Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 09/08

20080231645 - Volume element printing system with an object insertion device: The invention provides for a volume element (voxel) printing system for printing a three-dimensional object. The system includes a first printhead group having a plurality of first printheads configured to print a first voxel layer on a substrate, and at least one second printhead group having a plurality of second... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080231646 - Ink-discharging apparatus and image-recording method using the same: An ink-discharging apparatus includes a discharge head discharging an ink, of which viscosity is increased by being irradiated with a predetermined energy ray, from a nozzle onto a recording medium; a first light source radiating the predetermined energy ray; and an irradiation mechanism which irradiates an energy ray for increasing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231647 - printing: A method and apparatus for transferring an image of predetermined length onto a substrate by selective energization of a row of printing elements in a printhead of a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus may be arranged with a print ribbon located between the printhead and the substrate such that ink... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080231648 - Printer: A printer includes a first transporting belt that transports a print medium and a second transporting belt that receives the print medium from the first transporting belt and further transports the print medium. A liquid ejection head ejects liquid according to a liquid-ejection timing signal to the print medium transported... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080231649 - Image forming apparatus, method for correcting displacement of landing positions: A disclosed image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium being conveyed includes: a recording head discharging droplets; a pattern forming unit forming an adjustment pattern for detecting displacement of landing positions of droplets on a water-repellent member, the adjustment pattern including a minimum block pattern for... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231650 - Back pressure adjustment apparatus for liquid ejection head: The back pressure adjustment apparatus for a liquid ejection head has: a container having a liquid accommodating chamber which is connected to the liquid ejection head and accommodates liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejection head, and a gas accommodating chamber which accommodates gas; a movable film which separates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231651 - Ink level detecting apparatus of ink-jet image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same: An ink level detecting apparatus of an ink-jet image forming apparatus includes a switching part which is switched on and off by an input signal, an ink detecting part which is turned on and off according to a switching operation of the switching part to detect an ink level of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080231652 - Printing module for large-sized uv inkjet printer: A printing module for a large-sized UV (ultraviolet) inkjet printer includes an inkjet head device for outputting the color inks of printed figures. It is characterized in that the two sides of the inkjet head device are respectively providing with an inkjet head for outputting primer and an inkjet head... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080231653 - Image forming apparatus: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body; a page-width inkjet head unit capable of ejecting fluid droplets without substantially moving the page-width inkjet head unit while forming an image on a medium to be recorded on; a maintaining and recovering unit maintaining and recovering a function of... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080231655 - Image forming apparatus equipped with maintenance mechanism: The image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus equipped with a maintenance mechanism that is divided into a plurality of ink pans, which are connected to each other at an edge of each of which by means of pins, on a bottom surface of each of which a plurality... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080231654 - Tube pump, liquid ejecting apparatus, and method of driving tube pump: A tube pump comprising a flexible tube, a pressing member capable of generating a negative pressure in the tube by sequentially pressing the tube from as the pressing member moves from an upstream portion of the tube to a downstream portion of the tube during a pump operating process, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080231656 - Ink-jet image forming apparatus and maintenance method thereof: An ink-jet image forming apparatus and a maintenance method thereof include an ink-jet head having a nozzle portion to eject ink, a printing medium feeding device to feed a printing medium to face the ink-jet head, a printing medium guide to guide the printing medium, a wiper to move while... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080231657 - Thermal printing with laser activation: Methods and apparatus for implementing thermal printing techniques onto thermally sensitive print media use one or more laser arrays to provide optical heating. Technique for alignment of multiple monolithic arrays onto a common carrier are described, the axis of the at least one laser array being disposed obliquely to a... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20080231658 - Pattern forming method, liquid droplet discharging apparatus, and electrooptical device: A pattern forming method forms a pattern on a substrate by relatively moving a plurality of nozzle groups each including a plurality of nozzles arranged in a first direction and the substrate a plurality of times in a main-scanning direction to allow the nozzles to discharge liquid droplets thereon. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231659 - Ink jet recording apparatus: Even in the case where preliminary ejection is performed by a recording head having an array of pigment ink ejection outlets and an array of dye ink ejection outlets in which a length of the pigment ink ejection outlet array is longer than a length of the dye ink ejection... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231660 - Printhead with ink conduit weir for priming control: A printhead for an inkjet printer, that has a printhead integrated circuit with an array of nozzles for ejecting ink and a support structure for mounting the printhead IC within the printer. The support structure has ink conduits for supplying the array of nozzles with ink. Within the ink conduits... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080231661 - Printhead with meniscus anchor for controlled priming: A printhead for an inkjet printer that has a printhead integrated circuit (IC) with an array of nozzles for ejecting ink, and a support structure for mounting the printhead IC within the printer. The support structure has ink conduits for supplying the array of nozzles with ink, the ink conduits... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080231663 - Head substrate, printhead, head cartridge, and printing apparatus using the printhead or head cartridge: Disclosed are a head substrate, a printhead, a head cartridge, and a printing apparatus using the printhead or head cartridge which are capable of separately measuring variations in the resistance of a printing element and variations in the parasitic resistance including the wiring resistance and the ON resistance of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231662 - Printhead with drive circuitry components adjacent the printhead ic: A printhead for an inkjet printer, that has a printhead IC with an array of nozzles for ejecting ink and a support structure for mounting the printhead IC in the printer adjacent a paper path. The printhead IC is mounted on a face of the support structure that, in use,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080231664 - Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection method: A print head, which ejects ink by using a method whereby a bubble generated by a heat generating element communicates with the air, and for which the occurrence of cavitation is deterred and the durability is improved, is provided. According to the print head, a bubble grows until the maximum... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080231665 - Inkjet printhead, printing method using the same, and method of manufacturing the inkjet printhead: The inkjet printhead includes substrate having an ink feed hole formed to supply ink, a chamber layer stacked on the substrate, and including a plurality of main ink chambers formed therein with the ink feed hole therebetween and a plurality of compensation ink chambers formed therein between the main ink... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080231666 - Liquid-jetting apparatus and method for producing the same: A liquid-jetting apparatus comprises a nozzle plate formed with nozzles, a pressure chamber plate for forming pressure chambers, and a piezoelectric actuator arranged therebetween. A surface of the nozzle plate, which is opposed to the pressure chamber plate, has an insulating property. Wiring sections, which are formed on the surface... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080231667 - Ferroelectric film, process for producing the same, ferroelectric device, and liquid discharge device: A ferroelectric film having a columnar structure constituted by a plurality of columnar grains, and containing as a main component a perovskite oxide which has a composition expressed by a compositional formula A1+δ[(ZrxTi1-x)1-yMy]Oz, where A represents one or more A-site elements including lead (Pb) as a main component, M represents... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231668 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes: a flow path unit including first and second pressure chambers for first and second liquids, respectively, and first and second nozzles communicating with the first and second pressure chambers, respectively, each of the first and second nozzles including a tip opening; and a pressure... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080231669 - Aerodynamic error reduction for liquid drop emitters: A method is disclosed for forming a liquid pattern of print drops impinging a receiving medium according to liquid pattern data using a liquid drop emitter that emits a plurality of continuous streams of liquid at a stream velocity, vd, from a plurality of nozzles having effective diameters, Dn, arrayed... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080231670 - Ink coupling for inkjet printer with cartridge: An ink coupling for connecting an inkjet printer and a replaceable cartridge configured to not drip ink upon detachment. The coupling has a cartridge valve on the cartridge side of the coupling and a printer conduit on the printer side of the coupling. The cartridge valve and the printer conduit... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080231671 - Ink-jet image forming apparatus and ink supply device thereof: An image forming apparatus is configured to include an ink supply device with an ink flow path to a print head to eject ink toward a printing medium and a flow regulating valve for the ink flow path. The flow regulating valve to perform opening/closing operations according to at least... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080231673 - Inkjet printers: Inkjet printers are provided. An inkjet printer includes a maintenance module, an inkjet unit, a pump, a slider, and a swing gear assembly. The swing gear assembly is connected to a motor of the pump and detachably engaged with the slider. When the motor rotates the swing gear assembly in... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080231672 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid supply method: A liquid ejecting apparatus which includes an ejection head capable of ejecting a liquid to an ejection object, a liquid source including a liquid container capable of containing the liquid, a flow channel capable of allowing the liquid to flow form the liquid source to the ejection head, and a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080231674 - Printer system, main printer and sub printer to be used therefor, and ink supply method: A printer system comprises a main printer which has a first tank and a first head, a sub printer which has a second tank having a volume smaller than the first tank and a second head and which is provided detachably with respect to the main printer, and a supply... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231675 - Liquid containers: A liquid container includes a liquid chamber, a liquid supply chamber, a liquid introduction portion, and a particular liquid path. The liquid chamber is at least partially defined by at least one first wall, the liquid supply chamber is defined by at least one second wall having a first opening... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231676 - Liquid ejection device and sub tank for use with the same: A liquid ejection device according to an aspect is connectable to a main tank. The liquid ejection device comprises: an ejection head; and a sub tank having an inner space defined therein and including a connection portion configured to connect the inner space with the main tank. The sub tank... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231677 - Printer system, main printer to be used therefor, and method for discharging waste ink: A printer system includes a main printer having a first head and a waste ink tank for accommodating any waste ink; and a portable type sub printer having a second head which is detachable with respect to the main printer. The waste ink tank accommodates the waste ink discharged from... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080231678 - Thermal ink-jet ink including polymer encapsulated pigment: The present invention is drawn to thermal ink-jet inks including a polymer encapsulated pigment, and systems and methods that use the same. Such polymer encapsulated pigments are the result of polymerization at the surface of the pigment using a plurality of monomers, where about 6 wt % to about 15... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080231679 - Inks, printing methods and printing devices: There is provided a printing device that includes an ink applicator and a shaping fluid outlet adapted to dispense a shaping fluid onto curable ink applied by the applicator. The printing device may further include energy emitting source used to at least partially cure the applied ink. There is further... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080231680 - Concurrently printing an image on a food product and a corresponding image on packaging for the food product: A method for printing images on food and packaging for the food. The method includes the step of moving a plurality of food products along a first production line to a first printing station. The method also includes the step of moving a plurality of containers along a second production... Agent: Raymond C. Meiers Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080231681 - Method of manufacturing color filter: A method of manufacturing a color filter is provided. First, a substrate is provided and then a partition, for example a black matrix, is formed on the substrate. The black matrix defines a plurality of first color filter areas and a plurality of second color filter areas corresponding to the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080231682 - Methods and apparatus for handheld printing with optical positioning: Methods and apparatus include a handheld printer manipulated by an operator to print an image on a media. A controller correlates a location of a printhead to the image and causes printing or not. A position sensor provides input to the controller. Its signal typifies pixels in a matrix frame... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080231683 - Image forming apparatus and control method for same: An image forming apparatus includes a light beam generation unit, a light deflector having a resonance frequency and deflecting a light beam, a photosensitive member to which the deflected light beam is irradiated, and a driving control unit driving and controlling the light deflector. The driving control unit can measure... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225063 - Photo-curable ink-jet ink compositions, systems, and methods: The present invention is drawn to photo-curable ink-jet ink compositions, systems, and methods. One exemplary ink-jet ink composition includes a liquid vehicle, a milled pigment which has been milled in a milling solvent having minimal to no gas solvency for the milled pigment, and a photo initiator. In this embodiment,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225064 - Printing system: In a printing system including a plurality of inkjet printing units and an ink tank commonly used thereby, wherein the ink tank is capable of notifying an amount of ink consumed thereby and has a memory for storing information relating to the ink consumption amount in a updatable manner, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225070 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a control unit determines that dirt is present on the linear scale when a detecting unit detects a change in a moving direction of a moving member while the moving member is moving at a constant speed.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225067 - Image forming apparatus and impact position displacement correction method: An image forming apparatus is provided with a carriage in which recording heads having nozzles for ejecting liquid droplets are mounted and is configured to form an image on a recording medium being transported. The image forming apparatus includes a pattern forming unit that forms an impact position displacement adjustment... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080225066 - Image forming apparatus and method of correcting deviation of shooting position: An adjustment pattern, which is composed of a reference pattern made of plural independent liquid droplets and a pattern to be measured made of plural independent liquid droplets ejected under an ejection condition different from the reference pattern, is formed on a water-repellent conveying belt. Then, light is applied to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080225069 - Liquid ejection head, method for controlling the same, and printer: A method for controlling a liquid jet head includes: a first step of applying a specified voltage to the liquid jet head to eject a droplet; a second step of measuring the speed of the droplet by using a laser beam; a third step of comparing the speed of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225068 - Liquid-jet device, image forming apparatus, and method for adjusting landing positions of liquid droplets: A disclosed liquid-jet device includes a liquid-jet head configured to jet liquid droplets; a pattern formation control unit configured to control the liquid-jet head and thereby to form a test pattern composed of separate liquid droplets on a water-repellent part; a detecting unit including a light-emitting element configured to illuminate... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080225065 - Method and apparatus for image registration: A method of registering an image onto a sheet of media on an imaging surface of a printer having a printhead for imaging onto the sheet, comprising: detecting a position of said sheet of media being advanced onto the imaging surface using a first sensor positioned along said media path... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225071 - Media handling system and method: A media handling system for delivering media sheets to be printed from a staging location to a drum along a media path, including: at least one drive roller positioned along the media path between the staging location and the drum; a sensor positioned along the media path between the at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225072 - Calibration of drop detector and acquisition of drop detect data for nozzles of fluid-ejection mechanisms: A drop detector is calibrated to determine a location of a detection zone thereof relative to a carriage and to each of one or more fluid-ejection mechanisms disposed within the carriage. Drop detect data is acquired for nozzles of each mechanism by indexing the carriage in relation to the detection... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20080225075 - Image printing apparatus and method for calibrating image printing apparatus: The invention provides an image printing apparatus including: a printing unit that performs printing on a print target medium; a moving unit that can move in a predetermined main scan direction; an edge-detecting unit that is mounted on the moving unit and outputs, by utilizing photoelectric conversion, a voltage that... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080225074 - Method and apparatus for digital printing with preservation of the alignment of printed dots under various printing conditions: A method and apparatus for printing dots on a printing medium, wherein the method includes the steps of printing a calibration test pattern, scanning the printed calibration test pattern, determining a spatial fire correction value for a number of print positions across the printing medium, based on the scanned calibration... Agent: Agfa C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080225073 - Printing apparatus and method utilizing a table: A printing apparatus including: an imaging mechanism; a drum for advancing media sheets past the imaging mechanism for printing; an encoder coupled to the drum; a controller coupled to the encoder; and, a memory coupled to the controller and containing controller executable code and at least one table including a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225076 - Method of fabricating printhead having hydrophobic ink ejection face: A method of fabricating a printhead having a hydrophobic ink ejection face is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a partially-fabricated printhead comprising a plurality of nozzle chambers and a relatively hydrophilic nozzle surface, the nozzle surface at least partially defining the ink ejection face; (b) depositing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080225077 - Method of fabricating printhead using metal film for protecting hydrophobic ink ejection face: A method of fabricating a printhead having a hydrophobic ink ejection face, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a partially-fabricated printhead comprising a plurality of nozzle chambers and a nozzle plate having relatively hydrophilic nozzle surface, the nozzle surface at least partially defining the ink ejection face of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080225078 - Printhead including seal membrane: An inkjet printhead comprising a plurality of nozzle assemblies is provided. Each nozzle assembly has a moving portion for ejection of ink. The printhead includes a seal membrane joining the moving portions to the printhead.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080225079 - Printing machine and cleaning method: A printer with the inkjet heads comprises a slideway, a printing mechanism and a maintaining mechanism. The printing mechanism comprises a first inkjet cartridge, a second inkjet cartridge, a first container, and a second container. The second inkjet cartridge has a driving mechanism. The maintaining mechanism comprises a first scraper,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225080 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus in which a liquid functional material is ejected onto a recording medium by at least one ink-jet head including a plurality of ejection nozzles to form an image, and the image is fixed by irradiation from an active-energy ray irradiation source, wherein the apparatus comprises at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225081 - Inkjet printing using protective ink: A method for modifying an input digital image having one or more color channels corresponding to one or more color inks and a protective ink channel corresponding to a substantially clear protective ink, each channel having an (x,y) array of pixel values, to form a modified digital image including computing... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080225084 - Head for liquid discharging apparatus: A head for a liquid discharging apparatus includes a cavity unit having a cavity plate in which pressure chambers are formed and a vibration plate and a base plate which are joined to upper and lower surfaces of the pressure chambers respectively. In a joining surface of the cavity plate... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20080225082 - Printhead having hydrophobic polymer coated on ink ejection face: A printhead having a hydrophobic ink ejection face is provided. At least part of the ink ejection face is coated with a hydrophobic polymeric material selected from the group comprising: polymerized siloxanes and fluorinated polyolefins.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080225083 - Printhead having moving roof structure and mechanical seal: A nozzle assembly for an inkjet printhead is provided. The nozzle assembly comprises a nozzle chamber having a roof, the roof having a moving portion moveable relative to a static portion and a nozzle opening defined in the roof, such that movement of the moving portion relative to the static... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080225085 - Fluid ejecting head and fluid ejecting apparatus: A fluid ejecting head includes a fluid storage chamber that temporarily stores a fluid, which is supplied from a fluid supply port, a plurality of pressure chambers, to which the fluid stored in the fluid storage chamber is supplied through a plurality of fluid supply paths, respectively, a plurality of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225086 - Liquid discharge head: The present invention provides an ink jet recording head which, when a smaller liquid droplet is obtained, can suppress or reduce stagnation of liquid in a second discharge port portion, prevent an offset meniscus in a discharge port, reduce unstable satellite(s) and realize stable discharging with less image deterioration and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225087 - Apparatus and method for ejecting droplets using charge concentration and liquid bridge breakup: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for ejecting droplets using charge concentration and liquid bridge breakup. The droplet ejection apparatus includes a reservoir storing a liquid; a capillary nozzle having a lower end submerged in the liquid stored in the reservoir and an upper end exposed outside the surface of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080225088 - Fluid jet device and method for manufacturing the same: A fluid jet device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The fluid jet device includes a substrate, a resistor layer and an orifice layer. The resistor layer is formed on the substrate. The resistor layer includes tantalum, silicon and nitrogen. The orifice layer is disposed on over... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080225089 - Piezoelectric actuator, liquid ejection head, image forming apparatus, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric actuator: The piezoelectric actuator has: a diaphragm made of silicon; an insulating layer formed on a front surface of the diaphragm; a plurality of individual electrodes formed on a surface of the insulating layer; a plurality of piezoelectric bodies formed respectively on surfaces of the plurality of individual electrodes; and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225091 - Cartridge unit having capped printhead with multiple ink storage capacity: A cartridge unit for an inkjet printer is provided which has a body portion having ink storage compartments, a pagewidth printhead configured to receive ink from the compartments and distribute the ink to nozzles arranged in use to deliver the ink onto passing print media, and a capping assembly for... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080225090 - Pressure regulating mechanism and liquid ejecting apparatus: A pressure regulating mechanism which includes a pressure regulating chamber that introduces a liquid from a liquid supply source through an inlet port, stores the liquid, and discharges the stored liquid to an object through an outlet port, an on/off valve, a pressure receiving member that is provided to seal... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225092 - Ink container: An ink container 10 comprises a serial arrangement of three chambers 32, 34, 36. The ink container 10 defines an ink supply port 42, 56, 60 for each chamber 32, 34, 36. The ink supply port 60 of one chamber 32 is displaced from alignment with a porous member in... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080225093 - Liquid storage container and refilling method using the same: A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage bag which at least includes first and second sealing joint portions obtained by joining flexible members in a sealing manner; a liquid lead-out member which is mounted on the first sealing joint portion of the liquid storage bag; a case which holds... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225094 - Liquid-jetting device: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a slide member slidably supported at a cartridge holder and a lock claw member rotatably supported at the cartridge holder. The slide member slides along an insertion direction of an ink cartridge with respect to the cartridge holder between a first slide position and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225095 - High-speed phase change ink image producing machine including a static eliminating solid ink container: An image producing machine including (a) an imaging member having a surface; (b) a printhead for forming an image onto the imaging surface; (c) a substrate supply system for feeding substrates to receive the formed image; and (d) a static eliminating container that includes a closed end; an open end;... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080225096 - Solid ink stick with canted surface: An ink stick for use in a phase change ink imaging device comprises an ink stick body having a leading surface, a trailing surface, and a top surface. The top surface has a front edge that is rearwardly offset from a top edge of the leading surface, and a back... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20080225097 - Color filter ink, color filter, image display, and electronic apparatus: A color filter ink used for color filter production using an inkjet method includes a colorant and a liquid medium for dissolving and/or dispersing the colorant therein. When a product containing a cured epoxy adhesive is left undisturbed and sealed in the liquid medium for 6 days at an environmental... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225098 - Image forming apparatus, landing position shift correction method, and landing position shift correction sheet member: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a recording head configured to jet liquid droplets; a pattern forming unit configured to form, on a water-repellent surface of a water-repellent sheet member, an adjustment pattern used for correcting shifts in landing positions of the liquid droplets, wherein the adjustment pattern includes plural... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080225099 - Photo-curable ink-jet ink compositions, systems, and methods: The present invention is drawn to photo-curable ink-jet ink compositions, systems, and methods. One exemplary ink-jet ink composition includes a liquid vehicle, a milled pigment which has been milled in a milling solvent having minimal to no gas solvency for the milled pigment, and a photo initiator. In this embodiment,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225100 - Recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a support drum which rotates while supporting a recording medium on a support surface thereof. A guide shaft of the recording apparatus is spaced apart from the support surface by a predetermined distance and extends in parallel to a direction perpendicular to a rotation direction of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225101 - Recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a support drum that rotates while supporting a recording medium on a support surface thereof. A guide axis extends in parallel with a rotation axis of the support drum along the support surface. A carriage that is guided by the guide axis moves back and forth... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225102 - Optical scanning unit and image forming apparatus using same: An optical scanning unit used in an image forming apparatus having a latent image carrier includes a light emitter, a rotary deflector, an inclination adjustment unit, and a controller. The light emitter emits a light beam. The rotary deflector deflects and scans the light beam onto a surface of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225103 - Systems and methods for adjusting loading of media onto a print surface: In one embodiment, a system and method pertains to detecting a position of a sheet of media that has been loaded onto the print surface, determining from the detected position a current loading error with which the media sheet has been loaded onto the print surface, and calculating a loading... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company

20080225104 - Thermal head and thermal printer using the same: A thermal head has a heat storage layer provided on an insulating substrate and a heat generating resistance layer provided on the heat storage layer. An individual electrode and a common electrode are formed on the heat generating resistance layer, and a protective film layer covers the electrodes and the... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080225105 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes a light source device having light emitting members of a number N (N is an integer not less than 2) disposed with a tilt with respect to a sub-scan direction and a main-scan direction, a deflecting device for scanningly deflecting light beams of the number... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225106 - Light-source driving device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: A circuit for driving a plurality of light emitting units includes a current biasing unit that biases a light emitting current with an overshoot current and supplies the resultant current to each of the light emitting units. The light emitting current is determined based on an amount of light emitted... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225107 - line head, and an image forming apparatus and an image forming method using the line head: A line head, includes: a substrate on which a plurality of light emitting elements are provided; a lens array that includes a plurality of lenses; and a cover member that is optically transmissive, is opposed to the lens array, and is provided at the other side of the substrate with... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080225108 - Line head and an image forming apparatus using the line head: A line head, includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that are grouped into light emitting element groups, and an array that includes a plurality of imaging optical systems provided with respect to each light emitting element group which focus light beams emitted from the light emitting element groups toward... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080218538 - Cradle unit for a print engine having a maintenance drive assembly: A cradle unit for a print engine, the cradle unit configured to receive a cartridge unit having a printhead assembly. The cradle unit includes a main body defining an opening for receiving said cartridge, the main body having a frame structure including end plates with drive and exit rollers mounted... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080218539 - Inkjet printing partially imaged panels with superimposed layers: A panel and method for making the panel are disclosed. The panel includes a substrate sheet partially imaged with a print pattern. The print pattern subdivides the panel into a plurality of discrete printed areas and/or a plurality of discrete unprinted areas. The design is superimposed on or forms a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080218540 - Dual printer for regular and raised print: Disclosed is an ink jet printing device including an ink jet print head and a print region surface toward which ink is jetted from the ink jet print head, wherein a height distance between the ink jet print head and the print region surface is adjustable. The ink jet printing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20080218541 - Printer: A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a supporting device, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The axes X and Y pass through the print substrate. The movement controller is configured... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080218542 - Printer and printing method: A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The printer head is configured to eject ink from a plurality of ejection nozzles to the surface. The... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080218544 - Ink-jet type image-forming apparatus and ink-jet type image-forming method: An image-forming apparatus is provided which prevents irregularity of an image density and improves the life of heating elements. In a half of recording heads (a group of recording heads 22K2, 22K4, 22K6 not adjacent to each other), off time T2 is shortened at a timing of PWM renewal 1;... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080218543 - Method for decreasing sensitivity to errors in an imaging apparatus: A method for decreasing sensitivity to errors in an imaging apparatus includes, defining an ideal pattern of dot locations as a rectilinear grid formed by an intersection of a plurality of rasters and a plurality of vertical columns; for each raster of the plurality of rasters defining a plurality of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080218546 - Ink-jet printer: An ink-jet printer including: an ink-jet head in which are disposed a plurality of nozzles that are divided into a plurality of nozzle groups; a plurality of actuators which are provided to respectively correspond to the plurality of nozzles and which are divided into a plurality of actuator groups respectively... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080218545 - Liquid jet apparatus and printing apparatus: A printing apparatus uses a liquid jet apparatus including a plurality of nozzles provided to a liquid jet head, an actuator provided corresponding to each of the nozzles, and drive unit that applies a drive signal to the actuator, wherein the drive unit includes drive waveform signal generation unit that... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080218547 - Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method: An ink jet printing apparatus and method are provided which can satisfy in a well-balanced manner both an improvement of image uniformity and a reduction in glossiness variations. A plurality of print modes are prepared which include: a first print mode to perform a printing operation in a way that... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218548 - Digital solid ink stick identification and recognition: A system for an ink delivery system comprises a feed path having an insertion end and a melt end, and an ink stick transport for moving at least one ink stick between the insertion end and the melt end of the feed path. At least one sensor is positioned along... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20080218549 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head having a nozzle, wherein the liquid ejection head can eject a liquid from the nozzle and is movable in a predetermined direction; a first controller that controls, based on input data, liquid ejection of the liquid ejection head from the nozzle... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080218550 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus which discharges ink onto a recording medium to form an image, the inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head having a nozzle for discharging ink; a conveying belt for supporting a recording medium and conveying the recording medium to a position facing the nozzle; a cleaning... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080218551 - Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus: Time for which an ejection port surface of a print head has been exposed to the exterior since the end of the last cleaning operation is predicted and accumulated as an accumulated exposure time. A cleaning timing is set to be a timing when the accumulated exposure time coincides with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218552 - Printing system particle removal device and method: A printing system includes a source of liquid including a liquid outlet. The source of liquid includes a liquid with particles. A liquid vibrating mechanism is operably associated with the source of liquid. A controller is operably associated with the liquid vibrating mechanism. The controller is configured to control a... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080218553 - Inkjet recording device: In an inkjet recording device, ink droplets remaining on a nozzle surface are wiped off and the wiped off ink droplets are prevented from being scattered so as to stably form good quality images. When the wiper blade wiping the nozzle surface of the recording heads to wipe off the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080218554 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid ejection surface maintenance method: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which includes a nozzle ejecting liquid, a pressure chamber connected to the nozzle and arranged in a liquid ejection surface of the liquid ejection head, and a pressure application device applying pressure to the liquid inside the pressure chamber; an internal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218555 - Ink jet recording head, liquid storage container and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording head is detachably attached to an ink jet recording apparatus including a carriage operable to reciprocally move and an optical encoder scale. An ink jet recording head, a liquid storage container, or an ink jet recording apparatus includes at least one of a light emitting element... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080218556 - Liquid droplet ejection head, liquid droplet ejection device, and image forming apparatus: A liquid droplet ejection had having: a vibrating pate at which is formed a piezoelectric element which deforms when voltage is applied; a wiring board disposed above the piezoelectric element, an electric wire for deforming the piezoelectric element being disposed at the wiring board; a liquid storage chamber provided at... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.c.

20080218557 - Micro-droplet ejection apparatus having nozzle arrays without individual chambers and ejection method of droplets thereof: A micro-droplet ejection apparatus includes a substrate, a droplet-ejecting layer, and a plurality of bubble generators. A liquid storage space is formed between the substrate and the droplet-ejecting layer. The liquid storage space has no spacer connecting the substrate and the droplet-ejecting layer. That is, the liquid storage space has... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080218558 - Driver device and liquid droplet ejection head: In a switch (mechanical switch) in a drive circuit, an electric potential according to the temperature of a driver IC is given to a gate electrode from a switch control circuit. During normal operation, a lever is in contact with terminals, and thus a terminal connected to an input terminal... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080218559 - Piezoelectric device, process for producing the same, and liquid discharge device: A piezoelectric device includes a substrate; and a laminated film formed above the substrate. The laminated film includes a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper electrode layer formed in this order, and the lower electrode layer is a metal electrode layer containing as one or more main... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218561 - Liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus: A liquid-jet head includes a passage-forming substrate. A plurality of pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzles. Piezoelectric elements each include a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer and an upper electrode. Leads for the upper and lower electrodes are drawn out. In the liquid-jet head, the lower electrode is a common... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218560 - Piezoelectric element, ink jet recording head and ink jet printer: A piezoelectric element includes: a first electrode formed above a base substrate; a piezoelectric layer formed above the first electrode; and a second electrode formed above the piezoelectric layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer has a plurality of voids.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080218562 - Drop deflection selectable via jet steering: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid stream generator, an electrode system, and a stream deflector. The liquid stream generator includes a nozzle and is operable to produce a stream of liquid through the nozzle. The electrode system is operable to produce an electric field including a first region having... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080218563 - Tube pump for fluid ejecting apparatus, fluid ejecting apparatus, and method for adjusting fluid-vacuuming capability of pump: A tube pump for a fluid ejecting apparatus, the tube pump vacuuming fluid through a cap member from a fluid ejecting head for ejecting fluid, includes a specific-vacuuming-capability-information storage unit for storing specific-vacuuming-capability information that indicates a vacuuming capability specific to the tube pump.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080218565 - Cartridge unit having multiple ink storage capacity: A cartridge unit arranged for use in a print engine for an inkjet printer is provided. The cartridge unit has a body portion having ink storage compartments and a pagewidth printhead assembly configured to receive ink from ink storage compartments and distribute it to nozzles arranged in use to deliver... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080218564 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus that records an image by discharging ink from an inkjet recording head is disclosed. The inkjet recording apparatus includes a disposal liquid tank that accommodates disposal ink that is discharged from the inkjet recording head for purposes other than recording, a mixing member that mixes the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080218567 - Ink cartridge having enlarged end reservoirs: The invention provides for an ink cartridge unit for an inkjet printer. The cartridge includes an elongate main body defining a number of rectangular ink reservoirs along a length thereof, with end reservoirs being larger than reservoirs interposed between the end reservoirs, said end reservoirs being configured to store ink... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080218568 - Liquid container: A liquid container contains a liquid therein and is detachably mountable to a liquid ejection device. The liquid container has a liquid lead-out port for supplying said liquid to the outside, the liquid lead-out port being disposed in a connection surface, and an abutment surface for opening a channel valve... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080218566 - Metallized print head container and method: Various embodiments of a metallized print head container and method are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080218570 - Imaging on flexible packaging substrates: Methods and devices for forming, such as by printing, high quality, high throughput, ultraviolet curable gel ink images on flexible substrates for packaging applications are disclosed. The methods and devices have excellent image quality and do not require pinning of the ink during color printing or nitrogen inerting during curing.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080218569 - Multi-position interlocking ink stick: An ink stick comprises an ink stick body having first and second opposed ends. A first interlocking face on the first end and a first interlocking face on the second end have complementary nesting shapes and are oriented to allow the first interlocking face of an end of the ink... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20080218571 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an exhaust unit that discharges air accommodated in a second liquid accommodating unit; a liquid transfer unit that transfers liquid from a first liquid accommodating unit to the second liquid accommodating unit via a liquid supply path and retransfers liquid from the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080218573 - Solid ink stick with multiple axis interlocking: An ink stick for use in an ink delivery system of a phase change ink imaging device comprises an ink stick body having first and second opposed ends and the ends are contoured to complement the feed path such that the sticks resist buckling due to feed forces. The ink... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20080218572 - Solid ink stick with reversible keying and interlocking features: An ink stick for use in an ink delivery system of a phase change ink imaging device comprises an ink stick body having first and second opposed end surfaces and first and second opposed lateral side surfaces. The ink stick body is rotationally symmetric about a vertical central axis of... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20080218575 - Applying a printed mark to an article in the tobacco-processing industry: Method for applying a printed mark to an article of the tobacco-processing industry. The method includes applying an ink based on a volatile and organic solvent to the article by at least one printing head.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080218574 - Ink-jet recording method and ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording method of recording an image on a recording medium by jetting from a line head type ink-jet recording head ink droplets which are curable by being irradiated with active energy rays, comprises steps of conveying step of conveying the recording medium in a conveying direction; jetting ink... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080218577 - Conveyor belt with linear scale, conveyor belt driving apparatus and printing apparatus: A printing apparatus for printing characters, figures, or images by ejecting fine liquid from a plurality of nozzles to form fine particles on a print medium. The printing apparatus includes: a conveyor-belt driving system in which a conveyor belt with a linear scale is used, the conveyor belt having a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080218576 - Escort belt for improved printing of a media web in an ink printing machine: An escort belt facilitates removal of particulate from a print zone in an ink printing machine while maintaining proper registration of printing media in the print zone. The escort belt includes an endless belt having a width between a first and a second edge of the escort belt that is... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20080218578 - Recording apparatus: There is provided a recording apparatus in which a pressure contact position of a pinch roller to a conveying roller and a distance between the pressure contact position of the pinch roller and a platen can be properly set corresponding to different recording conditions so that a high quality image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080218579 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus irradiates a polygon mirror with laser beams from different directions. The polygon mirror reflects the laser beams toward different optical axis directions to scan the laser beams at a predetermined deflection angle. First and second beam detectors are disposed at the beam incident ends in the... Agent: Socal Ip Law Group LLP

20080218580 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: Positioning displacement characteristics of each of scanning beams are obtained in advance. The positioning displacement characteristics is indicative of a relation between temperature and a displacement amount by which each of the scanning beams is displaced in a sub-scanning direction. A displacement control is performed based on the positioning displacement... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080211838 - Liquid container: Provided herein a liquid container including a liquid containing portion for containing liquid; and an detection portion which is used to detect the amount of liquid contained in the liquid containing portion, receives an input driving signal, and outputs a detection signal having a frequency lower than that of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080211839 - Replaceable print cartridge: A replaceable print cartridge includes a container and a memory coupled to the container. The memory is configured to limit use of printing material that is to be contained in the container.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080211844 - Determination of ink ejection amount error for a printer: A plurality of same ink nozzle arrays are provided, and multiple color patches are printed with mutually different dot recording rates respectively using one of the same ink nozzle arrays. Color specification value of the plurality of color patches is measured for each same ink nozzle array. The ink ejection... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080211841 - Liquid ejection apparatus and recording apparatus: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a recording head which ejects an ejection liquid; a liquid container which accommodates air and the ejection liquid; a recording head connection flow channel which leads from the liquid container to the recording head; a pressure determination device which determines pressure of the ejection liquid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211842 - Liquid ejection apparatus, image forming apparatus and ejection determination method: The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: a liquid ejection head having a plurality of ejection ports which eject droplets of liquid; a light emitting device which emits a determination light beam intersecting with flight paths of the droplets ejected from at least two of the ejection ports to be examined; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211843 - Method of operating a nozzle chamber having radially positioned actuators: Provided is a method of operating a nozzle chamber. The nozzle chamber has a wafer defining a chamber with an ink ejection port and ink supply channel along with a plurality of radially positioned actuators about the port. Each actuator has an internal serpentine core arranged in signal communication with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211840 - Printhead with energy supply control and energy transfer control: Disclosed is a printhead, such as a thermal printhead. The printhead includes at least one image-forming element configured to actuate between a printing position and a non-printing position relative to the printhead. The printhead can be configured to be incorporated into a printer for processing media, such as thermal media,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080211845 - Method for driving piezoelectric ink jet head: s

20080211846 - Setting method and image forming apparatus: A method is provided for setting a target moving velocity of a carriage in an image forming apparatus wherein a recording head is driven at a driving frequency proportional to a moving velocity of the carriage. The method includes steps of: varying the driving frequency of the recording head proportional... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080211847 - Systems and methods for controlling and testing jetting stability in inkjet print heads: The present invention provides systems, methods, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling a slew rate of a voltage signal provided to a PZT capacitor of a print head. The system includes a digital driver circuit adapted to generate a signal indicating a nominal slew rate, a probe circuit for measuring... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20080211848 - Handheld image translation device: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a handheld image translation device are described herein. The handheld image translation device may include an image capture module to capture surface images of a medium and a positioning module to determine positioning information based at least in part on navigational measurements and/or the captured... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080211849 - Inkjet device and method for the controlled positioning of droplets of a substance onto a substrate: The invention provides a device for the controlled positioning of droplets of a substance onto a substrate, the device comprising at least a print head comprising a nozzle provided to eject the droplet, the inkjet device further comprising a control camera arranged such that after ejection of the droplet out... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080211850 - Liquid ejecting method and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting method includes detecting a faulty nozzle in which an ejection fault occurs when a liquid should be ejected, calculating corrected tone values by correcting tone values of pixels adjacent to pixels at which the liquid should be ejected from the faulty nozzle based on a correction amount,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080211851 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus has a conveyor for conveying a recording medium in a conveying direction, at least one recording head having a flow path unit, a driver IC configured to output a drive signal, and an actuator configured to actuate ink in the flow path based on the drive... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080211853 - Inkjet recording apparatus: The inkjet recording apparatus comprises: a head which ejects ink droplets of light-curable ink to a print medium to form an image on the print medium; a light irradiating device which is located at a downstream side of the head, and irradiates light from a light source onto the ink... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211854 - Printing position adjusting method and printing system: The present invention relates to a printing position adjusting method capable of performing dot adjustment value acquisition processing that can accommodate diversified user needs of recent years, and a printing system capable of achieving the adjusting method. The printing position adjusting method according to the present invention provides a plurality... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080211852 - Recording medium, print control device, printing system, and computer readable medium: e

20080211856 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method for manufacturing electro-optic device, electro-optic device, and electronic equipement: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus performs a drawing operation on a workpiece set on a set table by driving the ejection of a functional liquid droplet ejection head in a head unit while moving the head unit in a main scanning direction relative to the set table. The liquid droplet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080211855 - Liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method for manufacturing electro-optic device, electro-optic device, and electronic equipment: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus performs a drawing operation on a workpiece set on a set table by driving the ejection of a functional liquid droplet ejection head in a head unit while moving the head unit in a main scanning direction relative to the set table. The liquid droplet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080211857 - Printhead assembly having a tri-layer outer shell of a hot rolled laminate of two different metals: A printhead assembly for an inkjet printer is provided. The assembly includes an outer shell of a hot rolled tri-layer laminate of two different metals, and a core element within the shell, the core element defining four separate ink reservoirs. Also included are a printhead constructed using MEMS techniques to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211858 - Inkjet printhead with electrical disconnection of printhead prior to removal: A maintenance assembly for a pagewidth printer, said assembly operatively mounted between posts of a main body of the printer so that the maintenance assembly is positioned adjacent a printhead assembly of the printer. The maintenance assembly includes a maintenance chassis defining tongue portions and having ends which are shaped... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211859 - Printhead assembly having an elongate ink delivery extrusion with a fitted end cap: A printhead assembly for an ink jet printer. The printhead assembly includes an ink supply assembly having an elongate extrusion defining a number of distribution channels for distributing ink to a printhead via an end cap operatively fitted to said extrusion. The end cap includes an upper plate and a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211860 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus configured to perform recording by discharging ink from a plurality of discharge ports disposed on a recording head. The apparatus includes a cap adapted to cover the plurality of discharge ports disposed on the recording head, a recessed portion defined on a bottom face inside... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080211861 - Duplex printer configured to move printheads before capping: The present invention relates to a duplex printer. The printer includes a support assembly and a pair of printheads mounted for movement with respect to the support assembly and configured to each eject ink upon print media. A print media feed mechanism is configured to feed the print media between... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211864 - Device and method for servicing an inkjet print head on a hand held printer: A hand-held printer that includes an inkjet array having a plurality of inkjets is disclosed. The hand-held printer may include an inkjet cap sized to cooperatively engage the inkjet array, wherein the inkjet cap is movable between and open position and a closed position, and a plurality of wipers carried... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080211863 - Inkjet recording apparatus: The invention is directed to an inkjet recording apparatus having an inkjet head, a cap, and a moving mechanism. The inkjet head has an ejection surface having ink ejection openings. The cap is made of first and second extending portions, each of which has a leading edge closest to the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080211862 - Inkjet recording device: An inkjet recording device includes a recording head having a nozzle surface formed with a plurality of nozzle arrays and a wiping mechanism having a wiper for wiping the nozzle surface. The wiping mechanism moves the wiper relative to and in contact with the nozzle surface, in a direction inclined... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080211865 - Printer assembly with printhead purging members: The invention provides for a printer assembly for a pagewidth printer. The assembly includes a casing that defines a print media feed path, and duplex printheads arranged on opposite sides of the a print media feed path. Also included are two purging members each inclined at a predetermined angle to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211867 - Liquid droplet discharge apparatus: In a liquid droplet discharge apparatus that prevents deterioration in the precision of ink droplet landing positions resulting from deformation of long members due to changes in the temperature environment, long members to which plural head units are attached are fixed at one end but slidably supported at the other... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080211866 - Uv inkjet printing of vision control panels: This invention concerns vision control panels and a method of UV inkjet printing vision control panels. A substantially imperforate light permeable material is partially printed with a ‘print pattern’ comprising a base layer and a design layer comprising a design colour layer. The method is limited to digital UV inkjet... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080211868 - Head chip unit and method of producing the same, inkjet head, and inkjet printer: Provided area head chip unit capable of discharging a plurality of kinds of ink, down sizing, and of printing by the plurality of kinds of ink. A head chip unit includes a head chip having a substantially plate shape including: a channel extending from one edge side to another edge... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Adams & Wilks

20080211869 - Mounting arrangement with a support and pressure plate for a printhead assembly.: The invention provides for a mounting arrangement for a printhead assembly having a plurality of modular printhead tiles each having a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements for printing on a printing medium. Each tile has a flex PCB with which to provide the tile with electrical energy. The mounting arrangement... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211870 - Liquid ejecting head unit and method of manufacturing liquid ejecting head unit: A method of manufacturing a liquid ejecting head unit which includes a liquid ejecting head having a liquid ejection surface through which a nozzle opening is opened to eject a liquid and a support member adhered onto the liquid ejection surface of the liquid ejecting head by an adhesive, the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080211871 - Nozzle plate, method for manufacturing nozzle plate, droplet discharge head, and droplet discharge apparatus: A nozzle plate includes: a first silicon layer; a glass layer; a second silicon layer provided between the first silicon layer and the glass layer, the second silicon layer being bonded to the glass layer; and a silicon oxide layer provided between the first silicon layer and the second silicon... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080211872 - Droplet ejection apparatus alignment: In one aspect, the invention features assemblies for depositing droplets on a substrate during relative motion of the assembly and the substrate along a process direction. The assemblies include a first printhead module and a second printhead module contacting the first printhead module, each of the printhead modules including a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080211873 - Method of manufacturing recording head and recording head: A method of manufacturing a recording head according to the present invention includes a plurality of steps to describe as follows. In a solder paste application step, solder paste bodies are partially applied onto a plurality of terminals. In a heating step, each of the plurality of solder paste bodies... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080211874 - Photonically activated fluid ejector apparatus and methods: A fluid ejector head, including a fluid ejector disposed on an ejector support, and a semiconductive junction photo sensor electrically coupled to the fluid ejector. The fluid ejector head also includes a photon source photonically coupled only to the semiconductive junction photo sensor. Photons emitted from the photon source interact... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080211875 - Inkjet nozzle device with cantilevered actuating arm: A nozzle device is provided for an inkjet printer. The nozzle device includes a support structure defining an ink inlet chamber connected to a source of ink. A nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzle chamber for receiving ink from the ink inlet chamber and a nozzle opening through which ink... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211876 - Printhead for use in camera photo-printing: A printhead 380 for use in camera photo-printing, the printhead 380 including a plurality of segments 381, each of the plurality of segments 381 including a plurality of nozzles, the plurality of nozzles being grouped, where nozzles of a particular group share an ink reservoir.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211877 - Inkjet printhead having nozzle arrangements with ink spreading prevention rims: Provided is an inkjet printhead having a plurality of nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement includes walls defining an ink chamber. The chamber includes an ink supply channel and an ink ejection port with an ink spreading prevention rim. Each nozzle arrangement also includes a thermal actuator mechanism configured to operatively... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211878 - Nozzle arrangement with a thermal actuator incorporating heat sinks: The present invention relates to a nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printer. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an inlet channel. A nozzle chamber wall and a roof wall are collectively positioned on the wafer substrate to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the inlet channel.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211879 - Pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly with nozzle arrangements having actuator arms configured to be in thermal balance when in a quiescent state: Provided is a pagewidth inkjet printhead assembly having a plurality of nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement includes walls defining an ink chamber having an ink supply channel and an ink ejection port. The ink ejection port includes an ink spreading prevention rim. Each nozzle arrangement also includes a thermal actuator... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211881 - Piezoelectric member, piezoelectric element, and liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus utilizing piezoelectric element: The invention provides a piezoelectric film having a large piezoelectric property, and a piezoelectric element, a liquid discharge head and a liquid discharge apparatus utilizing the same. The piezoelectric film is formed by an epitaxial oxide of <100> orientation having at least a tetragonal crystal structure, in which the oxide... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080211880 - Piezoelectric thin film device and piezoelectric thin film device manufacturing method, and inkjet head and inkjet recording apparatus: One objective of the invention is to provide a highly-efficient and reliable piezoelectric thin film device by improving the piezoelectric function of a piezoelectric thin film and obtaining a crystal structure wherein the dependency of a piezoelectric constant, relative to a voltage, is superior, and to also provide a method... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080211882 - Liquid-ejecting head and liquid-ejecting apparatus having the same: A liquid-ejecting head including a channel-forming substrate provided with pressure-generating chambers that are communicated with nozzle openings for ejecting a liquid, pressure-generating units for generating a change in the pressure in the pressure-generating chambers, and a fluid-resistant protection film is provided. The protection film is disposed at least on the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080211883 - Liquid discharge apparatus and check method of the same: A piezoelectric actuator has a first ceramic layer covering openings of pressure chambers, a first electrode provided over the plurality of pressure chambers, a second ceramic layer, a second electrode, a third ceramic layer and a third electrode in this order from the side of the pressure chambers. By measuring... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080211885 - Fluid distribution stack: A fluid distribution stack (500) for distributing fluid to a printhead integrated circuit (51), the fluid distribution stack (500) including a lower layer (530) having a lower channel (531, 532), the lower channel (531, 532) being configured to allow for fluid flow, a middle layer (520) having a hole (521,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211886 - Ink refill unit with a working outlet and other dummy outlets: An ink refill unit is provided for refilling a printer ink cartridge unit. The ink refill unit includes a base assembly which houses internal ink refilling components and defines a plurality of outlets for docking with the cartridge unit. Each outlet corresponds to a respective type of ink with only... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211888 - Ink storage compartment with bypass fluid path structures: The present invention relates to an ink storage compartment. The compartment includes a reservoir structure, in turn, defining a plurality of ink reservoirs from which respective ink outlets extend. Ink absorbent material is provided within respective ink reservoirs. Bypass fluid path structures extend between respective ink outlets and ink reservoirs... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211887 - Inkjet print head: An inkjet print head has a wall that separates an interior of the inkjet print head from an exterior of the inkjet print head. A channel passes completely through the wall for receiving a conduit therein. A trough is formed on an exterior of the component. A sidewall of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080211884 - Liquid feed tube for liquid jetting device and liquid jetting device: A liquid feed tube for feeding a liquid from a liquid tank disposed on a liquid jetting device body side to a jetting head mounted on a reciprocating carriage, including: a long elastic member and a film member connected in an airtight state to the elastic member along a longitudinal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080211889 - Ink storage module for storing remnant ink of an ink jet device: An ink storage module includes a base, a clamping structure, a pipeline, and a blotting structure. The clamping structure is connected to the base to create a monolithic structure. The clamping structure has at least one ink outlet. An end of the pipeline is connected to a pump for receiving... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080211892 - Liquid container and jet printing apparatus: A structure for informing a state of the ink tank by a light emitting section such as LED, capable of displaying such information at a position easily visible by the user and favorably sending the emitted light both to the user and a light receiver section on the printer side... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080211890 - Liquid container, component for forming liquid container, and method for producing liquid container: The present invention provides a liquid container which has a check valve for preventing a flow of outside air into its inside and which is capable of maintaining the performance of the check valve constant. An ink pack (25) includes a bag portion (36), which holds an outlet portion by... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080211891 - Liquid storage unit and liquid ejecting apparatus: The invention provides a liquid storage unit comprising: a case, a liquid storage part for storing a liquid in the case, with which a liquid port communicates; at least one gas accommodation part for accommodating a gas in the case, with which a gas port communicates, wherein the liquid in... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080211893 - Light emitting device, method of manufacturing light emitting device, and ink jet recording apparatus: A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting body, a thermally conductive member, and a heat radiation member. The substrate has a first face and a second face which is a face opposite to the first face. The light emitting body is held on a side of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080211894 - Double-sided printer having opposed print engines: Provided is a double-sided printer having two print engines arranged on opposite sides of a print media path. Each print engine includes an image transfer roller configured to operatively transfer an image onto a sheet of paper fed through the media path. Also included is an ink cartridge having an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211896 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus according to one aspect comprises: a movable supporting member slidable in a conveying direction of a recording medium while supporting the recording medium to follow the recording medium conveyed; and an interlocking mechanism configured to control a movement of the movable supporting member. The interlocking mechanism... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080211895 - Inkjet recording apparatus: The present invention provides an inkjet recording apparatus, which performs high resolution image recording by inhibiting propagation of heat from a light-radiation device to a recording medium, is provided with a recording medium conveyance device to convey a recording medium in a conveyance direction; a recording head 10 to emit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080211898 - Cover assembly for a print engine with push rod for actuating a refill unit: This invention relates to a cover assembly for a cradle unit of a pagewidth print engine. The cover assembly defines a docking port for a refill unit configured to refill a cartridge unit of the print engine. The cartridge unit is housed in the cradle. The docking port includes a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211897 - Outer cover for ink cartridges: The present invention provides an outer cover to secure a printhead-ink cartridge and can be used in a segregated printhead-ink cartridge which is modified from an all-in-one printhead-ink cartridge. The inner and outer mounting and matching dimensions of the outer cover fit the outer frame edge (2) of the printhead... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

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