Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 09/07

20070222802 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that is operable to: access files that is created by an external device and stored in the external storage device, the files containing images that are to be formed on the sheet by the image forming unit; generate auxiliary identification information including character... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070222803 - Power feed bag print system: A custom designed drive mechanism to be utilized in conjunction with an ink jet printer having a motor, transmission, and gripping apparatus to transmit articles of manufacture to be printed upon through an enclosure having a linear bearing and spring system, an optical sensor, digital encoder and print mechanism such... Agent: Herman J. Hohauser

20070222809 - Droplet jet inspecting device, droplet jetting applicator and method for manufacturing coated body: A droplet jet inspecting device includes an image pickup part taking an image of an inspection area including an area where a droplet jetted from a droplet jetting head jetting the droplet through a nozzle and a unit configured to process the image of the inspection area taken by the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070222811 - Image recording method and image recording apparatus: The image recording method for forming an image on a recording medium, includes the step of applying droplets of stimulus-responsive ink which responds to a stimulus so that the stimulus-responsive ink converts from a sol state to a gel state, on the recording medium, wherein each of the droplets of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070222813 - Driving module utilized for driving a print head maintenance station: A driving module utilized for driving a print head maintenance station. The print head maintenance station includes a capper and a wiper. The driving module includes: a first rotation unit having a first surface corresponding to a first profile; a second rotation unit having a second surface corresponding to a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070222815 - Ejection restoration apparatus for liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus comprising ejection restoration apparatus: The ejection restoration apparatus for a liquid ejection head having a plurality of nozzles which are disposed in a planer nozzle surface and from which liquid is ejected, includes: a first suction cap which covers a partial region of the planer nozzle surface and which has a contact portion being... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070222816 - Cleaning blade, method fabricating cleaning blade, and cleaning apparatus for liquid discharge head: A cleaning blade which wipes a liquid discharge area by being moved relatively with respect to the liquid discharge area of a liquid discharge head having the liquid discharge area in which liquid discharge nozzles are arranged to discharge a liquid is disclosed. The cleaning blade includes: a supporting plate... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070222817 - Methods and apparatus for inkjet printing using multiple sets of print heads: In a first aspect, a system is provided for inkjet printing. The system includes (1) a first set including a first inkjet print head having a first plurality of nozzles adapted to selectively dispense a first ink, and a second inkjet print head having a second plurality of nozzles adapted... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20070222825 - Droplet discharging head and droplet discharging device: A droplet discharging head includes: a plurality of containing chambers provided in parallel to one another with partition walls interposed therebetween, each containing chamber, partitioned and formed by each partition wall and a member with a vibration plate, being communicated with a nozzle and containing a liquid material; a main... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070222832 - Ink tank assembly for inkjet system, and image forming apparatus: The ink tank assembly for an inkjet system includes: a tank which contains an ink; and an air/liquid separating member which is arranged in the tank. The ink has a surface tension higher than a surface free energy of the air/liquid separating member. The ink is a dispersion including a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070222833 - Liquid container: A liquid container includes: a liquid containing chamber for containing a liquid therein; a liquid supply port for connecting to a liquid receiving portion of an apparatus and supplying the liquid to the apparatus; an atmosphere opening port for introducing external air into the liquid containing chamber through an atmosphere... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070222831 - Liquid send/receive joint device and fuel cell system using the same: A liquid send/receive joint device that allows for a wide range of connection positions of a liquid reservoir and a liquid accepter when they are connected, that can always maintain a good connection between the liquid reservoir and the liquid accepter, and that can send/receive a liquid safely and with... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070222830 - Printing images and flavors on substrates: In general, a fluid delivery system includes a plurality of fluid delivery printheads, a first reservoir for holding an ink, the first reservoir coupled to a first one of the plurality of fluid delivery printheads, and a second reservoir for holding a flavored liquid, the second reservoir coupled to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070222836 - Ink cartridge and method of fabricating the same: An ink cartridge of an inkjet printer includes at least one ink tank, at least one negative pressure adjusting part, an ink channel unit, and at least one print head having nozzles, wherein the ink channel unit is surface-treated by an ion assisted reaction (IAR) before being assembled.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070222839 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes an ink chamber, and a movable member disposed within the ink chamber. The movable member includes a signal blocking portion, and a float portion. The ink cartridge also includes a guide, and the movable member is configured to move between a first position and a second... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070222837 - Inkjet recording head cartridge: An inkjet recording head cartridge includes a container body configured to accommodate a plural colors of ink. The container body has a first side surface and also has a projecting part. The inkjet recording head cartridge includes a recording head unit configured to have ink supply port arrays. The recording... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070222804 - Drop ejection assemby: A fluid drop delivery device is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of nozzle openings from which fluid is ejected and a waste control aperture.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070222805 - Use of a sense mark to control a printing system: A printing system includes a printer that prints only a sense mark on a substrate and an imaging unit. The imaging unit prints data onto the substrate and includes a plurality of printheads. The printing system also includes a sensor that detects the sense mark and a controller that instructs... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20070222806 - Medium detecting apparatus and image forming apparatus: A medium detecting apparatus and an image forming apparatus are supplied capable of making medium move without hitting sensor lever while skew adjustment or medium setting operation. In the image forming apparatus, a medium hit surface of the sensor lever to detect skew holds inclinations in plural directions and a... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070222807 - Printhead and method for contolling print quality using printhead temperature: A printhead and method of operation for controlling the print quality using temperature. A sensor senses the printhead temperature before printing begins. The controller compares it to a threshold temperature that represents desired ink drop characteristics. If the printhead temperature is below the threshold, it initiates heating elements and adjusts... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222810 - Image forming apparatus with hard disk drive securely formatted: If the validity of authorization information read from a USB key is verified (S1 to S4), use-information that indicates “used” is written in both of the nonvolatile memory and the USB key (S7). In a case of an initial use of an image forming apparatus (Cp=1, S8), a screen for... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070222808 - Test device for an ink cartridge: A test device for an ink cartridge comprises means (6) for supplying ink from the ink cartridge to a strip of paper. The device is embodied in such a way that the means for supplying ink from the ink cartridge can also supply ink off (10) the strip of paper.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070222812 - Method and droplet-ejecting head for droplet-ejecting recording apparatus capable of achieving high recording image quality: This patent specification describes a droplet-ejecting head including a nozzle substrate having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting droplets, and an actuator configured to be driven to generate energy for ejecting droplets through each nozzle. The nozzle substrate is cleaned by a cleaning liquid containing microbubbles before being bonded to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070222814 - Inkjet printer and maintenance method thereof: In an inkjet printer according to an aspect, a print head includes a nozzle and ejects ink through the nozzle. A maintenance unit performs a maintenance operation to recover an ejection state of the nozzle. A sealing unit selectively exposes and seals the nozzle. A first timer unit measures a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070222818 - Nozzle assembly with variable volume nozzle chamber: A nozzle assembly is provided for an inkjet printer. The nozzle assembly includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet channel. An endless wall extends from the substrate assembly in alignment with the ink inlet channel. A nozzle is provided which, together with the endless wall, defines a nozzle chamber... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222820 - Micro-fluid ejection head structure: A method of making a micro-fluid ejection head structure for a micro-fluid ejection device. The method includes applying a removable mandrel material to a semiconductor substrate wafer containing fluid ejection actuators on a device surface thereof. The mandrel material is shaped to provide fluid chamber and fluid channel locations on... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070222819 - Printhead with small drive transistor to nozzle area ratio: A printhead for an inkjet printer, the printhead comprising: a wafer substrate with a fluid ejection surface; an array of drop ejectors for ejecting drops of printing fluid onto a media substrate, the array being formed on the fluid ejection surface of the wafer substrate, each drop ejector having: a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222821 - Signaling method for printhead: A signaling method for a printhead with nozzles for ejecting ink, and associated drive circuitry for operating the nozzles that receives drive signals from a print engine controller. The print engine controller generates the drive signals in accordance with print data defining a print job for the printhead. A pre-heating... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222822 - Ink-jet head: An ink-jet head includes a passage unit, a piezoelectric actuator, a first wire member, and a second wire member. The first wire member is connected to the piezoelectric actuator and has a driver IC. The second wire member is connected to the first wire member and has wires. The first... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070222823 - Nozzle arrangement with twin heater elements: A nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet passage. The nozzle chamber structure defines an aperture through... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222824 - Substantially planar fluid ejection actuators and methods related thereto: Fluid ejection actuators, micro-fluid ejection heads, and methods relating thereto. One such fluid ejection actuator is provided by a conductive layer adjacent a substrate. The conductive layer has a substantially non-conductive portion. The substantially non-conductive portion includes a portion of the conductive layer which has been treated to have low... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070222826 - Ink jet break-off length controlled dynamically by individual jet stimulation: A jet break-off length control apparatus for a continuous liquid drop emission system is provided. The jet break-off length control apparatus comprises a liquid drop emitter containing a positively pressurized liquid in flow communication with at least one nozzle for emitting a continuous stream of liquid. Resistive heater apparatus is... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070222829 - Inkjet printing system with compliant printhead assembly: An inkjet printer including a printhead assembly and an ink supply coupled to the printhead assembly for supplying ink thereto. The printhead assembly may include a compliant chamber and a printhead arranged to receive ink from the compliant chamber. The ink supply may be configured to expand the compliant chamber... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070222828 - Inkjet printing system with push priming: An ink supply for a push-primed inkjet printer including an ink reservoir, a housing, and a pair of valves. The housing may enclose the ink reservoir and define an opening that provides fluid communication between the ink reservoir and outside the housing. The pair of valves may be coupled to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070222827 - Liquid supply means: In accordance with one embodiment, a method of establishing fluidic communication between a liquid supply and a vessel includes drawing a given volume of fluid from the vessel into a chamber, and establishing fluidic communication between the liquid supply and the vessel after drawing the given volume of fluid.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070222834 - Liquid supplying device and liquid ejection apparatus: A valve unit supplies ink supplied from a plurality of ink cartridges to a recording head. The recording head includes a plurality of nozzle rows respectively corresponding to the plurality of ink cartridges. The valve unit includes a plurality of liquid supply passages and at least one flow passage formation... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070222835 - Ink cartridge: An ink cartridge includes a hollow ink tank body, a cover connected to a top of the hollow ink tank body; a pressure regulator arranged inside the hollow ink tank body, and a sealing ring enclosing a supply port of the hollow ink tank body. The hollow ink tank body... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070222840 - Ink cartridge for inkjet printer: A valve core of an ink cartridge includes an elastic valve sheet having an inner portion and an outer portion. The outer portion extends outwards from the inner portion and protrudes towards an upstream side of the valve core. The outer portion is adapted to sealingly engage and disengage with... Agent: Barron & Young Intellectual Property

20070222838 - Liquid cartridge and circuit board: A liquid cartridge mountable on a cartridge mounting portion of a liquid consuming apparatus, the liquid cartridge includes: a circuit board that is attached to an outer surface of the liquid cartridge in an insertion direction of the liquid cartridge into the cartridge mounting portion; and a connection terminal that... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070222841 - Printing fluid supply device: A printing fluid supply device for a printhead, that has a printing fluid reservoir containing a quantity of printing fluid, a porous body having a plurality of individual channels arranged in an array for supplying the printhead with printing fluid under capillary action and a fluid trapping layer between the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222842 - Ejection liquid, ejection device, ejection cartridge, and method of making droplets from liquid: There is provided an ejection liquid which can be ejected stably by an inkjet method using thermal energy even in the case of containing at least one of proteins and peptides and is provided a method and device of discharging a liquid containing at least one of proteins and peptides,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222843 - Method for controlling liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection apparatus: A printer includes a recording head having a nozzle that ejects ink and a suction pump that draws the ink through the nozzle. A valve unit and a filter are arranged in a passage that supplies the ink to the recording head. A controller of the printer operates the suction... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070222844 - Recording medium driving device and recording medium driving method: A recording medium driving device includes a recording and/or playback unit for performing at least one of recording of a data signal on the recoding surface of a recording medium, and playback of a data signal from the recording surface, a printing unit for printing visible information on the main... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070222845 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a unit which can be inserted into the apparatus main body, a locking device which locks the unit to the apparatus main body when the unit is in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222846 - Transport path switching device in double-sided recording apparatus, double-sided recording apparatus having the same and double-sided liquid ejecting apparatus: a rotatable gate member, provided at a portion in which the medium inverting path is branched from the straight transport path; and a flap, formed with the gate member and adapted to guide the non-rigid medium to the medium inverting path. When the rigid medium is transported, a part of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070222847 - Cellphone printer with internal ink storage: A printer is provided for a mobile telephone. The printer includes a housing having a pair of elongate moldings capable of being connected together to define an ink ejection slot. The housing also includes an endcap configured to engage with an end of the moldings. An ink supply cartridge is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222848 - Method and apparatus for enhancing gray scale performance of light emitting diodes: The present invention relates a method and apparatus for enhancing gray scale performance of a light emitting diode, that the apparatus comprises: a current source, for provide a current to the light emitting diode; an amplitude modulation (AM) register, for storing the current value and a timing value, both being... Agent: Bruce H. Trocell Suite 1404

20070222849 - Ink sheet cartridge: There is provided an ink sheet cartridge that includes a cartridge case having a case body disposed opposite to an upper surface of an ink sheet unit, driving sidewall portions rotatably supporting driving shafts of respective sheet supply and winding bobbins, and a supporting sidewall portion to rotatably support supporting... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070222850 - Thermal printer: Provided is a thermal printer including: a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements; a head support member, which is conductive, for supporting the thermal head; a platen roller whose circumferential surface can be brought into contact with the thermal head while nipping a recording paper; biasing members, which... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070222851 - Labeling apparatus and method for disk storage media: A label printer system includes a disk storage medium including a thermally-sensitive layer formed on at least a portion of an upper surface. A rotational drive rotates the disk storage medium and a transverse drive moves a laser substantially transversely with respect to the disk storage medium. A memory includes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070216714 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus for performing recording by scanning a recording head includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire temperature information of the recording head, a generation unit configured to generate a signal that indicates outputting of an output voltage based on the temperature information, a voltage control unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070216718 - Recording apparatus and method: A recording apparatus detects a leading edge of a recording material to be transported in a sub-scanning direction, and performs recording on a recording region of the recording material with reference to the leading edge. When a margin is formed at least at a leading end of the recording material,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070216720 - Liquid ejection apparatus and method for cleaning liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus including a liquid ejection head having a nozzle, a cleaning mechanism that performs cleaning of the nozzle by drawing a liquid from inside the nozzle, and a controller that controls operation of the liquid ejection apparatus is provided. The controller includes a timer device that tracks... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070216721 - Droplet jetting applicator and method of manufacturing coated body: A droplet jetting applicator includes: a droplet jetting head which freely moves and includes a nozzle surface with a plurality of nozzles formed, from which droplets are jetted; a suction section which sucks the droplets jetted by the droplet jetting head from a facing position facing the nozzle surface; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216722 - Liquid ejection head, image forming apparatus and liquid supply method for liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection head includes: a head main body which is constructed from a plurality of head units layered together in a layering direction perpendicular to a liquid ejection direction of nozzles, each of the head units having the nozzles, pressure chambers connected with the nozzles and arranged in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216726 - Liquid droplet discharging head, and liquid droplet discharging apparatus: A liquid droplet discharging head includes: a substrate; a pressure chamber connected to the substrate; a penetrating portion formed in the substrate to discharge a liquid droplet; and a plurality of liquid droplet guiding portions formed at the penetrating portion of the substrate to guide the liquid droplet, in which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216727 - Liquid ejection apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising liquid ejection apparatus: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which comprises nozzles including at least one suctioned nozzle and at least one non-suctioned nozzle and ejecting liquid, pressure chambers supplying the nozzles with the liquid, and a common liquid chamber supplying the pressure chambers with the liquid; and an individual... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216728 - Ink jet print head and manufacturing method thereof: A nozzle unit having a nozzle, a flow channel unit having a pressure chamber and a through hole to be communicated with the pressure chamber and an actuator for causing the pressure chamber to discharge ink are respectively formed. The nozzle unit and the actuator have substantially the same planar... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070216729 - Droplet discharging head and droplet discharging apparatus: A droplet discharging head includes a first drive unit and a base coupled to the first drive unit. The base includes a portion defining a first cavity, a portion defining a first discharging port, and a portion defining a first through hole through which the portion defining a first cavity... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216730 - Mist ejection head and image forming apparatus comprising same: The mist ejection head includes: a nozzle which ejects liquid; a nozzle plate which has electrical conductivity and in which the nozzle is formed; a liquid chamber connected to the nozzle; an ultrasonic wave generating element which generates an ultrasonic wave applied to the liquid in a vicinity of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216731 - Thermal head and printing device equipped with the same: A thermal head includes a base layer having a predetermined thickness and provided with a substantially semicylindrical protruding section integrally formed on one surface of the base layer, a heat generation resistor formed on the protruding section, and a pair of electrodes formed on both sides of the heat generation... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070216734 - Discharge device: There is disclosed a small and thin ink jet head having an excellent productivity, in which Piezoelectric elements capable of developing a large displacement amount and a high displacement generation force can highly densely be arranged together with ink chambers and nozzles and in which generation of crosstalk is inhibited.... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070216735 - Liquid-droplet jetting head and liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: An ink-jet head includes a channel unit which includes a plurality of pressure chambers, a vibration plate stacked on the channel unit, and a piezoelectric material layer arranged on the vibration plate. The piezoelectric material layer includes a first portion functioning as a piezoelectric actuator, and a second portion functioning... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070216738 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer includes a recording head having nozzles to discharge ink and a storage chamber for storing the ink which is supplied to the nozzles from an ink source. The chamber includes an inlet to which the ink flows from the ink source and an outlet from which the... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070216741 - Pretreatment agent for ink jet ink, cloth treated by pretreatment agent, and ink jet printing method: A pretreatment agent for ink jet printing employing an acid dye includes hydroxyethyl cellulose; ammonium salt; a hydrotropic agent; and water, wherein the content of the hydroxyethyl cellulose is in the range of 1 to 5 wt % and the content of ammonium salt is in the range of 1... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070216715 - Pen voltage regulator for inkjet printers: A pen voltage regulator is provided for supplying a regulated pen voltage to one or more printheads of an inkjet printer. The pen voltage regulator includes: a regulator switch arranged between an input terminal and an output terminal; a linear lifting circuit connected to the regulator switch; a soft start... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070216716 - Wide array fluid ejection device: A fluid ejection device includes a first set of N memory elements each storing a fire enable value, each of the N memory elements configured to be updated. The fluid ejection device further includes N fluid ejecting elements, each fluid ejecting element corresponding to a different one of the N... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070216717 - Printer control system and method for changing print mask height: A system and a method for improving the quality of prints using a print mask for a printer with at least one printhead with a plurality of dot forming elements arranged in dot forming element sections, and at least one of the masks are altered so that mask data corresponding... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070216719 - Recording apparatus: The apparatus includes a capacitor electrically connected to a driver IC and a temperature estimating unit that estimates the internal temperature of the capacitor. The unit estimates the internal temperature of the capacitor based on the operation temperature of the driver IC detected by a driver temperature detector.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070216723 - Ink jet printing assembly: An ink jet printing assembly and method of use for printing on a substrate where the substrate is driven in a driving direction. The ink jet printing assembly includes a first jetting assembly having a first ink orifice and a second ink orifice and a second jetting assembly separate from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216724 - Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus: The present invention allows a high-speed printing by a print head in which nozzles are arranged with a high density to reduce eddy flow caused between the print head and a print medium, providing an image with a high quality. Thus, the present invention allows the same printing region of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216725 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the same: A liquid ejecting head is provided with pressure chambers adapted to contain liquid. Nozzle orifices are respectively communicated with the pressure chambers and arranged so as to form nozzle arrays. Each of pressure generating elements is operable to generate pressure fluctuation in the liquid contained in one of the pressure... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070216732 - Micro-fluid ejecting device having embedded memory devices: A micro-fluid ejecting device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of fluid ejection elements formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of nonvolatile programmable memory devices for storing information related to the operation of the micro-fluid ejecting device. The programmable memory devices, which are at least partially embedded in... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070216733 - Nozzle arrangement with sidewall incorporating heater element: A nozzle arrangement for ejecting ink includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage and including heater element drive circuitry. A nozzle chamber structure is arranged on the substrate assembly and includes side walls positioned about the ink inlet passage. The nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070216736 - Fine forging method, manufacturing method of liquid ejection head, and liquid ejection head: An object is to provide a fine forging method for forming partitions of recesses precisely and forming recess shapes for pressure generation chambers etc. with high accuracy as well as a liquid ejection head that is produced by using the fine forming method. A fine forging method for forming groove-shaped... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070216737 - Micro-miniature fluid jetting device: A micro-fluid jetting device and a method of ejecting fluid mixtures onto a substrate. The micro-fluid jetting device includes a housing containing a logic circuit and fluid reservoirs for at least two different fluids. A micro-fluid ejection head is attached to a first end of the housing. The ejection head... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070216739 - Head module, printing apparatus, and printing method: According to a first invention, since a flow of a spacer dispersed liquid is formed in a transporting chamber separated from a discharging chamber by an internal filter, the spacer dispersed liquid is stably discharged through an ejection hole, while the discharging chamber on a side of a nozzle plate... Agent: Mrq/jaz

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20070216743 - Ink-jet recording ink set and ink-jet recording method: The invention provides an ink-jet recording ink set including at least one first liquid A for at least forming an image and at least one second liquid B having a different composition from the composition of the first liquid A, wherein the first liquid A contains at least a polymer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070216744 - Ink-jet recording method, ink-jet ink, ink-jet recording unit, ink cartridge for ink-jet recording and ink-jet recording apparatus: The present invention provides an ink-jet recording method for forming an image by applying an ink to a recording medium. The ink contains at least water, a colorant and a surfactant. The content of the surfactant is higher than or equal to the critical micelle concentration of the surfactant, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216742 - Solvent/latex binder system for heated inkjet printing: An inkjet ink system includes an anionic jettable ink, and a cationic fixer fluid, wherein the anionic jettable ink includes between 0 and 4% styrene-acrylic or acrylic binder, between 0.3 and 10% latex binder, between 1 and 6% colorant, between 1 and 40% solvent with a vapor pressure less than... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070216745 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus includes a medium casing which accommodates at least one printing medium in a stack manner, an accommodated medium conveying unit which conveys the at least one printing medium accommodated in the medium casing from a first medium standby position to a second medium standby position, a feeding... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070216746 - Page scheduling for printing architectures: At least sequential current and subsequent sheets of a print job are received in a document processing system. Each sheet includes a front image and a back image. The received sheets are scheduled to be printed with at least one of a first and a second sequence by at least... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070216747 - Light source calibration and adjustment for scanning printer: A scanning printer including a scanner unit having an adjustable scanning light output may be adjusted by determining a minimum response for each pixel and a maximum response for each pixel when scanning a calibration document and setting the light output to correlate to a maximum response value. The scanner... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20070216748 - Systems and methods for using multiple scanner facets to write a scan line of image data in an electrophotographic device: An imaging system comprises a laser source for emitting a beam, a photoconductive surface, a scanning device and a controller. The controller designates at least a first part and a second part of each line of image data, corresponding to a first part and a second part of each associated... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070216749 - Thermal head and printing device: A thermal head includes a glass layer having a protruding section formed on one surface and a concave groove section formed on the other surface facing the protruding section, a plurality of heat generation resisters disposed substantially linearly on the protruding section, and a pair of electrodes provided to both... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070216750 - Image forming apparatus: In the light amount correction in the main scanning direction, sets of correction values of black and cyan for which the reflection frequency of optical elements are equal to an even number of times are made common to each other (a correction value set—KC), and sets of correction values of... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070216751 - Method and apparatus for imaging with multiple exposure heads: An imaging system is equipped with two or more exposure heads that are each able to image either a separate media sheet or a portion of a single media sheet loaded on a media carrier. The imaging time for any combination of media sheets is minimized by providing for the... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070216752 - Laser beam scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and laser beam scanning method: A laser beam scanning apparatus according to the invention includes: a laser oscillating unit that outputs a laser beam; a laser beam scanning unit that performs scanning in a main scanning direction with a laser beam and irradiates the laser beam on a photosensitive member; an error signal generating unit... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070216753 - Laser beam scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and laser beam scanning method: A laser beam scanning apparatus includes: a laser oscillating unit that outputs a laser beam; a laser beam scanning unit that performs scanning in a main scanning direction with a laser beam and irradiates the laser beam on a photosensitive member via an optical lens; an error signal generating unit... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070216754 - Light source device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: A light-source holding member that holds semiconductor lasers along the sub-scanning direction is fixed to an attachment member at two points with first and second screws. An elastic member is interposed between the light-source holding member and the attachment member to urge the second screw upwards. The light-source holding member... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216755 - Image writing apparatus and color image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a color image forming apparatus forming an image by using a plurality of image carriers, wherein at least one lens having identical optical characteristics and forming individual scanning optical systems which scan the individual image carriers with beams is formed by use of a plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216756 - Laser beam scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and laser beam scanning method: A laser beam scanning apparatus includes: a laser oscillating unit that outputs a laser beam; a laser beam scanning unit that scans and irradiates the laser beam in a main scanning direction on a photosensitive member; an error signal generating unit that monitors intensity of a laser beam and generates... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070216757 - Laser beam scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and laser beam scanning method: A laser beam scanning apparatus according to the invention includes: a laser oscillating unit that outputs a laser beam; a laser beam scanning unit that performs scanning in a main scanning direction with a laser beam and irradiates the laser beam on a photosensitive member via an optical lens; an... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070216758 - Driving control device, image forming apparatus and recording medium for recording driving control program: A control unit for a copying machine is equipped with a first rotation speed detecting unit for detecting a first rotation speed as a rotation speed of a polygon mirror; a switching judging unit for judging whether the first rotation speed reaches a value equal to or higher than a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070211089 - Liquid-ejecting apparatus and method for determining liquid depletion: A liquid-ejecting apparatus includes a liquid-ejecting section that ejects a liquid onto an object, a liquid container containing the liquid and detachably attached to the liquid-ejecting section, and a depletion-determining section. The liquid container supplies a predetermined amount of liquid to the liquid-ejecting section by a pressure corresponding to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070211087 - Semiconductor device, ink cartridge, and electronic device: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate including an active element formation face on which an active element is formed, and a rear face that is on a side opposite to the active element formation face; a penetration electrode penetrating the semiconductor substrate; an element electrode formed on or above... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070211088 - Semiconductor device, ink cartridge, and electronic device: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate including an active element formation face on which an active element is formed, and a rear face that is on a side opposite to the active element formation face; detection electrodes formed on or above the active element formation face, detecting a remaining... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070211091 - Image forming apparatus: where Re is the Reynolds number for the droplet, We is the Weber number for the droplet, ρ is a density of the liquid, V is a flight speed of the droplet, D is a diameter of the nozzle from which the droplet is ejected, μ is a viscosity of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211090 - Inkjet head: An actuator can selectively take a first state wherein a volume of a pressure chamber is V1 and a second state wherein the volume of the pressure chamber is V2 larger than V1. The actuator changes from the first state to the second state and then returns to the first... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070211094 - Dual-sided thermal pharmacy script printing: There is provided a method for imaging a dual-sided thermal media. The method includes detecting one or more sense marks disposed on the thermal media and controlling activation of one or more of a first print head and a second print head to image a respective one or more of... Agent: Charles Maney Ncr Corporation, Law Dept.

20070211096 - Printer, supplied power controller and computer program: A printer includes: an inkjet print head; an image processing part that processes image data and supplies the data to the print head; a main power supply that is connected to a commercial power source and supplies first power to the print head; a rechargeable sub-power supply that supplies second... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070211098 - Method and device for increasing number of ink drops in an ink drop jet of a continuously operating inkjet printer: The invention concerns a method for increasing the number of ink drops in an ink drop jet of a continuously operating inkjet printer, in which the ink drops of at least two separately produced ink drop jets are combined into an ink drop jet. In one example embodiment this is... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070211099 - Two-sided thermal print sensing: An apparatus and method for identifying a type of media installed in a two- or dual-sided thermal printer is provided. In one embodiment, one or more functions of the dual-sided thermal printer may be enabled or disabled depending on the identified media type.... Agent: Charles Maney Ncr Corporation, Law Dept.

20070211101 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus includes: a first group of large nozzles which eject large droplets of liquid for a color; a second group of small nozzles which eject small droplets of the liquid for the color, the small droplets having volume smaller than the large droplets; a dot data creation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211100 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method, and image recording program: e

20070211105 - Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet head includes an ejecting unit for ejecting ink droplets toward a recording medium and an ejection port substrate in which ejection ports from which ink droplets are ejected are opened, in which a surface of the ejection port substrate on a side from which the ink droplets... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211111 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, and process for producing lithographic printing plate: An ink composition is provided that includes (A) an N-vinyllactam, (B) a radically polymerizable compound, and (C) a polymerization initiator, the content of the N-vinyllactam (A) being at least 10 wt % of the ink total weight, and the content ratio by weight of (A):(B) being 1:8.5 to 1:1. There... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211115 - Liquid discharge head and producing method therefor: For providing a producing method for a liquid discharge head having an excellent reliability in the insulation of test electrode pad, the invention provides a method for producing a liquid discharge head including a liquid discharge energy generating element for generating a liquid discharge energy, a liquid discharge port, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211117 - Liquid discharge head and manufacturing method therefor: A liquid discharge head comprises a substrate, on which are formed energy generating means for generating energy to be used for the discharge of a liquid through a discharge port, and a precious metal protective layer for protecting the energy generating means, an inorganic adhesive layer formed of at least... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211118 - Droplet ejection head and droplet ejection apparatus: A droplet ejection head includes: a first laminate having plural nozzles; a second laminate bonded to the first laminate and internally having plural pressure generating chambers communicating with the plurality of nozzles; plural piezoelectric devices having individual electrodes and common electrodes, the plural piezoelectric devices being provided in the second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070211120 - Droplet discharging head and droplet discharging device: A droplet discharging head includes: a nozzle portion that discharges a liquid material; a liquid chamber that is in communication with the nozzle portion and supplies the liquid material to the nozzle portion in receiving a pressure from outside; and a reservoir that is in communication with a plurality of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070211121 - Semiconductor device, ink cartridge, and electronic device: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate including an active element formation face on which an active element is formed; detection electrodes detecting a remaining amount of ink by being wet in the ink; an antenna transmitting and receiving information; a storage circuit storing information relating to the ink; and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070211123 - Inkjet printhead and method of removing bubbles in the same: An inkjet printhead includes an ink flow channel including a pressure chamber, a nozzle to communicate with the pressure chamber, an actuator to provide a driving force to eject ink from the pressure chamber, and a plurality of electrodes, a lower voltage is applied to an electrode closer to the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070211086 - Recording apparatus having skew removal: A recording apparatus has a paper feeder wherein single sheets of paper can be set, a paper delivery device for transporting paper fed from the paper feeder to a recorder, and a control unit for controlling operation of the paper feeder and the paper delivery device. The control unit has... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070211092 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus is provided that includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge recording liquid as one or more recording liquid droplets; a drive waveform generating unit configured to generate a drive waveform including at least two drive signals within one printing period; a drive unit configured to input... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070211093 - Wide format print assembly having high resolution printhead: A print assembly is provided having an elongate carrier that is mountable on a support structure of a printer, printhead integrated circuits mounted on the carrier, and control circuitry positioned on the carrier and operatively connected to the printhead integrated circuits to control operation thereof. The printhead integrated circuits are... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211097 - Image printing using print quality enhancing ink: Image quality is improved by adjusting the ejection amount of quality enhancing ink based on the ejection amount of colored ink containing colorant. When a relatively high gross printing medium is used, the quality enhancing ink is ejected in an image area where virtually no colored ink is ejected, thereby... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211095 - Printhead substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus: An object of this invention is to implement higher-quality printing at a higher speed by changing an electric current value to a printing element and adjusting energy applied to the printing element in an inkjet printhead. To achieve this object, a current regulating circuit is arranged on the head substrate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211102 - Ink supply arrangement incorporating sets of passages for carrying respective types of ink: An ink supply arrangement is provided for supplying ink to an inkjet printhead. The ink supply arrangement includes an elongate ink distribution molding, in turn, defining a printhead channel in which the printhead can be received. The ink distribution molding further defines sets of passages for supplying respective types of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211103 - Ink jet printing apparatus: An ink jet printing apparatus includes a configuration in which a liquid for a head is supplied to a wiper sliding, and abutting, on a face of an ink jet head, the face being provided with ink ejection openings, and in which the face is cleaned by performing a wiping... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070211104 - Modular inkjet printhead with mating formations: A pagewidth printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes an elongate support. A plurality of printhead modules is supported by the support. Each printhead module includes rows of unit cells. Each unit cell includes a nozzle through which ink can be ejected and an actuator configured to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211107 - Ink jet head, method of manufacturing the ink jet head, and ink jet recording device: An ink jet head with a plurality of ink jetting units enabling the easy filling of ink and an operation for recovering from defective jetting, a method of manufacturing the ink jet head, and an ink jet recording device. The ink jet head comprises a nozzle plate in which a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070211106 - Liquid discharging device: The present invention is a liquid discharge device having a function of supplying liquid to liquid chambers in a stable manner, and also has a function of suppressing interference between liquid discharge portions due to discharging of liquid droplets. The liquid discharge device has a liquid discharge head in which... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070211109 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head includes: a plurality of pressure chambers into which liquid is filled; a plurality of nozzles which are connected to the pressure chambers; a common flow channel which supplies the liquid to the pressure chambers; a plurality of liquid ejection devices which cause the liquid inside the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211108 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus including liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection head for ejecting liquid from nozzles includes: pressure chambers connecting to the nozzles; a common liquid chamber which is connected to the pressure chambers, is arranged across the pressure chambers from the nozzles, and is defined by at least a multi-layer wiring substrate which has a recess-shaped... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211110 - Radiation curable photochromic inks: An ink that may be used in ink jet devices is a photochromic ink comprising an ink vehicle that includes at least one radiation curable component, at least one photochromic material and at least one photoinitiator. The ink is cured via exposure to radiation that cures the at least one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070211112 - Ink jet printer nozzle assembly with micro-electromechanical paddles: An inkjet printer nozzle assembly includes a substrate. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate and defines a nozzle chamber into which ink can be fed and an ink ejection port though which the ink can be ejected. An elongate actuator assembly... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211113 - Wide format print assembly having cmos drive circuitry: A print assembly is provided having an elongate carrier that is mountable on a support structure of a printer, printhead integrated circuits mounted on the carrier, and CMOS drive circuitry positioned on the carrier and operatively connected to the printhead integrated circuits to drive operation thereof. The printhead integrated circuits... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211114 - Inkjet head: An inkjet head includes a passage unit and an actuator unit. The passage unit includes a common ink chamber and an individual ink passage leading from an outlet of the common ink chamber through a pressure chamber to an ejection port. The actuator unit can selectively take a first state... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070211116 - Nozzle arrangement with heater element terminating in oppositely disposed electrical contacts: A nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink supply passage. The substrate assembly includes a drive circuitry layer. A heater is positioned on the substrate assembly and includes a heater element terminating in a pair of oppositely arranged electrical contacts.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211119 - Inkjet printer cartridge refill dispenser with plunge action: A printing fluid dispenser that has a housing with first and second portions, the first portion being displaceable relative to the second portion. A quantity of printing fluid is contained in the housing and a resilient member deforms in response to displacement of the first portion relative to the second... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070211122 - Inkjet recording apparatus: In an inkjet recording apparatus in which a single ink supply path for hermetically sealing an ink tank and a recording head from the atmosphere is formed by connecting the ink tank to first and second hollow needles. When the ink tank is detached, the flow path is sealed in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070211126 - Inkjet ink set: An ink set is provided which produces a printed article having excellent physical durability. The ink set comprises a first liquid composition containing a reactive carbonyl group and a second liquid composition containing a co-reactive amine group, at least one of the first liquid composition and the second liquid composition... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070211124 - Photochromic phase change inks: An ink set is made up of at least three differently colored phase change inks, for example cyan, magenta and yellow, wherein at least one of the colored phase change inks is a photochromic ink that contains a photochromic material. Upon exposure to activating radiation such as ultraviolet light, the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070211125 - Pigmented ink-jet inks with quality enhancing polymers: An ink-jet ink includes a jettable vehicle, a plurality of pigment solids dispersed in the jettable vehicle, and a plurality of structurally related polymers dispersed in the jettable vehicle. Additionally, a system for printing images on a porous photo medium includes a jettable ink and a printhead loaded with the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070211127 - Ink-jet printing device including a microwave heating device: A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printer with at least one ink-jet printing device for colored printing of a printing naterial, such as a continuous roll feed material, said printing device including a heating device that applies microwaves to the printing material in... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070211128 - Printing process: A process including selecting an ink having a viscosity that varies continuously over a range of transfuse process temperatures; forming an image on a preliminary receiving surface or on a final receiving substrate with the selected ink; providing a final receiving substrate at a selected temperature optionally comprising modifying the... Agent: Marylou J. Lavoie, Esq. LLC

20070211129 - Ejection inspection device, liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing electro-optic device, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus: An ejection inspection device includes: an inspection stage on which an inspection sheet is sucked and mounted; a sheet feeding mechanism which feeds the inspection sheet wound in a roll form onto the inspection stage; a sheet taking-up mechanism which takes up the fed inspection sheet from the inspection stage;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070211130 - Fusible inkjet recording element and related methods of coating and printing: An inkjet recording element comprises a support having thereon at least one ink-receiving layer, including a porous fusible layer comprising fusible polymeric particles and a thermoresponsive polymer that is capable of exhibiting a lower critical solution temperature below 20° C.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070211131 - Image printing device and multi-function device: An image printing device including (1) a first tray that holds a print medium on which an image is to be printed, (2) a first opening disposed at a front of the image printing device, in which the first tray is disposed, (3) a second opening disposed at the front... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070211132 - Two-sided thermal print configurations: Apparatus and methods for two-sided direct thermal printing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a dual-sided direct thermal printer comprising a first thermal print head and a second thermal print head is provided wherein a surface of the first thermal print head acts as a platen for the second thermal print... Agent: Charles Maney Ncr Corporation, Law Dept.

20070211133 - Thermal printhead: A thermal printhead (A) according to the present invention includes a heating resistor (5) formed on a substrate (1), an electrode (3) for energizing the heating resistor (5), and a protection film (6) for covering the heating resistor (5) and the electrode (3). The protection film (6) has a surface... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070211134 - Direct thermal and inkjet dual-sided printing: In one embodiment there is provided a dual-sided printer including a direct thermal print head positioned proximate to a first platen and an inkjet print head positioned proximate to a second platen. The direct thermal print head is in a substantially opposed relation to the second platen and the inkjet... Agent: Charles Maney Ncr Corporation, Law Dept.

20070211135 - Dual-sided two-ply direct thermal image element: A dual-sided two-ply direct thermal image element is provided. In one embodiment, the dual-sided two-ply direct thermal image element comprises a first substrate having a first side and a second side, and a second substrate having a first side and a second side, wherein both the first substrate and the... Agent: Charles Maney Ncr Corporation, Law Dept.

20070211136 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus (1) utilizing electrophotographic technology, position and posture of a laser scan unit (5) with respect top a frame (13) is adjusted easily without cost rise and upsizing of the apparatus. Semicircular recesses (53) and an elongate hole (54) are formed at each of three fixing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070211137 - Optical writing unit and method of manufacturing the same: An optical writing unit includes a housing, at least one light source, and/or at least one aperture member. In at least one embodiment, the at least one light source emits a light beam, and the at least one aperture member passes the light beam emitted from the at least one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070206039 - Ink jet printing apparatus, method for determining print medium, and method for determining ink ejection amount: The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus that can prevent the erroneous selection of the print mode, which may degrade the image quality, without imposing any special burden on the user. Specifically, the present invention forms a dot on a print medium to sense the ability of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206041 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus includes: large nozzles which eject large droplets of liquid, the large droplets being deposited onto a recording medium and forming large dots; small nozzles which eject small droplets of the liquid of volume smaller than the large droplets, the small droplets being deposited onto the recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070206040 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes a conveyor unit that conveys a recording medium, liquid droplet ejection head that records an image by ejecting liquid droplets onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveyor unit, and a controller that increases or decreases ejection timing of the liquid droplet ejection head... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070206043 - Method for quality improvement of printing with a thermotransfer print head and arrangement for implementation of the method: In a method and apparatus for improving the printing with a thermotransfer print head, an energy value is calculated before the printing process according to different types to be implemented when a dot is to be printed. Energy values also are calculated for the heating elements at the ends of... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070206045 - Ink-jet recording ink set and ink-jet recording method:

20070206047 - Image recording apparatus: A protruding member is provided on a recording head side, a droplet receiving portion having a flat surface portion formed thereon is provided, and the flat surface portion of the droplet receiving portion is brought into contact with the protruding member on the recording head side to cap the recording... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070206050 - Printhead assembly with ink pump and shut off valve: A printhead assembly for engagement with an ink supply (112), a printhead integrated circuit (IC) (74) in fluid communication with the ink supply via an upstream ink line (67), the printhead IC (74), a waste ink outlet in fluid communication with the printhead IC (74) via a downstream ink line... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206053 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, process for producing lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing plate: An ink composition is provided that includes (A) one type of compound (monomer (A)) selected from the group consisting of a difunctional (meth)acrylic acid ester or amide having an alkylene group of 6 to 12 carbons, and a difunctional vinyl ether having an alkylene group of 6 to 12 carbons,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070206056 - Fluidically damped printhead: A printhead for an inkjet printer that has a printhead integrated circuit (68) with nozzles for ejecting ink, and a support structure (64, 176, 108) for supporting the printhead IC. The support structure has ink conduits (182) for supplying the nozzles with ink and a fluidic damper 200 containing gas... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206058 - Liquid droplet jetting head and method of manufacturing liquid droplet jetting head: A piezoelectric actuator, a cavity plate, a base plate, and a supply plate are common in normal specifications, black high-speed focused specifications, and color-image focused specifications, but other plates such as a manifold plate, a damper plate, a spacer plate, and a nozzle plate are produced according to these specifications.... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070206057 - Printhead with non-priming cavities for pulse damping: A printhead for an inkjet printer that has a printhead integrated circuit (68) with nozzles for ejecting ink and a support structure (64, 174, 176) for supporting the printhead IC. The support structure having ink conduits (182) for supplying the array of nozzles. A plurality of cavities (200), each cavity... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206064 - Inkjet printing head and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed is an inkjet printing head which ejects ink in response to generation a bubble in the ink accompanying the action of heat from a heater, and which preferably allows ejection energy to be effectively used, and desired attachment accuracy of a movable valve to be secured and maintained. To... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206063 - Liquid ejection head: Disclosed is a liquid ejection head capable of performing a stable ejection operation at high speed even when thermal expansion of a valve supporting member occurs during liquid ejection. This is because the liquid ejection head allows the thermal expansion to influence supported valves only to a small extent, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206065 - Liquid recording head: A liquid recording head includes an element substrate on which ejection energy generating elements for generating energy for ejecting droplets of liquid are provided in a staggered arrangement; ejection outlets provided opposed to the ejection energy generating elements; ejection energy generation chambers enclosing the ejection energy generating elements; and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206070 - Fluidically controlled inkjet printhead: l

20070206072 - Printer with active fluidic architecture: A inkjet printer that has an ink supply (112), a printhead integrated circuit (IC) (74) in fluid communication with the ink supply via an upstream ink line (67), the printhead IC (74), a waste ink outlet in fluid communication with the printhead IC (74) via a downstream ink line (106),... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206073 - Printhead assembly with shut off valve for isolating the printhead: A printhead assembly with a printhead integrated circuit (IC) and a shut off (138) valve that has a valve body (200) defining an ink inlet (202) for connection to an ink supply, an ink outlet (67) connected to the printhead IC. A moveable valve member (212) is biased into sealing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206079 - Printhead with elongate array of nozzles and distributed pulse dampers: A printhead for an inkjet printer that has an elongate array of nozzles (68) for ejecting ink and ink conduits for supplying the array of nozzles with ink. The ink conduits extend adjacent the elongate array and have a plurality of pulse dampers individually in fluid communication with the ink... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206035 - Information terminal with return tray: The invention relates to an information terminal which has at least a basic housing, a display screen, an input apparatus such as a keyboard and/or a card reader, and an output apparatus for outputting documents. Documents which are not picked up by the user are deposited in a return tray.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070206036 - Printer and print control method: In a printer, an MPU makes a flash ROM store a temperature read by a temperature sensor at the time of setting of a correction value and a misalignment correction number indicating a misalignment correction value. At the time of reciprocating print motion of a printer, the printer makes the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070206037 - Toner remain amount detecting method, image forming apparatus and mfp: A toner remain detecting method according to this invention including: detecting toner density; supplying a toner amount corresponding to predetermined toner density; detecting a toner remain amount every time toner supply is carried out; and displaying toner near-empty if the toner remain amount becomes equal to or less than a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070206038 - Ink jet printing with multiple conveyors: A fluid delivery system includes a first conveyor adapted to transport a substrate and a second conveyor disposed adjacent to the first conveyor. The second conveyor is configured to receive the substrate across a gap from the first conveyor. A fluid delivery head is disposed above the gap between the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206042 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by using coloring materials of at least three colors of cyan, magenta and yellow, wherein: at least one of the cyan and magenta color materials is a coloring material of lower density than the yellow; and ink brightness or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070206044 - Drop discharge head and method of producing the same: A method of producing a drop discharge head comprising the steps of; providing a silicon substrate; forming a channel-forming element from the silicon substrate having a pressure chamber for containing a fluid to be pressurized, and a nozzle-communicating channel for conducting the pressurized fluid to a nozzle, wherein the nozzle-communicating... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070206046 - Printing apparatus, recording head cleaning method, control process and computerized cleaning program for the recording head in a printer: The cleaning process best suited to the condition of an inkjet printer is selected and run, thereby removing nozzle clogging without wastefully consuming ink. The first time a cleaning switch 7 is operated a CL1 cleaning process is run. If the cleaning switch 7 is pressed a second time and... Agent: Anderson Kill & Olick P.C.

20070206048 - Head capping member, head maintenance or recovery device, device for ejecting a liquid drop, and image forming apparatus: A head capping member for capping an ejection face of a liquid ejecting head which face is provided with a nozzle for ejecting a liquid drop is provided, which includes a contact part which contacts the ejection face of the head and is made of an elastic member and a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070206049 - Duplexed inkjet printhead assembly with dual capping mechanism: A pagewidth printhead assembly that has a pair of pagewidth printheads, each having an array of nozzle for ejecting ink such that the pair of pagewidth printheads print both sides of a sheet of media simultaneously. The assembly also having a capping mechanism with a pair of capping members for... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206051 - Method for assembling a modular printhead assembly: A method for assembling a modular printhead assembly that has a channel member with flexible sides, an elongate ink-delivery member and a plurality of modules for being received in the channel member in fluid communication with the ink-delivery member, includes the step of flexing the sides of the channel member... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206052 - Print assembly and printer having wide printing zone: A print assembly is provided having an elongate carrier that is mountable on a support structure of a printer, printhead integrated circuits mounted on the carrier, and control circuitry positioned on the carrier and operatively connected to the printhead integrated circuits to control operation thereof. The printhead integrated circuits are... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206054 - Curable composition, ink composition, inkjet-recording method, and planographic printing plate: The present invention provides a curable composition including: a compound having a single partial structure containing a cyclic ether group, and at least one linear alkyl group having 5 or more carbon atoms; and a compound that generates acid when irradiated with radiation. The present invention also provides an ink... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070206055 - Droplet deposition apparatus: An inkjet printer has ink channels extending through a body, each channel being offset relative to a central plane with respect to the adjacent channel. A manifold extends through the body, intersecting each channel to define a channel end profile. The channel end profile of one channel is substantially a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070206059 - Method of fabricating a printhead integrated circuit attachment film: A method of fabricating a film for attachment of one or more printhead integrated circuits to an ink supply manifold is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing an adhesive polymeric film having a protective liner; (b) depositing photoresist onto the protective liner; (c) photopatterning the photoresist to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206060 - Recording liquid, liquid cartridge, liquid ejection cartridge, liquid ejection apparatus, and liquid ejection method: A recording liquid contains a coloring matter, a solvent for dissolving or dispersing the coloring matter, and a nonionic surfactant, wherein the recording liquid has a foaming power of 0 mm to 50 mm and a foam stability of 0 mm to 50 mm, the foaming power and the foam... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070206061 - Substrate for liquid discharge head, liquid discharge head using substrate for liquid discharge head and method of manufacturing the same: A number of steps is reduced by manufacturing an electrode pad connecting a liquid discharge head to an external wiring by the same step of a common wiring for supplying an electric power to a discharge energy generating portion. A number of manufacturing steps of a head is reduced by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206062 - Flexible circuits, flexible circuit assemblies and assemblies for use with fluid ejection apparatuses: Assemblies for use with a fluid ejection apparatus, flexible circuit assemblies and flexible circuits. One such flexible circuit includes a flexible substrate and conductive lines adjacent the substrate. The conductive lines are capable of being operably connected with bonds of an ejector. Each of the lines has a resistance. At... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070206066 - Ink channel extrusion module for a pagewidth printhead: An elastomeric ink delivery extrusion transports ink and air to printhead modules in an ink jet printhead assembly. A series of patterned holes are laser ablated onto an upper surface of the extrusion. These interface with inlets on the underside of a series of printhead modules of the assembly and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206071 - Ink jet recorder and ink filling method: An ink jet recorder comprises: line heads (4) including a plurality of nozzle heads (41), main tanks (13) placed outside of the line heads (4) to store ink; an ink supply passage (13a, 49a, 49c) that connects the main tanks (13) to the associated nozzle heads (41), and distribution tanks... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070206067 - Internal vent channel in ejection head assemblies and methods relating thereto: Fluid ejection head assemblies, fluid ejection devices, and methods for improving fluid sealing of fluid ejection head assemblies. One such fluid ejection head assembly includes a substrate cavity and a substantially planar surface surrounding the substrate cavity. The substantially planar surface contains at least one external vent, at least one... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070206069 - Printer with ink flow shutoff valve: An inkjet printer with a printhead integrated circuit (IC) (28), an ink supply reservoir (6) for storing ink, an ink supply line (3) defining a flow path from the ink supply reservoir to the printhead IC, and a valve (22) in the ink supply line proximate the printhead IC selectively... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206068 - Pulse damped fluidic architecture: An inkjet printer with a printhead integrated circuit (IC) (28), an ink supply reservoir (6) for storing ink, an ink supply line (3) defining a flow path from the ink supply reservoir to the printhead IC (28). A pulse damper (16) positioned along the flow path to decrease the amplitude... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206076 - Ink cartridge and ink cartridge holder: An ink cartridge and an ink cartridge holder maintain the relative position between the information reading section of the ink cartridge holder and the information storing unit of the ink cartridge, which should be aligned accurately, even if the ink cartridge has instability to the ink cartridge holder due to... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070206075 - Ink reservoir with automatic air vent: An ink reservoir (2) for a printer with an inkjet printhead, having a housing (6) for storing a quantity of ink (42), an ink outlet valve (10), an air inlet valve (8); and, a valve actuator (52). The valve actuator opens the air inlet valve in response to the ink... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206074 - Unitary wick retainer and biasing device retainer for micro-fluid ejection head replaceable cartridge: A micro-fluid ejection head structure, method of sealing a removable fluid cartridge to a micro-fluid ejection head structure, and a cartridge carrier for removable fluid cartridges containing a micro-fluid ejection head structure. The micro-fluid ejection head structure includes a molded, multi-function member for attachment to the filter tower structure for... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070206077 - Configurable printer cartridge: A printer cartridge is provided having a cartridge body removably mountable to a printer cradle unit, a printing fluid storage supported by the cartridge body, a printhead mounted to the cartridge body and a power and data interface for communicating a capacity of the printing fluid storage to a print... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206078 - Print media tray assembly with ink transfer arrangement: A print media tray assembly includes a print media tray for storing a stack of print media. A feed mechanism is configured to feed said print media to a print engine mounted relative to the print media tray. The print engine includes a chassis and an ink cartridge mounted to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070206081 - Ejection liquid and ejection method: An object of the present invention is to provide an ejection liquid that allows a solution containing at least one kind of insulins to be stably ejected by an inkjet system using a thermal energy and a method of ejecting the solution containing at least one kind of insulins, using... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206080 - Recording liquid, liquid cartridge, liquid ejection cartridge, liquid ejection apparatus, and liquid ejection method: A recording liquid contains a coloring matter, a solvent for dissolving or dispersing the coloring matter, and a nonionic surfactant, wherein the recording liquid has a foaming power of 0 mm to 50 mm and a foam stability of 0 mm to 50 mm, the foaming power and the foam... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070206082 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus capable of inhibiting a take-up member from falling without separately providing a stop member is obtained. This image generating apparatus includes a take-up member for taking up an ink sheet, including a spring mount portion, a rotary shaft rotatably inserted into the take-up member, a spring... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070206083 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus, includes: recording head having nozzles that jet ink onto recording medium, wherein ink is cured by irradiating active energy ray and/or applying thermal energy; ink curing device for curing ink jetted onto recording medium, having an active energy ray irradiating unit and/or thermal energy applying unit;... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070206084 - Lens sheet and printer: A lens sheet has an external shape of a rectangle or a square defined by four sheet ends in a vertical direction thereto. The lens sheet includes: a first surface, on which a plurality of lenses extending in a direction inclined to one of the sheet ends are arranged in... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070206085 - Optical print head using a glass arm waveguide: This invention relates to an optical mechanism comprising: an optical beam generating mechanism to generate an optical beam; and a unitary, transparent waveguide for guiding the optical beam to an optically writable surface wherein optical elements for guiding the optical beam are coated onto the waveguide to create a relatively... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company