Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 03/08

20080074452 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method: Even when ejection characteristics of ink droplets are dispersed between unit heads and when arrangement accuracies of unit heads are dispersed, stripe unevenness is alleviated by correction corresponding to each unit head. In a liquid ejection apparatus having a line head (10) arranged by juxtaposing a plurality of (unit) heads... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080074455 - Printing method, printing apparatus, and storage medium having program stored thereon: A method for printing includes performing correction of an ink ejection amount for a certain area based on a correction value for a first type row region, and performing correction of an ink ejection amount for another area based on another correction value. The certain area includes a plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080074461 - Nozzle arrangement with a movement sensor for an inkjet printer: The invention provides for a nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printer. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate defining a chamber with an ink inlet and ejection port, said substrate having a CMOS drive layer, and a paddle dividing said chamber into an ink chamber and a nozzle chamber. The arrangement... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080074460 - Sonic leak testing on ink delivery systems and ink jet heads: A method of detecting a leak in an ink delivery system comprises providing an ink delivery system having a plurality of pipes, wherein the ink delivery system could potentially have an ink leak producing an audible signal. The method further comprises providing an ultrasonic detector operable to detect the audible... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080074463 - 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

20080074466 - 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 to be positioned an operative distance from a platen of the printer, printhead integrated circuits mounted on the carrier, and control circuitry positioned on the carrier and operatively connected to the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080074468 - Inkjet printhead with nozzle assemblies having raised meniscus-pinning rims: An ink jet printhead has a wafer substrate incorporating CMOS drive circuitry. A plurality of nozzle assemblies is arranged in an array on the substrate and is the product of dielectric and metal layers deposited on the wafer substrate and etched, such that the wafer substrate and layers define ink... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080074467 - Liquid-jet recording head: An ink-jet recording head of the present invention has two kinds of nozzles discharging different volumes of ink-drops. Large nozzles discharging the larger ink-drops and small nozzles discharging the smaller ink-drops are disposed alternately along a side of a common liquid chamber. The opening area of the large nozzles is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080074469 - Industrial ink jet printer: A printer comprising a base module having a main drive element and a print zone, a main module back plane coupled with the base module, a machine base rail system coupled to the base module, and an expansion module releasably coupled to the machine base rail system between an operating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080068410 - Driving apparatus of inkjet head: An inkjet head driving apparatus, wherein serial data indicating emission or non emission of nozzles respectively for a plurality of heads, is latched and memorized, and the nozzles are driven respectively based on the data memorized, the inkjet head driving apparatus having: an emission timing signal outputting device disposed in... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080068412 - Imaging method and image forming apparatus: An imaging method is disclosed that is implemented in an image forming apparatus for forming a tone pattern on a recording medium by forming an arrangement of dots on the recording medium. The arrangement of dots is formed on the recording medium by jetting a recording liquid from a recording... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080068413 - Page width image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus and method, the apparatus including: a paper feeding unit to supply a print medium in a first direction; a line head unit comprising a nozzle unit including a plurality of nozzles; a head supporting unit to shift the line head unit in a second direction crossing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080068417 - Printing system and method: A printing system includes a media transport pathway, a marking system disposed along the media transport pathway and a sheet media sensor capable of identifying associated sheets of media. An operating module is capable of switching the printing system between a productive condition and a non-productive condition. An advancement module... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080068420 - Alignment method, alignment method of liquid-jet head unit, and alignment mask for liquid-jet head: An alignment method includes: disposing an alignment mark provided to a positioned member and a reference mark provided to a surface of an alignment mask so that the alignment mark and the reference mark can face each other; capturing an image from the other surface side of the alignment mask,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068425 - Fluid ejection device: A fluid ejection device includes a substrate having a fluid channel, a flexible membrane supported by the substrate and extended a length of the fluid channel, an actuator provided on a first portion of the flexible membrane, and a reinforcement member provided on a second portion of the flexible membrane... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068426 - Fluid ejection device: A fluid ejection device includes a substrate having a plurality of fluid channels, a flexible membrane supported by the substrate and including a plurality of flexible membrane portions each extending a length of a respective one of the fluid channels, a plurality of actuators each provided on a first portion... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068430 - Fluid ejection device: A fluid ejection device includes a substrate having a fluid channel including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a flexible membrane supported by the substrate and extended a length of the fluid channel, an actuator provided on the flexible membrane, and a constriction provided within the fluid channel between... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068406 - Print assembly for a mobile telecommunications device: A print assembly for a mobile telecommunications device is provided. The print assembly includes a media-width printhead for printing on a printing medium having a positional indicator thereon, and a media feed assembly for feeding the medium past the printhead. Also included is a capper assembly movable between a capped... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068407 - Cartridge with ink level monitoring for a pen-like modular printing device: A cartridge for a pen-like modular printing device is provided. The printing device includes a chassis defining a print media feed path, a feed mechanism to feed said media along the feed path, a feed path width printhead for printing on said media, and a controller for controlling the feed... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068408 - Information recording apparatus: An information recording apparatus into which an information recording medium is loaded, in which a label can be printed on a label surface of the loaded information recording medium is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an information recording means positioned on the recording surface side of the information recording medium; a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080068409 - Carriage and liquid ejecting apparatus: To easily form an excellent connection state between a terminal of an information storage medium in an ink cartridge and a contact of a carriage and, additionally, to reliably maintain the excellent connection state. A carriage includes an ink-cartridge receiving chamber for receiving an ink cartridge, an electronic substrate having... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080068411 - Liquid ejecting apparatus, liquid ejecting system, and liquid ejecting method: A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided that carries out dot forming at high speed and carries out dot forming at high resolution with respect to a medium. For this purpose, a controller that controls a liquid ejecting section and a relative movement mechanism such that dots are formed in either... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068414 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method: Even when ejection characteristics of ink droplets are dispersed between unit heads and when arrangement accuracies of unit heads are dispersed, stripe unevenness is alleviated by correction corresponding to each unit head. In a liquid ejection apparatus having a line head (10) arranged by juxtaposing a plurality of (unit) heads... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080068415 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection method: Even when ejection characteristics of ink droplets are dispersed between unit heads and when arrangement accuracies of unit heads are dispersed, stripe unevenness is alleviated by correction corresponding to each unit head. In a liquid ejection apparatus having a line head (10) arranged by juxtaposing a plurality of (unit) heads... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080068416 - System for creating a three dimensional object: A system for creating a three-dimensional object has been provided. The system comprises a plurality of stationary printhead layer groups, each layer group comprising a plurality of printheads for printing a respective layer of said object, wherein the system is configured to enable at least one first printhead that is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068419 - Printing assembly with micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements and a convergent ink distribution assembly: A printing assembly has a chassis. A printhead assembly is mounted on the chassis and has printhead integrated circuits each with a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements for ejecting ink. An ink distribution assembly supports the integrated circuits. The distribution assembly defines a plurality of converging ink passages in fluid... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068418 - Transporting method and recording apparatus: The invention is a transport method that transports a medium by causing a transport roller to rotate based on a corrected target transport amount, after correcting the target transport amount that is targeted based on a correction value and includes: printing a first pattern on a medium, printing a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068421 - Ink cartridge, detection device for cartridge identification and ink level detection, and image formation apparatus comprising thereof: The ink cartridge has a first detection target portion for detecting ink level and a second detection target portion for identifying the type of an ink cartridge. The ink level detection device uses an optical sensor to scan the first and second detection target portions of the ink cartridge, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080068422 - Printhead module incorporating a micro-molded assembly: A printhead module for a pagewidth printhead assembly is provided. The module includes a printhead integrated circuit, an upper micro-molding, a lower micro-molding, and a film layer. The printhead integrated circuit has a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements for operatively ejecting a printing fluid onto a medium. The upper micro-molding... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068423 - Ink jet recording head and recording apparatus: In order to dissipate to a high degree of efficiency the heat of a liquid discharge substrate of an ink jet recording head and effectively suppress increases in the substrate temperature, this invention provides an ink jet recording head in which a liquid discharge substrate is mounted on a supporting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068424 - Ink jet printhead integrated circuit with surface-processed thermal actuators: An inkjet printhead integrated circuit is provided which has a silicon wafer substrate and a CMOS drive circuitry layer formed thereon. The CMOS layer has multi-level metal layers sandwiched between oxide layers. There are a multitude of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements positioned on the drive circuitry. Each nozzle arrangement has a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068428 - Fluid channel member for a pagewidth printhead assembly: A fluid channel member for a pagewidth printhead assembly is provided. The member includes a body portion having open channels therein, and a lid portion which is shaped with elongate ridge portions to be operatively received in the open channels. The body and lid portions are adhered together to form... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068427 - Ink refill unit with incremental ink ejection for a print cartridge: An ink refill unit for a print cartridge is provided. The unit includes a housing which defines a fluid path in fluid communication with an outlet. The unit also includes an ink reservoir having an ejection port arranged in fluid communication with the fluid path inside the housing, and an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068429 - 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, wherein the ink used contains at least water, a pigment, a dispersing agent for dispersing the pigment and an acid form of an anionic surfactant. The ink has a surface... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068431 - Ink jet recording apparatus: Disclosed an ink jet recording apparatus for recording images in a recording medium having an ink absorbability, including: a recording head including a nozzle for jetting a photocurable ink onto the recording medium; and a light irradiation device to apply light to the photocurable ink landed on the recording medium,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080068432 - Inkjet printer and printing method using the same: An inkjet printer and a printing method using the inkjet printer. The inkjet printer to form an image on a single sheet of paper by performing a plurality of printing jobs on the paper includes a print head fixed to the inkjet printer to perform a printing job on the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080068433 - Print medium having a ribbed structure: A print medium comprising a planar film including a printing surface and a ribbed structure defining a plurality of ribs which extend from a first end of the planar film to an opposing end of the planar film. The plurality of ribs restrict curling in a first direction of the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080068435 - Filling, identifying, validating, and servicing tip for fluid-ejection device: A tip to be placed on a fluid-ejection device is filled with fluid. The fluid may be introduced into a substantially hollow body of the tip at a first end of the body. The body of the tip has a second end at which a fluid-ejection mechanism is disposed to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068434 - Handheld and/or mountable fluid-ejection device receptive to tip containing fluid and fluid-ejection mechanism: A fluid-ejection device includes a handheld and/or mountable enclosure, a pneumatic fitting, an electrical connector, and a controller. The pneumatic fitting extends from and/or through the enclosure and is receptive to placement of a tip thereon. The tip contains a supply of fluid, a fluid-ejection mechanism, and an electrical connector... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068436 - Apparatus for electrostatic coating: The present invention generally relates to an electrostatic coating apparatus for spraying a stream of particles onto a medium, and in particular to an apparatus equipped with a powder coating suspension device such as a multivolume chamber, or a air stream creation device. What is also contemplated is the use... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080068437 - Thermal printer: There is provided a thermal printer (1) including: a main body frame (2); a thermal head (4) mounted to the main body frame (2); a platen roller (6) disposed to be opposed to a printing surface (4a) of the thermal head (4), for sandwiching a thermal paper (15) with the... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080068438 - Thermal printer: There is provided a thermal printer (1) including: a main body frame (2); a thermal head (4) swingably mounted to the main body frame (2); a platen roller (6) disposed to be opposed to a printing surface (4a) of the thermal head (4), for sandwiching a thermal paper with the... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080068439 - Focus adjustment method of led print head and image forming apparatus: A focus adjustment method of an LED print head of an image forming apparatus, including steps of: setting one end with respect to a longitudinal direction of the LED print head on a first position where a distance between the photoconductor and the LED print head becomes shorter than a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080068440 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device includes a light-source unit that emits a plurality of light beams, a deflector that deflects the light beams, and an image-forming optical system that receives the light beam deflected by the deflector and forms a spot image on photoconductors. The image-forming optical system includes a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068441 - Fabrication method for pattern-formed structure: An object of the present invention is to provide a fabrication method for pattern-formed structure having a smooth three-dimensional structure through a fewer processes. To achieve the object, the present invention provides a fabrication method for pattern-formed structure comprising: a dot modulation pattern forming process of binarizing a shape of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080068442 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a main body frame; an image formation section contained in the main body frame that forms an image on a recording medium; an ejection mechanism contained in the main body frame that ejects the recording medium on which an image has been formed to an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062211 - Maintenance scheduling system, maintenance scheduling method and image forming apparatus: A maintenance scheduling system for creating a maintenance schedule for an image forming apparatus that forms an image and sends and receives information to and from an external device, includes an actual use acquiring unit configured to acquire actual use information of the image forming apparatus (including a counter value... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080062215 - Image forming apparatus capable of increasing throughput of duplex printing: An image forming apparatus operable in a duplex printing mode includes a liquid ejecting head, a conveyance member, a charger, and a controller. The liquid ejecting head ejects liquid droplets to respective first and second faces of a recording medium to form images thereon. The conveyance member conveys the recording... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080062216 - Actuator chip for micro-fluid ejection device with temperature sensing and control per chip zones: Micro-fluid ejection device actuator chips and methods of measuring temperature of a micro-fluid ejection device actuator chip are provided. An exemplary micro-fluid ejection device includes an actuator chip for delivering fluid from the device. In one such device, one or more fluid vias include a column of actuators per at... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080062217 - Inkjet printing apparatus and method for inspecting color filter and method for manufacturing color filter panel using the same: An inkjet printing apparatus, a method for inspecting color filters, and a method for manufacturing a color filter panel using the same are disclosed. The inkjet printing apparatus includes a stage on which a substrate is mounted, an inkjet head for jetting color filter ink onto the substrate, and a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080062220 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, a platen, an absorption member, an electrode, a potential difference generating device. The liquid ejecting head has a conductive nozzle plate that has openings. The liquid ejecting head ejects liquid from the openings toward a front face of a recording object.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080062222 - Liquid container and ink jet recording method: The liquid container has a first storage section in which ink to be supplied to an ink jet recording head is stored; a second storage section in which waste ink collected from the ink jet recording head is stored, and an information holding portion capable of recording information. The second... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062223 - Liquid ejection head, method of manufacturing liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head has: a plurality of head units each of which includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of pressure chambers connected respectively to the plurality of nozzles, liquid supply ports for supplying liquid respectively to the plurality of pressure chambers, and a plurality of actuators causing the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062226 - Droplet discharging head, liquid cartridge, droplet discharging device, and image formation apparatus: A disclosed droplet discharging head includes: a common liquid chamber; a plurality of liquid flow paths branching from the common liquid chamber; a nozzle communicating with the liquid flow path; an actuator substrate having a heater disposed in the vicinity of the nozzle communicating with the liquid flow path; and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080062225 - Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head that includes a fluid channel formation substrate and pressure generation units. The fluid channel formation substrate is made of a silicon single crystal substrate having a crystal face orientation of. The fluid channel formation substrate has a plurality of separate flow channels that include at least... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080062227 - Liquid ejection apparatus, liquid ejection method and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a pressure chamber which contains liquid; a nozzle which is connected to the pressure chamber, the liquid being ejected in an ejection direction through the nozzle; a piezoelectric element which applies pressure change to the liquid in the pressure chamber, a part of the liquid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062228 - Piezoelectric element, actuator device, liquid-jet head, and liquid-jet apparatus: A piezoelectric element includes: a lower electrode film provided on a substrate; a piezoelectric layer provided on the lower electrode film; and an upper electrode film provided on the piezoelectric layer, wherein the lower electrode film includes columnar crystals of platinum, and an oxide exists in the grain boundaries of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062229 - Liquid discharge head and method for manufacturing the liquid discharge head: A liquid discharge head according to the present invention comprises plural pressure chambers for applying pressure to liquid, which communicate with liquid discharge openings for discharging liquid respectively; and plural piezoelectric elements, arranged corresponding to the plural pressure chambers, respectively, which respectively include lower electrodes, piezoelectric layers and upper electrodes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062230 - Liquid discharge head and method of manufacturing the same: A liquid discharge head, comprising: a plurality of liquid chambers for pressurizing a liquid, the plurality of liquid chambers communicating with discharge ports respectively; and a plurality of piezoelectric elements provided in correspondence with the plurality of liquid chambers respectively, the plurality of piezoelectric elements each including a lower electrode,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062231 - Ink container and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink container usable for recording heads different in flow rate without being affected by a pigment particle concentration of ink held in an ink supply portion is provided. In correspondence with a size of a filter of a recording head used, ink non-conducting areas are provided to a press-contact... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062233 - Liquid ejecting head: The invention provides a liquid ejecting head which is capable of introducing liquid from a liquid storage member to a pressure chamber through a liquid flow channel and discharging the liquid in the pressure chamber from a nozzle opening as liquid drops by an operation of pressure generating means including:... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080062212 - Apparatus for regulating viscosity of ink: Disclosed is an apparatus for regulating viscosity of ink, which is installed on a flow path of ink in a printing device for regulation of ink viscosity. The apparatus includes a housing installed on the flow path and having an introduction hole and a discharge hole through which ink is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080062213 - Ink jet printer: An ink jet printer for printing on a substrate comprising a first print head outputting ink and defining an ink meniscus; a platen operable to carry the substrate; a support structure; and a print head mechanism coupled to the support structure and carrying the first print head. The print head... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080062214 - Volume element (voxel) printing system for printing a three-dimensional object: A volume element (voxel) printing system for printing a three-dimensional object is provided. The system includes a first printhead group, at least one second printhead group, a conveyor and a control system. The first printhead group includes a plurality of first printheads configured to print a first voxel layer on... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080062218 - Alignment jig and alignment apparatus for liquid-jet head and method for producing liquid-jet head: An alignment jig for a liquid-jet head, which is used when positioning and joining a nozzle plate and a fixing member, the nozzle plate having nozzle orifices for jetting a liquid of the liquid-jet head and an alignment mark for alignment, the fixing member being adapted to hold a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062219 - Systems and methods for reducing cross process direction registration errors of a printhead using a linear array sensor: Systems and methods are provided for determining registration errors in the cross process direction of a printer. A first straight line is obtained by detecting line centers of a first plurality of dashes in a test pattern. A second straight line is obtained by detecting a line center positions of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080062221 - Modular self-capping wide format print assembly: A wide format print assembly is provided. The print assembly includes a plurality of printhead modules each having a printhead integrated circuit (IC). Each module has a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements on a wafer substrate for operatively ejecting printing fluid onto a print medium. Each module also has a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080062224 - Inkjet printhead: An inkjet printhead having at least an auxiliary actuator being added in the inkjet printhead structure, is able to increase the frequency response thereof and to increase the positioning precision and structure rigidity of the inkjet printhead by using a single wafer bonding step in the process of producing the... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080062232 - Print media cartridge for a camera: A card reader for reading data from a data card includes a support. A light source is supported by the support and is configured to emit light toward the data card. A sensor is supported by the support and is configured to sense the data being carried by reflected light... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080062234 - Ink-jet receiver having improved gloss: The use of a boric acid, borate or derivate and/or salt thereof in a subbing layer coated onto a non resin-coated support beneath an upper layer comprising a binder and an inorganic particulate material such as fumed silica and an under layer between the upper layer and the subbing layer,... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080062235 - Multiple drop weight printhead and methods of fabrication and use: A printhead includes a chamber layer and at least two orifice layers. A first orifice layer is disposed on the chamber layer, and a second orifice layer is disposed on the first orifice layer. The second orifice layer has at least one counterbore formed therein. A first nozzle is formed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080062237 - Heating device, erasing device, information recording and erasing device, and transfer device: A heating device capable of evenly heating a thermal recording medium without increasing the cost of the device is disclosed. The heating device evenly heats the recording surface of a thermally-reversible recording card by conducting the heat energy transferred from a heat generating member by way of a heating member,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062236 - Information recording and erasing apparatus: An information recording and erasing apparatus configured to record information on and erase other information from a thermo-sensitive recording medium which medium is capable of heat-reversible coloring and discoloring, the information recording and erasing apparatus includes an erasing unit configured to move the thermo-sensitive recording medium from one side to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062238 - Method of controlling a thermal head: The present invention provides a method of controlling a thermal head which is capable of maintaining high image sharpness even in high-speed printing. In the method of controlling a thermal head according to the present invention, resistors constituting the thermal head is energized and non-energized, thereby realizing an image with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062239 - Thermal head having bent electrode structure and method of manufacturing the same: A thermal head having electrode wiring lines in a narrow wiring region, in which a line and a space are narrow, with good pattern accuracy and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A thermal head includes: a plurality of heating resistors arranged in a line at predetermined pitches... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080062240 - Printer: A ribbon supply shaft drive motor (8) and a ribbon take-up shaft drive motor (10) are drivingly controlled separately. If the state of a ribbon is not changed after a control cycle is repeated for a set time, the rotational speed of the drive motors (8, 10) is increased step... Agent: Smith, Gambrell,, & Russell LLP

20080062241 - Recording apparatus: The invention provides a recording apparatus comprising: an intermediate transfer body; a supplying unit supplying a curable solution containing a resin that is curable by external stimulation on the intermediate transfer body; an ejecting unit containing a recording material onto a layer to be cured formed by the curable solution... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080062242 - Optical print head with non-gaussian irradiance: An optical print head includes a plurality of lasers having laser emissions within a desired wavelength range, a beam splitter and/or a multi-mode optical fiber adapted to receive combined output light from the plurality of lasers and to direct their combined output light in a first beam direction. A holographic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080062243 - Optical signal generating apparatus, optical signal generating method, and image forming apparatus: An information recording apparatus for recording image information on an image forming body, the apparatus including: a light source for emitting light; a light valve of diffraction grating type, for modulating the light emitted from the light source according to the image information, the light valve comprising a plurality of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080062244 - Laser writing: Various methods and embodiments for laser writing are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080062245 - Sensor module docking arrangement with multiple degrees of freedom constraint: A docking system may repeatedly dock a movable sensor module relative to another module with high precision. The docking system may move with minimal constraints and several degrees of freedom. The docking system may be particularly useful for precisely locating a movable sensor module relative to another module, such as... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080055347 - Image processing apparatus and droplet ejection apparatus: An image processing apparatus has a determining unit that determines based on a print job whether an image is to be recorded by ejecting a treatment liquid, a generating unit that based on image data generates print data by converting portions of each of the color data that are capable... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080055348 - System and method for printing data carrying mark on honeycomb structures: A system, method, and ink for printing a data carrying mark on a green ceramic honeycomb structure is provided. The system includes a printer having an ink jet print head that prints a mark, preferably in the form of a two-dimensional data matrix barcode, on a side wall of the... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080055351 - Image forming apparatus and method, computer program, and recording medium: In a recording medium selecting step, a recording medium on which an image is to be formed is selected from among a plurality of recording media having unique color tones. In a mode setting step, it is determined whether the image is to be output in a monochrome mode. In... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080055350 - Method of manufacturing an optical device, a method of manufacturing a color filter and a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device: In one embodiment of the present invention, an optical device is manufactured by printing a pixel, wherein said method includes deciding plural discharging positions inside each pixel of the optical device, arranging these plural discharging positions on different positions in lateral direction of the pixel respectively, specifying each of the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080055352 - Method for printing on a print media: In a method for printing on a print media using nozzles in a printhead, it is determined as to whether one or more of the nozzles are out. In response to the one or more of the nozzles being out, the print media is micro-linefed between at least two printing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080055354 - Record defect detection apparatus, record defect detection method and image recording apparatus: A lighting unit emits an illumination light onto a recording medium after performing a recording process onto the recording medium based on image data by jetting an ink from individual nozzles. An imaging unit images, by way of a lens, the surface of the recording medium illuminated with the illumination... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080055356 - Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method: The inkjet recording apparatus has: an ink droplet ejection device which ejects a droplet of an ink containing a coloring material; a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits a treatment liquid that causes the coloring material contained in the ink to aggregate so as to create a coloring material aggregate;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055357 - Inkjet printing apparatus: An ink jet printing apparatus including a suction recovery function performs suction recovery that that recovers the reliability of a print head while reducing the amount of ink sucked from the print head. An ink jet printing apparatus includes a print head having an ejection port surface with ejection ports... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055358 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling driving of image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling a driving of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes an ink cartridge including a plurality of printheads which form an image on a printing material, a capping unit movable between a first position to cover the printheads and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080055362 - Liquid jet head and image forming apparatus: A liquid jet head includes a plurality of individual flow paths where nozzles configured to jet liquid are in communication; wherein a layer of an adhesive is formed on a side wall surface of the individual flow path; and the layer of the adhesive contains a material capable of having... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080055363 - Large area array print head: A print head includes a substrate; and a plurality of ejectors arranged on the substrate in rows and laterally staggered columns, each of the plurality of ejectors includes a chamber including a nozzle; a resistive element associated with the chamber operable to eject liquid from the chamber through the nozzle... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20080055364 - Large area array print head ejector actuation: A print head includes a substrate, a plurality of row conductors arranged on the substrate, a plurality of column conductors arranged on the substrate, and a plurality of ejectors. Each of the plurality of ejectors includes a resistive element and is arranged on the substrate in rows and columns. Each... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20080055369 - Piezoelectric element, method of manufacturing the piezoelectric element, and liquid ejecting head: A piezoelectric element includes a lower electrode film formed on one surface of a substrate, a piezoelectric layer made of a piezoelectric material and disposed on the lower electrode film, and an upper electrode film disposed on the piezoelectric layer, in which the lower electrode film contains platinum, titanium, iridium,... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080055371 - Ink tank interface for an imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a printhead carrier configured for reciprocating motion along a main scan axis. A printhead assembly is mounted to the printhead carrier. An ink tank is mounted to the printhead assembly. An ink tank interface is formed between the printhead assembly and the ink tank. The ink... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080055374 - Inkjet recording apparatus: The inkjet recording apparatus has: an ink liquid container which stores ink containing a solvent-insoluble material dispersed in a solvent; an ink supply channel which is connected to the ink liquid container; and a pair of electrodes which is provided in the ink liquid container and/or the ink supply channel,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055375 - Inkjet, fluid ejection device , and pressure control method thereof: An inkjet comprises a chamber and a pressure control unit. The pressure control unit is connected to the chamber. The pressure control unit comprises an inlet, an outlet, an elastic mechanism, and seal block. The seal block is connected to the elastic mechanism, which moves the seal block between a... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080055377 - System and method for transporting fluid through a conduit: A fluid transport apparatus facilitates flow of fluid from a source to a receptacle. The fluid transport apparatus includes a fluid transport conduit for transport of fluid through the conduit, the conduit being coupled between a fluid supply and a fluid receptacle, a compressor conduit proximate the fluid transport conduit... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20080055345 - Inkjet printer assembly having controller responsive to cartridge performance: An inkjet printer assembly includes a cartridge which has a pagewidth printhead integrated circuit (IC) and a printhead auxiliary member. The auxiliary member is operatively rotatable between a platen position, to support a printing medium proximate the IC, a blotting position, to blot the printhead IC, and a capping position,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080055346 - Intelligent ink cartridge and method for manufacturing the same: This relates to an intelligent ink cartridge and method for manufacturing the same. The ink cartridge comprises at least one ink chamber for containing ink, an electronics module for storing identification information of the ink cartridge and ink remaining data. The electronics module comprises a micro-controller with embedded non-volatile memory,... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080055349 - Printing method and printing apparatus: A printing method includes determining a first correction value corresponding to a first print mode, determining a second correction value corresponding to a second print mode, and correcting an ink ejection amount of each row region individually, using a combined correction value obtained by combining the first correction value and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080055353 - Desktop printer with cartridge incorporating printhead integrated circuit: A desktop printer unit having a printhead cartridge, capping mechanism, a media input assembly, a media output assembly and a transfer mechanism. The printhead cartridge defines an ink reservoir and has a pagewidth printhead integrated circuit having a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements and the capping mechanism for the nozzles.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080055355 - Replicated multi-channel sensors for decucing ink thicknesses in color printing devices: A method and computing system are proposed for deducing ink thickness variations from solid-state multi-sensor measurements performed online on a printing press or printer. The computed ink thickness variations enable controlling the ink deposition and therefore the color accuracy. Ink thickness variations are expressed as ink thickness variation factors incorporated... Agent: Roger D. Hersch Epfl-ic/lsp

20080055359 - Print head, print head assembly, cartridge and printer: A print head has a face (6) presenting an array of nozzle orifices (7) and is configured for mounting a number of associated ejection arrangements, each ejecting droplets of printing fluid through the associated nozzle (8) when activated. The print head includes at least parts of a plurality of reservoir... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080055360 - Printhead assembly of printhead integrated circuit modules: A modular printhead assembly has a plurality of printhead modules, a fluid delivery structure, and a flexible printed circuit board. Each printhead module has a printhead integrated circuit and a fluid distribution assembly. The modules are received by the fluid delivery structure which also supplies each module with fluid. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080055361 - Printhead with printhead modules and associated circuit boards mounted in same casing: An inkjet printhead that has a series of printhead modules mounted in an elongate casing. Each module has a printhead IC and an ink distribution arrangement that supplies the printhead IC. The casing also supports a plurality of printed circuit boards for controlling the operation of the printhead ICs. Busbars... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080055365 - Inkjet printhead with suspended heater elements: A printhead has a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement includes a substrate, side walls and a nozzle plate which together define a chamber. The substrate defines a fluid inlet and the nozzle plate defines a nozzle. Each chamber has a heater element suspended therein. In use, when... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080055366 - Fluid ejection device: Embodiments of a fluid ejection device are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080055367 - Thermal printhead with self-preserving heater element: Provided is a pagewidth printhead having a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement includes side walls located on a wafer substrate with a roof portion attached to said walls to define a printing fluid chamber. The roof portion defines an ejection port. Each nozzle arrangement also includes an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080055368 - Liquid jet head: A liquid ejecting head includes a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting droplets; liquid flow paths in fluid communication with said ejection outlets; and a liquid supply opening for supplying the liquid to said liquid flow path; wherein said ejection outlets include first ejection outlets and second ejection outlets which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055370 - Multi-nozzle ink jet head and manufacturing method thereof: A multi-nozzle ink jet head using piezoelectric elements and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A head (1) has a nozzle member (10) in which a plurality of nozzles (12) are formed, a pressure chamber wall member (14) in which a plurality of pressure chambers (15) are formed, and piezoelectric... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080055372 - Method for treating inkjet liquid, recording apparatus using the same, liquid storage tank, liquid absorber for liquid storage and liquid treatment apparatus: The present invention relates to a method for treating liquids used in inkjet recording comprising, providing a first printing liquid and a second printing liquid that is capable of reacting with the first printing liquid to cause coagulation and thickening if mixed with the first printing liquid, and exposing the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080055373 - Method for treating inkjet liquid, recording apparatus using the same, liquid storage tank, liquid absorber for liquid storage and liquid treatment apparatus: The present invention relates to a method for treating liquids used in inkjet recording comprising, providing a first printing liquid and a second printing liquid that is capable of reacting with the first printing liquid to cause coagulation and thickening if mixed with the first printing liquid, and exposing the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080055376 - Ink container and ink jet recording apparatus: In an ink supply system for connecting with an ink container with a hollow communicating tube provided in the ink container, in order to prevent leakage of the ink from the communicating tube and simultaneously to prevent damage of the communicating tube projected from the ink container, the communicating tube... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055378 - Fluid supply method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for supplying fluid to a deposition device or printhead using the through flow principle. The pressure of fluid entering and exiting the printhead is controlled directly at the printhead by respective pressure controllers, preferably a transducer and control system or a weir. The pressure controllers can... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080055379 - Image forming method and ink-jet recording device utilizing photo-curable ink, and inkset, ink-jet recording method and ink-jet recording device utilizing photo-curable ink: An ink-jet recording device which is equipped with a recording head to eject one type or plural types of inks containing a photo-curable component onto a recording medium and a light irradiation device to cure the ink by irradiating light onto the ink having deposited on the recording medium, wherein... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080055381 - Ink-recipient particle, material for recording, recording apparatus and storage member for ink-recipient particle: A recording apparatus comprises: an intermediate transfer body; a releasing agent supply device that supplies a releasing agent onto the intermediate transfer body; a particle supply device that supplies hydrophilic ink-recipient particles that receive an ink, onto the releasing agent supplied onto the intermediate transfer body; an ink ejection device... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080055380 - Radio frequency drying of ink on an intermediate member: Printing images on an intermediate member by jetting conductive ink containing a fluid and marking particles in an image-wise fashion onto an intermediate member. The ink is concentrated by application of radio frequency (RF) energy, focused on the ink image to remove a substantial portion of the fluid. The concentrated... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20080055382 - Printing system: A medium support member has a first surface for supporting a print medium and a second surface opposite to said first surface. The medium support member includes a plurality of recesses formed in the first surface and a plurality of protrusions formed in the second surface such that each recess... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055383 - Inkjet recording element: The present invention relates to an inkjet recording element having good stability to ozone and to light. Said recording element comprises a support and at least one inkreceiving layer, said ink-receiving layer including particles of boehmite in filament form.... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080055384 - Smart projector guides for handprinters: An improved handheld printer includes projectors to project images of the various page content that remains to be printed on the page. By providing this visual indication of locations of the page that remain to be printed, the projectors assist the user in achieving full coverage of the page when... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080055385 - Ink set and image forming apparatus and method: The ink set includes: a first liquid which contains a coloring material, a polymer, and a dispersion medium composed of water and water-soluble solvent, the coloring material and the polymer being dispersed in the dispersion medium, the coloring material having properties such that when dispersed in an aqueous coloring material... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080055386 - Medium supplying apparatus of image forming device: A medium supplying apparatus of an image forming device capable of removing static electricity generating in medium supplying operation by a ground. The medium supplying apparatus includes a medium supplying cassette mounted in a main body of the image forming device, a knock-up plate disposed to be movable up and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080055387 - Thermal transfer printer: A thermal transfer printer according to the invention includes at least one printing unit for thermal transfer printing with a print head via a ribbon having a dye layer; a first bending member for bending the ribbon after thermal transfer, the first bending member having at least one curved surface... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20080055388 - Calibrating a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic device: Methods and apparatus include aligning printing of a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic (EP) device, such as a laser printer or copy machine. At least first and second scan lines formed in opposite directions define a calibration page for manufacturing, servicing or end-user operation. The page includes pluralities of objects with one... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080055389 - Thermal compensation of bi-directional alignment in a bi-directional laser scanning unit: Methods and apparatus include improving print quality of a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic (EP) device, such as a laser printer or copy machine, according to temperature. A moving galvanometer or oscillator reflects a laser beam to create forward and reverse scan lines of a latent image. During use, the actual ambient... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080055390 - Obtaining pressure of an operating environment of a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic device for implementing corrections per pressure: Methods and apparatus include improving print quality of a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic (EP) device, such as a laser printer or copy machine, according to ambient pressure in which operated. A moving galvanometer or oscillator reflects a laser beam to create scan lines of a latent image in opposite directions. A... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080055391 - Optical component bowing device, optical device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: An optical component bowing device is configured to include a bending moment generating structure that generates a bending moment in a supported portion of an optical component that reflects or shapes a light beam.... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080055392 - Bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic device corrected per ambient pressure and temperature: Methods and apparatus include improving print quality of a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic (EP) device, such as a laser printer or copy machine, according to either or both of ambient pressure and temperature in which operated. A moving galvanometer or oscillator reflects a laser beam to create scan lines of a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080055393 - Methods and apparatus for storing alignment information in a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic device: In a bi-directionally scanning electrophotographic (EP) device, methods and apparatus include storing alignment information. In one aspect, pre-characterization parameters of the EP device are stored in memory, such as NVRAM, resistant to the removal of power. In another, actual parameters of the EP device are learned during calibration and stored... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department