Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 08/07

20070200877 - Method for producing nozzle substrate, method for producing droplet-discharging head, head for discharging droplets, and apparatus for discharging droplets: The present invention includes a step of forming concave portions to be nozzle openings by an etching process on a substrate to be processed, a step of bonding a first support substrate to a surface of the concave-portion-formed process side, a step of subjecting the processed substrate to a thinning... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070200880 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An embodiment of the description relates to an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes an ink cartridge in which ink is stored in an ink chamber, and a mechanism that optically detects the amount of ink remaining in the ink chamber. The receding contact angle of the ink with respect to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200882 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head has an ejection unit which includes: a nozzle ejecting a droplet of liquid; a pressure chamber connected to the nozzle; a displacement generating device which changes a volume of the pressure chamber; and a supply flow channel which is connected to the pressure chamber and supplies... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070200885 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes an ink-jet head having actuators and an actuator controller. The actuator controller supplies to the actuator an ejection pulse signal that appropriately switches the actuator between two states. When a time period Si (i=1, 2, . . . n), which is from a printing start... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200886 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes an inputting unit, a half-tone processing unit, a printing unit, a correction-value storing unit, and a dot-position correcting unit. The inputting unit inputs image information on an image. The half-tone processing unit performs, based on the image information, a half-tone process for setting a plurality... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070200888 - Liquid ejection method, liquid ejection apparatus, double-side printing method and image recording apparatus for double-side printing: The liquid ejection apparatus has: a print unit including a first ejection head which ejects a first liquid and a second ejection head which ejects a second liquid, the second ejection head being disposed on an upstream side of the first ejection head in terms of a first conveyance direction;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070200893 - Ink-jet printer: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink-jet printer that can wipe off ink adhering to an ink ejection face and besides can clean a lip of a cap in such a manner that foreign materials adhering to the lip can surely be removed. An ink-jet printer... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200894 - Ink cartridge mounting device and image forming device: An ink cartridge mounting device is presented including (1) a housing that forms a mounting space for mounting an ink cartridge, (2) a hollow ink drawing member that protrudes from an inner surface of the housing toward the mounting space, the ink drawing member being inserted into the ink cartridge... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070200896 - Droplet discharging head, droplet discharging device and functional-film forming device: A droplet discharging head includes a first through hole having an outlet for discharging of a liquid material and a second through hole having an inlet for injection of the liquid material, the second through hole having a protrusion on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200899 - Inkjet printer: Disclosed is an inkjet printer including an inkjet head containing electrically conductive ink and having a nozzle for spraying the ink and a mask positioned on a side of the inkjet head, the mask having a number of slits formed so that the electrically conductive ink passes through the slits... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070200903 - Droplet jetting applicator and method for manufacturing coated body: A droplet jetting applicator includes a droplet jetting head having an inside channel allowing a passage of the liquid supplied from a liquid accommodating part to jet the liquid flowing in the inside channel in form of droplets, a liquid supply channel communicating the liquid accommodating part with the inside... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070200905 - Ink-jet printer: An object of the present invention is to reduce force acting, when an ink-jet head moves, on a distal end portion of an ink supply pipe connected to a brancher, to thereby prevent damage to the ink supply pipe as much as possible. An ink supplier, which supplies ink to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200876 - Compact disk printing equipment: Compact disk printing equipment The invention relates to equipment for printing information on the surface of a compact disk. The printing equipment is of the type having at least one movable print head and an object carriage (C) and at least one main drive motor (MI), and also an additional... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070200878 - Duplex printer with a pair of ink transfer rollers: A duplex printer includes a body defining one or more spaces in which respective ink cartridges can be placed. A pair of print engines is mounted within the body and a print media path is defined there-between. Each print engine includes at least one printhead coupled in fluid communication to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200879 - Duplex printer with motorized platen assemblies: A duplex printer includes a body defining one or more spaces in which respective ink cartridges can be placed. A pair of print engines is mounted within the body and a print media path is defined there-between. Each print engine includes at least one printhead coupled in fluid communication to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200881 - Height adjustment system for image forming machine: There is provided a feeding system for an image forming machine using a first feeder roll and a press roll that form a nip between them though which a substrate is passed, and a second feeder roll located after a printing zone, where the first and second feeder rolls move... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

20070200884 - Method and a system for single ligament fluid dispensing: A method of dispensing a single ligament of fluid includes ejecting a first quantity of fluid from an inkjet dispenser toward a substrate, and ejecting a second quantity of fluid from the inkjet dispenser toward the substrate, wherein the second quantity of fluid is ejected from the inkjet dispenser at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070200883 - Printer controller for a high-speed printer: A duplex color printer includes a body defining a plurality of docking bays in which respective color ink cartridges can be docked in a releasable manner. A pair of opposed print engines is mounted within the body and a substantially straight print media path is defined there-between. Each print engine... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200887 - Printer with a processor having bused decoding and expansion units: A printer includes a processor, and a printhead interfaced to the processor and which is configured to print ink. The processor includes an address, data and control bus. An expander unit and a decoder unit are each coupled to the bus and configured respectively to decompress a bi-level black layer... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200889 - Jetting timing determining method and liquid-droplet jetting method: Combinations of delay times in jetting timings, for a predetermined number of nozzle groups selected from a plurality of nozzle groups, are set; and jetting speeds at each of the delay-time combinations are measured. Next, a variation in jetting speeds when the ink is jetted from the plurality of nozzle... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070200890 - Printing cartridge bearing indicia: A printing cartridge includes an elongate core which, in turn, includes a plurality of ink supply containers. Each ink supply container contains a respective type of ink. A roll of print media includes a tubular former in which the core can be received and a length of print media which... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200891 - Printer cartridge with capping seal surrounding orofice surface: An inkjet printer cartridge that has a. an orifice plate; and b. a platform surrounding said orifice plate, said platform defining a surface for sealably engaging a cap. By keeping the capping and maintenance separate from the replaceable cartridge, the production cost of the cartridge is reduced. Providing a support... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200892 - Printhead assemblies with individual capping assemblies: A print unit, that has one or more printhead assemblies, an individual printhead assembly having one or more printheads, the one or more printheads of the one or more printhead assemblies collectively configured to span the width of the media substrate; and one or more servicing assemblies, an individual servicing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200895 - Apparatus for printing using a plurality of printing cartridges: An apparatus that comprises a plurality of printing cartridges to reproduce an image, wherein each printing cartridge prints a portion of the image onto a substrate. The apparatus further comprises a media transport for moving the substrate parallel to a first dimension. The printing cartridges are disposed on a carrier... Agent: Mccrocken & Frank LLP Attorneys At Law

20070200897 - Method for assembling a modular printhead assembly: The present invention relates to a method for assembling a modular printhead assembly. The printhead assembly includes a flexible elongate ink-delivery member and a plurality of modules for being received in fluid communication with the ink-delivery member. The ink delivery member and the modules are received in a metal channel.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200898 - Liquid solution ejecting apparatus: Liquid ejecting apparatus 20 for ejecting electrically charged droplets of the liquid solution onto base member K, which includes liquid ejecting head 26 to eject the droplets from top end 21a of nozzle 21, with the inner diameter equal to or less than 100 μm, liquid solution supplying section 29... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070200900 - Energy efficient thermal inkjet print head: A energy efficient thermal inkjet print head according to the present invention includes a plurality of the breathing nozzles configured around a main nozzle on a nozzle plate of an inkjet print head, the grouped resistors formed by the small resistors opposite the breathing nozzle building an insulation surrounding wall... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070200901 - Inkjet printhead with low voltage ink vaporizing heaters: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles and one or more heater elements 10 corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater element 10 is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid 11 in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070200902 - Inkjet device and method: In an inkjet device for containing, degassing and supplying ink, gas is supplied to a container for the ink so that the gas bubbles through the ink in the container. A controller controls a gas supplying means to operate in at least two modes including a degassing mode in which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070200904 - Apparatus and method for preventing damage to printing systems: Damage is prevented in printing systems by allowing fluid from the printing system's fluid delivery system to expand. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by fluidly connecting a fluid expansion receptacle to the fluid delivery system. The fluid expansion receptacle provides volumetric compliance so that if printing fluid in the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070200906 - Ink jet printer: To provide a capturing member that not only can reliably capture and guide ink droplets ejected into a region other than a recording medium into a waste ink tank in borderless printing by ink jet recording, but also does not deteriorate due to nonaqueous ink and can effectively prevent or... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070200907 - Cloth printing apparatus: A cloth printing apparatus (1), having a head moving mechanism (20) moving in the X direction (horizontal direction) an inkjet print head (11) capable of printing on workpiece cloth (W), a cloth holder (5) holding a periphery of printing area of the workpiece cloth (W), a cloth holder moving mechanism... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200908 - Image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, includes: a developer which is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body and which holds toner; an image forming section which forms a toner image using the toner held inside the developer; and a controller which executes a density control operation of forming a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070200909 - Method for setting color thermal paper parameters: A method for setting color thermal paper parameters including: printing a first color at one or more printing speeds, wherein one or more first color images are produced; selecting the first color image with a desired quality; printing a second color at one or more energy levels at the printing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20070200910 - Electro-photographic devices incorporating ultra-small resonant structures: An imaging device includes an image carrier; and an array of ultra-small light-emitting resonant structures constructed and adapted to emit light onto the image carrier, at least one of said ultra-small light-emitting structures emitting light in response to exposure to a beam of charged particles. The image carrier may be... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070200911 - Image forming apparatus and image write start position adjusting method for the same: A high-quality image forming apparatus that is capable of accurately adjusting the size and position of an image during image formation on a second surface of a transfer material, even when there has been expansion/contraction of the transfer material due to thermal fixing after image formation on a first surface... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070195116 - Inkjet printer head, inkjet printing system having the same, and control method thereof: An inkjet printing system to control actuators in real time. The inkjet printing system includes a waveform generator to supply electric power in the form of a predetermined wave, at least one actuator to change a pressure in an ink chamber according to the electric power from the waveform generator,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195118 - Pattern formation method, liquid droplet ejection apparatus and electro-optical device: A pattern formation method for forming a pattern by ejecting a liquid droplet of a pattern forming material in a pattern formation region of a substrate includes: ejecting the liquid droplet at an outer periphery of the pattern formation region in an ejection direction directing from an inside of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195119 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus for fabric, comprising a retainer unit having a retainer surface on which a piece of fabric is removably installed, an ink ejecting unit which ejects ink onto a surface of the fabric retained by the retainer unit according to image data transmitted from an external device, an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070195120 - Method of controlling ink ejecting characteristics of inkjet head: A method of controlling ink ejecting characteristics of an inkjet head with a plurality of nozzles. The method includes measuring initial ink ejecting characteristics of all the nozzles, comparing the measured values to a preset target point and calculating gradients from the measured values to the target point for all... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195122 - Droplet ejection apparatus, method for recovering droplet ejection head, method for forming thin film, and liquid crystal display: A droplet ejection apparatus having a droplet ejection head, a cap casing, a pump, and a movement device is disclosed. The droplet ejection head ejects liquefied material containing functional material from nozzles as droplets. The cap casing has an accommodating portion in which a portion of the droplet ejection head... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195124 - Inkjet printer and manufacturing method for same: An inkjet printer is provided with: a recording head having an actuator for generating energy in order to jet ink and a wiring member which allows a drive signal to be inputted; and a head holder having a bottom wall for supporting the recording head. The recording head is placed... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070195126 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus including liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection head includes: a large nozzle which ejects a large droplet of liquid; a small nozzle which has a smaller nozzle diameter than the large nozzle and ejects a small droplet of the liquid which has a smaller volume than the large droplet; a first heat generating element... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195130 - Inkjet head and method of producing the same: A disclosed inkjet head includes an ink channel unit formed by stacking a channel plate having a nozzle hole formed therein, a channel plate having a pressure chamber formed therein, and a channel plate having a restrictor formed therein and by bonding the channel plates together by diffusion bonding, which... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070195132 - Method of forming thick layer by screen printing and method of forming piezoelectric actuator of inkjet head: A method to form a thick layer by screen printing and a method to form a piezoelectric actuator of an inkjet head. The method to form the thick layer including forming a guide groove in a surface to a predetermined depth, and forming the thick layer by applying a material... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195134 - Piezoelectric actuator inkjet head and method of forming the same: A piezoelectric actuator of an inkjet head and a method of forming the piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectric actuator is formed on a vibration plate to provide a driving force to each of a plurality of pressure chambers. The piezoelectric actuator includes a lower electrode formed on the vibration plate, a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195135 - Method of manufacturing color filter using ink-jet: A method of manufacturing a color filter using an ink-jet. In the method, a conversion voltage, which is obtained from a normalization voltage of each of the nozzles using a weight conversion factor corresponding to the number of nozzles turned on at the same time, is applied to each of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195139 - Carriage moving device and image-scanning apparatus using the same: According to one example structure of the invention, a carriage moving device includes; a guide member comprising a pair of inclined planes; a carriage slidably supported by the guide member in a longitudinal direction of the guide member at a plurality of portions where the pair of inclined planes slidably... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070195142 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid restoration method: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection device which ejects liquid; a liquid supply device which supplies the liquid to the liquid ejection device; a saturated dissolved gas amount determination device which determines a saturated dissolved gas amount of the liquid in the liquid ejection device; a dissolved gas... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195115 - Printhead assembly with printheads within a laminated stack which, in turn is within an ink distribution structure: A printhead assembly is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead assembly includes an elongate ink distribution structure defining a plurality of parallel ink ducts extending along the ink distribution structure. A laminated stack is received within the ink distribution structure and defines a plurality of ink passages in fluid... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070195117 - Ink-droplet jetting apparatus: For forming one dot by jetting a plurality of ink droplets, a drive pulse signal in an ink-droplet jetting apparatus includes a first main pulse for jetting, a first regulating signal which is inserted at a first interval from the first main pulse, and a second regulating pulse which is... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070195121 - Parallel ink jet printing device and relative manufacturing: The printing device (21) is ink jet, parallel or serial-parallel type and comprises a plurality of ejection modules (22) each of which with ejection chambers suitable for containing ink and with associated relative heating elements (24) for ink ejection control. The device includes a support and a nozzle plate (28)... Agent: Venable LLP

20070195123 - Nozzle plate and method of manufacturing the same: A nozzle plate (8) of the present invention is arranged such that, between (i) a first nozzle layer (1) having a first nozzle hole (orifice) (11a) that discharges a liquid substance and (ii) a second nozzle layer (2) having a second nozzle hole (11b) that is connected to the first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070195125 - Electrode for use in a battery and method of making the same: An electrode and method for preparing the same in which droplets of a first electrode ink composition and droplets of a second electrode ink composition are ejected from an ink jet device onto a base material and the first electrode ink composition contains at least one electrode active material and... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070195127 - Fluidic droplet coalescence: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for the control of fluidic species and, in particular, to the coalescence of fluidic droplets. In certain instances, the systems and methods are microfluidic. In one aspect, the invention relates to systems and methods for causing two or more fluidic droplets... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070195129 - Printhead incorporating a two dimensional array of ink ejection ports: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer substrate assembly defining rows of evenly spaced ink inlet channels. Rows of ink ejection nozzle arrangements extend from the wafer substrate assembly and are in fluid communication with respective ink inlet channel rows. Each nozzle arrangement defines... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070195128 - Steady flow, high voltage inkjet print head for an ink cartridge: A steady flow, high voltage inkjet print head for an ink cartridge, wherein an inkjet print head chip includes a plurality of heating elements, and a top edge of the heating element (that is, resistance heating element) is structural designed as an arc-shaped resistance heating element. Because geometric center (that... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070195131 - Liquid jetting head and method for producing the same: An ink-jet head includes a channel unit and a piezoelectric actuator. The channel unit has a plurality of plates made of metal and including a cavity plate which is made of metal and in which a plurality of pressure chambers are formed and a supply plate which is made of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070195133 - Liquid discharge recording head and liquid discharge apparatus: A liquid discharge recording head which discharges a liquid includes a substrate on which liquid-discharge-energy-generating elements are provided and which constitutes a part of a flow path for supplying the liquid; and a covering resin layer which is provided on the substrate, which constitutes a part of the flow path,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070195136 - Inkjet printhead primer for a printing device: An inkjet printhead for a printing device includes a fluid reservoir operatively disposed within the printhead and a pressure regulation system in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir. The inkjet printhead also includes a nozzle plate having at least one nozzle, wherein the nozzle is in fluid communication with the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070195137 - Tank unit, ink jet recording head and method of manufacturing tank unit and ink jet recording head: A flow path forming member is formed with a recessed portion for forming an ink flow path. A junction surface of the flow path forming member is in a protruded state from a non-junction surface. The flow path forming member is composed of a transparent resin exhibiting transmissivity of laser... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195138 - 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 Mion, PLLC

20070195140 - Ink cartridge for use with recording apparatus and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink cartridge in which on one surface of a cartridge case, there are provided a positioning means used in case that the ink cartridge is attached to a recording apparatus, an ink outlet port from an ink pack, an inlet port of the pressurized air and a connection terminal... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC

20070195141 - Liquid container and manufacturing method therefor: A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus, the liquid container includes a casing defining a liquid containing chamber; a supply port, provided in the casing, for supplying liquid contained therein to an ink jet head; a first engaging portion engageable with a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195143 - Microfilter manufacture process: A method of manufacturing a thermoplastic microfilter is presented. The method includes structuring a thermoplastic film to have a plurality of micro-indentations in which each indentation defines a cavity on a bottom side of the film and a thinned film layer on a top side of the film and removing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070195144 - Liquid supply system: A liquid supply system comprising a liquid reservoir and a liquid container for supplying liquid to the reservoir. Connection means connects the reservoir to a position within the container that is immersed in the contained liquid. Means for alternately pressurising and depressurising the reservoir are provided. The arrangement is such... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070195145 - Droplet ejecting apparatus, a droplet adherence preventing method and a cleaning method for cleaning a recording medium carrier roller: Droplet ejecting apparatus has a recording medium carrier portion provided with recording medium carrier rollers conveying a recording medium, a droplet ejecting portion discharging droplets to the recording medium, and a droplet adherence preventing liquid applying portion applying droplet adherence preventing liquid preventing adherence of the droplets to at least... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070195148 - Consumable cassette and recording apparatus: In a consumable cassette detachably attached to a recording apparatus and containing a recording material and an ink sheet, a recording material storage section is constantly partially connected to an ink sheet storage section so as to be relatively displaceable in a direction in which the section disunite from or... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195149 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus has a pair of bearings 38 having: two surfaces 38a and 38b which support both edge portions of a conveying roller 40; driven rollers 42 which press the conveying roller 40 in the direction where extension lines of the two surfaces 38a and 38b cross; and further,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070195147 - Recording sheet containing cassette and printer apparatus using the same cassette: A recording sheet/ink sheet integral type cartridge, comprises a recording sheet containing portion that contains recording sheets by stacking the sheets; and an ink sheet containing portion that contains ink sheets, the recording sheet containing portion including two separating pawls disposed to catch corners of a leading edge of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195146 - Recording sheet/ink sheet integral cassette and printer apparatus utilizing the same: The recording sheet/ink sheet integral cassette includes a recording sheet containing portion constituted of a substantially rectangular frame member which has a first aperture for sheet feeding, pressurization and recording sheet loading, and a second aperture for feeding the recording sheet to a surface opposed to the first aperture, an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195150 - Three-dimension printing system including semiconductor object incorporation device: A system that prints three dimensional products is provided. The system includes at least one printhead for printing material to create the printed product, and an object incorporation device. The object incorporation device incorporates inorganic semiconductor objects into cavities created during the printing process.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070195151 - Hand-held ink jet pen: Hand-held ink jet pen having an ink reservoir, a printhead and a power source. The ink jet pen having a surface contact sensor and an override jetting button. The surface contact sensor provides a signal to the printhead when the printhead is in close proximity to or in contact with... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070195152 - Electrostatic attraction fluid ejecting method and apparatus: An ink jet apparatus electrifies ink (2) in a nozzle (4), and ejects the ink (2) from an ink ejecting hole (4b) onto a printing medium (8) by a first electric field generated between the nozzle (4) and the printing medium (8). The ink jet apparatus includes an ink catching... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070195153 - Systems and methods for adjusting the dynamic range of a scanning laser beam: The dynamic range of an electrophotographic device may be shifted by calibrating a laser power of a laser source to operate within a first range of power levels during a laser power adjustment operation. At least one laser control parameter is modified after calibrating the laser power so that the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070195154 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus includes a lever member which displaces at least one of a thermal head and a platen roller so that the head and the roller come close to each other or come away from each other; and a driving unit which operates the lever member. The driving unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195155 - Consumable cassette and recording apparatus: In a consumable cassette having a recording material storage section 2 and an ink sheet storage section 1, a space 65 where a constituting component such as a supply roller 56 is to be disposed is formed in the cassette, when the cassette is attached to a recording apparatus. A... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195156 - Optical control apparatus: In an optical control apparatus, a semiconductor laser emits a laser beam having a power corresponding to an energizing current. A light power detecting device detects a light power of the laser beam. A monitor voltage generating device generates a monitor voltage set based on the light power. A reference... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070195157 - Electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, and driving method: An electro-optical device includes a controller, a reference current source, a correction current source, a combining unit, and an electro-optical element. The controller generates a reference current control signal defining a first period during which a reference current is output, and a correction current control signal defining a second period... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188532 - Nozzle control device and method: A nozzle control method and a nozzle control device. The nozzle control method includes discriminating between the nozzle(s) to eject the ink droplets from the nozzle(s) not to eject the ink droplets; and generating a pressure wave with a predetermined amplitude in the nozzle(s) not to eject the ink droplets... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070188534 - Method for forming deposit, droplet ejection apparatus, electro-optic device, and liquid crystal display: A deposit forming method including ejecting droplets of a deposit forming material onto a substrate, thereby forming a deposit by the droplets on the substrate, is provided. The droplets are ejected along a direction inclined at a predetermined angle in a predetermined direction with respect to a normal line of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070188535 - Method for printing on clear or translucent substrates: A method is described for printing on translucent substrates, such as thermoplastic polymer materials, which method utilizes a white ink as a process ink to achieve selective opacity and enhanced color effects derived from the white ink. The white ink jetting and the colored ink jetting are printed essentially simultaneously.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070188536 - Temperature control method for fixing device, and fixing device and image-forming apparatus that use the same: A temperature control method for a fixing device, which includes a heating unit that heats a recording material; a temperature detecting unit that detects a temperature of the heating unit; and a temperature controlling unit that determines an amount of power supplied based on a detected temperature of the temperature... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070188537 - Normalization method of ink drops to ensure uniformity of amount of ink ejected from nozzles of inkjet head: A normalization method of ink drops to ensure uniformity of an amount of ink drops ejected from nozzles of an inkjet head. The normalization method including ejecting a predetermined number of ink drops from the nozzles into pixels while changing a voltage applied to the nozzles, measuring the mean thicknesses... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070188544 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: an ejection head that ejects a liquid from a nozzle; a cap that can seal an opening of the nozzle; an absorber that is disposed in the inside of the cap; a first ejection unit that allows to perform a first ejection toward the cap... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070188545 - Liquid ejection apparatus and maintenance method of liquid ejection head: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of liquid ejection heads, a plurality of elastic wiper blades for rubbing the nozzle formed surfaces of the liquid ejection heads, a blade cleaner for removing liquid adhered to the wiper blade, a cleaning unit for removing liquid adhered to the wiper blades,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070188548 - Method of manufacturing color filter using inkjet: A method of manufacturing a color filter using an inkjet In the method, a region of the color filter in which a plurality of nozzles are sequentially turned on is a first region, a region of the color filter in which all of the plurality of nozzles are turned on... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070188553 - Droplet ejection apparatus, method for forming functional film, apparatus for forming liquid crystal alignment film, method for forming liquid crystal alignment film of liquid crystal display, and liquid crystal display: A droplet ejection apparatus for forming a functional film on a substrate is disclosed. The apparatus has a droplet ejection head having a nozzle forming surface in which a plurality of nozzles are formed. Droplets of a functional film forming composition are ejected from the nozzles onto the substrate. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070188528 - Ejection control of quality-enhancing ink: This invention is a printing control apparatus for generating print data to be supplied to a print unit to print. The print unit is capable of forming dots on a print medium by ejecting at least one type of colored ink containing a color material and a quality-enhancing ink for... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070188529 - Liquid detection device, liquid container and liquid ejection apparatus: i

20070188530 - Print cartridge ordering system: A method for automatically ordering printer consumables which includes determining when a printer consumable is close to depletion and automatically ordering a replacement to the printer consumable based upon a plurality of criteria. The criteria includes the amount of consecutive time a consumer has been a member of a printer... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070188531 - Method of adjusting a liquid droplet, method of discharging the liquid droplet and apparatus therefor: There are provided a method of adjusting a discharge quantity for discharging a liquid droplet repeatedly discharged as the liquid droplet of a quantity having a good accuracy and a method of discharging it, and an apparatus therefor. As to the adjusting and discharging methods, there is provided a method... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070188533 - Inkjet recording apparatus and method for controlling same: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a head assembly in which a plurality of head chips, each having multiple nozzles arranged therein for discharging ink, are disposed in the arrangement direction of the nozzles. The discharge of ink from the nozzles of each head chip in band-boundary regions in which bands... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070188538 - Print head inspection method, print head inspection apparatus, and printer: When an actually measured voltage Vsu detected by a voltmeter 58 is within an inspection permissible range, a print head inspection apparatus 50 performs an inspection as whether or not ink has been normally ejected, on the basis of a changes in voltage that occur in an inspection area 52... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188539 - Printer and ink cartridge attached thereto: A printer has a sequential access EEPROM used with storage elements on black and color ink cartridges. Cartridge data such as data concerning inks in the cartridges are stored in the cartridges' storage elements. The addressing format for the cartridges' storage elements differs from that for the EEPROM. The printer's... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070188540 - Actuator chip for inkjet printhead with electrostatic discharge protection: An inkjet printhead chip includes electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuits to protect the chip during ESD events, such as one especially to prevent a thin dielectric layer on a substrate from breakdown. In one embodiment, the chip includes an ESD circuit essentially dedicated per each actuator. In another, ESD circuits alternate... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070188542 - Apparatus and method for cleaning an inkjet printhead: A cleaning system for an inkjet printhead comprises an inkjet printhead having an inkjet nozzle array associated therewith. The inkjet printhead is in fluid communication with a first source of a first pressurized fluid. A fluid nozzle associated with the inkjet printhead is in fluid communication with a second source... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20070188541 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus has ink jetting nozzles through each of which a photocurable ink is jetted for recording an image onto a recording material by an ink jetting method. The apparatus includes a color ink recording head for jetting color ink, a clear ink recording head for jetting clear... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070188543 - Method to clean a nozzle of printing apparatus: In a line type inkjet printer, a method to clean a nozzle effectively reducing the occurrence of clogging of nozzle is provided. In the method to clean a nozzle of a printing apparatus having a fixed print head of line type, the method to clean a nozzle includes the first... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070188546 - Ink mist control system for an edge-to-edge printer: An ink-mist control system for an edge-to-edge printer having a scanning carriage and ink cartridge utilizing a printhead therein comprises a print zone disposed beneath the scanning carriage and ink cartridge utilizing a printhead, a T-shaped duct housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion disposed beneath... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070188547 - Ink-jet head, ink-jet printer having the ink-jet head and printing method: An ink-jet printer includes an ink-jet head. The ink-jet head has an image printing head and a ground-color-layer printing head. The image printing head is configured to print an image on a medium and has at least one image printing ink discharge port. The ground-color-layer printing head is configured to... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070188549 - Printer system including curing mechanisms: A printer system is provided for developing a three dimensional (3D) printed structure. The system includes a plurality of spaced apart sets of printing devices. A conveyor system is arranged to serially convey a print medium in register with each set so that printed voxels from each successive set can... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188550 - Printhead incorporating a static pagewidth printhead: A printhead assembly includes an elongate casing. The casing defines a printhead channel extending there-along. A static pagewidth printhead is received within the printhead channel. The printhead includes an elongate fluid channel member defining a plurality of ducts for storing respective types of ink. The printhead further includes printhead tiles... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188551 - Method of forming a printhead: A method of bonding two semiconductor substrates to form a printhead includes aligning a top surface of a first substrate with a second substrate, wherein the first substrate has a fluid channel in the top surface, heating the first and second substrates to a first temperature in a partial vacuum,... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070188554 - Inkjet printhead with pairs of ink spread restriction 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. A plurality of groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements is provided in fluid communication with respective ink supply channel groups. Each group of nozzle arrangements... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188555 - Nozzle arrangement with pairs of actuators: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet channel and an endless static wall located about the ink inlet channel. A roof structure defines an endless movable wall arranged to move along said static wall and, together with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188556 - Nozzle for an inkjet printer incorporating a plunger assembly: A nozzle is provided for an inkjet printer. The nozzle includes a cover defining a nozzle port. A substrate assembly is fast with the cover, and defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the nozzle port and into which ink can be supplied. A plate is fast with the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188552 - Polyimide thickfilm flow feature photoresist and method of applying same: A polyimide photoresist for thick film flow features adheres to a polyimide nozzle plate or other materials, without the use of an adhesive material between the two surfaces. Further, the photoresist can utilize an acrylate UV initiator, which can reduce the potential for HF to interact with the ink, and... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070188557 - Printer comprising small area print chips forming a pagewidth printhead: A printer comprising a stationary printhead extending across a paper path, said printhead comprising a plurality of color channels, each color channel comprising at least one nozzle row extending along the length of said printhead, each nozzle in a color channel ejecting the same colored ink, wherein said printhead is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188558 - Thermally-driven ink-jet printhead capable of preventing cavitation damage to a heater: A thermally-driven ink-jet printhead includes a substrate having an ink chamber to be filled with ink to be ejected, a manifold for supplying ink, and an ink channel for providing flow communication therebetween. First and second sidewalls are formed to a predetermined depth from an upper surface of the substrate... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070188559 - Printhead substrate, printhead using the substrate, head cartridge including the printhead, method of driving the printhead, and printing apparatus using the printhead: This invention relates to a printhead substrate capable of suppressing an increase in wiring width and an increase in the size of a substrate formed by a film forming process while increasing the number of simultaneously driven printing elements in order to improve the printing performance, a printhead using the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070188560 - Droplet deposition apparatus: Ink jet apparatus with two piezoelectric actuators arranged back-to-back on parallel thermal management surfaces of a water-cooled chassis. The chassis is formed by the bringing together of two concave plastic molded parts, having high thermal conductivity. A common nozzle plate attached to the two actuators helps to ensure accurate nozzle... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070188561 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head includes a plurality of liquid ejecting portions arrayed in a flat region on a substrate. The liquid ejecting portions each include a liquid chamber that accommodates liquid to be ejected, a heater element arranged in the liquid chamber, the heater element generating bubbles in liquid in... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070188562 - Heater for a manifold of an injection molding apparatus: An injection molding apparatus includes a manifold having a manifold channel for receiving a melt stream of moldable material and delivering the melt stream to a mold cavity through a nozzle channel of a nozzle and a mold gate. A heater is coupled to the manifold. The heater includes a... Agent: Mold-masters Limited

20070188563 - Liquid ejection apparatus and initial filling method of the same: A liquid ejection apparatus including an ejection head having a nozzle in which liquid is ejected through the nozzle, a plurality of cartridges that retain the liquid and supplies the liquid to the ejection head, and a switching mechanism that switches liquid to be supplied to the ejection head from... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070188564 - Droplet deposition apparatus: Inkjet printhead with an array of ejection chambers spaced in an array direction, each communicating with an ink orifice, inlet and outlet plenum chambers communicating with the ejection chambers, and inlet and outlet manifolds extending in the array direction and communicating with the plenum chambers through a porous sheet. While... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070188565 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: A volume of an ink-deliver chamber is efficiently utilized to dampen pressure changes of ink within the chamber, and prevent air bubbles produced in the chamber from flowing into an ink-jet recording head. In addition, an ink-jet recording apparatus having a plurality of ink-deliver chambers in a small space, is... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070188566 - Method for refurbishing used cartridges for ink jet type imaging devices: A method for operating an ink jet cartridge refurbishment facility includes an utilizing an apparatus to refurbish ink jet cartridges. The apparatus includes a number of stations and accessories that perform the recovery and filling aspects of the ink jet cartridge refurbishment process. The method for operating the ink jet... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070188567 - Print engine incorporating a print roll cartridge storing ink and print media: A print engine includes a print roll cartridge. The print roll cartridge includes a former that defines ink reservoirs for storing respective types of ink and bears a wound length of print media upon which the stored ink can be printed. The print roll cartridge defines a print media exit... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188568 - Apparatus for attaching and detaching ink cartidge, recorder comprising the same and liquid spraying apparatus comprising the same: [Solving Means] An attaching and detaching device includes a cartridge forcing unit 400 configured to, only when a cartridge holding unit 210 holding an ink cartridge 211 is moved in the dismounting direction of the ink cartridge 211 in association with the turning of a lever arm 363, force the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070188569 - Ink jet recording cartridge: An ink jet cartridge including a case, in which the bottom portion where an ink jet recording head is disposed projects, and a lid for covering the top surface thereof. In an ink containing chamber defined by the these case and the lid, there is provided an absorber. The lid... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070188570 - Ink supply arrangement incorporating baffles in an ink distribution molding: An ink supply arrangement is provided for supplying ink to an inkjet printhead. The ink supply arrangement includes an elongate ink distribution molding defining a printhead channel in which the printhead can be received and sets of passages for supplying respective types of ink to the printhead. A filter covers... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188573 - Ink set for ink-jet recording, ink for ink-jet recording and method for forming image: an ink set for ink-jet recording is provided defined by an evaluation indicator approximately corresponding to an evaluation sensed by human eyes without relying on a color difference (ΔE) or an optical density difference (ΔOD) at the time of evaluating long-term storage properties of the ink set for ink-jet recording.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070188574 - Ink set for ink-jet recording, ink for ink-jet recording and method for forming image: An ink set for ink-jet recording is provided defined by an evaluation indicator approximately corresponding to an evaluation sensed by human eyes without relying on a color difference (ΔE) or an optical density difference (ΔOD) at the time of evaluating a long-term storage stability of the ink set for ink-jet... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070188571 - Liquid composition, ink set, and ink tank for ink jet recording, ink jet recording method, and ink jet recording apparatus: The invention provides a liquid composition for ink jet recording. The liquid composition contains an organic acid having a neutralization degree of 40 to 100%, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, and two or more kinds of positive ions including lithium ions. The content of the lithium ions with respect to... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070188572 - Aqueous ink, ink-jet recording method, ink cartridge, recording unit and ink jet recording apparatus: An aqueous ink to be used in an ink jet recording containing a green pigment having a copper phthalocyanine skeleton, wherein a proportion of the Kα-line intensity of a chlorine atom to the Kα-line intensity of a bromine atom obtained by subjecting the green pigment to X-ray fluorescence analysis is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070188575 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a recording medium transporting portion that transports a web-like recording medium; an ink-jet heads that include a nozzle portion and ejects an ink on the basis of an image signal toward the web-like recording medium transported by the recording medium transporting portion, the ink being... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070188576 - Apparatus for media preheating in an ink jet printer: An ink jet imaging system comprises a heated imaging drum that rotates in at least one direction, a print head for ejecting ink onto the heated imaging drum as it rotates past the print head to form an image, a media sheet transport for synchronizing movement of a media sheet... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070188577 - Printing apparatus, gravure printing method and method of manufacturing display device using same: The present invention relates to a gravure printing method comprising providing a printing substrate where a plurality of recessed cells are formed adjacently each other; filling the recessed cells with ink using an ink jet apparatus which includes a plurality of nozzle heads to jet different colors of inks; and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070188578 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus, comprising a recording system with a nozzle surface, a platen installed in a position to face the nozzle surface to hold the recording medium with a clearance provided between the nozzle surface and a surface of the recording medium held by the platen, a feeding system to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188579 - Permanent fixation of dyes to surface-modified inorganic particulate-coated media: Systems and methods for producing permanent ink-jet images are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a media substrate coated with a porous media coating, wherein the porous media coating comprises inorganic porous particulates, and wherein at least a portion of the inorganic porous particulates have a first reactive group... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070188580 - Personal digital assistant (pda) body defining a print roll cartridge bay: A body is provided for a portable computational device. The body includes a housing bearing a control panel to control the operation of the portable computational device. The body defines a print media exit slot, and a bay located opposite the exit slot. A print engine is mounted relative to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188581 - Hand operated marking device with printer and movable printhead: A hand operated marking device is provided for printing upon print media. The marking device includes a pair of housings which are movably interconnected together so that a first one of the housings is further received within a second one of the housings responsive to compression of the housings between... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070188582 - Electrostatic actuator with charge control surface: An electrostatic actuator includes a body having a chamber therein, a first electrode secured to the chamber, and a diaphragm mounted to the body. The diaphragm includes a mounting surface portion secured to the body, and a dynamic surface portion for movement within the chamber. The electrostatic actuator also includes... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070188583 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Image data are inputted from a data processing means (23) into storage means (24) so that light emitting elements on one line (28a) of a light emitting element (yellow) line head (28) are actuated according to signal outputted from a shift resistor (24a) so as to expose pixels on an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188584 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor 8 which bears an image to be formed by exposure, a light emission part 600 which emits light for exposing the photoconductor 8 to the light, and a light quantity measuring part 700 which measures the quantity of the light emitted from the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070188585 - Intermediate transfer member, method of producing the same, image forming method and image forming apparatus: Provided is an intermediate transfer member, a method of producing the same, and an image forming method and an image forming apparatus thereof having excellent effects such that neither crack nor rupture is generated upon repetitive use, no transferring ratio drops during secondary transfer, and neither white patch of an... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070188586 - Printer: A printer prevents color smear when a paper roll mounted on the printer is initially fed. The printer includes a plurality of printing units each having a thermal head and an ink ribbon, and a platen roller having an outer surface opposite the plurality of printing units. The platen roller... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070188587 - Labeling an optical medium having a prelabeled or unlabelable region: A method for locating a labelable region on a surface of an optical storage medium including an unlabelable region. A laser beam is impinged onto a location on the surface without marking the location. Laser energy reflected from the location is detected. Based on the reflected laser energy, it is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070188588 - Optical scanning apparatus and color image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning apparatus and a color image forming apparatus using the same, in which streak-shaped density unevenness is reduced to prevent image deterioration: each of scanning surfaces is simultaneously scanned with light beams emitted from light source units and scanning lines are simultaneously drawn on the scanning surfaces; the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070188589 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with a light scanning device that directs laser beams emitted from a plurality of laser light sources onto a plurality of photo conductive members via focusing device which includes optical elements and a deflecting device that deflects the beams in a main scanning direction;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070188590 - Exposure apparatus: In an exposure apparatus employing an over filled optical system, the light quantity distribution on a scanning plane is kept nearly constant for a plurality of scanning light quantities. It selects the light quantity of the light beam irradiated onto the photosensitive body from a plurality of levels, and sets... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070188591 - Writing apparatuses and methods: Patterns are written on workpieces, such as, glass sheets and/or plastic sheets used in, for example, electronic display devices such as LCDs. The workpiece may be larger than about 1500 mm may be used. An optical writing head with a plurality of writing units may be used. The workpiece and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070188592 - Optical scanning apparatus, control method of such apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A method for controlling an optical scanning apparatus, includes generating an exposing signal from a pattern data for an optical scanning apparatus, which includes a light source that emits a light beam, a deflector that deflects the light beam emitted from the light source by means of a deflection mirror... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070182766 - Apparatus to fabricate color filter and method thereof: An apparatus to fabricate a color filter includes an inkjet head movably installed over a substrate on which a plurality of pixels are formed to discharge ink of predetermined colors into the pixels, and a porous member movably installed over the pixels filled with the ink discharged from the inkjet... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070182769 - Automatic compact disk feeding apparatus: A compact disk feeder includes a base assembly, a disk transportation device and a disk holder. The base assembly includes a casing with a slot. The disk transportation device is mounted in the base assembly and includes a feeding roller rotatably mounted in the casing and partially exposed on the... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070182767 - Method of forming hydrophobic coating layer on surface of nozzle plate of inkjet head: An inkjet head nozzle plate having a hydrophobic coating layer and a method of forming a hydrophobic coating layer on the inkjet nozzle plate. The method including preparing a stamp and a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles, applying a hydrophobic material to the stamp, bonding the hydrophobic material... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070182770 - Method of controlling ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a print head having an ink discharge port for discharging ink toward a recording medium, thereby performing printing on the recording medium; a recording medium thickness setting unit setting a thickness of the recording medium; a droplet amount setting unit setting an ink droplet... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070182775 - Methods and apparatus for reducing irregularities in color filters: Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for printing color filters for flat panel displays and avoiding mura effects by depositing a plurality of ink drops on a substrate within a column of pixel wells and intentionally varying the size and/or the relative lateral position of the ink drops deposited in... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20070182776 - Optical sensing equipment: Provided is a method comprising illuminating paper moving on a substantially vertical transport belt; sensing variations in reflectivity among the paper; comparing the variations in reflectivity to pre-selected acceptable reflectivity values, thus determining locations of acceptable paper on the transport belt; and rejecting paper based on the locations of acceptable... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20070182786 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, method of producing planographic printing plate, and planographic printing plate: The invention provides an ink composition which includes a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, a colorant, and a high molecular compound having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I). In formula (I), n represents an integer of from 1 to 5.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182788 - Ink jet head: Disclosed is an ink jet head driven by a drive IC for ejecting an ink droplet having conductivity, comprising a chamber for storing ink, a nozzle plate attached to the chamber, an actuator provided with an electrode electrically contacting ink in the chamber and activated by a current flowing through... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070182790 - Ink-jet head: An ink-jet head according to the present invention includes a wire member and a heat sink. The wire member has a substrate on a surface of which a driver IC chip is mounted. The heat sink is made of a metal material, in contact with the driver IC chip, and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070182768 - Printing alignment layers on lcd substrates with ink jet printing apparatus: An apparatus for printing a liquid crystal alignment layer of uniform thickness on a substrate of an LCD and a method for its use include an ink jet head that prevents the formation of stripes in the alignment layer as a result of variations in thickness of the alignment layer.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070182771 - Liquid container for a liquid ejection device with a vibration sensor for ink level detection: An ink container which includes an ink supply port for supplying ink to a recording head, and is formed with a flexible member shaped like a bag, which deforms in accordance with an amount of remaining ink contained therein, the ink container including: a sensor module serving as vibration activating... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070182772 - Liquid ejection appartus: A printer has a replaceable cartridge (ink pack), a recording head, and a control section. The recording head ejects ink supplied by the cartridge through a nozzle. The control section detects the retaining amount of the ink in the cartridge and the environmental temperature in the proximity of the printer.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070182773 - Nozzle drive control device and method: A nozzle drive control device and method includes applying a drive voltage to a nozzle, sensing a size or speed of an ink droplet ejected by the applied drive voltage, determining whether the sensed result is included within a predetermined range, and calculating the drive voltage to eject an ink... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070182774 - Ink-droplet ejecting apparatus: A driving pulse signal for forming one dot includes a first, a second, and a third main pulses applied intermittently with an intervals to eject an ink droplet, and a stabilizing pulse which is inserted between the main pulses, and which suppresses a residual vibration of an ink in a... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070182777 - Printhead and method of forming same: A printhead and a method of manufacturing a printhead are provided. The printhead includes a polymeric substrate including a surface. Portions of the polymeric substrate define a liquid chamber. A material layer is disposed on the surface of the polymeric substrate. Portions of the material layer define a nozzle bore.... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070182778 - Pagewidth inkjet printer with foldable input tray for interface protection: An inkjet printer includes a body defining a print media path along which print media can pass. A printhead assembly is arranged within the body and includes a printhead which is configured to print upon print media passing along the print media path. A print media feed arrangement is configured... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070182779 - Liquid ejector cleaning method and liquid ejector: Recording head of a printer is sealed by a cap connected with a gear pump. Fluid is discharged from a nozzle through the cap by a negative pressure being generated by the gear pump. The gear pump is driven at a first rotational speed to suck the fluid in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182781 - Apparatus for attaching and detaching ink cartridge, recorder comprising the same and liquid spraying apparatus comprising the same: An attaching and detaching device includes a cartridge holding unit configured to hold an ink cartridge by insertion of the ink cartridge by a first predetermined stroke and a power transmitting and converting mechanism configured to convert turning of a lever arm into motion of a second predetermined stroke required... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070182780 - Guide for guiding a moveable carriage of a printer in a print direction, and printer: A guide for guiding a moveable carriage of a printer in a print direction includes a pair of spaced apart guiding rods. At least one support frame is provided with at least two elongated recesses, each of the recesses is adapted to accommodate at least a part of a guiding... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182782 - Printer system for developing a 3-d product: A printer system is provided for developing a three dimensional (3D) printed structure. The system includes a plurality of spaced apart sets of printing devices. A conveyor system is arranged to serially convey a print medium in register with each set so that printed voxels from each successive set can... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070182783 - Printing apparatus and printing method: Faster printing and higher image quality are both achieved at a high level. The printing method determines between a first print mode and a second print mode, and ejects ink from a head. In the first print mode, both a dark ink and a light ink used for printing gradually... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182784 - Ink ejection nozzle arrangement with layered actuator mechanism: An ink ejection nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printer. The arrangement includes a wafer assembly defining an ink supply channel. A nozzle chamber structure is mounted to the wafer assembly, and defines a nozzle chamber for receiving ink from the ink supply channel and an ink ejection port... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070182785 - inkjet printhead incorporating interleaved actuator tails: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer assembly defining spaced groups of ink supply channels. Groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements extend from the wafer assembly and are in fluid communication with respective ink supply channel groups. Each group of nozzle arrangements includes a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070182787 - Ink jet head and head unit: An ink jet head, includes: an actuator including a plurality of terminals; a wiring material including a base made of a flexible resin film on which a plurality of lands are arranged in arrays corresponding to the plurality of terminals, the wiring material of which one end is superimposed on... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070182789 - Color inkjet recording apparatus and copier with increased reliability: A color inkjet recording apparatus includes a plurality of multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads ejecting inks of respective colors, an electrical system unit controlling the operation of the color inkjet recording apparatus, and an ink container connected to the multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads. The ink container is provided below the multi-nozzle... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070182791 - Polyelectrolyte composition for humidity senser, polyelectrolyte ink and preparation method of poly electrolyte membrane for sensor by inkjet printing: This invention relates to a polyelectrolyte composition for a humidity sensor, polyelectrolyte ink and a preparation method of a polyelectrolyte membrane for a humidity sensor by inkjet printing. The polyelectrolyte composition according to this invention is composed of polyelectrolyte, crosslinking agent and organic solvent comprising a single component or in... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070182793 - Ink cartridge: An ink cartridge having a container for storing ink therein and having an ink supply port formed at a leading end side in an insertion direction of the container, a memory device disposed on a first of two opposite surfaces parallel to the insertion direction of the container, the memory... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070182792 - Pressure control valve unit and liquid ejecting apparatus: This invention is a pressure control valve unit including: a unit substrate; a first valve chamber provided at one side of the unit substrate, forming a part of a first liquid flow-path; a second valve chamber provided at the other side of the unit substrate, forming a part of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182794 - Recording liquid container, ink jet recording apparatus, and cartirdge collecting apparatus: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070182795 - Ink for color filter, method of fabricating color filter using the ink, and color filter fabricated by the method: The present invention provides an ink for a color filter comprising a polymer binder, a crosslinking monomer, a solvent, a pigment, and a polymerization initiator. The polymer binder comprises acrylate or methacrylate including a hydroxy group. The polymer binder may comprise 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate or 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070182796 - Ink-jet ink and ink-jet recording method: An ink-jet ink comprising Component (A), Component (B), and Component (C), wherein a content of Component (A) is 20-60% by weight, a content of Component (B) is 10-50% by weight, and when the content of Component (A) is 100% by weight, the total content ratio of a class of glycol,... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070182797 - Printer having a print wire with alternating hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas to form droplets for printing inks: A printer for digital printing in which ink is deposited in metered amounts on a substrate. The printer includes a wheel rotatable by a shaft of a motor, an idler disposed in a paint reservoir, and a segment of wire disposed around the wheel and the idler. A computer controls... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070182798 - Heater having heat generating resistor on substrate and image heating apparatus mounting heater thereon: The heating apparatus comprises a substrate extending in one direction and a plurality of heat generating members provided on one surface of the substrate along a longitudinal direction thereof and wherein at least one of the plural heat generating members has heat generating regions having different heat generation amount per... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070182799 - Three-dimensional object printing system: A printing system for creating a three-dimensional object. The printing system includes a plurality of printheads including a first printhead configured to print a first material and a second printhead configured to print a second material. The system includes one or more curing mechanisms for curing the printed materials. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070182800 - Release agent applicator for imaging members in solid ink jet imaging systems: A release agent applicator applies release agent to an imaging drum and absorbs release agent metered from the drum to extend the operational life of a image drum maintenance unit. The applicator includes a reservoir for storing release agent, the reservoir having a plurality of perforations for enabling release agent... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070182801 - Printing device, information providing system, printing method, and printed matter: Provided are a printing device, an information providing system, and a printing method each capable of properly printing a dispersed image where information for specifying a plurality of websites is dispersed and human-readable information regarding each of the websites, and a printed matter obtained therethrough. A dispersed image generation unit... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070182803 - Supply tray and image forming apparatus for use therewith: A supply tray includes a first tray configured to receive a stack of recording medium thereon, and a second tray configured to receive at least one recording medium thereon, which is different in size or type, or both, from the stack of recording medium received on the first tray. The... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070182802 - Image forming apparatus and sheet containing apparatus: A protecting member is detachably mounted to an inside of an apparatus main body so as to protect a protected member in the apparatus main body during transportation. A fixing member fixes a protecting member in a position to protect the protected member. The fixing member fixing the protecting member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070182804 - Printing method and printer: A printing method for printing a barcode forms a plurality of dots on a print medium from one end of the bars to the other end by discharging ink droplets from print nozzles assigned to print the bars from among a plurality of nozzles aligned in a direction intersecting the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070182805 - Hand-held printer with movement sensor: A hand-held printer includes an elongate body defining an ink ejection slot through which ink can be ejected. An ink cartridge defines a plurality of ink reservoirs for storing respective types of ink. A printhead module defines a plurality of ink distribution channels in fluid communication with respective reservoirs. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070182806 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit having a light transmitting portion, the cleaning mechanism that includes a cleaning rod with a pad at a front end portion thereof to be capable of cleaning a surface of the light transmitting portion by sliding on the light transmitting portion,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070182807 - Print apparatus, ribbon movement control device, ribbon film, ribbon movement control method, and program: A print apparatus includes a print unit that records a print pattern with a thermal head and a ribbon film, the ribbon film having a base film on which transfer-material areas and margin areas including cue marks are arranged; a cue-mark detector that detects the cue marks; a ribbon-moving mechanism... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070182808 - Writing apparatuses and methods: Patterns are written on workpieces, such as, glass sheets and/or plastic sheets used in, for example, electronic display devices such as LCDs. The workpiece may be larger than about 1500 mm may be used. An optical writing head with a plurality of writing units may be used. The workpiece and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070182809 - Printing image frames corresponding to motion pictures: A method of printing a plurality of image frames from a digital image file of a motion picture sequence to a photosensitive medium comprising one or more light-sensitive recording layers, comprising the steps of: a) providing at least one two-dimensional OLED modulator, wherein the OLED modulator comprises an array of... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070182810 - Printer for recording on a moving medium: A method for forming a pixel (20) having a predetermined density onto a sensitized recording medium moving in a length direction energizes a pixel exposure source (14) to begin exposure at the leading edge (34) of a pixel (20) and for a first predetermined time interval. The pixel exposure source... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070176952 - Droplet ejection apparatus: A droplet ejection apparatus comprises: (a) a recording head including a nozzle from which a droplet of a liquid is ejected, (b) a pressure chamber which is filled with the liquid and whose volume is changeable for ejecting the droplet from the nozzle, and (c) an actuator which changes the... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070176953 - Method and apparatus to compensate for defective nozzle of inkjet image forming device: A method to compensate for a degradation of print image quality generated by a defective nozzle, from which no ink or less than a design specification required amount of ink is ejected, in an inkjet image forming device includes moving a printer head a moving distance in a scanning direction,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070176954 - Image forming apparatus, method of compensating for error of conveyance distance of recording medium in the same and computer readable medium provided in the same: An image forming apparatus includes a feeding roller and a recording unit. The feeding roller is rotatably disposed to convey the recording medium in a conveying direction, and includes a rotational axle that is eccentric and a peripheral surface having an actual external dimension that is different from a theoretical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070176960 - Pattern forming method, method for forming composite-metal oxide film and method for coating two-liquid reaction curing type adhesive: A liquid droplet of a first liquid and a liquid droplet of a second liquid are mixed upon landing on a substrate, and then the reaction is initiated between the first and second liquid droplets. Accordingly, it is possible to avoid the problem which would have been caused when the... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070176962 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes a recording head and a capping unit which seals a nozzle forming face of the recording head and sucks the ink from the nozzles. The capping unit includes a cap member having a plurality of housing recesses partitioned from each other for ink suction from... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176963 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: an ejection head that ejects a liquid from a nozzle; a cap that can seal an opening of the nozzle; an absorber disposed in the cap; a first ejection unit that allows to perform a first ejection operation toward the cap for maintenance of the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070176966 - Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and printer mater: In relation to a superimposed image obtained by superimposing second image data on first image data in which respective pixels are arranged in a staggered pattern, an image forming apparatus discriminates a region where the second image data is superimposed from a region where the second image data is not... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070176965 - Printer, printer control program, printer control method, print data generating device, print data generating program, and print data generating method: A printer includes a print head having nozzles forming dots on a medium; a unit acquiring image data having pixel values with M gray scales (M≧2); a unit storing nozzle characteristic information; a unit specifying a banding generating nozzle based on the nozzle characteristic information; a processor performing a banding... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070176969 - Ink-jet head and ink-jet recording device: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an ink-jet head including an ink chamber, a pressure chamber in communication with the ink chamber, a nozzle for ejecting an ink in communication with the pressure chamber, a piezoelectric actuator for applying an ejection pressure to an ink in the pressure chamber,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176975 - Recording apparatus, liquid droplet discharging head, and liquid droplet discharging head circuit board with improved wiring pattern: A recording apparatus includes a liquid droplet discharging head and a tank. The liquid droplet discharging head discharges a liquid droplet. The tank supplies a liquid to the liquid droplet discharging head. The liquid droplet discharging head includes a liquid droplet discharging head circuit board including a board substrate and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070176976 - Print head: It is an object of this invention to provide a print head which can stably eject ink droplets of large volume without being influenced by negative pressure variations in an ink supply source or by drive conditions. To this end the ink jet print head of this invention includes a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070176978 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus and liquid-droplet jetting method: An ink-jet head includes a piezoelectric layer, pressure chambers, nozzles, first electrodes, and second electrodes. When electric potentials of the first and second electrodes respectively are changed at the same timing such that increase and decrease in the electric potentials are opposite between the first and second electrodes, volume of... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070176984 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, a carriage carrying the liquid ejecting head, a plurality of subtanks carried on the carriage, a main tank disposed on a body of the apparatus, and a feed pipe. The carriage is moved back and forth in a main scanning direction.... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070176985 - Liquid jetting head and liquid jetting apparatus: A liquid droplet jetting head, having: a plurality of dividing walls to divide a plurality of flow channels, wherein at least a portion of the dividing wall is formed with a piezoelectric element; a flow path having a rectangular tubular from formed by an upper wall to close an upper... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP.

20070176988 - Liquid container and liquid-ejecting apparatus: A liquid container includes a liquid-containing bag filled with liquid and having a supply port that discharges the liquid; an outer frame accommodating the liquid-containing bag; a detecting plate fixed on the liquid-containing bag for detection of a liquid-exhausted state; and at least one protrusion disposed on the outer frame.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070176990 - Ink jet recording head and manufacturing method thereof: An ink jet recording head includes: a substrate; a plurality of ink discharge ports formed to a front face side of the substrate, and a plurality of ink flow paths communicating with the ink discharge ports; an ink supply opening extending through the substrate and communicating with the plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070176955 - Image-forming device: An image forming device includes a recording head, a first pair of conveying rollers, a second pair of conveying rollers, and a conveyance controller. The conveyance controller controls the first and second pairs of conveying rollers to halt a conveying operation of the recording medium when a trailing edge of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070176956 - Recording apparatus: There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the recording medium.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176957 - Architecture and memory card for hand-held printer: A printer architecture and memory card is described. The architecture can include an integrated circuit and a memory card. The memory card can include print swaths and bit-maps of thumbnail images associated with the print swaths. The thumbnail images can be displayed on the hand-held printer. A print swath associated... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070176958 - Electronic drive system for a droplet spray generation device: An electronic drive system for a droplet spay generation device of the type having a droplet generator including a perforate membrane driven by a piezoelectric transducer, the electronic drive system comprising: a programmable micro-controller providing a power supply for converting, in use, a battery supply voltage to power the device;... Agent: John P. De Luca

20070176959 - Inkjet nozzle device with static and movable nozzle portions: A nozzle device is provided for an inkjet printer. The nozzle device includes a support structure defining an ink inlet chamber connected to a source of ink. An elongate actuating arm is cantilevered relative to the support structure. A nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber for receiving ink from... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176961 - Inkjet printer and capping method: An inkjet printer includes a recording head having a nozzle face provided with a nozzle for discharging an ink to form an image on a recording medium, and a detachable cap for capping the nozzle face. The cap of the inkjet printer is provided with an annular rim and an... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070176964 - Printhead having multiple controllers for printhead modules: A printhead is provided having elongate printhead modules arranged to aggregately extend across a pagewidth and controllers for processing print data into dot data and for controlling the printhead modules in accordance with the dot data. Each printhead module has plural rows of ink ejection nozzles. The nozzle rows of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176968 - Pagewidth printhead having small print zone: A printer comprising a stationary printhead extending across a paper path is provided. The printhead comprises a plurality of color channels, each color channel comprising at least one nozzle row extending along the length of the printhead. Each nozzle in a color channel ejects the same colored ink. The printhead... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176967 - Photo printer for printing 6\" x 4\" photos: A photo printer for printing 6″×4″ photos comprising: a stationary 4″ printhead, said printhead comprising a plurality of color channels, each color channel comprising at least one nozzle row extending along the length of said printhead, each nozzle in a color channel ejecting the same colored ink; means for continuously... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176970 - Inkjet nozzle arrangement having ink passivation: An inkjet nozzle arrangement is provided having a substrate, an ink passivation layer on the substrate, a nozzle chamber on the passivation layer, and an arm anchored to the passivation layer. The substrate has an ink passage and incorporates drive circuitry. The passivation layer has a first aperture in fluid... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176972 - Nozzle arrangement with a movable roof structure: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printer. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate defining an ink supply conduit. A shelf layer is positioned on the substrate, and defines a shelf which covers the ink supply conduit and an opening in fluid communication with the ink supply conduit. A... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176971 - Web printer with straight print media path: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer assembly defining spaced apart groups of ink supply channels. Groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements extend from the wafer assembly and are in fluid communication with respective ink supply channel groups. Each group of nozzle arrangements includes... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176973 - Print head and image forming apparatus including the same: It is an object of the present invention to provide a print head that is usable in a horizontal printer, that is small in size, that is superior in mass production, that can easily perform discharge control, that is excellent in reliability, and that is excellent in practicality to be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070176974 - Thermal printhead: In a thermal printhead (A), a common wiring portion (4) is divided into a plurality of blocks (BL) arranged side by side in a primary scanning direction, and voltage is applied to opposite ends of each of the blocks (BL) in the primary scanning direction. A plurality of heating resistance... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070176977 - Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: A liquid-droplet jetting apparatus is provided with a cavity unit in which nozzles and pressure chambers are formed; and a piezoelectric actuator which includes active portions which deforms when a drive voltage is applied thereto. In the apparatus, the active portions are deformed to change the volume of the pressure... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070176979 - Inkjet printhead employing piezoelectric actuator and method of manufacturing the inkjet printhead: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead includes a fluid path forming substrate having a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric actuator formed on the fluid path forming substrate to provide a drive force to the pressure chamber to eject ink, and a damping layer formed on the piezoelectric actuator to dampen a residual vibration... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070176980 - Piezoelectric inkjet printhead: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead includes a manifold, a chamber array including a plurality of chambers in connection with the manifold and arranged along at least one side of the manifold, a vibrating plate to cover the plurality of chambers, and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators formed on the vibrating plate... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070176981 - Ink jet printer cartridge refilling method and apparatus: The present invention comprises a method and system for refilling printer ink cartridges. The method and system refill the cartridge while under a vacuum, and provide a positive displacement, peristaltic pump that is automatically operated a precise amount of time to ensure that the proper amount of ink is added... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070176983 - Ink tank, printer and printer main body: An ink tank which includes a plurality of ink chambers and a plurality of supply ports is provided. The plurality of supply ports are provided for the respective ink chambers. Each of the supply ports communicates an outside with each of the ink chambers. Ink stored in the each of... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070176982 - Inkjet actuator substrate having at least one non-uniform ink via: Inkjet printheads and actuator chips, such as an inkjet printhead actuator chip having a substrate, ink vias formed in the substrate, and columnar arrays of actuators in operational communication with the ink vias. At least one of the ink vias has at least one of a different length, width and... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070176986 - Liquid containing bag, liquid cartridge, image forming device, and sealing method and sealing apparatus for the liquid containing bag: A liquid containing bag includes a liquid filling opening part having a tube configuration through which an inside of the liquid containing bag is filled with liquid. The liquid filling opening part is melt-sealed from directions which face each other in a part of the liquid filling opening part. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070176987 - Ink cartridge, inkjet printer and combination thereof: An ink cartridge includes a cartridge body including an ink storage chamber and a wall having an ink introduction hole formed therethrough. The ink introduction hole is configured to receive an ink supply tube of an inkjet printer when the ink cartridge is mounted to the inkjet printer, and the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176989 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes a first case having a wall having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The wall has a first opening and a second opening formed therethrough, the first opening has a first center, and the second opening has a second center. The... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070176992 - Ink composition and recording method: An ink composition which comprises: a dye which is represented by formula (1), which is described in the specification, and has at least one ionic hydrophilic group, wherein the dye has a molecular weight of from 310 to 500 per one ionic hydrophilic group, and a recording method which comprises:... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070176991 - Ink composition and recording method using the same: An ink composition which comprises a compound represented by formula (1), which is described in the specification; and a plurality of water-soluble organic solvents, wherein the water-soluble organic solvents contains at least a water-soluble organic solvent having a thioether or sulfoxide moiety in an amount of 10 mass % to... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070176993 - Active ray curable ink-jet ink composition, method for forming image, and ink-jet recording apparatus: An active ray curable ink-jet ink composition comprising: (a) a cationic polymerizable compound, (b) a cationic photopolymerization initiator, and (c) an alkyl modified or an alkyl aralkyl modified silicone oil.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070176994 - Digital web printer with dryer: A web printer for printing digital information on print media the web printer comprising a cabinet a plurality of ink reservoirs mounted in a releasable manner within the cabinet and storing respective types of ink to be printed a print media cartridge mounted in a releasable manner within the cabinet... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070176995 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer body; a liquid adhesion device which provides a first liquid having a viscosity not less than 15 mPa·s and not greater than 300 mPa·s at 25° C, on the intermediate transfer body; a droplet ejection device which ejects a second liquid containing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070176996 - Ink jet recording device and method of conveying recording medium in the same: An ink jet recording device includes a recording head, a conveying member, a platen, a supporting member, and a driving member. The recording head ejects ink droplets onto a recording medium. The conveying member conveys the recording medium in a conveying direction. The recording medium has a leading edge and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070176997 - Electrostatic actuator, liquid droplet ejection head, liquid droplet ejection device and electrostatic driving device as well as methods of manufacturing them: An electrostatic actuator, a liquid droplet ejection head, and a liquid droplet ejection device which have a good response and are driven by a small drive voltage includes a vibration plate as a sheet-shaped movable electrode and an individual electrode acting as a rectangular fixed electrode confronting the vibration plate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070176998 - Thermal printhead: A thermal printhead (A) according to the present invention includes a substrate (1) having an obverse surface on which a glaze layer (2) is formed, an electrode (4) formed on the glaze layer (2) and a clip connector (5) attached to an edge of the substrate (1) for connection to... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070176999 - Reversed thermal head printing: A printer and method for operating a printer are provided. The printer has a printhead adapted to heat a thermal donor medium to transfer donor material from a donor web to a receiver medium; a receiver medium path having guides shaped to direct receiver medium along a receiver medium travel... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070177000 - Laser beam isolation apparatus and image forming device having the same: A laser beam isolation includes a blocking unit having an at least partially metallic shutter disposed in a laser scanning unit to be movable between a first position to open a path of a laser beam and a second position to block the path of the laser beam. A magnetic... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070177001 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a light source apparatus in which wasteful cost increases can be suppressed during the manufacture of various types of light source apparatuses, and replacement of a broken light source can be performed at low cost, a recording apparatus using the light source apparatus, and an image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177002 - Auto registration image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus forms a latent image on a photoconductive member by scanning a light beam with a rotational deflector, and forms a visual image on a sheet without temporarily stopping the sheet on a sheet conveyance path. The image forming apparatus includes a motor that drives the rotation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.