Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 06/07

20070146396 - Liquid drop ejecting device, controller therefor, liquid drop ejecting method, and storage medium storing a program: A controller for a liquid drop ejecting device including a first head with plural first liquid drop ejectors, and a second head with plural second liquid drop ejectors, is provided. The controller includes: a scanning controlling section scanning at least the first head plural times a same region of a... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070146406 - Method for manufacturing patterned thin-film layer: A method for manufacturing a patterned thin-film layer includes the steps of: providing a substrate (102) with a plurality of walls (106), the walls cooperatively defining a plurality of spaces (108); depositing ink (110) into the plurality of spaces; controlling a temperature of the substrate so as to increase the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070146407 - Cap and droplet ejecting apparatus: The present invention provides a droplet ejecting apparatus including an ejector that ejects a liquid, and a humidity regulator that includes a humidity regulating material and regulates humidity around the ejector. The invention also provides a cap for maintaining a droplet ejecting port in an airtight condition, the droplet ejecting... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070146413 - Inkjet image forming apparatus including cap member: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head including a nozzle portion having a length in a main scanning direction that is at least equal to a width of a printing medium, a conveying unit to convey the printing medium, a driving motor to drive the conveying unit, and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070146415 - Inkjet image forming apparatus having a wiping unit: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head including a nozzle portion having a length in a main scanning direction that is at least equal to a width of a sheet of paper, a platen to move between a printing position where the platen faces the nozzle portion and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070146417 - Inkjet image forming apparatus: An inkjet image forming apparatus including an inkjet head including a nozzle portion having a length in a main scanning direction that is at least the same as a width of a paper to be fed therein, a platen to move between a printing position facing the nozzle portion and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070146438 - Droplet discharging head and manufacturing method for the same, and droplet discharging device: A droplet discharging head comprises a pressure chamber in which fluid is filled through a channel, and a nozzle that is connected to the pressure chamber and which discharges the fluid as a droplet. After the droplet discharging head is assembled, at least the wall surfaces contacting the fluid are... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070146441 - Droplet generator and ink-jet recording device using thereof: d

20070146444 - Container having liquid detection function: A container includes: a container main body that has a delivery path for delivering liquid stored in the inside to the outside; a sensor accommodating portion that is provided in the container main body to be located in the vicinity of an end of the delivery path; a liquid detection... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070146451 - Inkjet printhead: An ink path structure and an inkjet printhead including an ink chamber to be filled with ink to be ejected, a nozzle through which the ink in the ink chamber is ejected, an ink feed hole to supply the ink to the ink chamber, and a restrictor connecting the ink... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070146452 - Supply units having an associated electronically-readable memory device: A machine, such as a phase change or solid ink printing apparatus, has at least one multiple supply unit in the form of an ink stick disposed therein. The ink stick has an electronically-readable memory device associated therewith, and the memory device has stored therein electronic data related to the... Agent: John R. Doherty Wiggin And Dana

20070146397 - Printhead assembly having printhead module and controller: A printhead assembly is provided having at least one printhead module, at least one controller and a casing in which the printhead module and controller are removably mounted. The module is a unitary arrangement of a support member, at least two print nozzle integrated circuits, at least two fluid distribution... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070146398 - Image forming apparatus having enhanced management for consumable-supplies: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor, a notification unit, and a controller. The sensor detects a supply-end condition of consumable supplies. The notification unit notifies a message based on the supply-end condition detected by the sensor, and provides an operation key used for setting a condition for the image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146401 - Ink jet recording apparatus and recording method therefor: An ink jet recording apparatus, which records a image on a recording medium using a recording head provided with a plurality of ink discharge ports, comprises a rotative platen having a plurality of supporting pieces arranged at predetermined intervals; rotation means for rotating the platen; conveyance means for conveying the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146400 - Inkjet apparatus and inkjet method for ink deposition with improved precision: The present invention relates to an inkjet apparatus and an inkjet method that allows a more precise control over ink deposition. The inkjet apparatus includes: a stage having a seating zone for supporting a substrate, a jetting zone, and an exclusion zone; a nozzle head having at least one nozzle... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070146399 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head (26) having a nozzle (21) with an inner diameter of 15 μm or less to eject droplets of charged solution onto a substrate; an ejection voltage supply (25) to apply an ejection voltage to a solution inside the nozzle; a convex... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070146402 - Inkjet printer: An aspect of the invention provides an inkjet printer including: an inkjet head and a controller. The inkjet head moves relative to a recording medium to perform printing. The inkjet head includes, a flow path unit including plural pressure chambers respectively communicating with plural ink ejection ports that ejects ink... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146403 - Liquid-jet apparatus: A liquid-jet apparatus includes: a driving signal generating unit that generates a ejecting driving signal, which is a periodic signal having a plurality of pulse waveforms; a driving pulse generating unit that generates a driving pulse string for each unit region of a medium to be printed upon, on the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070146404 - Method for generating a jetting program: A method for generating data for a jetting program, includes the steps of: a) obtaining substrate data for a substrate, which is to be provided with deposits and components; and b) for each component which is to be placed on the substrate:—fetching component data for the component from said substrate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146405 - Inkjet recording device capable of calibrating feeding amount of recording medium: An amount of discrepancy between a theoretical paper feeding length and an actual paper feeding length is determined in advance, and a calibration value is determined based on the amount of discrepancy and stored in a ROM, for each of when a sheet of paper is fed while contacted by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070146408 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus according to the present invention comprises a linear encoder which includes a linear scale and a support section which supports one end of the linear scale, the support section including: a support member which has a holding portion that holds said one end of the linear... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146409 - Solid semiconductor element, ink tank, ink jet recording apparatus provided with ink tank, liquid information acquiring method and liquid physical property change discriminating method: There is disclosed a solid semiconductor element which very efficiently detects information about a liquid and bidirectionally exchanges the information with the outside. The solid semiconductor element is disposed in a liquid container, and includes at least energy converting unit, information acquiring unit, and information communicating unit. The energy converting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146410 - Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method: A method for forming an image is provided which forms an image, on a recording medium having no ink-receiving layer such as industrial printing paper sheets, at high image density with uniform image density without feathering of the image. A processing liquid S is discharged from a processing liquid applicator... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070146411 - Maintenance on a hand-held printer: Method of printing from a printer, where the printer includes one or more maintenance firings from a printhead nozzle. Formatting a print job to be printed in determining which nozzles on a printhead require maintenance during printing of the print job. Modifying the formatted print job to include one or... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070146412 - Cleaning an ink chamber of a printing unit: There is described a method and a system for cleaning an ink chamber (1) of a printing unit. The system includes a storage tank (10) which via a high-pressure pump (9) is connected with a hydrophore (2). In the hydrophore a high pressure is built up, and the hydrophore is... Agent: James C Wray

20070146414 - Maintenance unit for droplet ejecting device: A maintenance unit for a droplet ejecting device, includes a base frame, a sealing unit, a guiding mechanism, and a supporting part. The sealing unit is capable of sealing nozzles. The guiding mechanism is capable of moving the sealing unit, in association with a reciprocating motion of a carriage between... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146416 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a belt transporting apparatus, a nip roller nipping a recording medium in cooperation with an outer peripheral face of a transport belt at a predetermined position, a nip-roller moving mechanism, an inkjet head, an applying unit which applies cleaning fluid to the outer peripheral face,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146420 - Carriage driving apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is provided a carriage driving apparatus having a first guide member and a second guide member that extend in parallel and are adjacent to each other, and a carriage disposed between the first guide member and the second guide member that queue side by side, the carriage being capable... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146423 - Carriage driving apparatus and image forming apparatus: A carriage driving apparatus has a first and a second guide members that extend, being adjacent to each other, and a carriage mounted movably to and between the, parallel queuing, guide members. The carriage is movable reciprocally along a extending direction of the first guide member and has one side... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146422 - Carriage driving unit and image recording apparatus: A carriage driving unit comprises a carriage, an timing belt, an timing belt, which is jointed to the carriage, looped around between a driving pulley attached to a driving shaft of a motor and a driven pulley attached to a driven shaft, a frame for rotatably supporting said driving shaft... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146418 - Image recording apparatus: A carriage includes a carriage body and a carriage cover. The carriage body has a joint portion to which ink tubes are connected while being arranged in a lateral direction, and a flat plane formed from the joint portion in an extending direction of the ink tubes and carrying the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146419 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus comprises a carriage carrying a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium transported in a predetermined direction, first and second support members, disposed on an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, in a transport direction of the recording medium, for supporting said... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146421 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes a carriage which carries a recording head and moves reciprocally in a main scanning direction; and a first support member and a second support member arranged on an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, in a sub-scanning direction, the first support member and the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146424 - Head cleaning device: A head cleaning device that includes: an ink jet recording head including a nozzle plane formed with nozzles for ejecting ink; a positioning member capable of being brought into contact with an area outside the nozzle plane; and a cleaning roller capable of defining a minute gap between its roller... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070146425 - Ink jet apparatus and ink jetting method: An ink jet apparatus, includes a stage comprising a seat area to which a substrate is seated, a nozzle head comprising a plurality of nozzles, a driving part relatively moving the nozzle head and the stage to each other along a first path traversing between a first area and a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070146426 - All-inkjet printed thin film transistor: A method is provided for making a thin film transistor comprising the steps of: providing a substrate; applying a gate electrode ink by inkjet printing; applying a dielectric ink over by inkjet printing; applying a semiconductor ink by inkjet printing; and applying a source and drain electrode ink by inkjet... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070146427 - Nozzle arrangement with nozzle having dynamic and static ink ejection structures: A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead includes a substrate that defines an ink inlet channel. A nozzle includes a static structure that extends from the substrate and surrounds the ink inlet channel. A dynamic structure surrounds the static structure and is movably mounted with respect to the static structure... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070146428 - Circuit board for ink jet head, ink jet head having the same, method for cleaning the head and ink jet printing apparatus using the head: In an ink jet head using a thermal energy for ejecting ink, this invention aims to reliably and uniformly remove kogations deposited on a heat application portion in contact with the ink. To realize this objective, the upper protective layer is arranged in an area including the heat application portion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146429 - Printhead integrated circuit having suspended heater elements: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit includes a multi-layer substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet passages and incorporates drive circuitry. Side walls extend from the substrate. A nozzle plate is positioned on the side walls and, together with the side walls, defines a plurality of nozzle chambers in fluid... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070146430 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, method for producing planographic printing plate, and planographic printing plate: The invention provides an ink composition having at least (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) an ester or amide of (meth)acrylic acid having a 1,3-dioxolane ring skeleton or a 1,3-dioxane ring skeleton or (B′) an ester or amide of (meth)acrylic acid having a 1,3-diketone structure, and (C) a colorant. The invention... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146431 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, producing method of planographic printing plate, and planographic printing plate: An ink composition includes (A) a polymerization initiator; (B) an ester or amide of a mono-functional (meth)acrylic acid having an alkylene oxide repeating unit in a molecule; and (C) a colorant, and preferably further includes (E) a sensitizing dye.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146432 - Inkjet printhead with spillage pits: 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

20070146435 - Fluid ejection device with feedback circuit: A fluid ejection assembly includes drop ejecting elements arranged in zones, with each zone having at least one drop ejecting element, wherein the drop ejecting elements of each zone are configured to conduct electrical current between a corresponding supply voltage and a corresponding reference voltage. Up to all drop ejecting... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070146433 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus includes: a liquid chamber into which ink is filled; an ejection port through which the ink is ejected from the liquid chamber; a mist generation device which generates a mist from a surface of the ink inside the ejection port by applying vibration energy to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146434 - Liquid ejection head and method of producing the same: The liquid ejection head ejects a solution, in which charged particles are dispersed, toward a counter electrode. The head has a head substrate, a solution guide member formed on a surface of the head substrate so as to protrude and include a sharp-pointed portion having a sharply pointed tip end,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146437 - Liquid discharge method, liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus: A liquid discharge head is arranged in a manner that in the cross section of a discharge port in a liquid discharge direction, the discharge port includes: at least one projection that is convex inside the discharge port; a first area, for holding a liquid surface connecting a pillar-shaped liquid... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146436 - Low energy, long life micro-fluid ejection device: Micro-fluid ejection heads and methods for extending the life of micro-fluid ejection heads. One such micro-fluid ejection head includes a substrate having a plurality of thermal ejection actuators. Each of the thermal ejection actuators has a resistive layer and a protective layer thereon. A flow feature member is adjacent the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070146440 - Liquid ejection head, method of manufacturing liquid ejection head, and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head includes: a piezoelectric body which generates pressure for ejecting liquid; a pressure chamber which is connected to a nozzle; a common liquid chamber which is arranged across the piezoelectric body from the pressure chamber and has at least five molded walls that are integrally molded from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146439 - Surface acoustic wave driven fluid injection devices: A surface acoustic wave driven fluid injection device. A substrate is provided. A channel is disposed in the substrate along a first direction containing a fluid which has an exposed surface. A first slanted fingers inter-digital transducer is disposed on one side of the channel of the substrate, wherein the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070146443 - Ink-feeding device for ink-jet printing apparatus: An ink-feeding device for ink-jet printing apparatus comprises an ink-containing tank (2) and at least one print head (7) connected to the tank (2). The device further comprises a metering device (3) interposed between the tank (2) and the print head (7) and provided with an inner space (10) having... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070146442 - System, assembly and method for jetting viscous medium onto a substrate: System, jetting assembly and method for jetting viscous medium onto a substrate. The system comprises a plurality of ejector devices for jetting individual droplets of viscous medium onto the substrate, a plurality of viscous medium containers for holding and providing the viscous medium to be jetted, at least one holder... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146445 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus that includes: a conductive cable and an ink supply tube each of which is fixed to a carriage at one end thereof and to an apparatus body at the other end thereof and is routed to form a curved portion; and a turn supporting member including... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070146447 - Collapsible packaging system: A package suitable for containing marking material used in a printing machine. The package includes a package surface adapted to engage one or more surfaces of the printing machine and a material identifier mechanism for verifying the marking material. The package may also include a material pouch, which is adapted... Agent: Anthony P. Gangemi Wiggin And Dana

20070146446 - Ink jet cartridge comprising a porous core and methods for manufacturing the same: A method of manufacturing an ink jet cartridge comprising, forming a porous core in the shape of a flow passage; placing the porous core in an ink jet cartridge mold; and injecting a molten material around the porous core. An ink jet cartridge for an ink jet printer having a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070146448 - Ink recharge system and ink recharge method for ink cartridge: An ink recharge system capable of repeatedly charging a proper amount of ink in an ink cartridge using magnetostrictive displacement transducers and a method of recharging ink in the ink cartridge are provided. The ink cartridge recharge system for an inkjet printer includes a compressor and a positive pressure tank... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070146449 - Printer cradle with air compressor: An inkjet printer cradle that has a body configured to correctly position a removable inkjet cartridge within an inkjet printer, the removable inkjet cartridge having a printhead and an air inlet. The cradle has an air compressor for supplying compressed air to the air inlet of the removable inkjet cartridge... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070146450 - Apparatus for reducing ink jet contamination: An apparatus is used with an ink jet print head in an ink jet printer. The apparatus includes a print head protector that surrounds a print head. A substantially continuous slot is provided along a perimeter of the bracket and a filter is located in the substantially continuous slot. An... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070146454 - Ink, ink set, recording method, ink cartridge, and recording device: The present invention provides an ink comprising at least a pigment, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a lithium ion and one or more of cation other than the lithium ion, which can be applied particularly favorably for an inkjet method; an ink set at least comprises the ink and/or a... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070146453 - Ink composition: In formula (1), A represents a residue of a 5-membered heterocyclic diazo component A-NH2; B1 and B2 each represents —CR1═ or —CR2═, or either one of B1 and B2 represents a nitrogen atom and the other represents —CR1═ or —CR2═; R5 and R6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070146456 - Image recording apparatus: The image recording apparatus includes a recording head ejecting ink for image recording, a rotatable platen facing the head and has recording medium support surfaces supporting one or more recording media during the image recording, respectively, a driver rotating the platen and a controller controlling the driver so as to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146457 - Ink jet printer: The inkjet printer includes a loading part of a recording medium; a print base for holding the recording medium thereon; a sucking unit for sucking the recording medium on the print base; an image recording unit for recording an image on the recording medium held on the print base by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146455 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a holding face, an inkjet head including plural nozzles arranged along a predetermined direction correspondingly with a predetermined resolution, a first moving mechanism which performs a first movement of moving at least one of the inkjet head and the holding member in a direction perpendicular... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146458 - Apparatus and process for ink-jet printing: A process carried out by an ink-jet printing apparatus (1) comprises the steps of placing articles (3a) to be printed on a support (12) of an apparatus (1) further provided with a carriage (6) carrying at least one main print head (8) and at least one auxiliary head (11), and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070146462 - Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus: An ink jet printing method and an ink jet printing apparatus are provided in an embodiment of the present invention using an intermediate transfer body. With each of the apparatus and the method, it is possible to form a high-quality image in an ink jet printing system. In the embodiment... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146459 - Drum maintenance system for an imaging device and method and system for maintaining an imaging device: A maintenance system and method for maintaining an imaging member of an imagining device includes a pre-cleaning device to clean the imaging member; an applicator to apply release agent to the imaging member; a metering device to meter release agent on the imaging member; a reservoir to remotely store release... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070146460 - Drum maintenance system for an imaging device and method and system for maintaining an imaging device: A maintenance system and method for maintaining an imaging member of an imaging device includes a pre-cleaning device to clean the imaging member; an applicator to apply release agent to the imaging member; a metering device to meter release agent on the imaging member; a reservoir to remotely store release... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070146461 - Drum maintenance system for an imaging device and method and system for maintaining an imaging device: A maintenance system and method for maintaining an imaging member of an imaging device includes a pre-cleaning device to clean the imaging member; an applicator to apply release agent to the imaging member; a metering device to meter release agent on the imaging member; a reservoir to remotely store release... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070146463 - Inkjet recording device and driving unit provided therein: An inkjet-recording device includes a recording head, a platen, a conveying member, and a movable supporting member. The recording head ejects ink droplets onto a recording medium. The platen is disposed in confrontation with the recording head to support the recording medium while keeping a predetermined distance from the recording... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070146464 - Printing medium, image object, and image forming method: A printing medium includes a substrate, a device provided on the substrate, which stores information accessible from outside, and an image printing part provided on the substrate, wherein said device is provided in a laminated position of the printing medium.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146465 - Method and apparatus for producing an image: An image producing apparatus includes a photoconductor. A photonic energy device is positioned adjacent the photoconductor. A reflecting member is located adjacent the photonic energy device, whereby at least a portion of the reflecting member operable to deform upon application of an electrical voltage in order to direct photonic energy... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070146466 - Thermal recording system and method: A recording apparatus includes a plurality of thermal elements, a strobe generator, and a data sequencer. The strobe generator provides a strobe signal comprising a sequence of N pulses, each pulse having a same period, the sequence including a first group of pulses having an active state for a first... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070146467 - Heating head for erasing a printed image on re-writable media: A heating head which functions as an erase head for quick operation can be turned off while not in use yet it can turn on when it is used (on-demand operation) and operates stably without over-heating even for the long operation, re-writable media record erasing equipment and erasing method. At... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070146468 - Method of manufacturing thermal head: Both ends of a head substrate in a longitudinal direction warp in a direction away from a cross section of a print substrate (in the convex shape) when a sealing resin is cured. A central portion of the head substrate in a longitudinal direction warps in a direction away from... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146469 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070146470 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording... Agent: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070146471 - Thermal recording apparatus: There is provided a thermal recording apparatus that transports a thermal recording medium in a sub-scanning direction in close contact with a thermal print head including plural heating elements juxtaposed in a main scanning direction, and performs thermal recording on the thermal recording medium by arbitrarily driving the heating elements,... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070146472 - Method for scanner control in at least one scan axis in a laser scanning microscope: Method for scanner control in at least one scan axis in a laser scanning microscope, the scan field being divided into partial area, a first image of at least one partial area produced by a forward scan being compared with a second image of the partial area produced by a... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070146473 - Light source device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: A disclosed device for optically scanning a target surface includes a light source unit configured to emit a light beam; a light intensity detecting unit; a coupling unit configured to substantially collimate the emitted light beam; a beam limiting unit configured to limit the amount of the collimated light beam;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146474 - Label printing system and method: A label printing system according to the present invention includes a portable communication terminal and a label printing apparatus. The portable communication terminal includes a component kind selection unit for capturing at least one or more selected label component kinds, a content information capture unit for capturing content information in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070139460 - Nozzle check pattern and liquid droplet ejection apparatus: A nozzle check pattern is formed by ejecting liquid droplets onto a recording medium from a nozzle row formed in a liquid droplet ejection head. The nozzle check pattern includes: a first pattern formed by assigning consecutive numbers in order to the nozzles in the nozzle row, dividing the nozzle... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070139470 - Array printhead and inkjet image forming apparatus having the same: An array printhead and an image forming apparatus having the same. The array printhead includes a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first, second, and third members sequentially overlap and couple to each other. The first member supplies ink of different colors to the second member... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070139497 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: wherein T1 is filtration time when a first ink is filtrated through a specific electroformed filter, the first ink being prepared by immersing an elastic member in a water-based ink for ink-jet recording under a prescribed condition, and T0 is filtration time when a second ink is filtrated through the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139452 - Data processing method and ink jet printing apparatus: A method is provided which is intended to reduce a visibility of ink dots ejected onto a print medium during a preliminary ejection operation to produce a satisfactory printed image. Preliminary ejection data is compared with image data. When the preliminary ejection necessary to performed on a pixel that has... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139453 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus and liquid-droplet jetting method: In an ink-jet printer, as a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus, when a predetermined condition is satisfied during an printing operation, a non-jetting drive pulse is applied to an actuator to impart vibration to an ink meniscus of an ink in the vicinity of nozzles without jetting the ink from the nozzles,... Agent: Eugene Ledeonne Reed Smith LLP

20070139454 - Printing apparatus, printing apparatus control method, printhead control circuit, and printhead driving method: A printing apparatus for printing by using a printhead is disclosed, which has a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array, each having a plurality of nozzles with a first nozzle from which a first amount of the ink is discharged and a second nozzle array having a plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139455 - Jetting timing determining method, liquid-droplet jetting method and ink-jet printer: In a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus such as an ink-jet head having a plurality of nozzle rows formed therein, an ink is jetted from one of the nozzle rows and the ink is jetted from another nozzle row concurrently while changing delay times by each of which a jetting timing for... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070139457 - Printing method and printing apparatus: A printing method includes: at a certain timing, controlling a first drive element so that a dot can be formed for each pixel with a first number of gradations, and controlling a second drive element so that a dot can be formed for each pixel with a second number of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139456 - Recording-density control method of image recording apparatus: A recording-density control method of an image recording apparatus for performing image recording by arranging, a nozzle array component arranged in a plural number comprising a plurality of nozzles for discharging uniform-color ink. A test recording is performed on the recording medium by N number of the nozzle array components... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070139459 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprising: a conveyor portion that conveys a recording medium to a liquid droplet ejection region by the rotational force of a drive roll; liquid droplet ejection heads that eject liquid droplets onto the recording medium conveyed to the liquid droplet ejection region by the conveyor... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070139458 - Method for identifying an installed cartridge: A method for identifying an installed cartridge in a cartridge carrier of an imaging apparatus, wherein the imaging apparatus communicates with the installed cartridge over at least one line, includes sending an ID command to the installed cartridge via an ID line; and monitoring the ID line for an affirmative... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139461 - Print head inspection method, print head inspection device and a printing device: A nozzle inspection device 50 includes: an inspection area 52 that is provided inside a capping member 41 and is capable of receiving ink; a voltage application circuit 53 that applies voltage to a print head 24 to generate a predetermined potential difference between the print head 24 and the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139462 - Printer: A printer including: (i) a guide device extending in a first direction; (ii) a carriage reciprocateable in the first direction, while being guided by the guide device; (iii) a recording head carried by the carriage; (iv) a feed device for feeding the recording medium in a second direction perpendicular to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139463 - Ink-jet head: An ink-jet head has a flexible tube, a passage component, a tubular joint protruding from a surface of the passage component and fitted into the tube, and a cap covering a portion of the tube fitted with the joint. A hole is formed on the surface of the passage component.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139464 - Ink-jet printing device: An ink-jet printing device is presented including (1) an ink-jet printing head for printing an image by discharging ink droplets from a number of nozzles onto a recording medium and (2) a purging unit for sucking ink from the nozzles. The purging unit includes a cap, a suction pump, and... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070139465 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus has a movement mechanism, a pressurized purge unit, and a liquid discharge restriction mechanism. The movement mechanism moves at least one of a liquid ejecting head and a cap so as to allow the cap to take a capping position where the cap covers a liquid... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139466 - Ink injection method and apparatus: An ink injection method includes the steps of: storing vibration region information of a stage to which a head for injecting ink is mounted; changing coordinates of the stage by deducting the coordinates as much as the vibration region in a direction opposite to a pattern printing direction on the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070139468 - Inkjet printing apparatus: An inkjet printing apparatus includes an array of inkjet print heads, wherein each print head has at least one ink port for receiving ink, at least one nozzle for directing ink onto a substrate to be printed, and at least one control terminal for receiving a supply voltage and/or control... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070139467 - Liquid discharge head: A liquid discharge head includes a discharge element substrate including an energy generating element that generates energy for discharging liquid, a discharge port provided so as to correspond to the energy generating element, and a supply path for supplying the liquid to the discharge port, wherein the discharge element substrate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139469 - Liquid discharge head, and method of manufacturing liquid discharge head: A liquid discharge head comprises: a discharge element substrate including a discharge port for discharging liquid and a discharge energy generating element; an electrical wiring substrate for inputting an electrical signal to the discharge energy generating element; a supporting mechanism for supporting the discharge element substrate and the electrical wiring... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139474 - Ink jet nozzle assembly with linearly constrained actuator: An ink jet nozzle assembly is provided for an inkjet printer. The nozzle assembly includes a wafer substrate arrangement defining an ink supply passage. A drive circuitry layer is formed on the wafer substrate arrangement. An ink chamber structure is formed on the drive circuitry layer. The ink chamber structure... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070139471 - Nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printer with mutiple actuator devices: A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printer includes a wafer that defines an ink supply channel and a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink supply channel. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the wafer. A plurality of actuator devices is positioned on the wafer and the drive... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070139472 - Nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead chip that incorporates a nozzle chamber reduction mechanism: A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printer includes a wafer assembly defining a nozzle chamber into which ink can be fed. A nozzle chamber roof assembly is fast with the wafer assembly and covers the nozzle chamber. The nozzle chamber roof assembly defines an ink ejection port supported by a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070139473 - Nozzle arrangent with movable ink ejection structure: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an ink jet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a wafer substrate arrangement. The wafer substrate arrangement defines an ink inlet channel and a first wall surrounding the ink inlet channel. A movable ink ejection structure defines an ink ejection port and another wall surrounding... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070139475 - Power and ground buss layout for reduced substrate size: A semiconductor substrate for a micro-fluid ejection device. The substrate includes plurality of micro-fluid ejection actuators disposed adjacent a fluid supply slot in the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of power transistors, occupying a power transistor active area of the substrate, are disposed adjacent the ejection actuators and are connected through... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139476 - Curable inkjet ink: The present invention pertains to a radiation curable inkjet ink and more particularly to radiation curable ink comprising a specified surfactant mixture which provides compatibility with a wide range of substrates.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070139477 - Digital impression printing system: A print structure includes a pattern layer that selectively actuates one or more of a plurality of actuators to selectively form one or more wells in a print surface to create a defined pattern on the print surface. A material is applied to the one or more wells and subsequently... Agent: Mark S. Svat Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070139478 - Ink jetting assembly: An ink jetting assembly includes a body, and an ink jet chip attached to the body. The ink jet chip has a mounting surface, a face surface, an ink channel extending to the face surface, and at least one actuator associated with the ink channel. The actuator includes a plurality... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139479 - Liquid transporting apparatus: A liquid transporting apparatus includes a head which has individual channels. Individual electrodes and insulating layers which cover the individual electrodes respectively are provided on a channel-forming surface in which the individual channels are formed. When a predetermined electric potential is applied to the individual electrodes, an ink exists entirely... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070139480 - Recording head chip, recording head employing recording head chip, and recording apparatus employing recording head: A recording head substrate includes a plurality of groups of recording elements arranged in arrays; a number, corresponding to a number of the groups, input contacts for receiving driving pulse signals; signal lines for supplying the driving pulse signals to the groups of recording elements from the input contacts, respectively,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139481 - Micromachined fluid ejectors using piezoelectric actuation: A micromachined fluid ejector includes an ejector body having a fluid cavity for holding fluid to be ejected and a piezoelectric actuator for ejecting the fluid. A nozzle plate is placed in operable association with the ejector body. The configuration of the nozzle plate is selected to adjust a volume... Agent: Mark S. Svat Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070139482 - Inkjet printhead: An inkjet printhead is provided. The inkjet printhead includes an ink chamber filled with ink to be ejected, a nozzle through which the ink is ejected from the ink chamber, a manifold to supply the ink to the ink chamber, and a restrictor that connects the ink chamber and the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070139485 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: In an ink-jet recording apparatus, an active portion for jetting a pigment ink has an area greater than an area of an active portion for jetting a dye ink. Accordingly, the active portion for jetting the pigment ink is capable of generating energy greater than that generated by the active... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070139484 - Layered structure and ink-jet head including the same: A layered structure has a first metal plate having a first hole, a second metal plate having a second hole designed to communicate with the first hole, and a filter plate at least a surface of which is made of a metal. The filter plate is sandwiched between the first... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139483 - Nozzle plate, method of manufacturing nozzle plate, liquid droplet ejection head, method of manufacturing liquid droplet ejection head, and image forming apparatus: The nozzle plate comprises: a nozzle through which liquid is ejected; a nozzle forming surface in which the nozzle is provided; and a liquid-repellency layer which is provided on the nozzle forming surface, the liquid-repellency layer including a carbon nanotube layer.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070139487 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: A liquid-droplet jetting apparatus such as an ink-jet printer makes a meniscus of an ink in a nozzle vibrate by applying a no-jetting drive pulse which does not jet the ink. An operation of outputting two no-jetting drive pulses in one cycle is repeated for 100 to 150, and then... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070139486 - System for manipulation of a body of fluid: A system for manipulation of a body of fluid, in particular a fluid droplet comprises several control electrodes to which an adjustable voltage is applied to control displacement of the droplet on the basis of the electrowetting effect. There is a counter electrode having a fixed voltage between the body... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139488 - Liquid ejection device with valve unit: A valve unit for opening and closing a flow passage, the valve unit comprising: a laminate body including a plurality of plate members laminated together and forming the flow passage; a valve portion arranged in the laminate body operable to open and close the flow passage; a drive portion that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139489 - Refilling device of an ink cartridge for an inkjet printer: An ink refilling device of an ink cartridge for an inkjet printer is composed of at least one injection tube and at least one ink refiller, wherein a tube connector at one end of the injection tube can be inserted into an injection hole of an ordinary ink cartridge, and... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070139490 - Ink-jet recording apparatus including pump, method for controlling the ink-jet recording apparatus, and method for controlling the pump: An ink-jet recording apparatus comprises a pump, an ink-jet head, and a detector. The pump includes a housing, a rotor, a partition, a first passage, and a second passage. The housing has a cavity formed therein and also has an inlet port through which ink is sucked into the cavity... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070139491 - Fluid storage container: A fluid supply cartridge and a method for improving fluid supply characteristics of the fluid supply cartridge. The fluid supply cartridge includes a negative pressure inducing cavity. A negative pressure inducing device is disposed in the cavity. The negative pressure inducing device having a width, a length, and a height.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139492 - Ink cartridge venting: An ink cartridge comprising: (a) an ink cartridge body including a floor and an exterior wall partially defining an interior volume, the ink cartridge body including a capillary producing medium; and (b) an ink cartridge cap mounted to the ink cartridge body to substantially enclose the interior volume, the ink... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139494 - Ink cartridges: A method of manufacturing an ink cartridge system includes the steps of using a first mold to make a first case member a first ink cartridge, using a second mold to make a second case member of the first ink cartridge, using the first mold to make a first case... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139495 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes a case which includes a first case member. The first case member includes a first wall, and the first wall includes an air intake portion extending from the first wall in a predetermined direction. The case also includes a second case member which is connected to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139493 - Shipping reservoirs for inkjet printheads, and assemblies including the same: A printhead assembly includes a printhead body including at least one printhead having a wick associated therewith, and a shipping reservoir. The shipping reservoir is operable to releasably engage the printhead body and includes at least one vented ink container for retaining ink. The shipping reservoir is engaged in the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139496 - Ink printer having improved release agent application control: A process controls application of a release agent to an intermediate imaging member in a printer rotating the intermediate imaging member in a single direction to generate and transfer an image. The process includes moving a release agent applicator into engagement with a rotating imaging member to apply release agent... Agent: Maginot,moore & Beck LLP Chase Tower

20070139498 - Ink-jet head and method for manufacturing the same: An ink-jet head has a passage component made of resin and a filter plate through which ink is filtered. The filter plate is fixed to the passage component and has a melting point higher than that of the passage component. The filter plate has an annular region and an inner... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070139499 - Black ink composition and ink jet recording method: A black ink composition comprises a water soluble dye containing a single compound showing an absorption maximum at 440 to 540 nm with a half-value width of 90 nm to 200 nm for a visible region absorption spectrum in water.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070139502 - Curable inkjet ink: The present invention pertains to a radiation-curable inkjet ink and, more particularly, to a radiation-curable inkjet ink comprising a specified polymerizable vehicle that is curable on exposure to radiation such as ultraviolet light.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070139500 - Recording liquid, liquid cartridge, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge method: e

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20070139503 - Print engine with printheads located proximal to a pinching zone: A print engine is provided for a printer. The print engine includes a pair of opposed print head assemblies between which a print media path is defined and which is configured to perform duplex printing on print media fed along the print media path. Each print head assembly includes a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070139504 - Ink jet uv curing: A method and apparatus for printing a product, article or other object at a printing station and for enhancing the application of UV light to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink being applied to a product, article or other object at the printing station, comprising the steps for:... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20070139505 - Recording apparatus and waterproof structure for the same: A recording apparatus includes a main body for recording on a recording medium, a protective cover which has an opening, for covering the main body with a portion other than the opening of the protective cover, and a waterproof cover which is connected to the protective cover via first and... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070139506 - Image forming apparatus with multiple doors: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes a main unit including an image forming mechanism for forming an image and a replaceable component ordinarily replaced by a user, a first door arranged at a first part of a front side of the main unit,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070139508 - Hand-held ink jet printer: A hand-held ink jet printer having, an ink reservoir adapted to contain ink; a printhead in fluid communication with the ink reservoir, wherein the printhead further has a plurality of nozzles; a power source; and a controller, wherein the controller is in electrical communication with the printhead and wherein the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139507 - Hand-operated printer having a user interface: A hand-operated printer includes a body, a printhead mounted to the body, a target sight mounted to the body, and a display device mounted to the body. The display device is configured to display an image and a representation of the target sight in relation to the image, and wherein... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070139509 - Compensation of mpa polygon once around with exposure modulation: Many xerographic machines have a motor polygon assembly (MPA), which is a rotating polygonal mirror. As the MPA rotates, it reflects a modulated light beam to produce scan lines on a photoreceptor. Inconsistencies in the MPA can cause inconsistencies in the scan lines, and therefore banding in a printed document.... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070139510 - Printing apparatus, printing apparatus control method, printhead control circuit, and printhead driving method: A printing apparatus prints on a printing medium by using a printhead which has a first nozzle array including a plurality of nozzles from which a first nozzle amount of the ink is discharged and a second nozzle array including a plurality of nozzles from which a second nozzle amount... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139511 - Method for forming a label image on an optical disk: A method for forming a label image on an optical disk is provided. A label image is formed on a label layer of an optical disk by an optical disk drive. The label layer has a number of virtual tracks including a first virtual track and a second virtual track... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070132794 - System and method for printing in substrates: Printing systems and method of printing on substrates are provided. A method of printing one or more images using a printhead, the method including moving a substrate on a transporter, providing a printhead configured to print a plurality of print lines in a direction, rotating an image to an image... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070132795 - Apparatus and method of controlling power supplied to a printer head and an image forming device having the same: An apparatus and method of controlling power supplied to a printer head included in an image forming device. The apparatus includes a power supply unit to supply DC power to the printer head, a capacitor connected to a power supply terminal of the printer head to stabilize the DC power... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070132797 - Power control apparatus and method in an image forming apparatus: A power control apparatus and method includes a power detector to detect a power supplied to an image forming apparatus, an information storing unit to store information on a printhead, and an auxiliary power supply unit to supply an auxiliary power to the information storing unit in response to a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070132796 - Print again assembly: An paper recycling and reclaiming system designed for paper copiers and printers or independent use. In one embodiment, the recycling paper system, will include the paper feeder, scanner, printer for same paper color printing (typically white) which could be externally or internally added to conventional copier or printer or used... Agent: Anne Jovanovic Srdjan Jovanovic

20070132798 - Ink jet printer: The object of the invention is to settle a phenomenon that a quantity of jetted ink increases at the end of an image and a density increases in a share-mode ink jet head. In a three-split driven head, a first group prints so that a diameter of a dot is... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070132799 - Image recording apparatus: The image recording apparatus forms respective images on two or more types of printing media having different widths. The apparatus includes an ink ejection device for ejecting ink droplets toward a surface of a printing medium in the two or more types of printing media and a pair of ink... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132804 - Image recording apparatus and image recording method: The image recording apparatus includes: a recording head which has a plurality of recording elements; a conveyance device which causes the recording head and a recording medium to move relatively to each other by conveying at least one of the recording head and the recording medium; a characteristic information acquisition... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070132802 - Image-forming apparatus having purge/wiping mechanism: An image-forming apparatus having an inkjet type printer is configured to prevent ink from being wastefully consumed through a purge processing. Before next purge processing is executed, test printing is carried out. The user looks at the result of the test printing and inputs instruction indicating whether or not the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070132803 - Ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording method, and computer program product: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a sensor serving as a unit that detects a position of a trailing end of a recording sheet and a control unit serving as a unit that generates a layout of an image to be recorded. The control unit decides a position of the trailing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070132800 - Methods of and apparatus for handling data associated with a cartridge: Methods of and apparatus for handling data associated with a cartridge for printing with the cartridge, such as those involving comparing color data associated with a cartridge with reference cartridge data representative of a type of the cartridge to yield a comparison result; and determining whether any of the color... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070132805 - Printing apparatus, printing method and data processing method: A discharge failure nozzle, which cannot print, can be complemented by a printable discharge nozzle according to a simple, low-cost method capable of a high-speed process. A printing apparatus, which prints by using an inkjet head having nozzle arrays formed by arraying a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink while... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132801 - System and method for detecting defective ink jet nozzles: A system for detecting failures in a sensitive region of an inkjet printhead is described. The system includes an inkjet printer that uses a printhead for printing an image on a substrate. The image has a sensitive portion that is more sensitive to printing failures than the rest of the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070132806 - Method and apparatus for creating an image on an article, and article resulting therefrom: A method of printing an image on an object comprises the steps of: providing an object having an exterior surface having a planar portion and a channel recessed from the planar portion; applying a first ground coat on the exterior surface; drying the first ground coat; and spraying droplets of... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070132807 - Maintenance liquid for ink jet recording: This invention provides a maintenance liquid for ink jet recording containing water, a resin solvent, and a moisturizing agent.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070132808 - Ink jet printing apparatus and protecting structure of printing cartridge thereof: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a cartridge, a cap, a driving assembly and a transmitting assembly. The cartridge is movable along a first direction. The cap is used for protecting the cartridge. The driving assembly is connected to the cap for providing a force to keep the cap away from... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070132809 - Ink-jet printer and ink jetting method: In an ink-jet head including black, yellow, magenta, cyan nozzle rows, the nozzle rows are arranged so that in each of the nozzle rows, adjacent nozzles are arranged by a predetermined spacing distance P, and that the black nozzle row is shifted in a nozzle-row alignment direction by a spacing... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070132810 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, production method of planographic printing plate, and planographic printing plate: An ink composition includes a polymerizable compound (a) having a cyclic ether-containing partial structure and at least one fluorine atom in a molecule, a polymerization initiator (b), and a colorant (c). A hydrophobic image region can be formed on a planographic printing plate by ejecting the ink composition onto a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132811 - Ink jet head manufacturing method and ink jet head manufactured by the manufacturing method: A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which includes a discharge port for discharging an ink droplet, an ink flow path communicated with the discharge port, and an energy generating element for discharging the ink droplet from the discharge port, the method for manufacturing an ink jet head includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132812 - Circuitry for printer: A printing system includes a print head to deliver ink to an image receptor and at least one ink reservoir to deliver ink to the print head. Driving circuitry provides signals to the print head to control delivery of the ink and a flexible circuit interposed between the print head... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070132813 - Inkjet recording device, ejecting device provided therein, and method of calibrating ejection characteristic for droplet: A droplet ejecting device includes a nozzle unit, a piezoelectric member and a drive voltage generating unit. The piezoelectric member has a common electrode and a discrete electrode. A first differentiation by polarization voltage of a characteristic curve indicating change in a polarization of the piezoelectric member with respect to... Agent: Whitham Curtis And Christofferson, PC

20070132814 - Ink filling mechanism for ink-jet cartridge: An ink filling mechanism is used to hold an ink-jet cartridge thereto for easily and effectively refilling the ink cartridge. The ink filling mechanism has an ink cartridge holder, which includes a holding case provided at a top wall with at least one ink filling opening for locating an ink... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070132816 - Ink cartridge and method of ink injection thereinto: An ink cartridge 1 is detachably connected to a head of a record apparatus and has a container main body 2 having an ink tank chamber 11 opened to the atmosphere in a state in which the head and the cartridge are connected and a first opening 85 through which... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070132817 - Ink cartridge and method of ink injection thereinto: An ink cartridge 1 is detachably connected to a head of a record apparatus and has a container main body 2 having an ink tank chamber 11 opened to the atmosphere in a state in which the head and the cartridge are connected and a first opening 85 through which... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070132818 - Ink cartridge and method of ink injection thereinto: An ink cartridge 1 is detachably connected to a head of a record apparatus and has a container main body 2 having an ink tank chamber 11 opened to the atmosphere in a state in which the head and the cartridge are connected and a first opening 85 through which... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070132815 - Inkjet head, inkjet head subassembly, inkjet head assembly and inkjet printer: An inkjet head including a flow path unit and a plurality of actuator units, each of the plurality of actuator units has a parallelogram shape defined by two sets of opposing sides, which is substantially parallel to a first direction and a second direction intersecting with each other along a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070132820 - Liquid cartridge: A liquid cartridge includes: a cartridge case including a case body having an opening at its one side and a lid member covering the opening of the case body; and a liquid accommodating part that is provided in an internal space defined within the cartridge case, at least a part... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070132819 - Refill unit: A refill unit that includes a case, a door, a locking member and an unlocking member. The locking member slides between a protruded position and a retracted position and is engageable with the case at an intermediate position between the protruded position and the retracted position to lock the door... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070132821 - Solid ink jet image forming apparatus: A solid ink jet image forming apparatus includes a printing unit which fires melted solid ink onto an image on a printing medium for printing, and an ink supplying unit which contains solid ink in a lateral direction of the printing unit. In the case where the solid ink jet... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070132822 - Aqueous inkjet ink composition: This invention is related to an inkjet ink comprising water, a first self-dispersing pigment, and a second self-dispersing pigment, wherein said first self-dispersing pigment comprises a charged group bonded directly to the surface thereof, and said second self-dispersing pigment comprises a charged group bonded through a linking group to the... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070132823 - Consumable inks with improved image performance: The present invention is directed to ink compositions and printed substrates produced using the ink, inkjet dispensers including the ink, printing systems for using and printing with the ink, and methods for using the same. In an embodiment, the ink composition is a consumable inkjet ink formulated by combining an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070132824 - Image recording apparatus: The image recording apparatus forms an image on each of at least two kinds of printing media of different widths by ejecting ink droplets thereon. The apparatus includes an ink ejection unit that ejects ink toward a front surface of a printing medium, a pair of ink receivers that receive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132825 - Inkjet printing system for manufacturing thin film transistor array: An inkjet printing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an inkjet printing chamber depositing ink on a substrate, and a drying chamber spaced from inkjet printing chamber by a predetermined interval and drying the ink by regulating a vapor pressure of a solvent of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070132826 - Inkjet recording element: The present invention relates to an inkjet recording element having good dye keeping properties in time and good image quality. Said inkjet recording element comprises a porous polyester support and at least one ink-receiving layer, said ink-receiving layer comprising at least one hydrosoluble binder and at least one aluminosilicate polymer... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070132827 - Image drum and method of manufacturing the same: An image drum device and a method of manufacturing the image drum are provided. The method includes forming electrodes, electrically insulated from each other and disposed parallel to each other, on a flexible substrate; bonding a control unit to the flexible substrate; disposing opposite ends of the flexible substrate to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132829 - Multi-beam scanning apparatus: Disclosed in a multi-beam optical scanning apparatus which includes a light source unit including a plurality of radiation points disposed with being spaced from each other in a main scanning direction, and a deflecting unit for deflecting a plurality of light beams radiated from the light source unit toward a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132828 - Optical scanner and image forming apparatus: A disclosed optical scanner includes a light source unit and a control unit configured to control the light source unit. Light emitted from the light source unit is scanned to expose a scan object surface and form an image on the scan object surface. The light source unit includes plural... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070132830 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a polygon mirror, a plurality of laser generators, a first sensor, and a second sensor are disposed at a frame formed with a resin. A laser beam outputted from the laser generator and deflected by a deflection surface is irradiated onto a photosensitive surface of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070132832 - Image recording apparatus: A laser beam emitted from each semiconductor laser 27 is guided by a step index type multi-mode optical fiber, a graded index type multi-mode optical fiber deformable and movable with movement of a recording head, and a step index type multi-mode optical fiber, to be emitted from a light emitter... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070132831 - Masking to prevent overexposure and light spillage in microarray scanning: Scanning of a microarray is performed through a mask that exposes a plurality, but not all, of the sites of the microarray, and either the mask is movable relative to the microarray or the microarray is movable relative to the mask, or both. The mask is useful as a means... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070132833 - Method of adjusting an exposure device for an electrophotographic printer and exposure device: A method of adjusting an exposure device suited for an electrophotographic printer, the exposure device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. The method includes the steps of energizing selected light-emitting elements according to a selection scheme, using a pre-determined energy level for energizing each selected light-emitting element and obtaining a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126764 - Dot-at-a-time redundancy for modulating printhead peak power requirement: A method of printing a line of dots from an inkjet printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of first nozzles and a plurality of second nozzles supplied with a same colored ink. The first nozzles and second nozzles are configured in a plurality of sets, wherein each set... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126765 - Method and apparatus for compensating for malfunctioning nozzle and inkjet image forming apparatus using the same: A method and apparatus are provided for compensating for the degradation of a print image due to a malfunctioning nozzle that irregularly ejects ink. A malfunctioning nozzle is detected among nozzles installed in an inkjet image forming apparatus, and image data of a print position adjacent to a compensation position... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070126760 - Printer controller for modulating printhead peak power requirement using out-of-phase firing: A printer controller for supplying dot data to an inkjet printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of transversely aligned color channels. Each color channel comprises at least one nozzle row extending longitudinally along the printhead with each nozzle in a color channel ejecting the same colored ink. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126763 - Printer controller for modulating printhead peak power requirement using redundant nozzles: A printer controller for supplying dot data to an inkjet printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of first nozzles and a plurality of second nozzles supplied with a same colored ink. The first nozzles and second nozzles are configured in a plurality of sets, wherein each set of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126762 - Printhead system for modulating printhead peak power requirement using out-of-phase firing: A printhead system comprising an inkjet printhead and a printer controller for supplying dot data to the printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of transversely aligned color channels, each color channel comprising at least one nozzle row extending longitudinally along said printhead. Each nozzle in a color channel... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126761 - Printhead system for modulating printhead peak power requirement using redundant nozzles: A printhead system comprising an inkjet printhead and a printer controller for supplying dot data to the printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of first nozzles and a plurality of second nozzles supplied with a same colored ink. The first nozzles and second nozzles are configured in a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126767 - Printing apparatus, printing method and program: Printing of an image onto a printing medium is effected such that applied ink materials do not rub off. In the event of a printing mode in which the surface printed with an image is subject to rubbing, the kinds of ink used are limited so that the amount of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126766 - Recording apparatus and data processing method: An object of the present invention is to provide a recording apparatus in which the occurrence of smearing and bleeding in the borders between black and color pixels can be reduced, and in which high-quality black characters and black images can be recorded. Black adjacent pixels, in which pixels adjacent... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126768 - Method of modulating printhead peak power requirement using redundant nozzles: A method of modulating a peak power requirement of an inkjet printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of first nozzles and a plurality of second nozzles supplied with a same colored ink. The first nozzles and second nozzles are configured in a plurality of sets, wherein each set... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126769 - Printing method, printing apparatus, and head unit: A printing method includes: preparing a drive element that corresponds to a nozzle, and a controller that drives the drive element so as to eject a liquid droplet from the nozzle, the controller having a first input section and a second input section; in the case of printing with a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070126770 - Printing apparatus: Printing apparatus 20 comprises a contact detection terminal 101, a cartridge detection circuit M10a, a for-senor terminal 104 and a sensor driving circuit M20, wherein the terminal 101 contacts to detection terminal 116 of ink cartridge 70 when the ink cartridge 70 is attached thereto, wherein the circuit M10a detects... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070126773 - Low ejction energy micro-fluid ejection heads: A micro-fluid ejection device structure and method therefor having improved low energy design. The devices includes a semiconductor substrate and an insulating layer deposited on the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of heater resistors are formed on the insulating layer from a resistive layer selected from the group consisting of TaAl,... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070126772 - Method of fabricating inkjet print heads: A method of fabricating inkjet print heads usable in an ink jet printer. The method of fabricating ink jet print heads includes preparing a plurality of ink jet print heads on a wafer while forming sub sidewalls around the ink jet print heads when the ink jet print heads are... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070126771 - Method of modulating printhead peak power requirement using out-of-phase firing: A method of modulating a peak power requirement of an inkjet printhead is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of transversely aligned color channels, each color channel comprising at least one nozzle row extending longitudinally along said printhead. Each nozzle in a color channel ejects the same colored ink. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126775 - Easy assembly pagewidth printhead capping arrangement: An inkjet printer comprising: an elongate shaft arranged, in use, to rotate so as to move a capper for capping a pagewidth printhead out of and into its capping position; a support frame for supporting the shaft at the longitudinal first and second ends of the shaft so as to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126778 - Inkjet image forming apparatus having a capping unit: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head having a nozzle unit having a length in a main scanning direction corresponding to a width of a printing medium, a capping unit to move to a capping position to cap the nozzle unit and an uncapping position for a printing.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070126779 - Liquid ejection apparatus and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which has a nozzle surface including a plurality of nozzles; a cap device which comes in contact with the nozzle surface of the liquid ejection head and enables liquid inside the nozzles to be suctioned or pressurized; and a selection device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126776 - Method of assembling pagewidth printhead capping arrangement: A method of assembling a capping mechanism of an inkjet printer, the method comprising the steps of: providing a support frame for at least one elongate shaft; positioning the shaft so as to be supported at its longitudinal first and second ends by the support frame; positioning a bearing of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126774 - Method of assembling printhead capping mechanism: A method of assembling a gear arrangement for a capper of an inkjet printer, the method comprising the steps of: mounting a first gear assembly to the printer so as to cooperate with a motor gear for driving rotation of the first gear assembly, the first gear assembly having a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126777 - Printing cartridge having commonly mounted printhead and capper: A printing cartridge comprising: a body configured to removably engage with an inkjet printer; a printhead assembly mounted to the body, the printhead assembly comprising at least one printhead integrated circuit having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles and a support member mounting the, or each, printhead integrated circuit, the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126783 - Cleaning method and apparatus for a printhead assembly: A method and apparatus are provided for cleaning a first set and a second set of a staggered full-width array printhead assembly (SFWA) in an inkjet printer. The apparatus for the method includes (a) a wiper blade carriage assembly (WBCA) having a wiper blade unit at a first set point;... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070126781 - Method of maintaining a printhead using a maintenance belt: A method of maintaining a printhead in an operable condition and/or remediating a printhead to an operable condition is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (i) providing an elastically deformable maintenance belt having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead, the contact... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126782 - Method of maintaining a printhead using a maintenance belt with cleaning station: A method of maintaining a printhead in an operable condition and/or remediating a printhead to an operable condition is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (i) providing an endless maintenance belt having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead; (ii) moving the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126780 - Printhead maintenance assembly having maintenance belt: A printhead maintenance assembly for maintaining a printhead in an operable condition is provided. The maintenance assembly comprises: (i) a printhead maintenance station comprising an elastically deformable maintenance belt having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead, the contact surface being sloped with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126784 - Printhead maintenance station having maintenance belt: A printhead maintenance station for maintaining a printhead in an operable condition is provided. The maintenance station comprises: an elastically deformable maintenance belt having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead, the contact surface being sloped with respect to the face; and a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126785 - Printhead maintenance station having maintenance belt with belt-cleaning station: A printhead maintenance station for maintaining a printhead in an operable condition is provided. The maintenance station comprises: an endless maintenance belt having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead; a cleaning station for cleaning the belt; and a conveyor mechanism for conveying... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126787 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes a carriage that moves back and forth along the main scanning direction, plural recording heads mounted on the carriage that discharge recording liquid, a guide that guides the carriage in the main scanning direction, a power source and a drive pulley that drive... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070126786 - Ink-jet printer: In order to simplify a constitution of a locking member capable of locking engageably and detachably an ink head with a stationary region, an ink-jet printer comprises a first carriage supported relatively transferable in a predetermined direction with respect to the medium; a second carriage supported relatively transferable in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126788 - Inkjet head, inkjet recording apparatus and method of forming dot pattern: An ink-jet head has a plurality of nozzles formed on an ink-jetting surface, a plurality of manifolds, and a plurality of individual ink channel groups each of which includes a plurality of individual ink channels communicating with nozzles and one of the manifolds. Symmetric-centers of multiple nozzles with respect to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070126789 - Print data generation method, printing apparatus and method of generating mask: Mask patterns to be used for multi-pass printing make it possible to make a print with a higher quality at a higher speed. Specifically, by performing a swapping process with adjacency forbiddance, two points in the horizontal direction, or the scanning direction of a printing head, are selected in a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126790 - Printer used with rolled sheet: In a printer, a first section is sized to accommodate a rolled sheet therein. A printing head is horizontally movable along a moving path extending in a first direction and operable to perform printing on a part of the rolled sheet which is drawn out from the first section. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070126791 - Inkjet image forming apparatus: An inkjet image forming apparatus. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a platen to support a bottom side of paper. The platen includes a plurality of supporting portions facing the inkjet head to support a bottom side of a paper and a plurality of depressed portions depressed with a downward... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070126793 - Digital content creation system, digital content creation method, and program product: A digital content creation system includes: a content database that stores a plurality of digital content sets; a select section that selects from among the stored plural digital content sets at least one target digital content sets for processing; a layout determination section that determines a layout for the more... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070126792 - Reducing ink bleed artifacts: A method for modifying an input digital image having one or more color channels, each color channel having an (x,y) array of image pixel values, to form a modified digital image so that when the modified digital image is used to produce a printed image on an inkjet printer there... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070126794 - Disposable, pre-calibrated, pre-validated sensors for use in bio-processing applications: Disposable, pre-sterilized, and pre-calibrated, pre-validated conductivity sensors are provided. These sensors are designed to store sensor-specific information, such as calibration and production information, in a non-volatile memory chip on the sensor. The sensors are calibrated using 0.100 molar potassium chloride (KCl) solutions at 25 degrees Celsius. These sensors may be... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070126795 - Modular material processing system and safety interlock scheme and method of operation: A modular card production safety interlock system limits disruption of a modular card production system by limiting operational disturbances to a desired system module and only its neighboring system modules upon opening the hood of the desired system module.... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070126798 - Ink jet recording head and manufacturing method thereof: To realize an ink jet recording head which is further improved in heat dissipation property, the ink jet recording head provided with a substrate provided with a plurality of discharging energy generating portions for discharging an ink droplet comprises: a plurality of electrical wiring electrodes for supplying electrical signals to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126797 - Method of locating printhead on printer: A method of locating a printhead assembly on a printer, the method comprising the steps of: providing a printhead assembly comprising at least one printhead integrated circuit having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles and an ink distribution support mounting the, or each, printhead integrated circuit, the ink distribution support... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126796 - Printhead cartridge interface having power regulation: A system for interconnecting a printhead cartridge and a cradle unit for supporting the printhead cartridge, the system comprising: an interface at which the printhead cartridge is removably engageable with the cradle unit, the interface comprising connections for connecting the printhead cartridge with a power supply of the cradle unit;... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126799 - Apparatus and method for synchronously stimulating a plurality of fluid jets: A common electrohydrodynamic stimulation electrode, in response to an electrical signal, synchronously stimulates all members of a group of fluid jets emitted from corresponding nozzle channels to form a corresponding plurality of continuous streams of drops. The common electrohydrodynamic stimulation electrode includes an electrical contact operable to transmit the electrical... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070126800 - Heater to control bubble and inkjet printhead having the heater: A heater to control an ink bubble, and an inkjet printhead having the heater. The heater has different resistances according to portions thereof.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070126801 - Inkjet printhead having optimal number of printhead modules and nozzle rows for out-of-phase printing: An inkjet printhead comprising a plurality of transversely aligned color channels is provided. Each color channel comprises at least one nozzle row extending longitudinally along said printhead. Each nozzle in a row ejects the same colored ink. The printhead is comprised of a plurality of printhead modules, and the number... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126802 - Liquid drop jet apparatus and image forming apparatus capable of improving image quality and reducing cost: A liquid drop jet apparatus is provided which includes a plurality of nozzles to jet out a liquid droplet, a liquid room corresponding to the nozzles, a liquid supply path to supply a liquid into the liquid room, a vibration board to apply a pressure to the liquid in the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070126803 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: In a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus constructed to change volume of pressure chambers in a cavity unit by displacement of active portions in a piezoelectric actuator so as to jet liquid in the pressure chambers from nozzles, respectively, the pressure chambers and the active portions extend on a predetermined plane; a... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070126805 - Liquid drop discharge head and method of manufacturing the same: A liquid drop discharge head of four-layer structure according to an aspect of the invention including: a nozzle substrate having a plurality of nozzle holes; a cavity substrate having a plurality of independent discharge chambers that communicate with the respective nozzle holes and generate a pressure in the chambers for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070126804 - Thermal inkjet printhead: Provided is a thermal inkjet printhead. The inkjet printhead includes a substrate; an insulating layer formed on the substrate; a heater formed on the insulating layer and an electrode to apply current to the heater; a chamber layer that is stacked on the insulating layer and includes an ink chamber;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070126808 - Cradle for printhead cartridge having power regulation interface: A cradle unit for a printhead cartridge, the cradle unit comprising: an interface at which a printhead cartridge is removably engageable with the cradle unit, the interface comprising connections for connecting the printhead cartridge with a power supply which is remote from the interface; and a power regulation circuit incorporated... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126806 - Ink reservoir with air bag: An ink reservoir for an inkjet printhead, the ink reservoir comprising: a sealed ink storage volume; an ink outlet for establishing sealed fluid communication between the printhead and the ink storage volume; and, an air bag in the ink storage volume with an air inlet for allowing external air into... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126807 - Ink reservoir with constant hydrostatic pressure outlet: An ink reservoir for a printer with an inkjet printhead, the ink reservoir comprising: a sealed ink storage volume; an ink outlet for sealed fluid communication between the printhead and the ink storage volume; and, a variable volume structure in the ink storage volume for expanding as ink is drawn... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126809 - Ink delivery system: An ink delivery device for depositing ink onto a media includes an ink reservoir, a reaction chamber situated near the reservoir, and a valve situated between the reservoir and the reaction chamber. A method of depositing ink onto a media is also disclosed.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070126815 - Ink reservoir with pressure regulating valve: A printer with an inkjet printhead, the printer comprising: an ink reservoir; and, a pressure regulating valve for establishing fluid communication between the printhead and the ink reservoir; wherein, the pressure regulating valve is biased closed and opens in response to a predetermined ink pressure difference across the valve.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126817 - Inkjet printer and method of controlling the inkjet printer: A pump including a rotor is connected between a print head and an ink cartridge. A housing of the pump is provided with a suction inlet and a discharge outlet. A partition member is disposed in the rotor placed in a hollow defined in the housing. The rotor of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070126811 - Inkjet printer with disengageable maintenance station drive coupling: An inkjet printer comprising: a printhead cartridge with a printhead and a maintenance station for engaging the printhead when not in use; a printer body with a cradle for receiving the cartridge, and a maintenance station drive shaft for detachably engaging the maintenance station upon insertion of the printhead cartridge... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126814 - Method of priming inkjet printhead: A method of priming an inkjet printhead, the inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles, the method comprising the steps of: providing an ink bag containing ink for distribution to the nozzles via a fluid path between the ink bag and the nozzles; applying inwardly directed force on... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126816 - Pressure retaining device, pressure retaining system, and ink jet printer: A pressure retaining device for retaining a pressure in a communication passage which are communicated between a supply tank for supplying a first fluid and a nozzle for ejecting the first fluid, comprises a compressing unit provided across an intermediate of the communication passage for compressing the first fluid transferred... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070126810 - Printhead assembly with ink inlet valve: A printhead assembly for an inkjet printer configured for use with at least one replaceable ink cartridge, the printhead assembly comprising: an ink inlet valve for sealed connection to an outlet on the ink cartridge, the inlet valve having an inlet opening and a movable valve member biased into sealing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126812 - Printing system having power regulating printhead cartridge interface: A printing system comprising: a printhead cartridge comprising a printhead; a cradle unit for supporting the printhead cartridge; and an interface at which the cradle unit is removably engageable with the printhead cartridge, the interface comprising connections for connecting the printhead cartridge with a power supply which is remote from... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126813 - Printing system having power storage printhead cartridge interface: A printing system comprising: a printhead cartridge comprising a printhead; a cradle unit for supporting the printhead cartridge; and an interface at which the cradle unit is removably engageable with the printhead cartridge, the interface comprising connections for connecting the printhead cartridge with a power supply which is remote from... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126825 - Constant negative pressure head ink supply arrangement for inkjet printhead: An ink supply arrangement for an inkjet printhead, the inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles, the ink supply arrangement comprising: at least one ink bag containing ink for distribution to the nozzles via a fluid path between the ink bag and the nozzles, the ink being primed... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126821 - Ink cartridge with sealed air inlet: An ink cartridge for a printer with an inkjet printhead, the ink cartridge comprising: an ink storage volume; an outlet valve for fluid communication with the printhead; and, an air inlet spaced from the outlet valve for letting air into the ink storage volume as ink is drawn out through... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126823 - Ink cartridge with self sealing outlet valve: An ink cartridge for an inkjet printhead, the ink cartridge comprising: an ink storage volume; an outlet opening with an outlet valve for connection to an inlet on the printhead, the outlet valve having a stem positioned in the outlet opening, the stem having a radially extending valve seat; and,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126824 - Ink priming arrangement for inkjet printhead: An ink priming arrangement for an inkjet printhead, the inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles, the priming arrangement comprising: an ink bag containing ink for distribution to the nozzles via a fluid path between the ink bag and the nozzles; a force applicator arranged to apply inwardly... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126819 - Inkjet printer with printhead cartridge and ink cartridge: An inkjet printer comprising: a printer body; a printhead cartridge for installation in the printer body; an ink cartridge containing a supply of ink, the ink cartridge having a docking face for engagement with a complementary face to supply the printhead cartridge with ink; wherein, the complementary face is partially... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126827 - 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; and... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070126820 - Printer with ink cartridge for engaging printhead cartridge and printer body: An inkjet printer comprising; a printer body; a printhead cartridge for installation in the printer body; an ink cartridge for supplying the printhead cartridge with ink; wherein, the ink cartridge has formations to engage both the printer body and the printhead cartridge.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126818 - Printhead cartridge having constant negative pressure head ink supply: An inkjet printhead cartridge, comprising: an inkjet printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles; at least one ink bag containing ink for distribution to the nozzles via a fluid path between the ink bag and the nozzles, the ink being primed in the fluid path and nozzles so as... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126822 - Printhead cartridge with bracing for reducing structural deflection: An inkjet printer comprising: a printer body and a replaceable printhead cartridge, the printhead cartridge having a casing that supports a pagewidth printhead; the printer body having a cradle for holding the printhead cartridge in an operative position such that the pagewidth printhead is adjacent a paper path defined by... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126826 - Printing cartridge having self-referencing printhead: A printing cartridge for an inkjet printer, the cartridge comprising: an ink supply; and a printhead assembly comprising at least one printhead integrated circuit having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles and an ink distribution support mounting the, or each, printhead integrated circuit, the ink distribution support being arranged, in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126828 - Printhead cartridge interface having power storage: A system for interconnecting a printhead cartridge and a cradle unit for supporting the printhead cartridge, the system comprising: an interface at which the printhead cartridge is removably engageable with the cradle unit, the interface comprising connections for connecting the printhead cartridge with a power supply of the cradle unit;... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126829 - Method for establishing jets for an ink jet printhead: The method and equipment for detangling individual jets in an ink jet print station utilizes a reservoir containing fluid and a printhead. The printhead has a drop generator, an orifice structure connected to the drop generator for forming numerous jets, a catcher connected to the drop generator; and a charge... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070126830 - Combined conventional and sublimation lithographic ink system: The invention relates to an offset lithographic ink system containing a combination of conventional and sublimation colorants used to generate a first substrate printing with commercially acceptable quality color characteristics, notably, but not limited to, life-like flesh tones, which can also serve as an intermediate transfer medium. The first substrate... Agent: Mitchell A. Smolow

20070126831 - Method of ink-jet textile printing: A method for ink-jet textile printing comprising the steps of: (a) ejecting a pigment ink from a recording head onto a fabric, wherein the pigment ink contains at least water, a pigment and a polymer, wherein the polymer has a plurality of said chains in a hydrophilic main chain and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070126832 - Image recording apparatus: The inkjet printer has a suction mechanism for sucking a recording medium in a printing table. The inkjet printer includes an opening/closing unit for closing a part of a plurality of suction holes provided in the suction mechanism. When a leading or trailing edge of the recording medium in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070126833 - Digital printing using ultraviolet inks: The present invention relates to methods for digitally printing images onto a substrate such as polycarbonate, without the use of coatings, etc. to promote adhesion, and permits direct printing of a UV ink system onto the substrate, without the use of a pretreatment step. The invention allows for ease of... Agent: Geam - 08cs - Structured ProductsIPLegal

20070126834 - Sheet heater assembly having air bearing platelets: An air bearing sheet heater assembly provided for heating a sheet in an ink imaging printer includes (a) a heater plate including a heating element, and having a front side defining a first side of a sheet path through the heater assembly; (b) at least one movable platelet having a... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070126836 - Liquid application device and ink jet recording apparatus: The present invention provides an inkjet recording apparatus and a recording apparatus capable of reducing wear of a roller for application, even if liquid (for example, application liquid) is insufficient in a case where liquid is applied to recording media. In an embodiment of the present invention, in a case... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126835 - 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 harmful effects resulting from an increase in the number of times of using an application member (for example, a roller). An embodiment of the present invention includes: a supply port for supplying... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126837 - Belt drive controller and image forming apparatus provided with same: A belt drive controller for controlling each belt stopping position with high accuracy during intermittent movement of a belt. This belt drive controller controls driving of a belt to intermittently move a belt wrapped around a plurality of supporting rollers including a driven roller and a drive roller. This controller... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070126838 - Recording medium conveyance amount measurement method and inkjet recording apparatus: The recording medium conveyance amount measurement method includes the steps of: recording a first test pattern having two straight lines including at least one straight line which is not parallel with respect to a conveyance direction of a recording medium and a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction, onto the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126839 - Versatile pigmented ink-jet inks with improved image quality: The present invention is drawn to versatile ink-jet inks, ink-jet ink sets, and methods of printing images with improved quality when printed on both glossy coated media and on plain paper. In accordance with these embodiments, an ink-jet ink formulated for printing on plain paper and glossy coated media can... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070126846 - Cradle for printhead cartridge having power storage interface: A cradle unit for a printhead cartridge, the cradle unit comprising: an interface at which the cradle unit is removably engageable with a printhead cartridge, the interface comprising connections for connecting the printhead cartridge with a power supply which is remote from the interface; and a power storage circuit incorporated... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126844 - Inkjet printer with printhead cartridge and cradle that interengage via an overcentre mechanism: An inkjet printer comprising: a printer body and a replaceable printhead cartridge, the printhead cartridge having a casing that supports a pagewidth printhead; the printer body having a cradle for holding the printhead cartridge in an operative position such that the pagewidth printhead is adjacent a paper path defined by... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126842 - Inkjet printer with printhead cartridge levered into operative position: An inkjet printer comprising: a printer body and a replaceable printhead cartridge, the printhead cartridge having a casing that supports a pagewidth printhead and a plurality of contacts for receiving print data from corresponding contacts on the printer body; the printer body having a cradle for holding the printhead cartridge... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126845 - Inkjet printhead assembly with resilient ink connectors: A pagewidth printhead assembly for an inkjet printer, the printhead assembly comprising: a pagewidth printhead structure having an array of nozzles and a plurality of ink ports in fluid communication with corresponding nozzles in the array; an ink cartridge docking frame for receiving a plurality ink cartridges, the cartridge docking... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126843 - Printer having coded capping mechanism: An inkjet printer comprising: a body; a first gear assembly mounted to the body so as to cooperate with a motor gear for driving rotation of the first gear assembly, the first gear assembly having a code feature; and a second gear assembly mounted to the body so as to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126840 - Printer having self-reference mounted printhead: A inkjet printer comprising: a body configured to receive a printhead assembly, the printhead assembly comprising at least one printhead integrated circuit having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles and an ink distribution support mounting the, or each, printhead integrated circuit, the ink distribution support being arranged, in use, to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126841 - Self-referencing printhead assembly: A printhead assembly comprising: at least one printhead integrated circuit having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles; and an ink distribution support mounting the, or each, printhead integrated circuit, the ink distribution support being arranged, in use, to distribute ink to the nozzles, the printhead assembly being arranged to be... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070126847 - Thermal recording method and apparatus: The thermal recording method and apparatus perform image recording on a recording medium line by line at a predetermined recording speed, or predetermined recording times, amplitudes or numbers corresponding to predetermined recording densities by means of a thermal head while the recording medium is transported at a predetermined transport speed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070126849 - Bow-free telecentric optical system for multiple beam scanning systems: A multiple beam scanning system for scanning light beams onto a photoreceptor of an image forming apparatus. A pre-polygon input and output telecentric optical subsystem includes a beam conditioning system that focuses the light beams in a cross-scan direction, collimates the beams in the scan direction, and individually focuses the... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070126848 - Single head receipt printer: A receipt printer which includes a light source providing a beam, a light source movement mechanism which moves the beam between a first position and a second position, a laser mechanism which receives the beam when the beam is in the first position and uses the beam to print onto... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070126850 - Image forming apparatus having plural image supporting bodies: In a color printer having plural photosensitive drums for respective recording color components, when images are continuously formed on recording sheets, lengths of image data of one page in its main scan direction and its sub scan direction are held for plural pages. Then, image data writing and reading addresses... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126851 - Image forming apparatus: A color registration-pattern formed between continuous printing pages with different magnifications is read so as to correct color misalignment by converting the magnification into the reference magnification so as to calculate the present color misalignment correction. Thereby, a plurality of the color registration-patterns with different magnifications, which are formed between... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070126852 - Image forming apparatus and adjusting method of image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises an adjusting mechanism that adjusts an interval between an LED head writing an optical image on a photoreceptor and a photoreceptor drum to a reference interval (A), and the adjusting mechanism includes a regulating member attached to the LED head. In the adjustment of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch