feed member defines a number of ink channels, the ink channels extending in the direction of the support structure and being in fluid communication with an ink supply, the ink... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060279608 - Modular printhead assembly with releasable printhead modules: A modular printhead assembly includes a chassis. An elongate ink reservoir assembly is mounted on the chassis and defines a plurality of respective ink supplies. A plurality of printhead modules is serially arranged along and releasably engaged with the ink reservoir. Each printhead module is in fluid communication with each... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060279609 - Inkjet printhead and process for producing the same: An inkjet printhead and process for producing the same, having at least an auxiliary actuator being added in the inkjet printhead structure, is able to increase the frequency response thereof and to increase the positioning precision and structure rigidity of the inkjet printhead by using a single wafer bonding step... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060279610 - Inkjet printhead integrated circuit with suspended heater element spaced from chamber walls: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit that has a plurality of nozzles 3 and a bubble forming chamber 7 corresponding to each nozzle 3. The bubble forming chamber of each nozzle having at least one side wall 6 and at least one heater element 10 suspended within each of the bubble... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060279611 - Inkjet printhead intergrated circuit with non-buckling heater element: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit that has a plurality of nozzles 3 and a bubble forming chamber 7 corresponding to each nozzle respectively. At least one heater element 10 suspended in each bubble forming chamber 7 to heat a bubble forming liquid 11 to a temperature above its boiling point... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060279612 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: A switching unit is provided near a tube for connecting an atmosphere communicating section of an ink cartridge to a charge tank. This switching unit comprises: a base; and a pressing mechanism arranged inside the base and capable of individually pressing tubes, so that the switching unit can apply the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060279613 - Ink consumption determination: An ink jet printer includes an ink supply system and a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink drops. The printer determines the average size of the ejected ink drops by comparing the number of ink drops ejected in a predetermined time with the quantity of ink delivered through the printers... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279614 - Ink consumption determination: An ink jet printer includes an ink supply system and a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink drops. The printer determines the average size of the ejected ink drops by comparing the number of ink drops ejected in a predetermined time with the quantity of ink delivered through the printers... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279616 - Ink consumption determination: An ink jet printer includes an ink supply system and a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink drops. The printer determines the average size of the ejected ink drops by comparing the number of ink drops ejected in a predetermined time with the quantity of ink delivered through the printers... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279617 - Ink consumption determination: An ink jet printer includes an ink supply system and a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink drops. The printer determines the average size of the ejected ink drops by comparing the number of ink drops ejected in a predetermined time with the quantity of ink delivered through the printers... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279615 - Ink level sensing: An ink jet printer includes an ink supply system and a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink drops. The printer determines the average size of the ejected ink drops by comparing the number of ink drops ejected in a predetermined time with the quantity of ink delivered through the printers... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20060279618 - Liquid applying apparatus and printing apparatus: A liquid holding member abuts against an applying surface (outer surface) of an applying member which applies an applying liquid to an applying medium, and a liquid holding space for holding the applying liquid is formed between the applying member and the liquid holding member. By rotating the applying member,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060279619 - Inkjet printing of layers: A layer of material that binds to the next material to be printed is applied. In an embodiment this material is a resin containing a porous silica. The number of printing passes and amount of liquid accumulation is reduced by selecting ingredients of the ink to act both as a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060279620 - Low friction reduced fiber shed drum maintenance filter and reclamation method: A system for applying a liquid to a support surface in an imaging apparatus comprises an application surface that applies liquid to the support surface; and a filter positioned in relation to the application surface such that liquid removed from the support surface passes through the filter to the application... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20060279621 - Ink-jet recording method and recording medium used therein: An ink-jet recording method for performing recording on a recording medium by attaching ink thereto with the recording medium adhering to a conveyor belt because of electrostatic attraction thereto is disclosed. In this method, the electrostatic attraction is caused by a charging unit that applies AC bias to the conveyor... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279623 - Print media cartridge with integral print media and ink storage: A cartridge is provided for a printing device. The cartridge includes a print media chamber structure that defines a print media chamber in which a stack of respective sheets of print media can be stored. A plurality of ink supply chambers are each configured to store a respective type of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060279622 - Sheet-feeding module for double-side printing and double-side printing method: A sheet-feeding module for double-side printing suitable to be built in a printing device is disclosed. The sheet-feeding module includes a sheet-feeding mechanism, a sheet-transferring path, a sheet-printing path a first sensor, a first sheet-conveying mechanism, a sheet-discharging path and a sheet-returning path. The first sheet-conveying mechanism is suitable for... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20060279624 - Printer, printing control method for a printer and computer program for a printer: A printer for printing to label paper and other types of continuous paper minimizes wasteful consumption of continuous paper and enables operating in a self-printing mode conforming to the specifications of the continuous paper currently in use. The printer prints to roll paper including label paper having a plurality of... Agent: Anderson Kill & Olick P.C.

20060279625 - Thermal printer with quick-release printhead assembly: A quick-release printhead mounting assembly and thermal printer incorporating same, including a printing component, a printer housing, and, a component retention feature attached to or molded into the printer housing adapted for receiving and releasably fixing the printing component to the housing. The retention feature holds the printhead in a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20060279626 - Optics lens structure of led printer head: An optics lens structure of LED printer head has a light array mould includes a plurality of LED array and driving chip array mounted at a printed circuit board formed at least two orientation points; and a stationary barrier comprising a housing and fastening parts installed at bottom of the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20060274091 - Hybrid laser and inkjet printer: A printer which includes both high volume printing capabilities such as laser jet printing with photographic quality printing capabilities such as ink jet or dye-sublimation printing within the same printer housing.... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20060274092 - Telescope assembly with image capture and printing devices: A portable telescope assembly includes a telescope having a body that at least partially defines a printer body. An image sensor is mounted in the telescope and is configured to capture images from a lens of the telescope. An internal printer is mounted in the printer body and is operatively... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060274094 - Composite method and apparatus for adjusting image resolution: A composite method and apparatus for adjusting an image resolution are provided, which are applied for adjusting a digital image or de-interlace scanning, especially for achieving an edge enhancing effect. The composite method may include: obtaining an original image and a scaling factor for adjustment S; after that, detecting an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20060274093 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus including: (a) a recording head unit for forming a recording operation with recording materials; (b) a main circuit for outputting drive waveform signal sets each including drive waveform signals; and (c) a head driver unit for receiving each drive waveform signal set, generating a drive signal based... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060274095 - Line printing type inkjet image forming apparatus and method of enhancing printed image quality: A line printing type inkjet image forming apparatus and a method of enhancing printed image quality. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a printhead having one or more subheads having nozzles and a length corresponding to a width of a print medium, a driving unit to drive the nozzles, a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274096 - Image forming system, print control method and control program for printing apparatus: An image forming system includes: a computer for supplying image data; and a printer having a sub-tank for retaining ink to be supplied to a printing head and a system performing an on-demand supply of ink to the sub-tank. With the image forming system, during printing, the occurrence of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274100 - Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet print head, ink jet printing method, and method and program for setting print conditions: In manufacturing a long ink jet print head in which a plurality of chips are arranged, the present invention can suppress a decrease in yield resulting from the inappropriate arrangement of the chips and enables high-quality images to be printed. To achieve this, the present invention prints an image corresponding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274099 - Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet printing method, method of setting print control mode, and program: When a malfunction nozzle occur in a joint portion of print elements in a print head, this invention controls the print head to minimize image impairments caused by the malfunction nozzle. This prevents an increase in cost of the print head and increases the printing speed while at the same... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274098 - Ink jet printing system: In an ink jet printing apparatus in which satellites are produced, it is an object to minimize image impairments caused by the satellites in a variety of print modes. To this end, index patterns are prepared which have different sizes for different print modes. This enables satellites to land at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274097 - Printing apparatus and printing method: This invention provides a full-line type printing apparatus and printing method that achieve high-quality printing. According to the method, when executing printing by time-divisionally driving a full-line printhead including a plurality of print elements in the direction of print width so as to obtain a print width corresponding to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274101 - Scanning type inkjet image forming apparatus: A scanning type inkjet image forming apparatus. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a printhead having at least one nozzle group having a plurality of nozzles, a driving unit to drive the plurality of nozzles to print an image, and a controller to generate control signals to drive the driving... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274102 - Recording apparatus and recording method: The invention is to provide a recording apparatus and a recording method, capable of automatically specifying a type of a recording medium by a simple and inexpensive structure, thereby automating a sheet type setting operation and avoiding an error of user in such sheet type setting operation. The apparatus is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274103 - Apparatus to sense a temperature of a printhead of an inkjet printer and method thereof: A method and apparatus to sense a temperature of a printhead of an inkjet printer includes one or more temperature sensors each included in a respective one of the one or more printheads to measure a temperature of each printhead and output an analog signal corresponding to the measured temperature... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274104 - Fluid-dispensing devices and methods: An embodiment includes determining a temperature change of a fluid-ejecting substrate, and determining a mass of fluid ejected from the fluid-ejecting substrate from the temperature change of the fluid-ejecting substrate.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060274105 - Liquid ejection inspecting apparatus, printing apparatus, and liquid ejection system: A liquid ejection inspecting apparatus includes (A) a sensing section, (B) a detection circuit, (C) a determination section, and (D) a substrate. The sensing section is arranged in a state of non-contact with a liquid ejection nozzle for ejecting a liquid. The detection circuit is for detecting an induced current... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274106 - Method of detecting missing or malfunctioning nozzle in inkjet printer: A method of detecting a missing or malfunctioning nozzle in an inkjet printer whose scanning resolution is 1/N of a printing resolution thereof. The method includes printing a first test pattern by grouping nozzles according to the scanning resolution, detecting a group of nozzles producing a first test pattern having... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060274107 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a printhead: A method for calibrating a printhead includes printing a test pattern, scanning the test pattern to obtain calibration data, performing an ink drop velocity optimization for the printhead using the calibration data, and determining a bi-directional offset based on the calibration data.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060274108 - Image forming apparatus: There is disclosed a compact and inexpensive image forming apparatus which includes a head for discharging inks, an ink supply path fixed in parallel to the head to supply the inks to the head, a recording medium conveying section arranged to face the head, thereby conveying a recording medium, and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060274109 - Printhead assembly that incorporates a printhead module retention channel: A pagewidth modular printhead assembly includes an elongate, pagewidth support structure. An elongate ink distribution member is positioned on the support structure and defines a number of longitudinally extending ink conduits for conveying respective inks and defines sets of apertures, the apertures of each set being in fluid communication with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060274110 - Ink-jet image forming apparatus and method of cleaning printbar: An ink-jet image forming apparatus includes an ink-jet head having a printbar provided with a plurality of nozzles to eject ink droplets, a steam sprayer to spray steam onto the printbar, and a wiper movable relative to the ink-jet head to wipe the printbar sprayed with the steam.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274111 - Printhead and inkjet image forming apparatus having the same: A printhead including a nozzle unit having a main nozzle array to eject ink on a print medium to print an image, and a compensating nozzle unit having a secondary nozzle array which is separately installed in a transferring direction of the print medium to compensate for malfunctioning nozzles in... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274113 - Droplet ejecting apparatuses and methods for cleaning droplet ejecting face and wiping member: A droplet ejecting apparatus comprising a droplet ejecting unit having a droplet ejecting face, wherein the droplet ejecting face is provided with nozzles which eject droplets containing an organic compound, the droplet ejecting apparatus ejects the droplets by an inkjet method, the droplet ejecting apparatus comprises a water-shedding film provided... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274112 - Printhead comprising different printhead modules: A printhead comprising a plurality of printhead modules, the printhead being wider than a reticle step used in forming the modules, the printhead comprising at least two types of the modules, wherein each type is determined by its geometric shape in plan.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060274114 - Method of reading scrambled and encoded two-dimensional data: A method of reading and decoding scrambled and encoded two-dimensional data represented on a sheet of media as a dot matrix includes the step of detecting a data area on the sheet of media by detecting targets on the sheet of media. A bit pattern represented by the dot matrix... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060274115 - Inkjet printhead and inkjet printer containing the same: A inkjet printhead containing two substantially closed ink chambers separated by a wall, each of the chambers having associated therewith an electromechanical converter, where actuation of the converter corresponding to a first chamber of said printhead will lead to a volume change in a second chamber due to cross-talk, whereby... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274116 - Ink-jet assembly coatings and related methods: A method for coating select portions of a liquid jetting assembly with a hydrophobic coating comprises the steps of establishing a first pressure inside of an ink chamber of the jetting assembly; establishing a second pressure outside of the ink chamber of the jetting assembly, the inside and the outside... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060274117 - Printhead unit and color inkjet printer having the same: A printhead unit includes a plurality of printheads arranged in series in a direction in which a print paper proceeds, each of the printheads having a length greater than or equal to a width of the print paper. Each of the printheads includes a plurality of nozzle lines which eject... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274119 - Ink ejection nozzle with a thermal bend actuator: An ink ejection nozzle comprises a chamber for holding ink to be ejected, the chamber having an opening defined in a roof structure; and a thermal bend actuator for ejecting droplets of ink from the chamber through the opening. The bend actuator is configured as a cantilever with one end... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd