Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 05/07

20070120880 - Inkjet ink composition: An object is to provide an inkjet ink composition to uniformly form a wiring pattern having excellent adhesion on a substrate, and to provide a method to form a wiring pattern by using this ink composition. This ink composition is an inkjet ink composition for drawing a wiring pattern on... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070120881 - Ink-jet recording method: An ink-jet recording method which enables recording of precise images by using a photo-curable ink and an ink-jet recording apparatus is disclosed, comprising ejecting an ink from a recording head to form ink dots on a recording medium, and exposing the recording medium to an actinic ray, wherein at least... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070120882 - Liquid container: A liquid container detachably mounted on a liquid consuming device, the liquid container includes: a liquid containing portion; a liquid supply portion that is connected to the liquid consuming device; a liquid guide path that guides a liquid stored in the liquid containing portion to the liquid supply portion; an... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070120883 - Printing apparatus and printing method: This invention relates to a printer and printing method capable of printing at high quality at a printing boundary where different printing elements can print in the same area of a printing medium. According to this method, when printing by moving a printhead in which a plurality of printing elements... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120884 - Method and device for regulating the temperature of a print head: A printing device is disclosed, and a method of its operation, in which a medium is used to regulate the temperature of one or more print elements. Preferably the medium is an ink or print medium.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070120885 - Method and device to detect defective nozzle of wide array head: A method and device to detect defective nozzles of a wide array head, the method including printing a predetermined test pattern, detecting reflectances of lights of three light sources by scanning the printed predetermined test pattern with the lights of the three light sources, and detecting a defective nozzle using... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070120886 - Method and device for spray cleaning an inkjet print head: A device spray cleans an inkjet print head. The purpose of the device is to avoid the formation of stalagmites during spray cleaning and therefore also to improve the print quality as a result of the fact that the transport device for the print carriers or items of mail is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070120887 - Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording head configured to perform recording by discharging at least two types of ink onto a recording medium while scanning the recording medium. The head includes a first discharge port group and a second discharge port group configured to discharge a first ink, and a third discharge... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070120888 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes an ink tank in a layered form and having a plurality of ink storage chambers storing color inks; a driving circuit; a heat transfer plate; and a recording head having a plurality of nozzle rows arranged in one direction. The heat transfer plate is in... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070120890 - Inkjet printhead packaging tape for sealing nozzles: An inkjet printhead has a body and a heater chip attached thereto. A nozzle plate on the heater chip includes a periphery and plurality of nozzle holes. An encapsulant bead lines the periphery of the nozzle plate and has a leading edge extending in a direction away from the periphery... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070120889 - Method of forming hydrophobic coating layer on surface of nozzle plate of inkjet printhead: A method of forming a hydrophobic coating layer on a surface of a nozzle plate of an inkjet printhead includes forming a plurality of nozzles in the nozzle plate, each of the nozzles having an exit, stacking a film on the surface of the nozzle plate to cover the exit... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070120891 - Inkjet nozzle with cmos compatible actuator voltage: An inkjet drop ejection apparatus comprising: a chamber with a nozzle and an ink inlet for fluid communication with an ink supply; and, an actuator with associated drive circuitry for ejecting drops of ink through the nozzle; such that, the drive circuitry transmits a drive signal to the actuator wherein... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070120892 - Droplet discharge device: A droplet discharge device includes an inkjet head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle, the inkjet head aligned so that a droplet of a function liquid discharged from the nozzle is placed on a surface of a target, a heater applying heat to the function liquid at the inkjet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070120894 - Microinjectors: Microinjectors are provided. A microinjector includes a substrate, a manifold formed on the substrate, and at least a jet unit. The jet unit includes a nozzle layer connected to the substrate, a nozzle disposed on the nozzle layer, a reservoir, a first heater disposed on a first side of the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070120893 - Microinjectors and temperature inspection methods thereof: Microinjectors are provided. A microinjector includes a substrate, a manifold formed by the substrate, and a plurality of jet units. The jet unit comprises a nozzle plate disposed on the substrate, a chamber formed between the substrate and the nozzle plate, a channel connecting the chamber and the manifold, a... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070120895 - Inkjet finger manifold: An inkjet finger manifold is provided that includes a longitudinal manifold chamber with an entrance at a first end adjacent to a first longitudinal side. A purge vent is located at a second end on a second longitudinal side opposite the first longitudinal side. A first ramp is located at... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070120896 - Drop generator: A drop generator including a pressure chamber defined by a chamber wall structure, a diaphragm plate disposed on the chamber wall structure and covering the pressure chamber, a piezoelectric transducer attached to the diaphragm plate, and a recess formed in the diaphragm plate and underlying an associated peripheral portion of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120897 - Microinjectors: Microinjectors are provided. A microinjector includes a substrate, a channel, a nozzle formed at an end of the channel, and a deformable mechanism disposed on the substrate. A droplet is generated by ejecting fluid through the nozzle. The deformable mechanism comprises a piezoelectric layer and a flexible member. The flexible... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070120898 - Droplet ejecting head: A droplet ejecting head includes a first substrate, a nozzle plate, a second substrate, an annular symmetrically channel plate and an actuator device. The nozzle plate with a nozzle is disposed on a first surface of the first substrate. The second substrate with a liquid inlet is disposed over the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070120899 - Liquid drop discharge piezoelectric device: A liquid droplet discharging piezoelectric device 1 provided with a cavity member 11 with a built-in cavity 3; an introduction member 13 having introduction channel 5 connecting with the cavity 3; and a nozzle member 12 having nozzle channel 4 connecting with the cavity 3 on a side opposite to... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070120900 - Ink jet head and image recording apparatus including the ink jet head: The ink jet head ejects ink droplets by exerting an electrostatic force on ink having dispersed charged particles, and includes an insulating ejection substrate having through holes, ejection electrodes, each being arranged in each through hole and ink guides, each passing through each through hole. Each ink guide includes a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120901 - Ink cartridge loading device: An ink cartridge loading device has: a casing, a door, and a guiding member. The casing has a chamber that accommodates an ink cartridge, and an opening communicated with the chamber for loading and unloading the ink cartridge therethrough. The door is provided at the casing. The door is movable... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070120902 - Ink jet recording head and manufacturing method of ink jet recording head: An ink jet recording head includes a substrate provided with an energy generating element to generate energy used for discharging ink, a discharge port through which the ink is discharged, a supply port for supplying the ink, and an ink path formed on the substrate for making the discharge port... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120904 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: In an ink-jet head as a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus, a manifold channel which supplies an ink to pressure chambers has a first area communicating with the pressure chambers and a second area communicating with a dummy nozzle formed therein, with the first and second areas sandwiching a projection therebetween. Air... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070120903 - Microfluidic system, sample analysis device, and target substance detection/measurement method: A microfluidic system includes a plate-shaped microfluidic chip having a flow path, a liquid introduction tube for supplying liquid to the flow path, the liquid introduction tube having an end communicating with an end of the flow path and its other end that can be soaked in the liquid that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070120905 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes a first wall and a second wall opposite the first wall. The ink cartridge also includes an ink chamber, an ink supply portion extending from the first wall in a first direction, and a communication path coupled to the ink supply portion and to the ink... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070120906 - Refill unit: A refill unit that includes an ink cartridge formed by jointing a pair of body members, a case, a door for closing an opening of the case, a pushing unit disposed on the door and pushing the ink cartridge into the case, and a leg portion disposed on the pushing... Agent: Eugene Ledonne

20070120907 - Refill unit: A refill unit that includes: an ink cartridge; a case having an opening formed in a front face thereof for inserting/extracting the ink cartridge and a holding portion communicated with the opening for housing the ink cartridge; an urging mechanism disposed in the case and engaging with an upper face... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070120908 - Phase change inks: The phase change ink a viscosity of from about 4 mPa-s to about 50 mPa-s at a first temperature and has a viscosity of from 104 mPa-s to about 109 mPa-s at a second lower temperature. The second temperature may be below the first temperature by at least 10° C.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070120911 - Phase change inks: Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (i) a branched triamide and (ii) a polyethylene wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 350 to about 730, a polydispersity of from about 1.03 to about... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120909 - Phase change inks containing curable isocyanate-derived compounds and phase change inducing components: Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising a colorant, an initiator, and a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (A) a compound which is the reaction product of a mixture comprising (1) an isocyanate; and (2) a component comprising (a) an alcohol having at least one ethylenic unsaturation; (b)... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120910 - Phase change inks containing photoinitiator with phase change properties and gellant affinity: wherein R1 is an alkylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene group, R2 and R2′ each, independently of the other, are alkylene, arylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene groups, R3 and R3′ each, independently of the other, are either (a) photoinitiating groups, or (b) groups which are alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl groups, provided that... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120912 - Apparatus to remove bubbles in an inkjet printer: An image forming apparatus includes a bubble removing apparatus to remove bubbles from a channel and a chip of a printhead by applying a pressure to an ink circulation line using a pumping unit. The pumping unit includes a housing, a vibration unit to generate pressure variations to move ink... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070120913 - Liquid ejection head, liquid supply apparatus, liquid ejection apparatus, and liquid supply method: The present invention provides a liquid ejection head, a liquid supply apparatus, a liquid ejection apparatus, and a liquid supply method which enable the channel resistance and pressure loss of liquid in the liquid ejection head to be reduced to increase the speed at which liquid is supplied to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120916 - Phase change inks: Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (i) a branched triamide and (ii) a polyethylene wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 350 to about 730 and a polydispersity of from about 1.0001 to... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120917 - Phase change inks: Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (i) a branched triamide and (ii) a polyethylene wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 350 to about 730 and a polydispersity of from about 1.05 to... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120918 - Phase change inks: s

20070120919 - Phase change inks and methods for making same: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition and a method for forming the ink composition. The phase change ink composition comprises (1) an ink carrier comprising (A) a first component which comprises a monoester wax or blend of monoesters having at least one alkyl group comprising at least 10 carbon... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070120914 - Phase change inks containing fischer-tropsch waxes: Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising (a) a colorant and (b) a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising (i) an amide and (ii) a Fischer-Tropsch wax having an average peak molecular weight of from about 300 to about 800 and a polydispersity of from about 1.001 to about... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120915 - Phase change inks containing specific colorants: s

20070120922 - Curable overcoat for wax-based inks: An ink jettable overprint composition includes at least one of a polymerizable monomer and/or a polymerizable oligomer; at least one photoinitiator; and at least one wax.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070120920 - Ink for inkjet, ink set for inkjet, and inkjet recording method: An ink for inkjet comprising: a dye; and water and/or a water-miscible organic solvent, wherein the dye comprises a dye compound having at least one heterocyclic structure, and the ink further comprises, as an additive, at least one compound capable of chemically interacting with the dye compound.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120928 - Inks with improved performance: Inkjet ink formulations and methods using the same, with improved performance, wherein the inks are formulated to work as an ink set with darker inks having a higher dynamic surface tension.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070120923 - Overcoat compositions, oil-based ink compositions, and processes for ink-jet recording using overcoat and oil-based ink compositions: Overcoat compositions include film-forming resins and organic liquids. Overcoat compositions are included in ink sets that also include oil-based ink compositions. Methods for ink-jet printing use oil-based ink compositions and overcoat compositions.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070120927 - Phase change inks: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising an ink carrier and a colorant, said ink being suitable for use in an indirect printing process wherein the ink is jetted from a printhead onto a heated intermediate transfer member and subsequently transferred from the intermediate transfer member to a final... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120926 - Pigment-based ink sets for ink-jet printing: Ink systems and combinations thereof that include neutral gray or black ink and at least one other pigment with matched light fastness are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of printing.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070120925 - Radiation curable ink containing a curable wax: Curable monomer that is liquid at 25° C., curable wax and colorant together from a radiation curable ink. This ink may be used to form images by providing the radiation curable ink at a first temperature; applying the radiation curable ink to the substrate to form an image, the substrate... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070120921 - Radiation curable phase change inks containing curable epoxy-polyamide composite gellants: A radiation curable phase change ink preferably used in piezoelectric ink jet devices includes an ink vehicle that includes at least one curable epoxy-polyamide gellant, and at least one colorant. The use of the gellant enables the ink to form a gel state having a viscosity of at least 103... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070120924 - Radiation curable phase change inks containing gellants: A radiation curable phase change ink preferably used in piezoelectric ink jet devices includes an ink vehicle that includes at least one gellant comprised of a curable polyamide-epoxy acrylate component and a polyamide component, and at least one colorant. The use of the gellant enables the ink to form a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070120932 - Droplet ejection apparatus: A droplet ejection apparatus has a droplet ejection head, a laser radiation device, and a suction device. The droplet ejection head ejects droplets of liquid onto a target. The laser radiation device radiates laser beams onto an area on the target opposed to the droplet ejection head. The suction device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070120929 - Ink jet process: An ink jet process includes: providing a substrate; performing a ink jet step for spraying a paste on the surface of the substrate; and performing an in-situ and partial heating process to directly heat the paste sprayed on the surface of the substrate and control the shape and location of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070120931 - Method for manufacturing substrate having thin film pattern layer: A method for manufacturing a substrate (10) having a thin film pattern layer (114) thereon includes the steps of: providing a preformed substrate (11) including a number of partition walls with ink repellent characteristic (104) and receiving spaces (106) bounded by the corresponding partition walls; filling the receiving spaces with... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070120930 - Process and apparatus for ink jet ultraviolet transfuse: In a tonerless imaging process, an inked image layer jetted on an image receptor is simultaneously transferred and fused to a recording medium. A radiation-curable material is incorporated in the image layer such that irradiation of the image layer cures the radiation-curable material therein. An ink jet printing apparatus for... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070120933 - Printing system: A printing system includes a first image applying component configured for applying one or more primary colorants to print media for rendering an image. A second image applying component is configured for applying a second colorant, such as black colorant, to print media for rendering an image. A first pathway... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070120936 - Image forming apparatus including an electrostatic conveyance apparatus capable of stably conveying a recording medium: An image forming apparatus, which uses an electrostatic force to hold a recording medium during conveyance, includes a rotary belt, an image forming mechanism, a driving mechanism, a contact member in contact with the rotary belt, a charging mechanism and a controller. The controller may cause the contact member to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070120935 - Media path crossover clearance for printing system: A media path crossover for a printing system includes a first crossover pathway on which sheets of print media are conveyed across a crossover junction without interruption and a second crossover pathway on which sheets of print media are conveyed across the crossover junction without interruption. The second crossover pathway... Agent: Karl W. Hauber, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070120934 - Mixed output printing system: The disclosed embodiments are directed to the printing of mixed output jobs automatically as a single integrated job. More particularly, a merging module connects two print systems, for example, at approximately 90 degrees to one another, although other configurations are possible. The merging module includes at least one sheet rotator... Agent: John S. Zanghi, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070120937 - System and method for hand-held printing: System and method for hand-held printing. The method can include detecting a direction of initial movement of the hand-held printer. The method can include establishing a mode of operation including either a left-justified mode when the direction of initial movement is left to right or a right-justified mode when the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070120938 - Hybrid imager printer using reflex writing to color register an image: Reflex writing is a group of algorithms developed to maintain color registration in xerographic systems using multiple imagers. Unlike conventional imaging, in which the individual color separations are imaged based on events in a time domain, in a reflex write implementation sequential color separations are written based on events in... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070120939 - Image formation device and method: An image-forming device which is equipped with an image-holding member, an exposure section provided with plural light-emitting portions arranged in a first direction, a movement section that relatively moves the exposure section and the image-holding member in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and a light-emission control... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070120940 - Image drum and method of manufacturing the same: An image drum, for selectively adsorbing a toner on the image drum so as to form an image in a printing apparatus, includes a hollow cylindrical drum body and an electrode member. The electrode member includes a flexible substrate adapted to surround an outer circumferential surface of the drum body;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120941 - Thermal printhead: A thermal printhead (A1) includes a plurality of main heat-producing resistor sections (31) formed on a substrate (1) and arranged at predetermined intervals in a primary scanning direction (X), a plurality of auxiliary heat-producing resistor sections (32) each of which is spaced from a respective one of the main heat-producing... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070120943 - Dual-sided thermal printing with labels: A temperature sensitive recording element for two-sided direct thermal printing comprises a substrate having temperature sensitive coatings on opposite sides of the substrate and includes a detachable thermal label element. A thermal label element with a temperature sensitive coating and backed with a contact adhesive is disclosed.... Agent: Douglas Foote Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20070120942 - Dual-sided two color thermal printing: A dual-sided imaging direct thermal recording material comprises an opaque substrate, and temperature sensitive coatings for direct thermal printing in different colors on opposite sides of the substrate. Recording material such as a paper transaction receipt on which direct thermal printing on the front side is in one color and... Agent: Douglas S. Foote Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20070120944 - Laser scanning optical apparatus: A laser scanning optical apparatus wherein a plural number of beams are deflected by one polygon mirror and are scanned on respective corresponding photosensitive drums via a scanning optical system. The scanning optical system has a first scanning lens which transmits all the beams, exclusive second scanning lenses which transmit... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070120945 - Recording material discrimination device, image forming apparatus and method therefor: The invention is objected to perform fixing in an optimum fixing condition even with various kinds of recording materials or the like while improving usability by discriminating the kinds of recording materials. An image reading sensor 123 includes a reflective LED 301, a transmissive LED 303 disposed on the opposite... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120946 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus which has a plurality of image forming stations arranged in parallel, each of the image forming stations having a photosensitive drum, and which forms a desired image by combining toner images formed on the photosensitive drums. A laser scanning optical system deflects and scans a plurality... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070120947 - Scanning optical apparatus: Beam light L falls on Cross section K perpendicular to Rotational axis 1a of Polygon mirror 1 at an angle of 2° or less. When such an incident angle condition is satisfied, the figure of a cross section in the sub scanning direction of Scanning lens 9 is formed in... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070115306 - Image forming apparatus: There is provided an image forming apparatus comprising a main body and a rotating member unit having a rotating member, the rotating member unit being detachably held in the main body. The main body of the image forming apparatus has a retainer which retains a shaft penetrating and supporting the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070115308 - Liquid quantity sensing device: According to one embodiment, a liquid quantity sensing device comprises a sensor body, a first electrode, a plurality of second electrodes and a sensing mechanism. The sensor body extends toward an interior of a container and includes electrically conductive material. The first electrode is disposed on the sensor body while... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115307 - Measuring a pressure difference: Embodiments of measuring a pressure difference are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115309 - Droplet ejection apparatus: A droplet ejection apparatus has an ejection unit that ejects a droplet of liquid onto a target. The ejection unit is arranged in a multi-joint robot. The robot moves the ejection unit in a two-dimensional direction above the target. The ejection unit includes a droplet ejection head, a liquid tank,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070115310 - Method for injecting ink from a printhead in a predetermined pattern: A method is provided for ejecting ink from a printhead coupled to an ink supply. The printhead includes a plurality of rows of pods with each pod including a plurality of ink nozzles. The ink supply defines a plurality of ink reservoirs connected in fluid communication with respective rows. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070115311 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid agitation method: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which has an ejection port ejecting liquid, and an energy application element applying energy to the liquid to be ejected from the ejection port; and a driving device which applies a drive signal having a frequency changing with time to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115312 - Method of operating a continuous ink jet printer apparatus: A method of operating a continuous ink jet printer apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: applying a first voltage pulse to an electrode in order to modify the direction of an ink stream; applying a second voltage pulse to the electrode for a pre-determined period of time; measuring the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070115313 - Printhead having mirrored rows of print nozzles: A printhead is provided having at least first and second rows of print nozzles. Each nozzle has first circuitry of a first type arranged on an opposite side of the nozzle as second circuitry of a second type. The respective positions of the first and second circuitry of each nozzle... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070115314 - Optical sensor, ink cartridge, and inkjet apparatus: An optical sensor for identifying a subject includes a light absorption member with light absorption characteristics adjusted independently from the subject so that the optical sensor identifies the subject by optically identifying the light absorption member, a light emitting device for radiating reference light having a peak wavelength in an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115315 - Recording apparatus and electronic apparatus: There is provided a recording apparatus for receiving recording data from an electronic apparatus or a host computer activated by being supplied with a power source through an interface, and performing a recording operation on a recording medium by the use of a recording head. This recording apparatus comprises power... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115316 - Inkjet printhead with a wafer assembly having an array of nozzle arrangments: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer assembly defining a plurality of spaced apart groups of ink supply channels and a plurality of groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements in fluid communication with respective ink supply channel groups. Each ink ejection nozzle arrangement includes... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070115317 - Inkjet printer and control method thereof: An inkjet printer includes a print head having a plurality of nozzles; a plurality of ink cartridges storing inks of different colors, respectively, to be supplied to the print head; and a pressure applying section for applying pressure in an ejecting direction to the inks in the nozzles of the... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070115319 - Image forming apparatus, maintenance-recovery mechanism, and suction pump: An image forming apparatus includes a maintenance-recovery mechanism including a suction pump. The suction pump includes a tube, a housing, a pressing member, a rotating member, and a regulating member. The tube channels a liquid drawn from. a recording head through one end of the tube by the suction pump... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070115318 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus that includes: a recording head that discharges an ink from a plurality of nozzles constituting a nozzle train to a recording medium; a cap that covers a nozzle surface of the recording head with a hollow cap member; and a wiper that wipes the nozzle... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070115320 - Rotor, drive converting apparatus, cleaning apparatus, wiping apparatus, and liquid ejection apparatus: A nozzle protecting device 30 of an ink jet type recording apparatus has a cap 46 which covers nozzles of a recording head and a cap support member 47 which is connected to the cap 45 via a spring member 80. The distance between the cap 46 and the cap... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115321 - Liquid jet recording apparatus: A liquid jet recording apparatus including a recording head configured to record with droplets, a carriage supporting the recording head and configured to scan a recording medium with the recording head in a direction crossing a direction of conveyance of the recording medium, the carriage being movable to a maintenance... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070115322 - Printer with a movable carriage: A printer comprising a carriage, a guide rail and a print surface, the carriage being movable along the guide rail and carrying a printhead that faces the print surface and is movable in a direction normal to the plane of the print surface, wherein a stop or brake mechanism responsive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115323 - Liquid ejecting head and method of manufacturing the same, image forming apparatus, liquid drop ejecting device, and recording method: A liquid ejecting head with a nozzle forming member in which plural nozzle sequences formed by aligning nozzles configured to eject a liquid drop of recording liquid are arranged such that nozzles of respective sequences are provided in a zigzag pattern and a water-repellent layer comprising a resin layer is... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070115324 - Method for updating a printing parameter of a printer: A method for updating a printing parameter of a printer includes a plurality of nozzles of a row of an inkjet print head of a printer simultaneously printing ink onto a print medium while the inkjet print head is moving along a first horizontal direction or a second horizontal direction... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115327 - Ink composition, ink jet recording method, method for producing planographic printing plate and planographic printing plate: The invention provides an ink composition comprising (A) a polymerization initiator and (B) a (meth)acrylic acid ester having an alicyclic group as a substituent or amide having an alicyclic group as a substituent. The ink composition preferably further contains (D) a colorant and (E) a sensitizing dye. The ink composition... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115326 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, production method of a planographic printing plate and planographic printing plate: The present invention provides an ink composition, and inkjet recording method, a printed material, a production method of a planographic printing plate, and a planographic printing plate. The ink composition of the present invention contains a cationically polymerizable compound, a compound that generates an acid when irradiated with a radiation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115325 - Ink-jet ink and ink-jet recording method: An ink-jet is disclosed, comprising a colorant, water, a polymeric compound which is comprised of a hydrophilic backbone having plural side chains and is capable of curing via the side chains upon exposure to an actinic ray and a fluorine-containing surfactant having a specific structure. An ink-jet recording method is... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070115328 - Ink printhead nozzle arrangement with volumetric reduction actuators: An ink jet printhead nozzle arrangement includes a wafer substrate that defines side walls and an inlet opening of an ink chamber. Drive circuitry is arranged on the wafer substrate. A roof wall assembly defines a roof of the ink chamber and an ink ejection port in fluid communication with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070115329 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid agitation method: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which has an ejection port ejecting liquid, and an energy application element applying energy to the liquid to be ejected from the ejection port; a liquid receiving device which is opposite to the ejection port and receives the liquid ejected from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115330 - Inkjet printhead with common plane of symmetry for heater element and nozzle: An ink jet printhead that has a plurality of nozzles 3 and a chamber 7 corresponding to each nozzle respectively. At least one heater element 10 disposed in each chamber 7. Each nozzle defines a nozzle aperture that has a plane of symmetry extending perpendicular to the nozzle aperture. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070115331 - Non-planar deflection electrode in an ink jet printer: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a non-planar deflection electrode(s) for use with an ink jet printer. More specifically, the high voltage and/or low voltage deflection electrode of the may include a non-planar configuration. The non-planar configuration may be achieved by providing the electrode with a convex surface, which... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070115332 - Liquid container, liquid ejection device and liquid container case: This invention relates to a liquid container, a liquid ejection device and a liquid container case, which may effectively use a liquid stored in the liquid container, and may be reduced in size in simple constitution. An ink cartridge as a liquid container includes a plurality of ink packs and... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070115333 - Liquid injecting apparatus: Provided is a liquid injecting apparatus equipped with a liquid injecting head, which is mounted on a carriage and moved reciprocally in a widthwise direction of a target, and a valve unit, which is mounted on the carriage to be supplied with liquid via a supply passage from a liquid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115334 - System and method for integrated dye sublimation photo printer paper tray: An information handling system dye sublimation printer stores paper in an enclosed tray that couples to the printer housing and transitions between a storage configuration and a print configuration. The storage configuration reduces the footprint of the printer by aligning with the length and width of the printer housing. The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070115335 - Curing: A method of curing radiation-curable fluid is described. In one example, the method includes emitting radiation from an array of light-emitting diodes towards ink to be cured. LEDs are cheap, light weight, highly efficient in their conversion of electrical power, and give effectively instant switching to full power. Another advantage... Agent: Venable LLP

20070115336 - Digital ink jet printing process method: A digital ink jet printing process method comprising following procedures: 1. Choose the basic material, 2. Pre-process the basic material, 3. Print out graphics on basic materials directly; and, 4. After process on the surface of basic materials to protect the graphics on the surface of the basic materials; based... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070115337 - Magnetic plate for printing of optical effects: This invention discloses a magnet for use as a printing plate or printing head that is used for aligning flakes or particles in a paint or ink. A composite sheet or block of magnetizable material is selectively magnetized so that a magnet is formed within the sheet or block that... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070115338 - Streak compensation with scan line dependent ros actuation: Xerographic machines can print documents that have unintentional streaking parallel to the process direction. There are many possible source of the streaking. Currently, the streaking is minimized by using a cross process direction dependent modulation, called a profile, to modulate a modulated light beam being scanned across the photoreceptor. The... Agent: Luis M. Ortiz

20070115339 - Image forming device and method of correcting image to be formed: An image forming device includes a rotating polygon mirror and a correcting component that corrects misregistration of an image region in a predetermined direction. The correcting component carries out the correction by correcting image data used in modulating light beams reflected and deflected by any one reflecting surface among plural... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070115340 - Image forming device with led array head: A head moving mechanism includes a head connecting member, a contact member, and a linking mechanism. An LED array head is attached to the head connecting member. The contact member is movable in the vertical direction, and the linking mechanism moves the head connecting member in the vertical direction in... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070115341 - Printer and method for detecting donor material: Thermal printers and methods for operating a thermal printer that applies donor material from donor patches on a donor ribbon to a received medium, the donor material being organized into sets, each set including at least one colored donor material patch and a protective material donor patch. A non-visible light... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070115342 - Image forming apparatus and image write start position adjusting method for the same: A high-quality image forming apparatus that is capable of accurately adjusting the size and position of an image during image formation on a second surface of a transfer material, even when there has been expansion/contraction of the transfer material due to thermal fixing after image formation on a first surface... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070109333 - Equipment for ultraviolet crosslinking in a controlled atmosphere: The invention concerns an installation wherein is performed a crosslinking operation for a coating such as an ink or a varnish through ultraviolet radiation or electronic beam, in the presence of a gas mixture with controlled oxygen residual content. The installation comprises a chamber including one or more UV lamps... Agent: Air Liquide

20070109334 - Method of ink evaporation prediction for an ink reservoir: An ink reservoir having values for parameters associated with an evaporation prediction curve stored in memory associated with the ink reservoir, wherein the evaporation prediction curve approximately tracks an empirical evaporation curve.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070109335 - Printhead and printhead driving method: A printhead driving method in a power source device to output a printhead driving voltage, for generating an optimum voltage for a characteristic of the printhead attached to a printing apparatus, without controlling an output voltage with high accuracy. The printhead is provided with a reference voltage source to set... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109336 - Method for reducing an amount of ink used in printing an image: A method for reducing an amount of ink used in printing an image includes processing data representing the image to distinguish each halftone region from each solid region, wherein each solid region is formed by boundary ON pixels connected to interconnected interior ON pixels and having a sum of a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070109337 - Printing up to edges of printing paper without platen soiling: Images are printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. According to the present invention, an area R for ejecting image-forming ink droplets is specified for a region lying beyond the edges of a printing paper P. The pixels of an... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070109338 - Method of determining threshold of detection for edge of printing medium, and printer operable to execute the same: A liquid ejecting head is operable to eject liquid toward a target medium. A platen opposes to the liquid ejecting head, and has a first region formed with a plurality of projections. A first detector includes a light emitter operable to emit light toward the platen and a light receiver... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070109339 - Alignment method for hand-operated printer: A method of printing multiple swaths with a hand-operated printer having a target sight includes printing at least one alignment mark for a subsequent print swath during a printing of a current print swath; and aligning the target sight with the alignment mark prior to beginning printing of the subsequent... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070109342 - Discharge amount measurement method, pattern formation method, device, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A discharge amount measurement method is configured to measure a discharge amount of a liquid discharged from at least one nozzle of a droplet discharge head. The discharge amount measurement method includes discharging the liquid as a droplet from the at least one nozzle of the droplet discharge head by... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070109344 - Ink-jet recording apparatus and recording method: An ink-jet recording apparatus detects a temperature of an ink-jet head, and reads, from a table of set drive voltages, a drive voltage corresponding to that head temperature. The read drive voltage is determined to be a drive voltage V1 to be used in a recording for this time. Further,... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070109340 - Method and apparatus for a printer cartridge tester: A handheld device for testing printer cartridges that interfaces with a computer for processing of test results is provided. Multiple testing devices may be coupled to the computer. In one embodiment, each testing device includes a base board and an adaptor board. The base board includes a host processor and... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070109343 - Method for aligning droplets expelled from an ink jet printer: A method of adjusting alignment positions of ink dots printed with at least one printhead that is mounted on a moving carriage of an ink jet printer includes printing ink dots on a testchart while the carriage moves over the testchart at a predetermined speed, measuring a relative dislocation (ΔY′)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109341 - Printer and detachable printer tray: A liquid-ejecting apparatus includes a tray having a hole, a mark section provided in an area adjacent to the hole, a boundary section located between the hole and the mark section, a sensor detecting the boundary section, and a controller executing control of liquid ejection based on liquid ejection data.... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070109345 - Nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead with associated actuator drive ciircuitry: A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead includes a substrate that defines an ink supply channel. Drive circuitry is arranged on the substrate. A nozzle chamber structure is mounted on the substrate and defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink supply channel and a nozzle rim defining... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109346 - Ink jet printing apparatus, method of manufacturing ink absorber, and ink absorber: An ink jet printing apparatus is provided in which ink absorbers, capable of performing their function to the fullest extent to quickly absorb an ink that tends to coagulate, are installed to prevent an interior of the printing apparatus and the back of a print medium from being contaminated. To... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109347 - Maintenance device used for cleaning a print head of an ink cartridge: A maintenance device used for cleaning a print head of an ink cartridge includes a housing including a stopper, and a wiper holder installed inside the housing in a rotatable manner. The wiper holder includes a gear. The maintenance device further includes a wiper fixed on the wiper holder, and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070109348 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus having a plurality of inkjet heads arranged along a paper conveyance line is disclosed, which is capable of collecting an ink mist efficiently without making the inkjet heads intricate in makeup. To this end, an air suction and blast unit is disposed in a space between... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070109350 - Line head chassis detachably attaching jig in an inkjet recording apparatus: To make a line head chassis detachable simply and easily in an inkjet recording apparatus, a jig for the line head chassis is provided which comprises: a first support member mounted on a table lateral to the inkjet head; a second support member mounted laterally to and lower than the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070109349 - System for scanning recycled paper before printing: A system for printing to recycled paper sheets, by scanning a sheet for existing marks, comparing them with the intended output, and printing upon determining the suitability of printing the intended output to the sheet. When recycled paper is used for printing, the intended output is sometimes printed on the... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070109351 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus includes at least two print head groups, each print head group having at least one print head for printing on a printing medium by ejecting ink, the print head being movable; and at least two image processing sections, each image processing section being provided for each of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109353 - Inkjet printer for printing ink and fixative: An inkjet printer that has a fixative reservoir with at least one outlet formed in a wall section that partially defines the reservoir. The printer also has a pagewidth printhead having designated nozzles for printing the ink fixative. The fixative reservoir has fluid conduits at least partially defined in the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109352 - Recording device and recording method: A recording device has a recording section which records an image on a recording medium which is conveyed. A recording region of the recording section is greater than or equal to a width of a recording medium of a maximum width which can be recorded. When recording a recording medium... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070109354 - Liquid applied seal for inkjet orifices: A liquid is applied by a bounded-region applicator such as a needle applicator over nozzle holes and over at least a continuous region close to the nozzle holes. The liquid is then cured to a solid before significant flow of the liquid into the nozzle holes. The liquid is chosen... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070109356 - Modular printhead assembly with reservoir mounted printhead modules: A modular printhead assembly is provided for an inkjet printer. The modular printhead assembly includes an elongate chassis defining a plurality of slots. An elongate ink reservoir is fast with the chassis. The ink reservoir defines: a plurality of longitudinally extending ink channels for storing respective types of ink, a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109355 - Printhead assembly having dual power supply for multiple printhead modules: A printhead assembly is provided having at least two printhead modules and a casing in which printhead modules are removably and adjacently mounted to extend across a pagewidth. Each printhead module has at least two printhead integrated circuits, each of which has nozzles formed therein for delivering printing fluid onto... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109357 - Method of manufacturing a monolithic ink-jet printhead: A monolithic ink-jet printhead, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes a substrate having an ink chamber, an ink channel, and a manifold, a nozzle plate formed on the substrate, a nozzle, a heater, and a conductor. The ink chamber includes sidewalls formed to a predetermined depth from the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070109360 - Nozzle arrangement with an ink ejecting displaceable roof structure: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a wafer substrate assembly defining an ink inlet channel and a first wall surrounding the ink inlet channel. A thermal actuator includes an anchor extending from the wafer substrate assembly outside of the confines of the first... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109359 - Printhead assembly having laminated printing fluid distributors: A printhead assembly is provided having a printhead laminated to a plurality of adjacently arranged structures. The printhead has a plurality of nozzles each having an inlet for supplying printing fluid to the nozzle and a heater element configured to heat the printing fluid to form a gas bubble thereby... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109358 - Thermal ink jet printhead with suspended heater element parallel to the nozzle: An ink jet printhead with a plurality of nozzles that each nozzle defining a planar nozzle aperture. A bubble forming chamber corresponds to each of the nozzles and a heater is positioned in each of the chambers respectively. The heater has a planar structure with a heater element extending between... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109361 - Fluid injection apparatus: A fluid injection apparatus is disclosed. A manifold connects a plurality of fluid chambers to supply fluids thereto. A plurality of nozzles are connected to the fluid chambers respectively to eject the fluids, wherein at least two of the nozzles are not disposed along a column or a row, and... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070109362 - Liquid container, sub tank, liquid discharge apparatus, liquid supply apparatus, and imaging apparatus: A sub tank is provided that includes a case at which an air flow path is formed, the air flow path including an entrance flow path portion that is connected to an ink accommodating portion of the case, and a cross flow path portion that continues from the entrance flow... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070109363 - Ink-jet printing head: A method of producing an ink-jet printing head including nozzles, pressure chambers respectively corresponding to the nozzles, at least one common ink chamber from which ink is supplied to the pressure chambers, a piezoelectric actuator including active portions respectively corresponding to the pressure chambers, the method comprising the steps of:... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070109364 - Liquid discharging head and liquid discharging apparatus: An ink-jet head, as a liquid discharging head, includes a cavity unit, a flexible flat cable, a plurality of actuators, and a thermal conductive member. The thermal conductive member is in contact with the actuators so that heat is transmitted to the actuators. Accordingly, it is possible to realize a... Agent: Eugene Ledonne

20070109365 - Filter device and liquid drop ejecting device: There is provided a filter device having: a supply path into which liquid flows; a first liquid chamber communicating with the supply path; a second liquid chamber communicating with the first liquid chamber; a first discharge path which communicates with the second liquid chamber, and from which liquid is discharged;... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070109366 - Ink jet device with purging device: An ink jet device with an ink reservoir and a jetting assembly, with an ink supply line being arranged to allow liquid ink to flow through the valve into the ink reservoir in accordance with and supported by gravity acting on the flowing ink, and a purging device adapted to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109367 - Tube and method of using the same: A tube for supplying a fluid therethrough having a base wall and an enlarged wall is provided. The base wall is outside a first closed line segment which defines an inside of the inner surface of the tube and is inside a second closed line segment which is similar to... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070109371 - Ink cartridge: An ink cartridge includes an ink-jet head and plural liquid chambers storing inks different from each other. The minimum value A1 (g/ml) for the ink densities of the inks stored in the plural liquid chambers and the maximum value B1 (g/ml) for the ink densities of inks each obtained by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109370 - Ink cartridge and ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink cartridge has pivotable levers connected to walls of a container, and both pawls and protruded guide portions formed on the levers. The pawls are engageable with an ink cartridge holder. The protruded guide portions contact the ink cartridge holder to move the levers in the opening direction. Further,... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070109369 - Ink cartridge for ink jet recording apparatus, connection unit and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink cartridge for supplying the ink in an ink reserving chamber via an ink supply port into a recording head has a differential pressure valve mechanism disposed between an ink flow port and the ink supply port in the ink reserving chamber, whereby the ink is supplied an adequate... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070109368 - Liquid container and liquid filling method: A liquid container includes: a liquid containing portion that is pressurized by a pressure unit and discharges a liquid stored therein through a liquid discharge port; a liquid supply port that supplies the liquid to an external liquid consuming apparatus; and a liquid detection unit that is interposed between the... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070109372 - Thermal ink-jet ink and ink cartridge using the same: There is provided an ink cartridge including: a thermal ink-jet head provided with a heat generating portion that generates thermal energy for ejecting ink from an ejection opening, and contains the ink. In the ink cartridge, the heat generating portion has, at its surface in contact with the ink, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109373 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: A liquid-droplet jetting apparatus includes a first common liquid chamber which supplies a liquid to first pressure chambers communicating with first nozzles and extending in a predetermined direction; and a second common liquid chamber which supplies a liquid to second pressure chambers communicating with second nozzles and extending in the... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070109374 - Article of manufacturing including a two-part adhesive with a fluorescent dye and method of making: An article of manufacture including a first adherend and a mixed two-part adhesive disposed on the first adherend, wherein the first part of the two-part adhesive includes a first fluorescent dye.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070109376 - Ink composition, ink set and recording method: An ink composition, which comprises: at least two kinds of water-soluble dyes each having the maximum wavelength of an absorption spectrum in an aqueous solvent of from 550 to 700 nm, wherein at least one of the at least two kinds of water-soluble dyes is selected from the group consisting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109380 - Ink jet ink composition, ink set and ink jet treatment liquid, and ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus using the same: wherein the amine compound represented by the formula (1) is any one of primary to tertiary amine compounds; at least one of three substituents represented by R1, R2 and R3 in the formula (1) includes a hydrocarbon group having a hydroxyl group; and none of the three substituents contain an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109377 - Ink set containing at least three black ink compositions: The present invention provides an ink set comprising at least three black ink compositions different in concentration, wherein the colorant of the black ink composition having the highest concentration is a pigment, the colorant of the black ink composition having the lowest concentration is a dye, and the colorant(s) of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070109375 - Ink-jet ink, ink-jet ink set and ink-jet recording method: An ink-jet ink containing: (a) a colorant; (b) water; and (c) a polymer produced by saponification of a polyvinyl acetate, wherein the polymer comprises a backbone and a group of first side chains and a group of second side chains, provided that the first chains are capable of cross-linking between... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070109378 - Liquid ink for ink jet and ink jet recording method using the ink: There are provided: a liquid ink for ink jet including: water; a coloring material; 1,5-pentanediol; and a humectant, in which the content of 1,5-pentanediol is 3 mass % or more and 15 mass % or less, and the total of the content of 1,5-pentanediol and the content of the humectant... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109379 - Liquid jet apparatus using a fine particle dispersion liquid composition: In an apparatus producing a high-quality and high-resolution image having high water and light resistances with an orifice having a diameter less than φ25 μm (less than 500 μm2 in terms of cross-sectional area of the orifice) by use of a fine particle dispersion recording composition, nozzle clogging can be... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070109381 - Optical disc recorder with printing device: An optical disc recorder includes a printing device disposed between an inner surface of housing and a tray and facing a label side of a loaded optical disc. In one embodiment the printing device includes an inkjet printing assembly; a guide mechanism for guiding the printing assembly to move alternately... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109382 - Light cure of cationic ink on acidic: This invention is an advance in coating chemistry, curing technology, related apparatus and the products made thereby. The invention encompasses a substrate bonded to a coating cured, at least in part, cationically by a light having a wavelength in a range of 100 nm to 1200 nm and intensity in... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070109383 - Ink printer using forward direction printing process: A process transfers an image from an intermediate imaging member onto a sheet of recording media while preserving the ability to duplex print on the sheet. The process includes generating an image on an intermediate imaging member as the intermediate imaging member rotates in a first direction, synchronizing a sheet... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20070109385 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, an AC bias is supplied to a conveyance belt, and the amount of charge on the printing side of a recording sheet is decreased. The charge of positive polarity and the charge of negative polarity which are different from each other are generated on the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070109387 - Image recording apparatus: The image recording apparatus includes a regulating guide for regulating a position of a recording medium and a passage changing unit for changing a passage of the recording medium to the other passage thereof. The regulating guide includes a pair of outer guides arranged at outermost positions in a width... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109388 - Ink jet printer with a belt-loading mechanism: An ink jet printer includes a housing that defines a print media entrance opening and a print media exit opening. A support frame is arranged in the housing between the openings. A print media feed roller assembly is mounted on the frame proximal the entrance opening and a print media... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070109386 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprising a liquid droplet ejection head that ejects liquid droplets, a conveyor belt that retains and conveys a recording medium while causing the recording medium to face the liquid droplet ejection head, and a charge roll that causes the recording medium to be electrostatically attracted... Agent: Christopher J. Fildes Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070109384 - Platen plate and liquid discharging device: A platen plate for supporting an ejection object for liquid droplets ejected from each nozzle on the bottom surface of a liquid ejection head can secure the flatness of the ejection object so as to appropriately eject ink as well as can prevent the contamination of the bottom surface of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070109389 - Print media with attached data storage and method of storing data thereon: A print has a substrate and a plurality of memory tags coupled to the substrate. The print is an index print including a plurality of images and a memory tag is associated with each image for storage of data relating to that image. A print medium suitable for forming such... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070109390 - Thermal ink-jet ink and ink cartridge using the ink: An ink cartridge includes a thermal ink-jet head provided with a heat generating portion that generates thermal energy for ejecting the ink from an ejection opening, in which: the heat generating portion has, on its surface in contact with the ink, a protective layer containing at least one selected from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109391 - Laser induced thermal imaging apparatus and laser induced thermal imaging method and fabricating method of organic light-emitting diode using the same: A laser induced thermal imaging apparatus and a laser induced thermal imaging method capable of uniformly adhering a donor film to an acceptor substrate by use of a magnetic force to achieve an effective laser induced thermal imaging method; and a method for fabricating an organic light-emitting diode using the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070109392 - Scanning apparatus adapted to receive a plurality of different light source parts: A scanning apparatus has a light source part scanning a scanning beam on an original document. A frame has a light input part and a light output part. A reflection mirror is arranged in the frame and reflects the scanning beam inputted through the light input part to the light... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109393 - Image forming apparatus and method of adjusting color shift: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms a color image in which a plurality of color component images are superimposed; and a formation controlling unit that allows the image forming unit to form images for adjustment of formation positions of the respective color component images. The... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070109395 - Led array head and image recording device: An LED array head has LED arrays, a substrate, first electrode pads, second electrode pads, and light-blocking elements. Plural LEDs are positioned at the LED arrays. The LED arrays are staggered on the substrate. The first electrode pads are provided at end portions of the LED arrays and positioned facing... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070109394 - Method and system for improved control of xerographic parameters in a high quality document system: A system changes the setpoint of a digital reprographic system in response to the local image content by utilizing tag data that contains information identifying the image content type of a corresponding image data pixel. The system modifies the reproduction characteristics of the output to accommodate the diverse image content... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070109396 - White vector adjustment via exposure using two optical sources: The white vector—the voltage difference between white areas of a latent image on a photoconductive unit and a developer roller—may be independently adjusted at each photoconductive unit, allowing multiple image forming units to be driven from a shared power supply. The photoconductive unit is charged to a high voltage level... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070103493 - Liquid charging method, liquid container, and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid charging method for charging a liquid container with a liquid, the liquid container being provided with a piezo-electric device for detecting a consumption condition of the liquid in said liquid container, the piezo-electric device being provided with a cavity connecting to an inside of the liquid container, has... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103494 - Ink jet printing apparatus and method for recovering the same: An object of the present invention is to control the amount of deposit in an ink receiving portion using an inexpensive configuration which does not require any complicated mechanisms or control and which avoids increasing ink consumption. The present invention thus has ejection control section for ejecting ink from printing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103495 - Inkjet recording device: An inkjet recording device includes: a recording head provided with a nozzle for jetting ink, wherein the inkjet recording device records an image by jetting the ink from the recording head onto a recording medium, while moving the recording head and the recording medium relatively, and the inkjet recording device... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070103496 - Signal generating and liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the same: A signal generating device is adapted to be installed in a liquid ejecting apparatus which comprises a liquid ejector operable to eject liquid and a carriage operable to carry the liquid ejector. A first generator is operable to generate first pulse signals at first intervals corresponding to a velocity of... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070103497 - Driving method of ink-jet printer and its driving apparatus: A printer head is so structured that, with each time division groups given as A, B, C, the head and printing data are moved at predetermined speeds and, with the sequential drive order of the respective division groups given as A, B, C, a printing result emerges in one row... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070103498 - Inkjet printhead: Some embodiments of the present invention provide an inkjet print head having a housing defining an ink reservoir, a nozzle portion including a nozzle plate deforming an ink chamber in fluid communication with the ink reservoir, and forming a fluid flow path between the ink chamber and the ink reservoir,... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070103499 - Color registration apparatus and method: A color registration apparatus and method capable of performing color registration without errors regardless of concentration of a developing agent is provided. The color registration apparatus determines a light emitting intensity irradiating onto a registration mark and a minimum light receiving intensity with which the registration mark is identified according... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070103500 - Liquid ejection apparatus and ejection abnormality factor extraction method: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head including a nozzle which ejects liquid, a pressure chamber which is connected to the nozzle and is to be filled with the liquid, a pressure generating element which pressurizes the liquid in the pressure chamber, and a pressure determination element which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103501 - Head substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus: An object of this invention is to provide a head substrate having a fuse ROM without increasing the size. To achieve the object, a head substrate includes an ink supply port which has a long hole shape elongated in a first direction, a plurality of printing elements arrayed along the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103502 - Ink jet device and method of cleaning it: This invention relates to an ink jet device that is adaptive for preventing formation of a bad pattern as well as improving the life span of the ink jet device. An ink jet device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a maintaining/repairing stage filled with cleaning water;... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070103503 - Capping sheet and liquid jet apparatus: A capping sheet that seals a nozzle surface of a liquid jet head having a liquid jet nozzle that ejects liquid onto a target, the capping sheet includes: a sheet body including an opposite surface facing the nozzle surface of the liquid jet head, the sheet body being provided separately... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070103504 - Maintenance device for cleaning ink cartridge print heads: A maintenance device used for cleaning a print head of an ink cartridge includes a maintenance module including a base, a cap for capping the print head of the ink cartridge, and a cap sled installed on the base in a sliding manner for driving the cap upwards to cover... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070103505 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus comprises an ink-jet head, a wiper, a drive mechanism, and a wiping controller. The wiper wipes off ink adhering to an ink ejection face on which nozzle openings are formed. The wiping controller controls the drive mechanism so that the wiper, while kept in contact with... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070103506 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer includes: a print head; a print data storing unit; a print executing unit; a maintaining unit; a maintenance necessity determining unit; and a printing results inquiring unit. The print head is formed with one or more ink ejection opening. The print data storing unit stores inputted print... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070103510 - Ink jet nozzle arrangement with static and dynamic structures: A nozzle arrangement for a printhead integrated circuit is configured to be replicated on a wafer substrate incorporating drive circuitry so that the printhead integrated circuit comprises an array of the nozzle arrangements. The nozzle arrangement includes a static nozzle chamber structure extending from the wafer substrate and bounding an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070103509 - Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording head having a recording element substrate including three or more discharge port arrays comprising a plurality of discharge ports and recording elements for discharging ink from the discharge ports and supplying heat to areas around the discharge ports; wherein each of the discharge port arrays matches... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103507 - Ink-jet head and ink-jet printer: An ink-jet head has a plurality of nozzle groups which respectively jet inks of a plurality of colors. Each nozzle group has a high density portion of small nozzle interval and two low density portions of larger nozzle interval than the high density portion. The high density portion is positioned... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070103508 - Inkjet recording apparatus: Inkjet recording apparatus 100 having: rotation drum 3 to rotate while recording medium P is being maintained on a circumference surface of the rotation drum 3; recording head 6 including a plurality of nozzles which is opposite to the circumference surface and arranged along an axis direction of rotation drum... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070103511 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head of the present invention has a nozzle plate including a nozzle substrate composed of a non-conductive material in which nozzle openings pass through the nozzle substrate and a conductive film formed to cover at least a part of the inner peripheral wall surface of the nozzle... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103513 - Inkjet printhead with small nozzle spacing: An ink jet printhead with an array of nozzles unit cells 1. Each of the unit cells having one or more heaters 10 configured to form a gas bubble 12 in ejectable liquid held in the nozzle chamber. The generation of the bubble 12 causes the ejection of a drop... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070103512 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A cleaning bath is provided on a base of a liquid ejection apparatus. A cleaning liquid supply section and a cleaning liquid discharge section are connected to the cleaning bath. The cleaning liquid supply section supplies cleaning liquid to the cleaning bath. The cleaning liquid discharge section drains the cleaning... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070103514 - Heater and inkjet printhead having the same: In a heater and an inkjet printhead having the same, the heater directly contacts and heats ink and is made of a Pt—Ir alloy.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070103515 - Ink cartridge and recording apparatus: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070103516 - Method and system for protecting a print head in a content applicator and reader: A content applicator for selectively processing media received by the content applicator. The content applicator includes a print station having a print station protector subsystem. When the print station is in a print offline mode, the print station protector subsystem protects at least one component of the print station from... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070103517 - Ink jet recording head having piezoelectric element and electrode patterned with same shape and without pattern shift therebetween: An ink jet recording head comprising: a nozzle orifice for jetting ink; an ink chamber communicating with the nozzle; a diaphragm for pressurizing ink in the ink chamber; a piezoelectric thin film on the diaphragm; and an electrode for the piezoelectric thin film wherein the piezoelectric thin film and the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070103518 - Multi-nozzle ink jet