Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 02/07

20070040856 - Print roll unit with ink storage core: A print roll unit includes an elongate ink reservoir core defining a plurality of ink chambers which each extend along the core. The chambers are isolated so as to be each capable of storing a respective type of ink. A roll of print media includes a tubular former in which... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070040857 - Method and device for producing a system having a component applied to a predetermined location of a surface of a substrate: A method for producing a system with a substrate with a surface and a component applied to a predetermined location of the surface of the substrate includes a step of generating a liquid volume containing the component and a step of applying the liquid volume containing the component on the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070040860 - Fluid injection devices with sensors, fluid injection system and method of analyzing fluid in fluid injection devices: A fluid injection device integrating a piezoelectric sensor, a fluid injection apparatus and a method for analyzing fluid content in a fluid injection device. The fluid injection device comprises a fluid injector and a piezoelectric sensor. The fluid injector comprises a plurality of fluid chambers formed in a substrate for... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070040859 - Liquid container and liquid ejection device: The cartridge 20 stores the ink liquid supplied to the ink-jet head 15 of the ink-jet printer 10 in the ink pouch 23, and includes: a liquid supply port 26 for allowing the ink liquid stored in the ink pouch 23 to be supplied to the ink supply tube 18... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070040858 - Systems, methods and apparatuses for sensing ink container and ink presence: The presence of an ink container and the presence of ink within an ink container may be detected using an ink container having prisms thereon. The detection of both an ink container and ink within a container may be executed in a single step using an light source that projects... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070040861 - Calibration method for printing apparatus: A calibration method for a printing apparatus is disclosed. The printing apparatus has at least one ink pen and a carriage for scanning the ink pen across a printing region. The calibration method includes: (a) printing a test pattern across a print medium at a constant carriage velocity; (b) optically... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070040862 - Heater chip test circuit and methods for using the same: Test circuits on heater chips for testing a heater circuit having a heater element and a first power device. The test circuit can include a second power device, a test device configured to hold the first power device off and the second power device on for a selected heater circuit... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070040863 - Inkjet printer: A rotary encoder scale and a linear encoder scale both made of plastic are provided in operating directions of a printing paper feed motor and a print head driving motor respectively in an inkjet printer. In one or each surface of each of the rotary encoder scale and the linear... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070040864 - Inkjet image forming apparatus and method of maintaining nozzle unit thereof: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a cap member, a wiper, a nozzle unit, and a platen. The cap member and the wiper face the nozzle unit and are located at a position lower than an upper surface of the platen that constitutes a paper delivery path. The platen is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070040865 - Maintenance apparatuses for fluid injectors and fluid injection devices integrated therewith: Maintenance apparatuses for fluid injectors and fluid injection devices integrated therewith. The maintenance device comprises a compressor. A reservoir comprises a gas inlet hole, a gas outlet hole, and a liquid outlet hole, wherein the gas inlet hole connects the compressor via a gas pipeline. A nozzle is connected to... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070040866 - Droplet ejecting nozzle plate and manufacturing method therefor: A manufacturing method for a droplet ejecting nozzle plate comprising: providing a nozzle plate layered body which includes a metal film positioned on a sheet material, a water-repellant layer positioned on the metal film; forming a nozzle hole at a present position in the nozzle plate layered body by laser... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070040867 - Nozzle assembly with heat deflected actuator: A nozzle assembly is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle assembly includes a substrate incorporating drive circuitry. An actuator support extends from the substrate. An actuator arm extends from the actuator support and includes a heater which is coupled to the drive circuitry. A nozzle extends from the substrate at... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070040868 - Thermal printhead: A thermal printhead includes a ceramic substrate, a resistor layer that defines a plurality of heat-generating portions arranged in the main scanning direction, a common electrode connected to the plurality of heat-generating portions, a plurality of individual electrodes arranged in the main scanning direction, which respectively extend in the sub-scanning... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070040871 - Drive control device for a piezoelectric actuator, electronic device, and drive control method for a piezoelectric actuator: A piezoelectric actuator drive control device, electronic device, and piezoelectric actuator drive control method simplify the arrangement of the control circuitry, and enable easily controlling driving a driven body and piezoelectric actuator current. A PWM signal source outputs a variable pulse width control pulse signal B to change the ratio... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070040870 - Nozzle plate: A nozzle plate suited for a droplet generator is provided. The nozzle plate includes a nozzle layer and at least one filler. The nozzle layer has a nozzle and at least one trench. The nozzle passes through the nozzle layer. The trenches apart from the nozzle are formed on a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070040869 - Print head for large scale printing apparatus: An injection molded print head for an assembly of print heads for large scale printing of, e.g., billboards, banners, posters and the like, includes a nozzle plate that is bonded to a manifold plate. The manifold plate is formed with ink-receiving nozzle chambers that are coaxially registered with respective nozzles... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070040872 - Inkjet head: An inkjet head for preventing blockage in the nozzles is disclosed. An inkjet head, in which ink stored in an ink chamber is sprayed through a nozzle, comprising a nozzle part in which the nozzle is formed, a vibration part joined to the nozzle part to be positioned around the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070040873 - Printer cartridge carrier and fastening mechanism thereof: A fastening mechanism configured in a carrier of a printer is provided. The carrier includes a body and several partitions. An ink cartridge is disposed between every two partitions. The fastening mechanism fastens the ink cartridge in the printer. The fastening mechanism includes a magnetic body, a coil, an elastic... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070040875 - Ink jet recording system, ink cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink outlet and a pushing pin are formed on the bottom of a case of an ink cartridge. A fine-textured filter is put on inside of the ink outlet. A carriage is provided with an ink holding section at an upper end of an ink supply tube and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070040874 - Liquid container: In an ink cartridge (liquid container) 1 of the invention, an ink delivery port 17 that connects an ink supply needle 15 of a cartridge holder 110 to an ink containing chamber 7 is disposed at an substantially central position in a shorter side direction of a container front surface... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070040877 - Ink supply device, ink jet recording apparatus and ink cartridge: An ink cartridge consists of an ink bag storing ink and a case holding the ink bag. A valve unit is placed on an ink supply path from the ink bag to a recording head. During the printing, the amount of ink discharged from the recording head is measured at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070040876 - Methods and apparatus for transferring information between a consummable item and a printing device using radio frequency: An ink tank for an inkjet printing device having a housing configured to connect to an inkjet printing device and a reservoir for containing ink disposed within the housing. The housing includes a plurality of faces. The ink tank also includes a RF linking device positioned along one of the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070040878 - Printing apparatus, method of inspecting nozzles for abnormalities, and program: A printing apparatus records a predetermined test pattern on printing paper, and reads the test pattern by means of a scanner. The scanner reads the test pattern at a resolution lower than the resolution of a recording head. This allows the automatic and fast reading of the test pattern. Additionally,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070040879 - Pretreatment method and apparatus of textile applying inkjet printer, digital textile printing method and apparatus comprising it: The present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for overcoming complication of the pretreating process due to diversification of materials by digitalizing a method for pretreating a fabric in an inkjet printing process by using an inkjet device, and further, an inkjet printing method and an inkjet... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070040883 - Ink unit containing ink and ink-contacting member: An ink unit comprising an ink for use in an ink jet recording apparatus; and a liquid-contacting member that contacts with the ink, wherein the ink comprises a phthalocyanine dye of a specific structure which has an oxidation potential of 1.0 V (vs SCE) or more, and wherein the major... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070040880 - Inkjet ink: The present invention pertains to inkjet ink with long latency and, more particularly, to an aqueous inkjet ink comprising a self-dispersing pigment and certain water soluble vehicle components which, in combination, provide long latency.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070040881 - Inkjet ink composition, ink cartridge including the same, and inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge: An inkjet ink composition includes water, a colorant, a cyclic amide compound, and a compound of formula I below; an ink cartridge including the same; and an inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070040882 - Inkjet recording method and recorded matter: An inkjet recording method for producing a black image on a recording medium by using an ink set having two or more types of ink compositions including at least one black ink composition and at least one color ink composition, wherein the recording medium has a recording surface with a... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070040884 - Ink jet printer: A light guide 3c of the printing shear detection sensor 3 is shaped so that the width of a side cross section when viewed in the conveying direction of a recording paper sheet P indicated by arrow B may be gradually smaller with an increasing degree of change from the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070040885 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The image forming apparatus, comprises: a plurality of ejection heads which eject liquid containing, a first ultraviolet curing initiator having spectral absorption characteristics at least in a first wavelength range, a second ultraviolet curing initiator which has spectral absorption characteristics at least in a second wavelength range being on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070040886 - Image forming device arranged with plural particle removal devices: An image forming device includes marking material dispensers for disposing an image on an imaging drum surface. The image forming device further includes plural particle removal devices comprising first and second particle removal devices coupled to a vacuum source. The first particle removal device includes a first vacuum port positioned... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070040887 - Stacker, recording device, and liquid ejecting device: Provided is a stacker in a recording device including a linear transporting path for transporting a plate-shaped body, wherein the stacker is disposed at a downstream side of an ejecting unit for ejecting a recording medium, and can be switched between a first position that forms the linear transporting path... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070040888 - Exposure apparatus adopting organic light-emitting diode array as light source: An exposure apparatus adopting an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) array as a light-emitting source is provided. The apparatus illuminates light beams emitted from a printing head disposed along the lengthwise direction of a photosensitive body to form an electrostatic latent image that corresponds to an image. The printing head has... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070035566 - Combined camera and printer assembly with a card reader for image processing instructions: A combined camera and printer assembly includes a support structure suitable for housing electronic components. A central processor is positioned in the housing. An area image sensor is mounted on the housing and is co-operative with a view finder and image capture mechanism to permit an operator to capture an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035567 - Device for printing droplet or ink on substrate or paper: A device for printing a droplet onto a substrate includes: a droplet generating member which is needle-shaped and comprises a receiving portion disposed vertically to receive a solution, and a discharge hole connected to the receiving portion and formed on a bottom of the receiving portion so that the solution... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070035568 - Ink jet head driving method, ink jet head and ink jet recording apparatus: The objective of the present invention is to provide an ink jet head drive method whereby the same ink discharge speed is obtained, regardless of the locations of the ink chambers that discharge ink. A second drive pulse signal having a voltage value or a pulse width at which the... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070035569 - Line-dot recorder: The line dot recorder A includes a nozzle head 1 as a recording head having recording elements in the form of a plurality of ink orifices (nozzles) of inkjet system, a rotary drum 2 having its outer periphery close to the recording head, a paper feed means 3 for supplying... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070035570 - Recording apparatus, method of transporting recording medium, and liquid ejecting apparatus: A recording head has a nozzle orifice line, and performs recording on a recording medium. A transport roller transports the recording medium to a position opposite to the recording head. A control unit has information about a plurality of speed levels different from each other which are rotational speeds for... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070035571 - Detection of a print recording material reservoir: Control circuit 30 determines whether or not all ink cartridges CA1 through CA6 are attached in the home position based on cartridge out signals COO. Control circuit 30 carries out communication with memory devices 21 through 26 and determines the presence or absence of communication malfunctions. When a communication malfunction... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070035572 - Inkjet recording apparatus: It is rendered possible to attach and detach an inkjet line head chassis to and from a controller housing in an inkjet recording apparatus. To this end, the inkjet recording apparatus in which the inkjet line head chassis (2) is detachably attached to a portion of the controller housing (1)... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070035573 - Inkjet printer with improved cleaning and adjustment capabilities, and image processing apparatus: In an inkjet printer including at least a printhead of inkjet type configured to eject ink according to print data and a cleaning unit configured to perform a cleaning of the printhead by ejecting ink to produce suitable conditions for an inkjet recording, the inkjet printer further includes a user... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070035574 - Cleaning device, inkjet printer, and an inkjet printer cleaning method: A cleaning mechanism for cleaning a print head in an inkjet printer with the print head having ink nozzles for discharging ink including a drive control unit which operates the cleaning mechanism at a first process level or a second process level that consumes less ink than the first process... Agent: Anderson Kill & Olick P.C.

20070035575 - Inkjet printer with a capping device: An ink jet printer that includes a printhead configured to eject ink. The printhead is housed in a housing. A capping device is pivotally fastened with respect to the housing to be pivotal into and out of capping engagement with the printhead. The mechanism includes an arm pivotally mounted with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035576 - Printer cartridge having selectable printhead maintenance assembly: A printer cartridge for an inkjet printer is provided having an ink supply, a printhead in fluid communication with the ink supply, and a printhead maintenance assembly arranged to selectively cap the printhead, blot the printhead and act as a platen for the printhead.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035577 - Printer with print head cleaning function: A printer with print head cleaning function is provided. The printer includes a housing, a round shaft, a carrier and a clean housing. The round shaft is disposed in the housing. The carrier is reciprocally disposed on the round shaft. The carrier is used for carrying one cartridge of the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070035578 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus including: a cartridge mounting portion, on which an ink cartridge having a waste ink containing portion containable a waste ink can be mounted; a waste ink introduction portion, adapted to connect to a waste ink introduction port of the waste ink containing portion of the... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070035580 - Liquid discharge head: A liquid discharge head including: a substrate having a plurality of energy generating elements for generating heat energy for use in discharging liquid; and a plurality of nozzles provided correspondingly to the plurality of energy generating elements, wherein each of the nozzles includes a chamber provided with the energy generating... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035579 - Method and apparatus for scalable droplet ejection manufacturing: A method includes ejecting liquid having a first composition from a first droplet ejection deposition system that includes a first printhead and a first fluid source, collecting information on the behavior of the liquid under a variety of ejection conditions for the first droplet ejection deposition system, and ejecting liquid... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070035584 - Ink jet nozzle arrangement incorporating mechanically coupled bend actuator arms: An ink jet nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The ink jet nozzle arrangement includes a substrate that defines an ink inlet. Integrated circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A nozzle structure is positioned on the substrate and defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035582 - Inkjet printhead having inkjet nozzle arrangements incorporating dynamic and static nozzle parts: An inkjet printhead includes a substrate defining a plurality of ink supply channels. CMOS micro-processing drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate and includes a pair of aligned metal contact layers. A layer of ink passivation material is positioned over the drive circuitry and defines openings to permit electrical contact... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035583 - Nozzle arrangement incorporating a lever based ink displacement mechanism: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an ink printer. The arrangement includes a support defining an ink inlet channel. The arrangement includes a wafer substrate, an electrical drive circuitry layer positioned on the wafer substrate, and a passivation layer positioned on the drive circuitry layer. At least one upright wall... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035581 - Printhead assembly with ink leakage containment walls: A printhead assembly includes a substrate defining a plurality of ink inlets. A plurality of nozzle assemblies is positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle assembly defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a respective ink inlet and a nozzle opening from which ink can be ejected. A plurality of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035585 - Fluid-ejecting integrated circuit utilizing electromagnetic displacement: A fluid ejecting integrated circuit includes a wafer substrate. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the wafer substrate. A protective passivation layer is positioned on the drive circuitry layer. A nozzle chamber wall extends from the passivation layer and a roof wall is positioned on the nozzle chamber wall... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035586 - Printing devices and related devices and methods: Devices and methods are described that utilize material-handling systems in which material in the systems has enhanced stability.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070035587 - Devices for printing biomolecular droplet on substrate and for printing ink on substrate or print paper using electric charge concentration effect and method of printing biomolecular droplet on substrate: A device and method for printing biomolecules on a substrate uses an electric charge concentration effect. The device overcomes limitations of the material and surface characteristics of a substrate, enables accurate dropping of a biomolecular droplet onto a target surface of the substrate, prevents electric discharge, and thus allows the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070035588 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: The ink-jet recording apparatus has an ink passage into which a water based ink or a preservation solution is filled. The ink passage employs a rubber member formed from a rubber which is formed of a butyl rubber polymer, a rubber polymer vulcanizable with an organic peroxide, and an organic... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070035589 - Liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus: A liquid-jet head, comprising: a nozzle plate having nozzle orifices bored therein; a passage-forming substrate provided with recesses including pressure generating chambers communicating with the nozzle orifices; piezoelectric elements provided on a surface of the passage-forming substrate via a vibration plate, each piezoelectric element including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035590 - Actuator device, liquid-jet head liquid-jet apparatus: An actuator device including vibration plates formed on one side of a substrate; and piezoelectric elements mounted through the vibration plates and each including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper electrode, wherein a ratio d31/S11E of a piezoelectric constant d31 of the piezoelectric layer to an elastic... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035591 - Ink container and ink container loading structure: An ink container loading structure includes an ink container provided with a container body in which ink is stored and an ink discharge port through which ink in the container body is discharged and an ink container loading portion provided with an ink container engagement portion in which the ink... Agent: Matthew K Ryan Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070035592 - Liquid application device and inkjet recording apparatus: The present invention provides a liquid application device and an inkjet recording apparatus, which are capable of reducing nonuniformity in application of liquid onto a recording medium, and thereby forming high-quality images on a steady basis. In the present invention, information indicating the lapse of time after the previous circulation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035594 - Ink supply system: An ink delivery system for a radiation-curable ink including a first reservoir to store a volume of ink, a second reservoir to receive at least a portion of the volume of ink from the first reservoir, a conveyor to transfer ink between the first reservoir and the second reservoir and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070035595 - Inkjet printhead assembly with an ink reservoir in a multi-layered shell: A printhead assembly includes a carrier. An integrated circuit (IC) is configured to eject ink, and mounted on the carrier. The carrier defines a plurality of ink passages each in fluid communication with the IC. An elongate ink reservoir defines a recess in which the carrier can be received and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035593 - Liquid application device and inkjet recording apparatus: The present invention provides a liquid application device and an inkjet recording apparatus, in each of which, even if the number of liquid storage units is increased, the number of parts can be reduced, and cost reduction and miniaturization can be realized. The liquid application device includes a buffer storing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035596 - Ink jet cartridge: An ink jet cartridge for use in an ink jet printer. In one embodiment, the ink jet cartridge has an ink tank configured to hold a first capacity of ink. The ink tank comprises a negative pressure producing material containing chamber and a free ink chamber. A lid configured to... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070035597 - Digital lithography using real time quality control: A digital lithography system including a droplet source (printhead) for selectively ejecting liquid droplets of a phase-change masking material, and an imaging system for capturing (generating) image data representing printed features formed by the ejected liquid droplets. The system also includes a digital control system that detects defects in the... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070035601 - Cationic ink formulations: A printing method includes jetting a curable ink including at least one of an oxetane compound, a siloxane compound, or a sulfide compound onto a substrate.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070035602 - Cationic ink formulations: A printing method includes jetting a curable ink including at least one of an oxetane compound, a siloxane compound, or a sulfide compound onto a substrate. 21394210.doc... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070035599 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: The ink-jet recording apparatus has an ink passage into which a water-based ink or a preservation solution is filled. The ink passage employs a rubber member formed from a rubber in which a butyl rubber polymer serving as a base polymer, zinc oxide serving as a vulcanization agent and a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070035600 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus has an ink passage into which a water-based ink or a preservation solution is filled. The ink passage employs a rubber member formed from a rubber in which a butyl rubber polymer serving as a base polymer, zinc oxide serving as a vulcanization agent, and a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070035598 - Inkjet ink composition, inkjet cartridge including the same, and inkjet recording apparatus including the inkjet cartridge: An inkjet ink composition, an inkjet printer cartridge including the ink composition and an inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge including the ink composition, the inkjet ink composition including a colorant, water, and an additive, the additive including at least one media-philic additive in an amount in a range... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070035603 - Modular printer system with memory and printer modules: A hand-held modular printer system is provided for printing a stored image. The printer system includes a memory module in which the image can be stored. A printer module can be releasably interconnected with the memory module. The printer module includes an elongate body defining a transverse print media passage... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035604 - Cationic ink formulations: A printing method includes jetting a curable ink including at least one of an oxetane compound, a siloxane compound, or a sulfide compound onto a substrate.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070035607 - Digitally printed wallpaper: A consumer tote for a roll of wallpaper is provided having an exterior which has an access flap, a core access opening and, when the access flap is closed, a gap between the access flap and an adjacent edge of the exterior, an interior for rotatably locating a core in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035606 - Inkjet printer with a protective print media input tray: An inkjet printer includes a body defining a print media path through which print media can pass. A printhead assembly is arranged within the body and is configured to print upon print media passing along the print media path. A user interface is located on the body. A print media... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070035605 - Jam processing apparatus for printer and method thereof: When a jam occurs between respective inkjet recording heads and a belt platen, the belt platen is moved down to a preset lower limit position, and a suction fan is rotated to suck and hold a recording medium onto a carrying belt.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035608 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention irradiates a polygon mirror with laser beams from different directions, allows the polygon mirror to reflect the laser beams toward different optical axis directions to perform main scanning operation for the laser beams at a predetermined deflection angle. First and second... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070035609 - Print head driving method and image formation apparatus using the same: A print head driving method controls a gradation of a print head employing an array light source of a lower resolution and an array light source of a higher resolution based on image data represented by 2n bits, wherein n is zero or a positive integer, and both of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070035610 - Printer: A printer capable of reducing a time for increasing the temperature of a heating element to a proper level for starting printing beforehand and suppressing density reduction in an initial stage of printing is obtained. This printer comprises a print head having a heating element for printing an image on... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070030296 - Liquid spraying method, liquid spraying system and liquid spraying execute program: A printing system has a recording head, an ink cartridge and a computer. The recording head has a nozzle. The ink cartridge sprays the ink from the nozzle to a paper in accordance with a printing procedure. The computer detects the remaining amount of ink in the ink cartridge. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030297 - Ink jet head driving method and apparatus: In an ink jet head driving method for applying a drive pulse to an actuator ACT 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 printing... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070030298 - Printing apparatus and power supply control method: There are provided a printing apparatus having an arrangement capable of stably applying a voltage without using any special power supply control unit, and a power supply control method. According to the method, a signal representing a change of an image signal is generated in the ASIC of the printing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030299 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus including an ink-jet recording head; two upstream-side rollers which feed a recording sheet to the head in a downstream direction along a sheet-feed path; two downstream-side rollers which feed the sheet from the head; at least one rotating device which rotates, in a forward direction corresponding... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070030300 - Inkjet image forming apparatus, and method of detecting malfunctioning nozzle thereof: An inkjet image forming apparatus and a method of detecting a malfunctioning nozzle thereof. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a printhead having a nozzle unit and having a length corresponding to a width of a print medium, an ejection driving unit to drive the printhead to print an image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070030301 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: The ink-jet recording apparatus has an ink passage into which a water based ink or a preservation solution is filled. The ink passage is formed from a rubber employing organic peroxide and zinc oxide as a vulcanization agent. The ink has a dynamic surface tension at a lifetime of 100... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070030302 - Liquid container, ink cartridge and ink jet printer having ink cartridge: A liquid container including: a containing portion, adapted to store liquid; a liquid outlet port, adapted to flow out the liquid from the containing portion therethrough; an outer wall, having a liquid supply opening for exposing the liquid outlet port to an outside, and covering a periphery of the liquid... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070030303 - Inkjet image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head having a length corresponding to a width of a printing medium and a nozzle unit formed with a plurality of nozzles, a platen installed under the inkjet head to support the printing medium, a wiping roller to wipe the nozzle unit, and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070030304 - Waste ink storage structure, ink cartridge, waste ink tank and ink jet printer: A waste ink storage structure including: container walls, defining a storage space adapted to store a waste ink; a waste ink inlet portion adapted to pour the waste ink into the storage space; a vent communicating the storage space with atmosphere; and a valve, provided at the vent to be... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070030305 - High resolution ink jet printhead: A high resolution printhead for an ink jet printer. The printhead includes a semiconductor substrate containing at least one ink feed edge and a plurality of ink ejection actuators spaced a distance from the ink feed edge. Each of the ink ejection actuators has an aspect ratio ranging from about... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc.

20070030306 - Non-wetting coating on a fluid ejector: A fluid ejector having an inner surface, an outer surface, and an orifice that allows fluid in contact with the inner surface to be ejected. The fluid ejector has a non-wetting monolayer covering at least a portion of the outer surface of the fluid ejector and surrounding an orifice in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070030308 - Ink jet nozzle arrangement with volumetric ink ejection means: A nozzle arrangement for ejecting ink includes a substrate defining an ink supply passage. A first endless wall extends from the substrate and bounds the ink supply passage. An elongate actuator is operatively anchored at a fixed end to the substrate and at a location external to the confines of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030307 - Print head, inkjet image forming apparatus, and method of compensating for a malfunctioning nozzle in the same: A printhead, an inkjet image forming apparatus, and a method of compensating for a malfunctioning nozzle for the same. The printhead includes a nozzle unit having a nozzle array to eject ink on a print medium to print an image and having a length that corresponds to a width of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070030309 - Method suitable for etching hydrophillic trenches in a substrate: A method suitable for etching hydrophilic trenches into a substrate, such as silicon, is provided. The method comprises etching and sidewall passivation processes for achieving anisotropy. Sidewalls of the etched trench are made hydrophilic during the etch by virtue of a hydrophilizing dopant in a passivating gas plasma. The method... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030310 - Nozzle arrangement for an inkjet rinthead that incorporates a movement transfer mechanism: A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead includes a substrate that incorporates drive circuitry and defines an ink inlet channel. At least one wall extends from the substrate. A roof is fast with the at least one wall and defines an ink ejection port which is in fluid communication with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030311 - Printer: A printer capable of correctly sensing the internal ambient temperature of a printer body with no influence by an electronic component such as a power supply component reaching a high temperature is obtained. This printer comprises a temperature sensor chip for sensing the internal ambient temperature of the printer body,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070030312 - Inkjet nozzle with reduced fluid inertia and viscous drag: A thermal inkjet printhead with heater elements disposed in respective bubble forming chambers for heating a water-based printing fluid to form a gas bubble for ejecting a drop of the printing fluid from the nozzle. The heater is separated from the nozzle by less than 5 μm at their closest... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030313 - Heater of inkjet printhead, inkjet printhead having the heater and method of manufacturing the inkjet printhead: A heater of an inkjet printhead, an inkjet printhead having the heater, and a method of manufacturing the inkjet printhead. The heater is formed of an Ru-M-O alloy in which M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Ta, Pt, Ir, Zr, W, and Hf.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070030314 - Micro-electromechanical nozzle assembly with an arcuate actuator: A micro-electromechanical nozzle assembly includes a substrate that defines an ink chamber and an ink ejection port in fluid communication with the ink chamber on an ejection side of the substrate. A control circuitry layer is positioned on an ink ingress side of the substrate. An arcuate thermal actuator is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030315 - Printhead with drive transistors and corresponding ink ejection actuators: A printhead for ejecting ink includes a substrate defining a plurality of ink supply channels. A plurality of nozzles is operatively mounted to the substrate. Each nozzle defines a respective ink chamber in fluid communication with a respective ink supply channel and an aperture through which ink can be ejected.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030318 - Driving device and driving system: Drive technology is provided which makes suitable low velocity driving and smooth changing of driving velocity possible and achieves reduced power consumption. In the driving device, the drive unit is driven which engages with drive shaft which moves back and forth in tandem with extension and contraction of the piezoelectric... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070030316 - Inkjet head and method of manufacturing inkjet head: In a method of manufacturing an inkjet head having head chip 1, including driving walls 13 composed of piezoelectric element and channels 14 arranged alongside alternatively, an outlet port and an inlet port provided on front and rear surfaces respectively for each channel, and driving electrode 15 to apply drive... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070030317 - Method for producing liquid ejecting recording head: Disclosed is a liquid ejecting recording head with improved operational reliability. A first coating resin layer of a liquid ejecting recording head, having a liquid flow duct and a liquid ejecting orifice, is formed of an oxetane resin composition that contains, as necessary components, an oxetane compound having at least... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070030319 - Ink delivery assembly for a pagewidth printhead assembly: An ink delivery assembly feeds ink from an ink supply unit to an inkjet printhead. The assembly includes an elongate channel member that defines a plurality of longitudinally arranged parallel channels through which ink from the ink supply unit can be transported. A plurality of spaced apart sets of outlets... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030321 - Ink supply unit for an ink jet printer: An ink supply unit is provided for supplying ink to a printhead in a printer. The supply unit includes an elongate housing defining a longitudinally extending channel. A baffle member is configured to be received in the channel to define ink chambers which can each contain a respective type of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030320 - Inkjet printer and a hose for use in the inkjet printer: An inkjet printer having a print head mounted on a carriage and an off-carriage ink reservoir, the carriage being arranged for moving the print head relative to a receiving medium, wherein the printer includes a hose for connecting the print head to the reservoir to enable the supply of ink... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030322 - Processes for preparing phase change inks: The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to processes for making phase change or solid ink used in ink jet system recording apparatuses (e.g., printer, copying machine, facsimile, word processor, plotter, and the like). More particularly, the embodiments pertain to the preparation of pigment or dye-based solid ink using a rotor-stator... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070030323 - Ink jet printing with low coverage second pass: A method of operating an ink jet printer including printing a first image having substantially solid fill regions on a transfer surface disposed on a print drum, printing a second image on the first image, wherein the second image comprises solid or dithered fill regions that correspond to portions of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070030324 - Inkjet ink set: The present invention pertains to an aqueous inkjet ink set based on disperse dye colorants and, more particularly, to such an inkjet ink set particularly suitable for printing on polyester and polyester blend textiles, such as automotive textile stock, so that the printed fabric is colorfast when exposed to light.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070030325 - Wide-format printer with a pagewidth printhead assembly: A printer includes a pair of feet upon which the printer can rest. A pair of spaced apart and upright legs extends from respective feet. A supply spool is rotationally mounted between the legs and is configured to carry a wound length of print media. A printhead assembly is fast... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030326 - Printer system for developing a three-dimensional structure: A printer system for developing a three dimensional, printed structure includes a plurality of printheads arranged in groups, the printheads in each group being configured to print voxels of material to define a respective layer of the structure. A substrate is configured to be operatively displaced with respect to each... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030327 - Light amount correcting method for light emitting apparatus, image forming apparatus, and display apparatus: A light amount correcting method for a light emitting apparatus having a plurality of light emitting devices driven according to grayscale value of input data, includes: measuring light amount values of a plurality of the light emitting devices when emitting light with predetermined grayscale values to generate a light amount... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070030328 - Apparatus and method for multichannel sequence transmission and control: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for multichannel sequence transmission and control. The apparatus comprises a DMA generator, a bus interface, a data generator, a control unit, and a strobe signal generator. The DMA generator is coupled to the bus interface and the data generator, and operates in coordination... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070030329 - Thermal recording system employing adjustable head pressure: An imaging apparatus (30) for thermally recording images on an imaging media (44) including a printhead (32) having an array of individually energizeable heating elements (42), a rotatable drum (34) for conveying imaging media (44) past the array of heating elements (42), and an anchor element (36) moveable within a... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070030330 - Thermal recording method and system employing edge printing: An imaging device (30) comprising an array of individually controllable thermal recording elements (36) and a controller (34). Controller (34) is configured to receive an input signal (42) and, based on input signal (42), is configured to select, activate, and drive a plurality of thermal elements (60a, 60b) from the... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070030331 - Releasable device for retaining a finger in the bottom of a notch: A releasable device for retaining a finger against an abutment carried by a first structure element, which finger, carried by a second structure element can be moved perpendicularly to its own axis along a defined trajectory away from or towards the first structure element which includes a catch member capable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070030332 - Focus offset calibration: A series of signals is applied to a lens actuator of a disc media marking device to respectively position a lens at a series of distances from an optical disc. A mark is formed on the optical disc at each of the distances of the lens from the optical disc... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070030333 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: A deflecting unit deflects a light beam emitted by each of a plurality of light-beam emitting units independently to scan surfaces of different bodies to be scanned. Each of a plurality of light-receiving units receives the deflected light beam at a predetermined position in a direction of the deflection. An... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070030334 - Imaging device and its manufacturing method: An imaging apparatus includes: a three-dimensional substrate in which a partition wall (11) having an opening (10a) at a central portion is formed so as to cross an inner cavity; an optical filter (5) that is fixed on a first flat surface (12) of both surfaces of the partition wall... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070030335 - Offset dependent resistor for measuring misalignment of stitched masks: A system and method for identifying misalignments in an overlapping region of a stitched circuit in an integrated circuit fabrication process. The method comprises: creating a first circuit using a reference mask, wherein first circuit includes a first part of an offset dependent resistor structure in the overlapping region; creating... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070024647 - Calibration of multi-die printer: A multiple die printer may be calibrated by a method which includes receiving, for each die, optical density related measurements from a set of calibration targets printed on print media, each calibration target printed by nozzles of a single one of said multiple dies, the targets of each set of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024648 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises: a liquid deposition device which deposits a first liquid of a treatment liquid on a recording medium initially, deposits a second liquid of an ink liquid including a coloring material on the recording medium secondly, and deposits a third liquid of a treatment liquid on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024649 - Method of determining the droplet size of ink droplets released by an ink jet printer: A method of determining the average droplet size of ink droplets released by an ink jet printer. Controlling the droplet speed and droplet size within an ink jet printer is important for maintaining print quality and reliability of the jetting process itself. The invention also relates to an ink jet... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024650 - Method of improved controlling of an ink jet printer, and ink jet printer: A method for improved controlling of an ink jet printer includes measuring the amount of ink dosed to at least one printhead of the ink jet printer, measuring the amount of ink droplets released by at least one nozzle of the printhead, and determining the amount of a ink contained... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024651 - Ink jet printing: A technique of operating an electromechanical drop generator having an electromechanical transducer, including applying across the electromechanical transducer a series of drop firing waveforms in a series of drop firing time intervals to produce a series of drops of substantially identical drop mass, wherein a characteristic of the waveforms is... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070024652 - Method and apparatus for printing: A method of printing using a printhead, the printhead having a plurality of ink ejectors and a plurality of jetting heaters corresponding to the plurality of ink ejectors includes applying a first waveform to the plurality of jetting heaters prior to a printing operation to warm up the printhead to... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070024654 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided which promptly resumes image recording in the case of non-ejection of ink from an ejection nozzle(s) of a recording head. The ink-jet recording apparatus includes sub-tanks and a recording head with a plurality of ejection nozzle groups composed of ejection nozzles. The recording head... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024653 - Printing system and method using file transfer protocol: A printing system and method are provided for using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in conjunction with a user terminal and an image forming apparatus. The printing system using FTP comprises a user terminal for transmitting print options and print data using FTP, and an image forming apparatus for receiving print... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024655 - Printing system, image forming device, printing control method and printing control program: More than one image forming devices (such as printer, copier, facsimile, etc.) which provide detecting means of environmental conditions (such as a temperature and/or humidity sensor) and sending means of the information of the said detected conditions and a print server are connected through a network. The print server judges... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070024656 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: A high quality gray scale (monochrome) image in which influences of “recorded color deviation” and “color transition” are suppressed is formed even in the case of a slightly uneven discharge amount. When a gray scale (monochrome) mode is set, in the entire range of a luminance signal, density signals corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070024658 - Apparatus and method for detection of liquid droplets: An ink jet printer comprising an ink jet print head having at least one row of a plurality of ink ejecting ports for ejecting ink droplets along a plurality of ink droplet paths, the ink jet print head residing at a first elevation; a collimated light source and a detector... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070024659 - Apparatus and methods for compensation of thermal and hydroscopic expansion effects in a low cost motion control system: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for compensating for the change in length of an encoder strip due to environmental effects such as temperature and humidity. The apparatus and methods utilize two simple optical sensors spaced apart and mounted on a substrate having a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024663 - Droplet deposition position error measurement method, droplet deposition position error adjustment method, droplet ejection control method, and image forming apparatus: The droplet deposition position error measurement method, comprises the steps of: ejecting liquid droplets from a liquid ejection head including a plurality of liquid droplet ejection ports in such a manner that the liquid droplets are deposited on a recording medium; determining an amount of a droplet deposition position error... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024661 - Inkjet image forming apparatus and printing method thereof: An inkjet image forming apparatus and a printing method for the same. In the printing method, a printhead is oscillated according to a type of a print medium to compensate for a malfunctioning nozzle or to perform high resolution printing. Thus, a higher resolution image than an actual resolution of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070024657 - Method and apparatus for calibrating colour print engines: A calibration method for print engines is disclosed herein. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprised the steps of: providing a calibration chart (101) having a first array of reference colours thereon; printing a separate test sheet (102) at step (301) from a said print engine; the test sheet (102)... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070024660 - Method and apparatus for performing alignment for printing with a printhead: A method of performing alignment for printing with a printhead includes bidirectionally printing a plurality of rows of alignment blocks, wherein a bidirectional offset of a plurality of bidirectional offsets is different for each row of the alignment blocks; optically measuring each row to obtain measurement data; determining a statistical... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070024664 - Methods and apparatus for concurrent inkjet printing and defect inspection: A system for concurrent inkjet printing and defect inspection is provided. The system includes at least one print head adapted to deposit ink on a substrate, at least one imaging device adapted to scan the substrate, and a controller adapted to receive image data scanned by the imaging device during... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20070024665 - Printer and control method thereof: An encoder is adapted to be opposed to a scale provided with a plurality of marks or slits arranged in a first direction at predetermined intervals. A plurality of detectors is arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction while being staggered in the first direction, each of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070024662 - Printing apparatus, printing program, printing method, printing control device, printing control program, printing control method, and recording medium recorded with program: A printing apparatus includes a printing head that has a plurality of nozzle modules corresponding to various ink colors arranged in parallel, an abnormal nozzle specifying unit that specifies an abnormal nozzle that is deviated from an ideal dot printing position by a predetermined distance or more among nozzles constituting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070024666 - Printhead assembly with multi-layered support structure: A printhead assembly includes a printhead. The printhead includes a carrier which carries a integrated circuit (IC) configured to eject ink. The carrier defines a plurality of ink passages each in fluid communication with the IC. An elongate support supports the printhead and defines a plurality of ink chambers each... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070024667 - Inkjet image forming apparatus and printing method: An inkjet image forming apparatus and a printing method for the same. The printing method includes dividing image data to be printed in a single line into “n” groups, reducing a transferring speed of a print medium, and sequentially printing the divided “n” groups in “n” lines. The image data... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070024668 - Ink jet printer having print bar with spaced print heads: An ink jet printer has a drum rotated about its axis and past a translatable print bar located adjacent and parallel thereto. The print bar has equally spaced, identical print heads mounted along the length thereof to print images on the drum or directly on a recording medium mounted on... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070024669 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus which discharges an electroconductive ink includes an ink transporting head having a head main body in which a discharge port and an individual ink channel are formed, an individual electrode which is formed on a surface defining the individual ink channel, and an insulating layer which covers... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024670 - Pusher actuation in a printhead chip for an inkjet printhead: A plurality of nozzle arrangements (70) is positioned on the substrate (12) of printhead chip. Each arrangement includes a nozzle chamber structure (72, 74, 76, 78) positioned on the substrate and defines a nozzle chamber (80) from which ink is ejected. An ink-ejecting mechanism is operatively arranged with respect to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070024671 - Inkjet printhead assembly for gapless printing: An inkjet printhead assembly includes an elongate support. A plurality of printhead modules is arranged end-to-end along the support. Each printhead module includes a carrier carrying an elongate printhead configured to eject ink. Ends of each carrier define one or more complementary formations so that each adjacent pair of carriers... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070024672 - Electrostatic actuator, droplet discharge head, method for driving droplet discharge head, and method for manufacturing electrostatic actuator: To provide an electrostatic actuator capable of attaining a large diaphragm displacement by low voltage drive. Furthermore, a droplet discharge head provided with this electrostatic actuator, a method for driving a droplet discharge head, and a method for manufacturing an electrostatic actuator are provided. A diaphragm, an individual electrode facing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070024673 - Fluid ejection apparatus: A fluid ejection apparatus. The fluid ejection apparatus includes a chamber, a manifold, an orifice, a first bubble generating element and a second bubble generating element. The chamber contains fluid. The manifold is connected to the chamber. The fluid flows into the chamber at a first direction through the manifold.... Agent: Nelson A. Quintero, Esq. Quintero Law Office

20070024674 - Printing apparatus: The ink-jet printer head includes a cavity unit which has a plurality of pressure chambers arranged in a plurality of pressure-chamber rows; an actuator unit which has individual surface electrodes corresponding to the pressure chambers respectively, and land portions conducted to the individual surface electrodes respectively; and a flexible cable... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024675 - Inkjet printhead with reciprocating actuator: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit includes a substrate defining an ink supply channel. An ink chamber structure is arranged on the substrate to define an ink chamber into which ink from the ink supply channel can be supplied and an ink ejection port from which ink can be ejected from... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070024676 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head comprises: a plurality of pressure chambers connected to a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is ejected, the pressure chambers being arranged in a two-dimensional configuration; a diaphragm which constitutes a wall of each of the pressure chambers, the wall being located opposite to the nozzles;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024677 - Ink-jet printer, head for ink-jet printer and flexible cable usable for the same: A head, for an ink-jet printer, includes a channel unit having a plurality of elongated pressure chambers arranged in a plurality of pressure-chamber rows; an actuator unit having individual surface electrodes corresponding to the pressure chambers respectively, and land portions each of which is conducted to one of the individual... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024678 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus and liquid transporting apparatus: An ink-jet head includes a channel unit having pressure chambers; and a piezoelectric actuator which includes a vibration plate having an electroconductive substrate and an insulating layer, a piezoelectric layer arranged in an area overlapping with the pressure chamber, and a common electrode and an individual electrode formed on the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024680 - Ink-jet printer and head for the same: A cavity unit of an ink-jet printer head includes elongated pressure chambers, a manifold, and communicating channels between pressure chambers and the manifold. Each of the communicating channels has a first straight portion and a second straight portion which are recesses extending in a longitudinal direction of the pressure chambers,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024679 - Printer, liquid discharging head, and flexible flat cable of liquid discharging head: An ink-jet head includes a head main body including a channel unit in which a pressure chamber is formed, and a piezoelectric actuator having a piezoelectric deformation portion facing the pressure chamber, and an FPC which has a substrate and a plurality of wires, and which is arrange on an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024681 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus is provided with a recording head, a main tank, a tube, a transfer device, a transfer amount determination device and a driving device. The recording head includes a sub tank for storing ink and an ejection nozzle. The main tank stores ink to be supplied to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070024682 - Ink supply system and image recording apparatus including ink supply system: The present invention comprises at least a reservoir tank which stores an ink supplied from an ink supply section, and an ink chamber which distributes and supplies the ink supplied from the reservoir tank to each recording head in a recording head group, wherein the reservoir tank maintains a predetermined... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070024683 - Simplified refilling assembly of durabrite ink cartridge: A simplified refilling assembly of DURABrite ink cartridge comprises an ink bottle connector, a pipe and an ink cartridge connector; the ink cartridge connector has a plug pipe to be connected with the refilling hole of the ink cartridge hermetically; the ink bottle connector is furnished with a L-shaped connector... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070024684 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The image forming apparatus attaches a plurality of liquids onto a recording medium so as to form a desired image, the image forming apparatus comprising: a first liquid attaching device that attaches onto the recording medium a first liquid which contains a high-boiling organic solvent, a polymerization initiator, and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024685 - Print roll core with internal ink storage: A print roll unit includes an elongate core defining a plurality of elongate ink chambers for each storing a respective type of ink. A roll of print media includes a tubular former in which the core can be received and a length of print media which is wound upon the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070024686 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises: a first liquid ejection device which, while scanning to and fro in a direction substantially orthogonal to a conveyance direction of a recording medium, ejects a first liquid containing a coloring material onto the recording medium; second liquid ejection devices which are disposed respectively on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024687 - Image drum and image system having the same of solid inkjet image forming apparatus: An image drum presses and transfers an ink image formed on the surface thereof onto an image receiving medium, and an image system having the same of a solid inkjet image forming apparatus. The image drum includes a first cylindrical body which forms an image on the surface thereof and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070024688 - Disposable printer: The present invention relates to printing apparatus and particularly, but not exclusively, to printing apparatus for use with personal computers and portable computing devices (such as laptops). The invention provides a printer chassis (8) manufactured from a disposable and biodegradable material. A further aspect of the invention provides a printer... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070024689 - Multiple imaging media dispensing systems and methods: Systems and methods of a multiple dispensing system may include an image carrier, and may include a plurality of substantially aligned developing units positioned to develop image information on the image carrier. Each developing unit may include only one ink container and only one developer housing. The systems and method... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070024690 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: a photoconductor, adapted such that an electrostatic latent image is formed thereon and extending in a first direction; and an optical scanner, operable to emit a light beam to expose the photoconductor while scanning in the first direction, wherein: the photoconductor and the optical scanner... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070024691 - Image drum and a manufacturing method thereof: An image drum and method of producing the same is provided. The drum includes a drum body having a pair of semi-cylindrical members, each being oppositely bonded and having a bonding surface having electrodes being separated from one another by insulating areas, and line electrodes formed on the periphery; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070024692 - Thermal printer and control method therefor: In a thermal printer provided with a thermal head printing on a paper sheet and a paper feed motor feeding the paper sheet, the operation of the thermal head and the paper feed motor is controlled on the basis of detected temperature data of the thermal head and the paper... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070024693 - System and method for efficient donor material use: Thermal printing systems, thermal printers and methods for printing are provided. A print order is received at a printer driving device. The printer driving device forms a set of page data streams. Each page data stream comprises image data representing one image from the print order in a format that... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070024694 - Thermal print head: Optically visible marks are disposed on a medium by exposing at least a portion of a coating disposed on the medium to thermal energy from a thermal print head in an optical disc drive.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024695 - Bleaching the background of a medium: Embodiments include forming optically visible marks in a radiation-sensitive coating disposed on an optical disc using electromagnetic radiation having a first wavelength and bleaching a background of the radiation-sensitive coating using electromagnetic radiation having a second wavelength.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024696 - Multi-beam optical scanning device: It is an object of the present invention to realize a multi-beam optical scanning device which is suitable for high speed and high recording density by almost completely offsetting and correcting a deviation of focusing positions in a main scanning direction of plural spots in an entire surface to be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070024697 - Method and device for compensating for a temperature-dependent length change of the feed spindle of a printing plate exposer: A method and a device adapt the number of stepping motor cycles K to a temperature-dependent length change of a feed spindle in an exposer for recording printing originals. The length change is measured via a reference rod, which is disposed parallel to the feed direction of the exposure head... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP