Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 10/07

20070247480 - Liquid jetting apparatus and liquid jetting method and display device manufacturing method using the same: A liquid jetting apparatus capable of preventing an jetted organic liquid layer having a difference in its jetting amount from being recognized as a stain includes a plurality of jetting heads to jet an organic liquid onto a substrate having a plurality of pixels, and a convey unit to shift... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070247481 - Printing apparatus and method of determining amount of printing material: A printing apparatus comprising a dismountable printing material storage container having a piezoelectric element and a memory in which the characteristic frequency of the piezoelectric element is stored, comprising an acquiring unit configured to acquire the frequency information from the memory, a drive signal generating unit configured to generate and... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070247486 - Image forming apparatus and method of discharging ink from recording head: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head in which a plurality of nozzle groups is formed; a waste-liquid discharging mechanism which includes a plurality of suction caps covering the nozzle groups respectively, a suction mechanism the ink through the suction caps, a plurality of first channels communicating with the... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070247493 - Printing head, ink jet printing apparatus, and ink jet printing method: The present invention provides a printing head, an ink jet printing apparatus, and an ink jet printing method capable of achieving high-speed printing while realizing high-quality image. An ejection port face where an ejection port of the printing head is located is formed so that the normal line thereof intersects... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247494 - Liquid discharge head: A liquid discharge head includes a substrate, discharge units each including one liquid discharge port discharging the liquid, an energy generating element on the surface of the substrate and generating energy to discharge the liquid from the liquid discharge port, one liquid chamber in which the energy generating element is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

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20070247498 - Liquid cartridge and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid cartridge has a container main body detachably mounted to a cartridge mounting section of a liquid consuming apparatus. The container main body includes a case main body having a liquid reservoir and a cover that covers one side of the case main body; a board mounting section provided... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070247479 - Recording medium processing apparatus, printing method, and computer program: A recording medium processing apparatus is disclosed. The recording medium processing apparatus includes: a head unit which traces a track formed on a recording surface of a recording medium and reads a data signal; a signal processing unit which detects positional information of the recording medium on the basis of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070247482 - Inkjet printhead having modules with displaced inkjet rows: An inkjet printhead is provided having a plurality of printhead modules arranged across a pagewidth to be printed. Each printhead module has a plurality of rows of ink ejection nozzles. At least some of the rows include at least one displaced row portion. The displaced row portions of at least... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070247483 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus having a liquid ejection head, a maintenance portion that maintains the liquid ejection head, a pressure source that applies pressure to the maintenance portion, and a valve unit that controls the pressure applied from the pressure source to the maintenance portion. The valve unit includes a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070247484 - Method of cleaning head and inkjet recording apparatus: A method of a cleaning of an ejection face by supplying a head liquid on the face of an inkjet head provided with ink ejection openings and then by performing a wiping operation. Sufficient cleaning is achieved by appropriately specifying relative relationships among the surface tensions of the face, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247485 - Method and an apparatus for cleaning a printhead: A method and an apparatus for cleaning the printhead (1) of an ink printer, in particular a printer used in connection with industrial printing tasks e.g. on a package, wherein the cleaning takes place by means of vacuum, there being created a “vacuum-effect”, where the vacuum is established in a... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070247487 - Head cartridge and liquid ejection apparatus: where the restoring speed of the elastic deformation of the cleaning roller is denoted as Vu; the moving speed of the cleaning roller is denoted as Vr; the movement distance of the cleaning roller from a restoring initiation point of the elastic deformation to the center of the liquid ejection... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070247488 - Ink jet printer with high capacity tank and associated ink refilling system: The ink jet printer comprises a printhead (22) movable in front of a printing medium (30) and provided with an ink cartridge (25) integral with it; the cartridge is filled with ink from a main, high capacity tank (35), which is connected at intervals to the cartridge (25) by means... Agent: Venable LLP

20070247489 - Liquid jetting head and method of manufacturing the same: A liquid jetting head includes a nozzle plate, a liquid passage plate and a sealing plate. The nozzle plate is provided with a plurality of nozzle orifices. The liquid passage plate has a first face and a second face which are opposite to each other. The liquid passage plate is... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070247490 - Printhead having combined printhead module types: A printhead is provided which has a plurality of types of printheads modules. Each type of module is determined by its geometric shape in plan so that the combination of the determined module types forms the printhead to extend and print across a pagewidth. At least one row of printhead... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070247491 - Image forming apparatus, image forming program, image forming method, data generating apparatus, data generating program, data generating method, and recording medium with the program recorded therein: In an image forming method employing an inkjet technique, when a dot is formed by the use of a normal nozzle and an abnormal nozzle neighboring to the abnormal nozzle, binary data are corrected so as not to form the dot by the use of the abnormal nozzle and the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247492 - Liquid jet head, manufacturing method of the liquid jet head, image forming device, nozzle member of the liquid jet head, repellent ink film forming method, cartridged, and liquid jet recording device: A liquid jet head includes a nozzle forming member having a water repellent layer formed on a liquid drop jet side surface of a nozzle base having a nozzle hole configured to jet a liquid drop of recording liquid; wherein the water repellent layer is made of silicon resin; an... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070247496 - Recording liquid containing liquid cartridge and liquid emitting apparatus and method: Disclosed is a recording liquid for printing and recording the information on a support for printing, such as a recording paper sheet. This recording liquid contains dye, a solvent for dissolving or dispersing the dye, and a water-soluble organic solvent having a Cobb30 value as measured by an ultrasonic transmitting... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070247497 - Ink supply systems and methods for inkjet printheads: An ink container is provides ink to a vented printhead, where both the ink container and the vented printhead are positioned on a moveable carriage. The ink container receives ink from an off-carriage ink supply via an ink conduit. Air is removed from the printhead and ink container via a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070247499 - Multi-function thermoplastic elastomer layer for replaceable ink tank: A replaceable tank for attachment to a micro-fluid ejection head containing a multi-function thermoplastic elastomer layer, a method for sealing an exit port of a removable fluid reservoir for a micro-fluid ejection head using the multi-function thermoplastic elastomer layer, and a method for improving the handling and shipping of replaceable... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Neill R. Kahle, Jr. Esq.

20070247500 - Printing cartridge that incorporates casing for both print media and ink: A cartridge for a printing device includes a casing divided into a print media supply portion for housing sheets of paper and a storage portion for housing an ink supply and defining a print media exit opening. A print media transport mechanism is within the print media supply portion to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070247501 - Ink-jet printing apparatus and ink cartridge therefor: An ink jet type printing apparatus in which an ink supply needle is located near one side in a direction perpendicular to the reciprocated directions of a carriage, a circuit board is mounted on a wall of an ink cartridge in the vicinity of the side on which an ink... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070247502 - Ink-jet printing process and ink: The invention relates to a process of ink jet printing a radiation-curable ink from a printer having a de-wetting faceplate onto a substrate in which the ink is such that it has an advancing contact angle on the substrate of no more than 22° and a receding contact angle on... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070247503 - Actinic radiation curable inkjet ink, method for storing the actinic radiation curable inkjet ink, image forming method, and inkjet recording apparatus: An actinic radiation curable type inkjet ink is characterized in that the actinic radiation curable type inject ink contains an onium salt as a photolytically acid generating compound that does not produce benzene when exposed to actinic radiation, and a compound including an oxetane ring as a photo-polymerizable compound, wherein... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070247504 - Ink composition for ink jet recording, recording method and recorded matter: There is provided an ink composition for ink jet recording that, even on printing paper for running-on, can realize excellent gloss and good color reproduction and, at the same time, is excellent in ejection stability and recovery from clogging. The ink composition for ink jet recording comprises at least a... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070247505 - Apparatus and method for printing corrugated cardboard sheets: A printer using ink jet printing technology to print one or more colors on a sheet for use in a box is described. The printer has a feeder, a transport mechanism for moving the sheet the print head, and a stacker to receive the printed sheet. Differential air pressure is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070247508 - Droplet ejection apparatus and identification code: A droplet ejection apparatus that ejects liquid droplets containing metal ink onto a glass substrate includes a droplet ejection head, a transport device, a semiconductor laser, a reflective mirror, and a first shifting device. The droplet ejection head has a nozzle plate opposed to the substrate. The droplets are ejected... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247506 - Light irradiation apparatus and injet printer: A light irradiation apparatus in which high peak irradiance is obtained and the heat influence on the article being irradiated with light is reduced, and also an inkjet printer which has such a light irradiation apparatus in which pictures with high image quality can be reliably made and the amount... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070247507 - Trace forming method, droplet ejection apparatus, and circuit module: A trace forming method comprises ejecting a droplet of a trace forming material onto a substrate; radiating a laser beam on to the droplet on the substrate for drying the droplet to form a trace with the droplet; and using a polarized light with 80% to 100% of p-polarized components... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247509 - Media multi-feed rejection process with an encoded counter-rotating roller: This invention relates to a media multi-feed rejection apparatus, comprising: a plurality of feed rollers; a feed roller driving means operatively connected to one of the plurality of feed rollers; a clutch means operatively connected to the other of the plurality of feed rollers; and a single channel encoder means... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070247510 - Optical scanner and image forming apparatus: An optical scanner for writing an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier includes a scanning optical system that forms an optical scanning path, a pair of optical detecting units arranged at two positions on the optical scanning path for detecting a write-start position and a write-end position to measure... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247513 - Optical disk and recording method of visible figures into optical disk: Multicolor characters or pictures are written in an optical disk in a visible manner. The optical disk comprises a figure writing layer for writing a visible figure in addition to a data recording layer for recording data. Recording of user data in the data recording layer and the writing of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070247512 - Track control method for marking label side of optical disc: In a track control method for marking a label side of an optical disc, a data side of the optical disc is first oriented to an optical head. A light beam is then emitted and a sled carrying the optical head moves. A series of moving distances of the sled... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070247511 - Architectures for multi-functional image forming devices: Multi-functional image forming devices that may include a base color laser printer comprising a front side, a back side, a top, and a bottom. The color laser printer may further include a media path, a laser printhead, and a plurality of image forming units. A scanning mechanism comprising a scan... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070247514 - Automatic laser power uniformity calibration: This invention relates to a method of laser power uniformity calibration, comprising: printing a first pattern by a first laser beam; moving the first laser beam to print a second pattern such that the second pattern is located at a predetermined distance from the first pattern; printing the first and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070242091 - Inkjet ink and ink set: This invention pertains to an aqueous based magenta inkjet ink with good hue, chroma, optical density, fade resistance, and long latency, comprising a certain specified combination of soluble magenta colorants.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070242092 - Ink jet printhead control circuit: An ink jet printhead control circuit is provided. The ink jet printhead control circuit includes at least a nozzle firing circuit and a nozzle firing control circuit. The nozzle firing circuit includes a switch and a heating resistor. The switch and the heating resistor are coupled in series between a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070242093 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus for effecting recording by scanningly moving a recording head, wherein the apparatus is provided with a group of a plurality of arrays each including a plurality of nozzles, wherein the group is responsive to one-color recording data, includes selecting means for selecting a block of a predetermined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242096 - Ink-jet recording device, image-processing device, and image processing method: Color processing is performed for each image data, so as to switch generating methods for black data to perform appropriate sharpness processing regarding image data wherein sharpness of printing results is important and image data wherein gradation of the image is important. A recording device is provided, wherein by performing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242105 - Filler fluids for droplet operations: The present invention relates to filler fluids for droplet operations. According to one embodiment of this aspect, a droplet microactuator is provided and includes: (a) a first substrate comprising electrodes configured for conducting droplet operations on a surface of the substrate; (b) a second substrate spaced from the surface of... Agent: Ward And Smith, P.A.

20070242108 - Ink jet head: An ink jet head includes a plurality of energy generating elements for generating energy for ejecting an ink droplet; a substrate including an ink supply port extending in a direction and the energy generating elements arranged on both sides of the ink supply port; a plurality of ink ejection outlets... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242111 - Droplet-based diagnostics: The present invention relates to droplet-based diagnostics. According to one embodiment, a droplet microactuator system is provided and includes: (a) a droplet microactuator configured to conduct droplet operations; and (b) a sensor configured in a sensing relationship with the droplet microactuator, such that the sensor is capable of sensing a... Agent: Ward And Smith, P.A.

20070242113 - Ink supply apparatus and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink supply apparatus for supplying ink from an ink tank to a recording head includes an atmosphere communication chamber that is connected to the ink tank, a first hollow tube that connects the atmosphere communication chamber to the outside air wherein one end is extended into the atmosphere communication... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242094 - Printhead having controllers for multi-channel printhead modules: A printhead is provided having elongate printhead modules arranged parallel to each other to 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 ink ejection nozzles. At least one... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242095 - Inkjet printhead that prints keep-wet dots to avoid clogging: An inkjet printhead with a plurality of nozzles, a heater element adjacent each of the nozzles respectively for heating an ejectable liquid to form a gas bubble that causes the ejection of a drop of the ejectable liquid from the nozzle, and, a print engine controller for controlling the operation... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242097 - Printing apparatus, printer controller, printer controller method: [Object] To provide a printing apparatus and a printing method in which printing onto a label surface can also be performed when backing up data in a non-volatile storage medium. [Solving Means] A printing apparatus includes: storage means having a first unit that holds a non-volatile storage medium therein and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070242098 - Method of determining ink ejection method, printing apparatus, and method of manufacturing printing apparatus: Density unevenness caused in an image formed with an overlap portion of nozzles is suppressed. For this purpose, a method of determining an ink ejection method includes: transporting a medium in a transporting direction; forming an image with a nozzle unit having a plurality of nozzle rows in which a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242099 - Thermally stable pagewidth printhead assembly incorporating a laminated structure: A pagewidth printhead assembly has an elongate support beam, an elongate shell at least partially enclosing and restraining the support beam and printhead integrated circuits mounted to the support beam so as to be substantially aligned with one another along the pagewidth. The shell has a laminated structure.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242100 - Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and ink jet recording apparatus: An image forming method using a black ink containing a pigment, a black ink containing a dye, and a reactive color ink capable of unstabilizing the dispersion state of the pigment in the black ink, wherein the method includes one of the steps of, on at least part of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242102 - Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus: To provide a highly reliable, compact, and inexpensive ink jet recording head, the present invention includes: a liquid discharge substrate having on a front surface side a discharge port for discharging a liquid, and having, on a back surface side, a liquid discharge port for supplying the liquid discharged from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242101 - Ink jet recording head and recording apparatus: The present invention provides a highly reliable, small-sized, and inexpensive ink jet recording head by configuring the ink jet recording head including an electrical wiring member that is joined with a back surface of a liquid discharge substrate, and that includes a liquid supply port communicating with the liquid supply... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242103 - Inkjet nozzle arrangement with thermal bend actuator capable of differential thermal expansion: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly, in turn, including an electrical drive circuitry layer and defining an ink inlet channel. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly. The nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242104 - Inkjet printhead for minimizing required ink drop momentum: An inkjet printhead assembly includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet passages. Drive circuitry is arranged on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is arranged on the substrate and defines nozzle chambers in fluid communication with respective ink inlet passages and ink ejection ports in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242106 - Base member for liquid discharge head, liquid discharge head utilizing the same, and producing method therefor: For providing a base member for liquid discharge head having internal surface of liquid flow path and discharge port, suppressed in swelling by liquid and having high precision and high reliability, the invention provides a base member including a base member, an energy generating element for discharging a liquid, formed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242107 - Liquid discharge head, liquid discharger, and image forming apparatus: A liquid discharge head configured to discharge liquid is disclosed that includes a silicone resin layer formed on the side of a surface from which the liquid is discharged. The silicone resin layer serves as a water-repellent layer. The number of water-repellent molecular chains is greater than or equal to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070242110 - Fluid ejection device metal layer layouts: A fluid ejection device comprises a first metal layer and a second metallayer. The first metal layer comprises an address path portion and a nonaddress path portion. The second metal layer, which overlies the first metal layer, comprises a first portion which comprises a power conducting portion. The power conducting... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070242109 - Ink jet heads: An inkjet head includes a flow passage unit having an ink flow passage formed therein, in which ink flows, and an actuator unit secured to the flow passage unit. The actuator unit is configured to apply a discharge energy to the ink within the ink flow passage. The inkjet head... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070242112 - Inkjet printer and ink tank: The ink tank includes an ink chamber and a cleaning solvent chamber. Ink is stored in the ink chamber. Cleaning solvent is stored in the cleaning solvent chamber. Mounting portions are provided on the bottom surface side of the ink tank. One of the mounting portions is provided corresponding to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070242114 - Liquid container: An ink cartridge 500 according to the invention is mounted on a carriage to reciprocate together with a coating head and serves to supply an ink in an air side containing portion 270 and a supply side containing portion 290 to the coating head. The air side containing portion 270... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070242115 - Liquid container: A liquid container detachably mountable on a liquid ejection apparatus, includes: a surface parallel to an insertion direction into the liquid ejection apparatus; and a plurality of conformity identification protrusions integrally formed at the surface to be in parallel to the insertion direction for preventing erroneous insertion of the liquid... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070242117 - Liquid container: A liquid container that comprises a first member and a second member fixed to the first member and is detachably mounted on a liquid ejecting apparatus, wherein a first shape corresponding to a liquid capacity is integrally formed in the first member, a second shape corresponding to a liquid kind... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070242116 - Liquid seal and liquid ejection apparatus: The liquid ejection apparatus is capable of reducing the increase of the viscosity of a liquid due to evaporation of the liquid and also for reducing the quantity of the atmospheric air dissolving into the ink. A liquid seal used for a liquid ejection apparatus which performs recording by ejecting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242120 - Ink composition, inkjet recording method, printed material, process for producing lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing plate: (In Formulae (I) and (II), R1 and R2 independently denote a monovalent substituent, R3 to R6 independently denote a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, n denotes an integer of 0 to 5, and n′ denotes an integer of 0 to 5; n and n′ are not both 0, when... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242119 - Ink composition for ink jet recording, recording method and recorded matter: There is provided an ink composition that, even on various recording media, especially gloss paper of a printing paper base, can yield an image having excellent gloss, can realize good recovery from clogging and handleability of recorded matter, and, at the same time, can realize excellent ejection stability and color... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070242118 - Ink set, recording method and recorded article: An ink set, provided with at least a magenta ink composition, a yellow ink composition and a cyan ink composition, wherein the magenta ink composition has an L* value of 60 or more and a b* value of −17 or less when the CIE standard a* value as calculated from... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070242121 - Web: Various embodiments and methods relating to a web are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070242122 - Photo printer: A photo printer including a printer body having a printing engine disposed therein, a conveying unit to reciprocate a printing medium supplied to the printing engine, a supplying unit disposed at an upper portion of the printer body to supply the printing medium to the printing engine, a supplying passage... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070242123 - Media web cartridge removably mountable to printing system: A media web cartridge configured to store a media web and to be removably mountable to a printing system so as to introduce the media web thereto is provided. The cartridge has a shaft about which the media web is rotatably wound, a support member mounting the shaft to the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070242124 - Organic particle for inkjet recording sheet and recording sheet: m

20070242125 - Multi-beam scanning unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A multi-beam scanning unit is provided in which optical interference does not occur between a plurality of image-forming beams on an image-forming surface, and an image forming apparatus including the multi-beam scanning unit. The multi-beam scanning unit comprises a light unit having a plurality of light-emitting points for irradiating laser... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070242126 - Angular adjustment of mems torsion oscillator scanner: Apparatus for aligning a scanner assembly in a laser scanning unit for an image forming device. A MEMS torsion oscillator is attached to a spherical base that is received by a socket in a laser scanning unit. The pivotal center of the scanner coincides with the center of the spherical... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070242127 - Pixel clock generating apparatus, optical writing apparatus using a pixel clock, imaging apparatus, and method for generating pixel clocks: A pixel clock generating apparatus comprises a data offset circuit and a pixel generator. The data offset circuit defines multiple data blocks, each data block consisting of a predetermined number of successive clocks, and produces phase data for each data block. The phase data represents an amount and a direction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242128 - Image forming apparatus, optical scanning apparatus, and auto light power control method: An image forming apparatus includes light source having multiple light-emitting portions, rotating polygonal mirror which deflects a beam that is emitted from light source, and photosensitive member which is exposed by beams in an image period that is included in one scanning cycle of the beam. One scanning cycle of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070236521 - Droplet ejection head drive apparatus and inkjet recording apparatus: A droplet ejection head drive apparatus including a capacitive device that ejects droplets, plural electrodes to which at least three kinds of voltage values are input, plural switch elements that are provided corresponding to each of the electrodes and that apply the voltage values to the capacitive device. Bidirectional switch... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070236522 - Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method: A voltage pulse that keeps the ejection volume within a specified range is selected for a plurality of print element columns, based on the heater rank and ink temperature information that influences the ejection volume during ink ejection. At this time, the voltage pulse is controlled so that the voltage... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236523 - Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method: A plurality of print modes having different drive voltage values are provided for each ink temperature and, in each print mode, the ejection volume control is performed by adjusting the drive pulse. In a high quality mode that gives priority to an image quality, a drive pulse of relatively low... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236525 - Data processing apparatus, printing apparatus and method of creating mask: Beading caused by interferences between block patterns, which are driving patterns of two nozzle arrays at the time of printing with the use of the two nozzle arrays for the same color, and a mask is reduced. Specifically, when the mask is created, repulsive potentials are calculated between the mask... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236526 - Data processing apparatus, printing apparatus and method of creating mask pattern: The interference between the dot arrangement pattern used for binarizing an image and the mask pattern for processing the dot arrangement pattern can be reduced and the well dispersed dot arrangement can realized by using the mask pattern. Specifically, in creating the mask, repulsive potential between the mask and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236524 - Droplet ejection head, method of producing the same and droplet ejection apparatus: The present invention provides a droplet ejection head having a liquid ejection energy driving device to eject a liquid from a nozzle, the droplet ejection head including: a nozzle plate provided with a nozzle to eject liquid droplets; a tetrahedral amorphous carbon film provided on the nozzle plate; and a... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070236528 - Image forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus has: a transfer belt transferring a sheet; an encoder outputting a pulse signal in response to a rotational motion of the transfer belt; a bell reference sensor detecting a belt reference mark provided on the transfer belt; a first accumulator measuring a rotational position of the transfer... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070236530 - Printer and cleaning device therefor: A printer comprises a guide rod, an optical strip, an inkjet device and a cleaning device. The optical strip is parallel to the guide rod. The inkjet device is disposed on the guide rod, comprising an encoder, wherein the optical strip passes the encoder. The cleaning device cleans the optical... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070236540 - Ink jet printhead: An ink jet printhead which includes a line of nozzles arranged with a uniform first pitch in a line direction X, a plurality of parallel ink channels having an axial direction normal to said line direction X and arranged in groups within which they have a uniform second pitch, each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236539 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head that includes a plurality of pressure generating chambers, a plurality of piezoelectric elements, and a film wiring substrate. Each of the pressure generating chambers is in communication with a nozzle orifice through which liquid is ejected. The piezoelectric elements each have a lower electrode, a piezoelectric... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070236548 - Ink cartridge and ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink cartridge for being mounted on an ink-jet recording apparatus includes an ink storage chamber for storing ink for ink-jet recording. A resin material forming the ink storage chamber contains a crystal-nucleating agent, and the ink has conductivity ranging from about 3 mS/cm to about 10 mS/cm.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070236546 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes an ink chamber configured to store ink and a light blocking layer disposed within the ink chamber. The light blocking layer is fluid and is insoluble to the ink, which may be a water-based ink. A density of the light blocking layer is less than a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070236547 - Liquid container, method for producing liquid container, and ink-jet recording apparatus using liquid container: A liquid container includes a container body that stores liquid, a liquid-supplying section connected to an end of the container body and having a supply port for supplying the liquid stored in the container body to a liquid-consuming apparatus, and a decompressed space for absorbing gas dissolved in the liquid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236549 - Ink cartridges, printers and methods for mounting such ink cartridges to such printers: The present invention relates to a method for mounting ink cartridges, an ink cartridge holder, and an inkjet printer. The method includes preventing an ink chamber and an exterior of the ink cartridge case from being in fluid communication, dispensing ink from an interior of the ink chamber to an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070236519 - Multi-level memory for micro-fluid ejection heads: Circuits for use with micro-fluid ejection devices, such as those having a memory array with floating gate transistors With one such memory array, a charge is stored on the gate of at least one transistor, and a current conducted by the transistor is affected by an amount of the charge... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070236520 - Printhead, printhead cartridge, printing apparatus, and element substrate of printhead: An object of the invention is to stabilize a voltage supplied to each printing element even when a number of concurrently driven printing elements varies. Accordingly, a printhead with a plurality of printing elements including a driving circuit for applying a predetermined voltage to each printing element according to a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236527 - Method for operating inkjet printer to compensate for printhead damage: A method for operating an inkjet printer configured to print an array of rows and columns of dots includes monitoring for incorrectly printed columns. The operation of correctly operating nozzles neighbouring incorrectly operating nozzles associated with the incorrectly printed columns is modified in a compensatory manner. The step of modifying... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070236529 - Ink-jet printer head having laminated protective layer and method of fabricating the same: A heat transfer type ink-jet print head and a method of fabricating the same. A method of fabricating an ink-jet print head includes sequentially laminating a heat generation layer and an electrode layer on a substrate, laminating a protective layer on the top surfaces of the electrode layer and the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070236531 - Fluid ejection device and manufacturing method: An ink cartridge for an ink jet printer includes a substratum and a cover attached to the substratum and having an aperture provided therein. A printhead is attached to the substratum and provided at least partially within the aperture. At least one connector extends from the printhead into the aperture,... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070236532 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A printer includes a cleaning mechanism that reliably performs an operation of cleaning a liquid ejecting head with a small amount of driving energy. The cleaning mechanism includes a cap manufactured by coinjection molding of a core part and an elastic part. The cap includes a bottom surface, an outer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236533 - Protector for printhead capper: A protector for a printhead capper is provided. The capper has a capping member configured to cap a printhead, a carrier carrying the capping member, and an actuator for moving the carrier back and forth between a first position at which the capping member is spaced from the printhead and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070236534 - Ink jet printing apparatus and preliminary ejecting method: The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus that can inexpensively print desired colors without causing ink color mixture. In a print head, a plurality of nozzle rows for respective ink colors are arranged in parallel with one another. Arrangements and driving control are provided so that few mists... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236535 - Ink jet printing: An ink jet printing system including an ink jet print head configured to eject ink drops, a perforated substrate support having a plurality of holes, configured to carry a substrate over a first surface of the perforated substrate support, wherein the ink jet print head and the holes in the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070236536 - Inkjet printhead incorporating nozzles which, together with endless walls, define nozzle chambers: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a substrate assembly defining ink inlet channels. Endless walls extend from the substrate assembly to surround respective ink inlet channels. Nozzles which, together with respective endless walls, define nozzle chambers in fluid communication with respective ink inlet channels and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070236538 - Fluid ejection device and manufacturing method: An ink cartridge for an ink jet printer includes a substratum and a cover attached to the substratum and having an aperture provided therein. A printhead is attached to the substratum and provided at least partially within the aperture. At least one connector extends from the printhead into the aperture,... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070236537 - Fluid jet print module: A print module having nozzles which are centrally disposed in a nozzle face of the module is disclosed. The arrangement of the nozzles is symmetric with respect to fluidic paths in the nozzle plates or chamber plates. The connecting channels between chambers and nozzles can also be symmetric, allowing improved... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20070236541 - Printhead and inkjet printer comprising such a printhead: A printhead including multiple, substantially closed ink chambers, the ink chambers being mutually separated by at least one wall, wherein each of the chambers is provided with an electromechanical converter, the actuation of the converter leading to a volume change of the corresponding chamber. Also disclosed is to an inkjet... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236542 - Adhesive compositions, micro-fluid ejection devices, and methods for attaching micro-fluid ejection heads: Adhesive compositions, micro-fluid ejection devices, and methods for attaching micro-fluid ejection heads to devices. One such adhesive composition is provided for use in attaching a micro-fluid ejection head to a device, such as to reduce chip bowing and/or to decrease chip fragility upon curing of the adhesive. Such an exemplary... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070236543 - Drop generator: A method for making a plurality of electromechanical devices including attaching a laminar electromechanical structure to a receiving substrate using a not appreciably cured adhesive in a liquid state, laser cutting the laminar electromechanical structure while the adhesive is not appreciably cured to form a plurality of electromechanical devices, and... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070236544 - Ink jet printer head: An ink jet printer head including a cavity unit; an piezoelectric actuator; and a wiring substrate. The piezoelectric actuator includes pairs of first common electrode connection pads and pairs of first individual electrode connection pads which are provided on an outer surface thereof such that the two first common electrode... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070236545 - Ink jet printing: An ink jet printing system includes an ink jet print head configured to deliver ink drops to a substrate, a support member having a plurality of protrusions configured to carry the substrate by being in contact with the lower surface of the substrate, and a substrate conveying mechanism configured to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070236550 - Ink for ink-jet recording, ink cartridge, and ink-jet recording apparatus:

20070236551 - Ink for ink-jet recording, ink cartridge, and ink-jet recording apparatus:

20070236552 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an image reading section; a sheet feeding section; an image forming section configured to form an image on the sheet of the receiving material fed from the sheet feeding section; and a sheet discharging section located below the image reading section and configured to discharge... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236553 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of preventing a fluctuation in image density immediately after the light quantities are corrected, and a method for controlling the same, when light quantity measurement is carried out at time t1, the controller CPU calculates the light quantity correction value ND. Herein, it... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070236554 - Electro-optical apparatus, image-forming apparatus and method of manufacturing electro-optical apparatus: An electro-optical apparatus including: an electro-optical panel on which a plurality of electro-optical devices are arranged; a focusing lens which focuses light emitted from the electro-optical devices; an optically transparent spacer which is interposed between the electro-optical panel and the focusing lens and contacts the electro-optical panel and the focusing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236555 - Image copying apparatus and image copying method: An image copying apparatus comprises: a control panel is a user interface; a scanner; a memory that stores the image; an image rotation processing unit that rotates the image depending on the direction in which the image is to be printed; a printer; a printer controller; and a system controller... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070236556 - Impinging optical beam on regions of label surface at different power levels: For each of a number of regions of a label surface of a substrate that are to be optically written to form a human-readable image, a corresponding power level at which an optical beam is to impinge the region to optically write a desired mark to the region as part... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070236557 - Laser beam scanning device, image forming apparatus, and laser beam detecting method by the laser beam scanning device: A laser beam scanning device is disclosed. The laser beam scanning device includes a diffraction optical element which forms a pattern of a diffraction image including two images extending in a direction corresponding to the sub scanning direction and one image extending in a direction inclined by θ (0<θ<90°) from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229559 - Image forming apparatus and droplet ejection correction method: The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device which has a plurality of nozzles performing droplet ejection of ink to deposit droplets of the ink to form an image onto a prescribed medium; an image reading device which acquires read image data by reading in the image on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229560 - Voltage control device, voltage control method, and liquid injection device: A voltage control device for a liquid injection head including: a waveform generator for setting drive waveform to be applied on the liquid injection head that injects a liquid from a nozzle by changing a drive voltage, wherein the waveform generator including a first drive waveform generator that outputs the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229561 - Inkjet recording apparatus and method of determining control condition in the apparatus: An actuator can selectively switch a volume of a pressure chamber between a first state V1 and a second state V2, which is greater than V1. The actuator changes from the first state into the second state and then changes back into the first state to eject ink from an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229563 - Ink jet printing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method for processing image: An ink jet printing apparatus which inhibits possible bleeding by thinning color data adjacent to black data and enables printing free from image quality degradation such as gradation skip is provided. Specifically, when only one pixel has color data and pixels located vertically and horizontally adjacent to that pixel have... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229564 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a head that discharges ink and a head driving circuit that generates a switching signal. The recording apparatus further includes a switching signal generating unit that generates and outputs a switching signal, a first switch that is turned on or off based on the switching signal... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229565 - Printing device: A printing device includes: a conveying unit; a printing unit; a detecting unit; a partial printing unit; a reverse conveying unit; a printing state detecting unit; and a restoration process executing unit. The conveying unit conveys a recording medium in a conveying direction to a prescribed printing position. The printing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229567 - Ink jet recording apparatus, and method for controlling recording head temperature: An ink jet recording apparatus for effecting recording using a recording head for ejecting ink, the ink jet recording apparatus includes heating means for heating the recording head; detecting means for detecting a temperature of the recording head; setting means for setting a target temperature of the recording head, control... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229566 - Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus using liquid discharge head: In order to provide a compact and highly reliable recording head enabling precise detection of temperature information on each nozzle and rapid as well as highly accurate detection on nozzles with a discharge defect, a liquid discharge head including a liquid discharge head with a plurality of electrothermal transducing members... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229570 - Attachment for use in image-forming apparatus to connect external device thereto: An apparatus for image formation is disclosed which includes an imaging device forming images on record media; a housing defining a front face, a rear face, both side faces, a top face and a bottom face, to thereby house the imaging device; a recessed portion configured so as to be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229572 - Ink-jet printer, and method for attaching ink cartridge: An ink-jet printer that comprises: a carriage on which a recording head having nozzles for discharging ink and a buffer tank for supplying the ink to the recording head are mounted; an exhaust valve provided on an exhaust path for exhausting air in the buffer tank to the outside; an... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070229571 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a recording head that moves in a main scanning direction and ejects ink from a plurality of nozzles toward a recording medium to perform a main scan; a conveying mechanism that conveys the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction by a predetermined conveyance amount to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070229573 - Method of adjusting output signal level, and liquid ejecting apparatus operable to execute the same: In order to adjust a level of a detection signal output from an optical sensor in accordance with a state of a target object in a liquid ejecting apparatus, the optical sensor includes a light emitting element operable to irradiate the detected object and a light receiving element operable to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229574 - Prediction of graininess and production of profile: A color patch that was printed based on a plurality of test ink quantity sets prepared in advance is image inputted; a graininess index is calculated based on the inputted color patch image; the graininess index on a printing medium obtained when printing is performed according to an arbitrary ink... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070229576 - Connection structure between resin component and metal component and ink-jet head comprising the same: The first passage component and the second passage component are fixed with each other as the male screw part is screw-engaged with the female screw hole while the cylinder part is inserted into the through-hole. The second passage component has a convex contacting the head and a spaced surface spaced... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229575 - Flexible encapsulant materials for micro-fluid ejection heads and methods relating thereto: Thermally curable encapsulant compositions, micro-fluid ejection devices, and methods for protecting micro-fluid ejection heads. One such encapsulant composition may include one having from about 50.0 to about 95.0 percent by weight of at least one cross-linkable resin having a flexible backbone; from about 0.1 to about 20.0 percent by weight... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070229577 - Ink set for inkjet recording, and image recording method and image recording apparatus: The ink set for inkjet recording includes: a first liquid which contains at least a water-soluble solvent, water, and pigment particles dispersed and retained in a medium including the water-soluble solvent and the water; and a second liquid which does not contain coloring material but contains at least a water-soluble... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070229578 - Inkjet recording apparatus and method for recording an image: A method and recording apparatus including discharging ink to record an image, storing a parameter relating to a cumulative recording amount of the recording apparatus, setting a detection interval based on the parameter relating to the cumulative recording amount, and detecting a discharge state of the ink discharged from the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229579 - Apparatus and method for coating polyimide layer: An apparatus for coating polyimide layer includes a print table for affixing a substrate thereon, an inkjet head installed over the print table and having a jetting surface with a plurality of nozzles for jetting polyimide liquid onto the substrate, a polyimide liquid supply tank for receiving a polyimide liquid... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070229583 - Algorithm for preliminary firing of ink droplets through inkjet nozzles prior to inkjet printing operation: An algorithm for preliminary firing of ink droplets through inkjet nozzles prior to inkjet printing operation is disclosed. According to this algorithm, a calculation is made of a scheduled time of a next nozzle-cleaning operation which succeeds a time instant at which a last firing operation was implemented, by a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229580 - Ink-jet head: A passage unit formed with ink ejection ports, an actuator mounted on the passage unit, and a cover member are provided. Further provided is a side plate member that is in contact with a mounting face of the passage unit on which the actuator is mounted. The side plate member... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229581 - Ink-jet head: An ink-jet head protection assembly of the present invention comprises an ink-jet head, a head cap that protects the ink-jet head and a support member supporting the head cap so that the head cap contacts an ejection face of the ink-jet head. In the head cap, a surface confronting the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229582 - Protection device for an ink cartridge storage unit: A protection device for an ink cartridge storage unit having an ink inducing member is provided with a supporting beam, a funnel member having a narrow conical end and a wide conical end, the narrow conical end being connected to a distal end of the supporting beam, and an elastic... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229586 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus for applying a liquid on a medium to form an image, includes: a liquid absorbing member which absorbs at least a portion of the liquid applied on the medium; and a liquid recovery device which suctions and recovers the liquid absorbed in the liquid absorbing member... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229585 - Waste ink absorber and ink jet recording device incorporating the same: The invention describes a waste ink absorber for an ink jet recording device, wherein the ink is a non-aqueous ink, including a porous plastic prepared by sinter-molding plastic particles; and an oily solvent impregnated into the porous plastic. The invention also describes an ink jet recording device, wherein the ink... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070229588 - Liquid ejection apparatus and maintenance method for liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head having a nozzle forming surface formed with nozzles from which a first liquid is ejected; a wiping processing device which carries out a wiping process of the nozzle forming surface of the liquid ejection head; and a movement device which causes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229590 - Image forming apparatus and vibration prevention mechanism of a carriage: An image forming apparatus having a print head that reciprocates along a guide rail includes a carriage on which the print head is mounted. The print head is supplied with ink through a tube from an ink cartridge that is arranged outside the carriage. The carriage includes an engaging portion... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229589 - Printer with a first drive sub-assembly and a detachable second drive sub-assembly and printer assembly including the first and second sub-assemblies: A printer includes a first drive sub-assembly and a second drive sub-assembly detachably provided on the first drive sub-assembly. The first drive sub-assembly includes a bed configured to support a material to be printed, a first engaging member, and a front-rear direction moving mechanism provided on one side of the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070229591 - Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus: The inkjet recording apparatus has a recording head including: large nozzles which eject ink containing pigment particles serving as a coloring material; small nozzles which eject the ink; and a common ink flow channel which is connected to the large nozzles and the small nozzles, wherein: a volume of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229593 - Ink-jet head: An ink-jet head includes a first passage forming member, a second passage forming member, and a circuit board. The first passage forming member has an ink inlet port, an ink outlet port, and a first ink passage extending from the ink inlet port to the ink outlet port. The first... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229596 - Ink-jet head: The confronting area of flexible printed circuit is interposed between the leading face and the passage unit. A protruding length of the protrusion region from the spaced face is equal or larger than that of the fixed region. A recess is formed on the support face of the passage unit... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229597 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head includes: a nozzle plate formed with a nozzle through which a droplet of liquid is ejected; a liquid chamber which contains the liquid and is connected to the nozzle; and a pressure generating device which causes the liquid chamber to contract and expand, wherein: the nozzle... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229599 - Ink jet printing apparatus and method for controlling temperature of the same: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing apparatus that can perform temperature control before printing so as to provide for a decrease in the temperature of a print head during printing without using any sub-heaters, to establish a favorable ejection state while preventing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229600 - Liquid ejecting print head, liquid ejecting device including the same, and image forming apparatus including the same: A liquid ejecting print head, which may be included in a liquid ejecting device and/or an image forming apparatus, includes a plurality of print head units arranged across a longitudinal direction of the liquid ejecting print head and aligned in a zigzag manner in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070229603 - Liquid channel structure and liquid-droplet jetting apparatus: An ink channel in a channel unit includes a pressure chamber and a throttle channel in which ink flows along different planes and a communication hole which communicates the pressure chamber and the throttle channel. A center line of the communication hole deviates from a center line of the pressure... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070229604 - Driving device and driving method of a liquid drop ejecting head, and liquid drop ejecting device: There is provided a driving device of a liquid drop ejecting head, includes: a piezoelectric element for causing expulsion of liquid drops from an ejector which ejects liquid drops, a first electrode of the piezoelectric element being connected to a predetermined voltage; a switching section connected to a second electrode... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070229605 - Liquid ejection head, image forming apparatus and method of manufacturing liquid ejection head: The liquid ejection head includes: a substrate made of a prescribed material on which a thin film is deposited to constitute a diaphragm; a piezoelectric body which is formed on a face of the diaphragm reverse to a face adjacent to the substrate; and a pressure chamber which is formed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229607 - Ink-jet head: There are provided an ejection actuator that ejects ink from a nozzle, and a driver chip that supplies a signal for driving the ejection actuator. In a first location, the driver chip is sandwiched between a flat plate member and an elastic member. The elastic member biases the driver chip... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229606 - Ink-jet head and method of manufacturing the same: An ink-jet head includes a flexible print cable (FPC) supplying a driving signal to an actuator unit. The actuator unit has a piezoelectric member, an inner electrode, individual electrodes formed on a surface of the piezoelectric member, a first surface terminal and second surface terminals. A partial area of the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229610 - Ink-jet head and valve: An ink-jet head of the present invention includes a discharge valve that includes a valve chamber and an opening/closing mechanism. The valve chamber has an ink supply port through which ink is supplied from outside, an outside discharge port through which ink is discharged to outside, and a reservoir discharge... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229609 - Inkjet printhead with backflow restrictor: An inkjet printhead includes an ejecting portion including an ink chamber to store ink, a nozzle to eject the ink stored in the ink chamber, and an actuator to generate an ink ejecting force, a supplying portion to refill the ink chamber with ink, a connecting portion to connect the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070229611 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus comprising same: The liquid ejection head includes: a casing; nozzles which eject droplets of liquid containing a volatile solvent and are arranged on a nozzle face in the casing; an air outlet which supplies an air flow containing a vapor of the volatile solvent and is arranged on an upstream side in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229612 - Ink container and method of storing ink: There is provided a method of storing a light-curable ink composition. Air and the light-curable ink composition are introduced into a container. The distance from an air-liquid interface to a bottom portion of the container is equal to or less than 5 cm. The amount of oxygen dissolved in the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229613 - Inkjet recording apparatus: The inkjet recording apparatus includes: a casing; an inkjet head which is arranged in the casing and ejects ink from nozzles toward a recording medium; a scanning device which is arranged in the casing and moves the inkjet head to scan the recording medium in a scanning direction parallel with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229614 - Inkjet recording apparatus: The inkjet recording apparatus includes: a casing; an inkjet head which is arranged in the casing and forms an image on a recording medium by ejecting ink while moving to scan the recording medium in a main scanning direction, and moving the recording medium in a sub scanning direction that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229622 - Ink cartridge holder: An ink cartridge holder includes: a peripheral wall portion which allows ink cartridges to be inserted thereinto and withdrawn therefrom through an opening formed at one of opposite ends thereof; a partition wall portion which is formed integrally with the peripheral wall portion and is positioned in a position distant... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229621 - Ink cartridge holding device: An ink cartridge holding device for holding an ink cartridge includes a holder holding the ink cartridge and having an opening so as to allow the ink cartridge to be inserted thereinto and withdrawn therefrom through the opening, a door which is attached to the holder and is pivotable between... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229623 - Ink cartridge holding device: An ink cartridge holding device includes: a holder holding the ink cartridge and having an opening so as to allow the ink cartridge to be inserted and withdrawn through the opening; a door which is attached to the holder and is pivotable between (a) an open position at which the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229624 - Ink cartridge holding device: An ink cartridge holding device including: a holder having an opening which allows insertion and withdrawal of the ink cartridge through the opening; a door attached to the holder which is pivotable between (a) an open position at which the opening is uncovered for permitting the insertion and the withdrawal... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229615 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes a case, and the case includes a first case member. The first case member includes a first wall, and the first wall includes a translucent portion extending from the first wall in a predetermined direction. The translucent portion has an inner space formed therein. The case... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229616 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes a movable member which includes a sliding member and a float portion. The sliding member includes a signal blocking portion, and the signal blocking portion is configured to move in a first direction from a first position within a translucent portion to a second position based... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229617 - Ink cartridges: An ink cartridge includes an ink chamber including a wall, a translucent portion positioned at the wall, in which the translucent portion has an inner space formed therein, and a movable member. The movable member includes a first portion disposed within the inner space of the translucent member, and the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229618 - Ink cartridges and inkjet printers: An ink cartridge includes an ink chamber configured to store an ink, and a wall which includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The ink cartridge also includes an ink supply portion configured to supply the ink from an interior of the ink chamber to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229619 - Ink cartridges and inkjet printers: An ink cartridge includes a wall, and an ink supply portion positioned at the wall. The ink supply portion has an ink supply opening formed therein. The ink cartridge also includes a plurality of protrusions which includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion, and each of the first protrusion... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229628 - Ink jet recording apparatus: The present invention realizes the miniaturization of an ink jet recording apparatus by improving the tube arrangement (pull-around) structure. A flow passage of ink supplied from an ink cartridge is turned by approximately 90° using an elbow member, and ink tubes which are connected to the elbow member are arranged... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229626 - Ink refilling unit: The present invention prevents ink leaked from an atmospheric pressure introducing port of an ink cartridge from adhering to an outer surface of the ink cartridge. An ink filling unit includes a leaked ink leading member which receives ink leaked from an atmospheric pressure introducing port and leads the ink... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229627 - Ink refilling unit: The present invention surely absorbs ink leaked from an atmospheric pressure introducing port using an ink absorber while achieving the miniaturization of an ink jet recording apparatus. An ink absorber housing is constituted of a fixing plate and a frame body which is formed on a periphery of the fixing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229625 - Protection device for an ink cartridge storage unit: A protection device for an ink cartridge storage unit having an ink inducing member and a cover member is provided with a main body having an front face and a rear face, a sealing member connected to the front face, and a guiding protrusion arranged at the rear face. The... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229620 - Protector for ink cartridge container: A protector for an ink cartridge container including a containing case body, an ink inlet for a recording head, a cartridge containing part into which an ink cartridge is removably insertable, and a door body capable of opening and closing an opening opposed to the ink inlet with the cartridge... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229631 - Protector for ink cartridge container: A protector for an ink cartridge container including a containing case body, an ink inlet for a recording head, a cartridge containing part into which an ink cartridge is removably insertable, and a door body capable of opening and closing an opening opposed to the ink inlet with the cartridge... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229632 - Liquid container and liquid container package: When a package in which a tank 1 is wrapped is opened, caused is an action of reversing vertical positions of an end face of the tank 1 having an ink supply portion 10, and an end face opposite to the foregoing end face. Along with this action, air existing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229633 - Filter device and liquid droplet ejecting device: The present invention provides a filter device including a supply channel where a liquid flows in; a first liquid chamber that is communicated with the supply channel; a second liquid chamber that is communicated with the first liquid chamber; a first discharge channel that is communicated with the second liquid... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070229635 - Ink-jet head: The passage unit is provided with a through hole that connects the ink ejection face and the support face. The ink supply block is provided with a through hole that connects the bond face and the ink inlet face. The filter film blocks communication between the through hole provided in... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229634 - Inkjet heads: An inkjet head includes a flow channel member comprising a first orifice which opens in a first direction, in which ink flows into the first orifice. The flow channel member also includes a second orifice which opens in a second direction opposite to the first direction, in which ink flows... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229562 - Imager units: Embodiments including imager units are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070229568 - Liquid jetting apparatus, and method for driving liquid jetting head: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an element substrate having thereon a plurality of heaters for generating energy for ejecting liquid; a plurality of liquid chambers provided on the element substrate and having ejection outlets for ejecting the liquid, wherein a plurality of the heaters are disposed in each of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229569 - Printer carriage jam or stall detection: Carriage jams in a printer are detected by monitoring a centrally mounted home flag sensor. The flag is molded integral with, or attached to the print head carriage. An interruptive optical sensor is secured to the printer mechanism and positioned to straddle the carriage flag and relatively in the center... Agent: Watts Hoffmann, Co., L.p.a.

20070229584 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a plurality of inkjet heads having nozzles ejecting a functional liquid material on a recording medium; a head holder fixing the plurality of inkjet heads at predetermined intervals; and an ink suction unit that has a suction port disposed in the vicinity of the nozzles... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070229587 - Print engine incorporating a print media cutter assembly: A print engine includes a print roll cartridge. The print roll cartridge includes a former, in turn, defining 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... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229592 - Inkjet printhead incorporating staggered rows of nozzle arrangements: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a substrate assembly defining rows of ink inlet channels. Rows of nozzle arrangements are disposed on the substrate assembly and include rows of nozzles, in turn, defining nozzle chambers in fluid communication with respective ink inlet channels. The nozzle... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229594 - Flexible adhesive materials for micro-fluid ejection heads and methods relating thereto: Micro-fluid ejection head structures, methods of making micro-fluid ejection head structures having improved operability, and methods for improving the durability of micro-fluid ejection head structures are provided. One such micro-fluid ejection head structure includes a micro-fluid ejection head having a substrate and nozzle plate assembly adhesively attached adjacent to a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070229595 - Micro-fluid ejection apparatus signal communication devices and methods: Micro-fluid ejection apparatuses and devices, and methods related to communication in and with the same. One such micro-fluid ejection apparatus includes a controller configured to generate a data signal, and a transmitter configured to convert the data signal to a current signal. The apparatus further includes a conductor capable of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070229598 - Inkjet nozzle arrangement with electro-thermally actuated lever arm: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly, in turn, including an electrical drive circuitry layer and defining an ink inlet channel. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly. The nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229601 - Nozzle arrangement with inlet covering cantilevered actuator: A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet channel. A nozzle extends from the substrate assembly. The nozzle defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet channel and a ink ejection port in fluid communication... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229602 - Inkjet heads: An inkjet head includes a passage member having an ink passage formed therein. The ink passage has a first end and a second end opposite the second end, and the ink passage includes a supply port configured to receive an ink from an outside of the passage member and to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229608 - Method and print head for flow conditioning a fluid: A continuous inkjet device emits a plurality of fluid streams from an array of nozzle channels. The fluid streams are subsequently converted into streams of droplets that travel along a particular trajectory or are deflected to travel along some other trajectory. Fluid supplied directly from a fluid reservoir to the... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070229629 - Ink cartridge for ink jet recording device: An ink cartridge for an ink jet recording device, includes: a container having an ink supply port; at least two ink chambers partitioned in the container, one being located substantially in an upper section and the other being located substantially in a lower section; an ink suction passage connecting a... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070229630 - Conduit construction using films: A method of forming a conduit providing fluid communication between respective reservoirs of an ink tank, the method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a first orifice extending through a first external wall portion of an ink tank defining part of a first ink reservoir of the ink tank; (b)... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070229637 - Ink set for ink-jet recording and ink-jet recording method: The present invention is an ink set for ink-jet recording including at least one first liquid A for forming at least an image and at least one second liquid B different in composition from the above first liquid A, wherein at least the liquid A contains a polymerizing or crosslinking... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229636 - Slow-penetrating inkjet fixer composition and methods and systems for making and using same: The invention relates to an inkjet fixer composition and a printing method and system used with the composition, the composition comprising: a) from 1 to 8 weight percent cationic polymer; and b) from 0 to 2 weight percent of at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of nonionic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070229638 - Post-imaging punching apparatus and method: An imaging and punching system and related method for a plate imaging system that can record an image on recordable media and punch the imaged media. The imaging and punching system includes a punching apparatus that is a part of the imaging and punching system that can precisely punch an... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070229639 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by transferring an image formed on an intermediate transfer body to the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes: a first liquid deposition device which performs deposition of a first liquid onto the intermediate transfer body, the first liquid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229641 - Method of cutting recording medium, and post-processing device for recording medium: A method of cutting a recording medium for an ink jet device, the ink jet device including: a recording medium conveying unit that conveys a recording medium; and a full-line ink jet head that has substantially the same length as the width of the recording medium, and that ejects an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070229640 - Using paper type sensor to prohibit feeding of unsupported paper types: A printer which includes a printer housing, a printing mechanism, a media supply, a paper handling mechanism, a media sensor and a media supply module. The paper handling mechanism moves media from the media supply through the print mechanism so that the print mechanism is upstream of the media supply.... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070229642 - Printer device: A printer device that prints an image to a printing paper using a thermal head formed with a plurality of heating resistors. The printer device includes: edge position detection means for performing edge position detection, at four corners, to an incoming printing paper using the thermal head based on a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070229643 - Thermal activation device, printing device, and printer: Thermal activation device, Printing device, and Printer for preventing an insufficient press-contact state of a sheet material relative to a heating means or a printing means, and suppressing an occurrence of thin spot on the sheet material. A thermal activation device including a head support member for supporting a thermal... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070229644 - Printer device: A printer device that prints an image to a printing paper using a thermal head formed with a plurality of heating resistors. The printer device includes: edge position detection means for performing edge position detection to an incoming printing paper using the thermal head based on a change of temperature... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070229645 - Thermal print head and method for manufacturing the same: A thermal printhead (A1) includes electrodes (3a-3c) embedded in a glaze layer 2 at least at a portion laminated with a resistor (4). Favorably, the portion of the electrodes (3a-3c) laminated with the resistor (4) is sunk to a depth causing the surfaces of the electrodes to be flush with... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070229646 - Image recording apparatus: When rotating a recording drum at low speed, air is jetted from air jet ports toward a point of irradiation, in a direction to diffuse a gas generating from an image recording medium upstream with respect to a direction of rotation of a recording drum. An air curtain approximately semicircular... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229647 - Image forming apparatus: When a driving current value of at least one light emitting element (an organic EL element) has reached a correction limit current value, a controller CPU of a controller constituting a light intensity correcting unit does not correct the light intensity of the light emitting element. Alternatively, the controller CPU... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070229648 - Exposure device and image forming apparatus using the same: To provide an exposure device which is capable of controlling light intensity with high precision by improving reliability of light intensity detection, and an image forming apparatus using the same, an exposure device includes a light emitting device array having a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices 110 arranged on a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070229649 - Method and apparatus for marking an egg with an advertisement and freshness date: An egg is provided with an advertisement and a freshness date upon the egg. The advertisement and freshness date may be applied to the egg with radiant energy. The egg may move through an egg-handling machine through a region where the radiant energy may be applied to the egg. The... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain