Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 10/09

20090244114 - In-car entertainment unit with inbuilt printer: An in-car entertainment (ICE) unit includes a compact disc (CD) player configured to play a CD. A first user console is provided to permit a user to control operation of the CD player and the radio receiver. A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided which can be used to display... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244115 - Droplet discharge apparatus: A droplet discharge apparatus includes: a tank for storing a function liquid; a first supply tube for supplying the function liquid; a plurality of pressure control valves for controlling a pressure of the function liquid supplied from the tank via the first supply tube, to a predetermined pressure and then... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090244117 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: An image forming method includes the steps of: depositing an aggregating treatment liquid containing 10% or more and 90% or less of a water-soluble high-boiling-point organic solvent having an SP value of 30 or lower onto a recording medium; starting drying of the aggregating treatment liquid deposited on the recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244116 - Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording system: An inkjet recording method is provided that includes a preparatory step of preparing an ink set comprising at least ink composition A comprising (a-1) a polymerization initiator and (b-1) a polymerizable compound, at least 65 wt % of the total weight of the polymerizable compound (b-1) being a monofunctional polymerizable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244120 - Non-ejecting nozzle detecting method and device and inkjet recording apparatus: A non-ejecting nozzle detecting method comprises: setting a specified processing liquid deposited pattern; ejecting the processing liquid from processing liquid nozzles onto a recording medium to form the processing liquid deposited pattern; ejecting colored ink from ink nozzles corresponding to the processing liquid nozzles selected as non-ejection detection targets onto... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244118 - Printing device, print control device, and printing method: Provided is a printing device which prints an image using a metallic ink and a color ink, the device including: a recording unit which records the metallic ink and the color ink on a printing medium; an input unit which inputs image data; a metallic ink region specifying unit which... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090244119 - Water-based ink for ink-jet recording, ink cartridge, ink-jet recording apparatus, method of evaluating water-based ink for ink-jet recording, and method of producing water-based ink for ink-jet recording: o

20090244121 - Ink jet recording method: The invention provides an ink jet recording method including applying an ink onto an ink jet recording medium by ink jet technology, the recording medium containing a support and an ink receptive layer which is provided on or above the support and contains a water-soluble aluminum compound, and the ink... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244122 - Liquid container, board, and method of rewriting liquid information: A liquid container adapted for installation in a liquid jetting device includes a container body that contains a liquid, a memory, a detector, and an information rewriting portion. The memory allows the liquid jetting device to read and write liquid information relating to the contained liquid while the liquid container... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090244124 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes a recording section having a head holding member holding a plurality of head units ejecting ink, and a position adjusting mechanism including position adjusting members, each being provided for each head unit, for adjusting a position of the head unit relative to the head holding... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090244123 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus to form an image on a recording medium is provided. The printing apparatus includes a recording head, an ink cartridge, which contains the ink therein, an ink cartridge storage to store the ink cartridge, an ink conveyer tube, which connects the recording head and the ink cartridge... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244127 - Ink-jet printer: An ink-jet printer performs the ordinary jetting operation in which the printing is performed on a printing area of the recording paper while transporting the recording paper frontwardly by transport rollers and the marking jetting operation in which a marking is formed at an edge portion of the recording paper.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244131 - Inkjet recording apparatus and method: The inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet recording head which includes a nozzle through which liquid is ejected; a pressure regulating unit which includes a liquid chamber that communicates with the nozzle and a gas chamber that is partitioned from the liquid chamber by a flexible film; and a liquid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244129 - Liquid droplet jetting apparatus: In a liquid droplet jetting mode of jetting liquid droplets, a controller controls a piezoelectric actuator to perform a liquid droplet jetting operation in which volume of a pressure chamber is decreased to a decreased volume smaller than a predetermined volume, and then the volume of the pressure chamber is... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244130 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head disposed on a transport path of a target to eject liquid from nozzles at a nozzle forming surface, a target transport unit transporting the target on the basis of a driving force of a first driving source such that the target... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244128 - Liquid ejecting method, liquid ejecting head, and liquid ejecting apparatus: Provided is a liquid ejecting method, including: ejecting a liquid from a liquid ejecting head, wherein the viscosity of the liquid is in a range from 6 mPa·s to 20 mPa·s, wherein the liquid ejecting head includes: nozzles which eject the liquid; a pressure chamber which applies a pressure variation... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244126 - Method of fabricating three-dimensional structure and method of manufacturing substrate with spacer: A method of fabricating a three-dimensional structure, the method comprises the steps of: depositing a droplet of curable ink on a substrate; curing the ink deposited on the substrate; and building up the ink in layers by repeatedly depositing a droplet of curable ink on the cured ink and curing... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090244125 - Printing target color setting method and apparatus and picture color tone controlling method and apparatus: The invention provides a printing target color setting method and apparatus and a picture color tone controlling method and apparatus and more particularly provides a printing target color setting method and apparatus and a picture color tone controlling method and apparatus capable of achieving control of the printing color tone... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090244132 - Fluid ejection device: A fluid ejection device includes groups of firing cells, sharing a common fire signal and a common address selection mechanism, each firing cell having a drop generator for ejecting fluid and a dynamic memory addressable by the common address selection mechanism. Circuitry interfaces with the firing cells to allow the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090244134 - Liquid droplet discharging apparatus, liquid discharging method, color filter producing method, and organic el device producing method: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes a substrate having a plurality of film formation regions; a plurality of nozzles discharging droplets of a liquid, the nozzles being positioned facing the substrate and moved relatively with respect to the substrate to perform a scanning operation so as to discharge the droplets... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090244135 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and method of driving liquid ejecting head: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus including: pressure generation chambers communicating with nozzle openings for ejecting a liquid; and a liquid ejecting head including pressure generation units which cause pressure variations in the pressure generation chambers, wherein idle nozzles including at least one located adjacent to ejection nozzles in the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244133 - Signal processing apparatus, droplet ejection apparatus and signal processing method: A signal processing apparatus has a first circuit board having a digital/analog converter, a second circuit board having an operational amplifier, a connector connecting the first circuit board and the second circuit board, a transmitter on the first circuit board, and a controller on the second circuit board. The digital/analog... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090244136 - Drawing method, inkjet head, drawing apparatus, method for fabricating printed wiring board and method for manufacturing color filter: A drawing method includes three or more liquid drops are discharged by an inkjet method so as to draw a pattern on a substrate. The plural liquid drops are grouped into a plurality of groups that include at least a group composed of two or more adjacent liquid drops and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090244139 - Liquid droplet ejecting apparatus: A data generation circuit of the liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a droplet type determination unit. The first storage unit stores therein information on a plurality of types of droplets. The second storage unit stores therein time-sequence information of a type... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090244137 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus forms dots of special ink and dots of ordinary ink on a printing medium, at least some of the dots of ordinary ink being superimposed on the dots of special ink, or the dots of special ink being superimposed on at least some of the dots of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090244140 - Printing method, computer-readable medium, and printing apparatus: A printing method etc. capable of suppressing degradation in image quality of border sections between regions respectively printed by a plurality of nozzle rows that eject ink droplets is achieved. The printing method includes a step of setting, when at least two print heads that move in a movement direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244138 - Recording head, droplet discharge device and droplet discharge method: A recording head includes plural nozzle groups and a second nozzle. Each of the nozzle groups includes plural nozzles that respectively form dots, which make up an image, on a recording medium by discharging droplets. The nozzles are arranged in a straight line that is inclined with respect to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244141 - Orifice health detection device: An orifice health detection device includes a fixed array of ink ejecting orifices, the ink ejecting orifices configured to eject at least one ink drop, a light source that produces a light beam configured to scatter light from the at least one ejected ink drop, and a light detector configured... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090244142 - Water based ink for ink-jet recording, ink cartridge, ink-jet recording apparatus, method of evaluating water-based ink for ink-jet recording, and method of producing water-based ink for ink-jet recording: A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes a coloring agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. In the water-based ink after drying, a phase (δ) obtained by a tan δ measured at about 25° C. is constantly about 45 degrees or more. In other words, the phase (δ) never becomes... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090244146 - Image forming method and apparatus: The image forming method forms an image on a medium by using ink and treatment liquid. The ink contains coloring material and thermoplastic resin particles in a solvent, and the treatment liquid contains a component which aggregates the coloring material. The image forming method includes: a treatment liquid deposition step... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244150 - Image recording method and image recording apparatus: An image recording method comprises the steps of: acquiring first recording characteristic information of recording elements of a recording head by reading a first test pattern formed with ejecting ink droplet from the recording elements; obtaining first density unevenness correction information based on the first recording characteristic information; acquiring second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244147 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink jet head in which nozzles ejecting aqueous pigment ink in accordance with gradation are arrayed, a sub scanning driving unit which carries a recording medium having an image formed thereon with the ink, a heating unit which selectively heats an area divided... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090244143 - Inkjet printer and method thereof for regulating printing region: An inkjet printer and a method thereof for regulating a printing region are disclosed. The above-mentioned inkjet printer includes a paper-feeding device, a detecting device, a printer controller and an ink-jetting device. As the paper-feeding device feeds a paper, the detecting device detects the skew angle of the paper, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090244149 - Landing position determining method and device for processing-liquid ejection nozzles, and inkjet recording apparatus: A landing position determining method for processing-liquid ejection nozzles comprises: setting a specified processing liquid deposited pattern; ejecting the processing liquid from the processing-liquid ejection nozzles onto a recording medium to form the processing liquid deposited pattern; depositing the colored ink from a plurality of ink nozzles onto the processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244144 - Liquid coating method, liquid coating device, and method of manufacturing radiation detector: l

20090244148 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head disposed on a transport path of a target to eject a liquid from nozzles at a nozzle forming surface, a liquid receptor transport unit transporting a liquid receptor for receiving the liquid ejected from the nozzles as a waste liquid such... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244151 - Orifice health detection device and method: A method of detecting orifice health includes moving a cap support into a drop detect position wherein a light source mounted on the cap support is positioned adjacent an array of fluid ejecting orifices, from the light source, projecting a light beam adjacent to the array of fluid ejecting orifices,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090244152 - Piezoelectric head inspection device and droplet jetting device: The present invention provides an inspection device for a piezoelectric head. The piezoelectric head includes: a pressure chamber filled with liquid, a liquid supply channel that supplies the liquid to the pressure chamber, a nozzle at which droplets are jetted from the pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric element that applies... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090244145 - Recording method: A method for recording an image based on image data in a recording region of a recording medium being transported in a predetermined transportation direction includes forming a first reference mark in a recordable region, including the recording region, of the recording medium using a first colored liquid containing a... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244155 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method: A liquid ejecting apparatus for forming a multicolored image on a recording medium includes: a printing head for ejecting a plurality of colors; a head driving section that performs a main scanning for moving the printing head in a main scanning direction; a transporting section that transports the recording medium... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090244153 - Method of calculating correction value and method of discharging liquid: A method of calculating a correction value including: forming a first test pattern on a medium by using a first nozzle group and a second nozzle group and a third nozzle group of a liquid discharging device, forming a second test pattern on the medium, setting the first test pattern... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090244154 - Method of calculating correction value and method of discharging liquid: There is provided a method of calculating a correction value. The method includes forming a first test pattern on a medium by using a first nozzle group and a second nozzle group of a liquid discharging device including a nozzle row, in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging liquid... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090244156 - Reduction of dependence of color appearance on light source: A look up table LUT with specific gray reproduction characteristics is used for converting RGB image data to multi-tone data of ink colors. The gray reproduction characteristics of LUT are set such that the color difference ΔE of a gray color area with an arbitrary tone level in the L*a*b*... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090244159 - Ink jet recording apparatus and method of ink jet recording: A first image to be recorded on a first surface is divided into front and rear half regions. Obtained thereafter is front-side ink volume and rear-side ink volume necessary for recording these half regions on the first surface. Among these half regions, the one having more ink volume is recorded... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244157 - Inkjet printer and printing method: An inkjet printer including an inkjet head unit having inkjet heads for ejecting UV inks, an UVLED unit having a UVLED for emitting ultraviolet light, and a control unit for controlling the inkjet head unit and the UVLED unit. The control unit controls the inkjet head unit and the UVLED... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090244160 - Printer: A printer includes: a print head for ejecting ink on a print medium; a drying portion for blowing hot air to the printed print medium so as to expedite drying of the ink applied on the printed print medium, the drying portion including a blowing amount changing portion changeable a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090244158 - Recording method: A recording method is provided for recording images based on image data on a recording area of a recording medium using a first color liquid and a second color liquid containing coloring material and a colorless liquid not containing the coloring material, the recording medium being transported along a predetermined... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244161 - Ink jet printing apparatus and print head recovery method: An ink jet printing apparatus and a print head recovery method are provided which effectively execute a preliminary ejection to eject ink not contributing to image printing from nozzle opening of the print head to maintain the ink ejection performance in good condition. The ink in the print head is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244162 - Printhead controller for controlling printhead on basis of thermal sensors: A printhead controller is provided for supplying dot data to a printhead module having a plurality of nozzles for expelling ink. The printhead module includes a plurality of thermal sensors. Each of the thermal sensors is configured to respond to a temperature at or adjacent at least one of the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244166 - Attachable member-recognition device and ink-jet printer provided with the same: An ink cartridge is formed with an information-engraved section formed to have a predetermined shape. A cartridge-attachment section, to which the ink cartridge is attached, includes a deformable section, a stress light-emitting section which emits light depending on the shape of the information-engraved section by means of a stress received... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244163 - Drop detection mechanism and a method of use thereof: A drop detection mechanism and method of use thereof is disclosed. In an embodiment, a shaped laser beam is employed to scatter light off of ink drops that are fired from a plurality of nozzles. A low cost, high throughput detector is utilized to detect the individual drops and thereby... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090244165 - Image forming device: An image formation device that inspects for image irregularities caused by joining of inkjet head modules. The image formation device is equipped with a belt conveyance unit, a recording head, a print sensor and a system controller. The belt conveyance unit moves paper in a conveyance direction. At the recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244167 - Inkjet recording apparatus, test image forming method, and computer-readable medium: An inkjet recording apparatus has: a head having a plurality of nozzles which eject an ink onto a recording medium; a conveyance device which conveys the recording medium; a droplet ejection control device which controls ink ejection of the head; a test image forming device that forms a test image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244164 - Method of printing an indication of defective printing, an inkjet printer, a printer driver, and a defective printing notification method: A method of printing an indication of defective printing can print a defective printing mark indicating that printing was not completed normally on a printout containing unprinted or missing dots. When printing one page of print data on recording paper is completed but before a paper discharge command indicating a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090244168 - Printing device and printing method: Provided is a printing device which prints an image using a metallic ink and a color ink, the device including: an input unit which inputs image data; a metallic dot formation unit which forms dot concentration dots on a printing medium using the metallic ink; and a color print unit... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090244169 - Image recording apparatus: An ink jet printer has a carriage equipped with a recording head. The carriage is disposed downstream in a feeding direction of a recording medium. The carriage has an optical sensor for measuring dirt on a supply roller. When the supply roller is dirty, a cleaning operation is started to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244170 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer comprising a printhead for allowing ink to be ejected from a nozzle portion to form an image on a recording medium, a cap member switchable between a sealing position for sealing nozzle surfaces of the nozzle portion and a free position where the cap member is moved... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090244171 - Printer having eccentrically coded capping mechanism: An inkjet printer has a body mounting first and second gear assemblies. The first assembly cooperating with a motor gear and having a code feature. The second assembly rotatably cooperating with the first assembly and a capper for capping a printhead. The code feature cooperates with a holding feature of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244176 - Droplet discharge device: A droplet discharge device includes an inkjet head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle, the inkjet head aligned so that a droplet of a function liquid discharged from the nozzle is placed on a surface of a target, a heater applying heat to the function liquid at the inkjet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244174 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus including an ink-jet head having four ink supply passages, manifold passages communicating with the respective ink supply passages, and individual ink passages extending from the common passages to nozzles open in an ink ejecting surface, wherein groups of the nozzles communicating with the respective manifold passages... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244175 - Ink jet printer and method of cleaning platen: An ink jet printer feeds a sheet of recording medium onto a platen, and record an image by ejecting droplets of ink from a print head attached to the platen. The ink jet printer has a media deforming section for deforming a part of the recording medium into a downward... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244172 - Method for preventing nozzle contamination during warm-up: A method of operating a print head comprises heating the print head from a first temperature below a melting temperature of the phase change ink to a second temperature above the melting temperature. The print head has a nozzle plate with plurality of nozzles for ejecting the phase change ink... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20090244173 - Nozzle plate, liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The nozzle plate has: a plurality of nozzles which eject a liquid; and a plurality of projecting sections formed in a broken line shape or an island shape about periphery of the plurality of nozzles on a liquid ejection surface of the nozzle plate.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090244178 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus for forming an appropriate test pattern is provided. A control section 41 includes: an image combination section 412 for combining image information corresponding to a subject image P1 of a first resolution, with second pattern information which corresponds to a test pattern P2 of a second... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090244177 - Image recording device and image recording method: An image recording device comprises: a transport unit for transporting a recording medium in an auxiliary scan direction; a recording head for drawing an image on the recording medium; a scanning unit for causing the recording head to scan the recording medium in a main scan direction that is normal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244179 - Liquid drop ejecting device and method for manufacturing same: A liquid drop ejecting device includes a housing supporting a plurality of head units that are arranged in two rows to be partially overlapping along a main scanning direction in a staggered configuration. The head unit includes a flow path unit having an ink flow path, a piezoelectric actuator ejecting... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244180 - Fluid flow in microfluidic devices: l

20090244182 - Injet jet stack external manifold: An inkjet external ink manifold is provided that allows for use of a jet stack that does not internally contain ink manifolds. The external ink manifold has a manifold body that includes one or more ink manifold chambers and includes ports arranged to connect the chambers to one or more... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Xerox

20090244183 - Inkjet printer having funnelled distribution to nozzle ics: An inkjet printer is provided having a plurality of nozzle integrated circuits, a support member having a plurality of longitudinally extending channels for carrying ink, and a plurality of ink distribution members via which ink is distributed from the channels of the support member to the nozzles of the nozzle... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244181 - Liquid discharge head and recording apparatus having the same: A liquid discharge head includes a discharge port array having discharge ports for discharging liquid, a liquid chamber for supplying liquid to the discharge port array, and a liquid introduction passage for introducing liquid to the liquid chamber. A vertical cross section of the liquid chamber has an elongated shape.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090244184 - Printhead with nozzle face recess to contain ink floods: An inkjet printhead that has a silicon wafer substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet channels and a plurality of replicated nozzle arrangements positioned on the substrate to receive ink from the ink inlets and eject ink droplets onto a media substrate. Each of the nozzle arrangements has nozzle... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244185 - Printhead having commonly supported nozzle ics: A printhead is provided having a support frame, a plurality of nozzle integrated circuits having printing fluid ejection nozzles, and a one-piece printing fluid distribution member commonly supporting the plurality of nozzle integrated circuits, the distribution member being removably engaged with the support frame.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244186 - Wiring unit and fluid discharging head having the wiring unit: A fluid discharging head includes a fluid channel unit, an actuator unit, and a wiring unit. The actuator unit includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a first actuator area and a second actuator area, and driving electrodes on the first surface. The wiring unit... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244188 - Liquid droplet ejection head and method for manufacturing the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid droplet ejection head capable of securing sealing of a common liquid chamber and realizing a high damper effect while suppressing a driving energy of the liquid droplet ejection head. A passage unit includes manifold plates, and a damper plate... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090244187 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and method of driving liquid ejecting head: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head including pressure generation chambers communicating with nozzle openings for ejecting a liquid and pressure generation units which cause pressure variations in the pressure generation chambers. A driving unit supplies, to the pressure generation units, a driving signal including an expansion element... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244192 - Droplet discharge device: A droplet discharge device includes an inkjet head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle, the inkjet head aligned so that a droplet of a function liquid discharged from the nozzle is placed on a surface of a target, a heater applying heat to the function liquid at the inkjet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244190 - Nozzle arrangement having chamber with in collection well: A nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet passage. The nozzle chamber structure defines an aperture through... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244191 - Nozzle arrangement having partially embedded heater elements: A nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet passage. The nozzle chamber structure defines an aperture through... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244189 - Nozzle arrangement having uniform heater element conductors: A nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet passage. The nozzle chamber structure defines an aperture through... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244196 - Ink jet printhead with inner and outer heating loops: An ink jet printhead comprising: a substrate; a plurality of chambers supported by the substrate for receiving therewithin bubble forming liquid; a nozzle aperture formed in a surface of each chamber; a beam suspended within each chamber, the beam comprising at least one respective heater element. The at least one... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244193 - Inkjet printhead and printhead nozzle arrangement: A printhead for an inkjet printer comprises a wafer assembly defining a plurality of spaced apart groups of ink supply channels and a plurality of groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements. Each ink ejection nozzle arrangement comprises a nozzle chamber structure mounted to the wafer assembly. Each ink ejection nozzle... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244194 - Micro-electromechanical integrated circuit device with laminated actuators: A micro-electromechanical integrated circuit device comprises a substrate; drive circuitry positioned on the substrate; and a plurality of elongate actuators. Each actuator comprises a fixed end portion fast with the substrate, a free end portion that is spaced from the substrate, and a heating circuit that is connected to the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244195 - Nozzle arrangement having annulus shaped heater elements: A nozzle arrangement is provided for ejecting ink. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet passage. A nozzle chamber structure extends from the substrate assembly to define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet passage. The nozzle chamber structure defines an aperture through... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244197 - Thermal inkjet printhead with double omega shaped heating element: An inkjet printhead for ejecting printing fluid comprises a plurality of nozzles arranged in an array; a plurality of heater elements, each heater element corresponding to one of the nozzles respectively, each heater element having a double omega shape in which two gaps are defined at an outer circumference thereof... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244198 - Ink jet recording head, manufacturing method thereof, and electron device: An ink jet recording head includes a substrate, having a front surface and a back surface opposite from the front surface, provided above the front surface with an energy generating element for generating energy used for ejecting ink; an ink supply port provided so as to penetrate between the front... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244199 - Liquid discharging head and inkjet head: A liquid discharging head includes a flow path unit having a common liquid flow path; an individual liquid flow path; and a plurality of plates that are stacked to form the common liquid flow path and the individual liquid flow path. The plurality of plates includes at least four manifold... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244201 - method of manufacturing liquid jet head, a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element and a liquid jet apparatus: In a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element which includes a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer including a plurality of piezoelectric films, and a second electrode formed opposite a surface of the piezoelectric layer, a step of forming the first electrode metal layer includes forming the first electrode metal layer... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244202 - Ink jet head manufacturing device, ink jet head manufacturing method, and ink jet device: In an ink jet head manufacturing device, first and second diodes are arranged on a path extending from a gate of a control unit to an individual electrode of an ink-pressure control part in an ink jet head, the first diode allowing a current from the individual electrode of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090244200 - Liquid discharging method, liquid discharging head, and liquid discharging apparatus: A liquid discharging method includes applying pressure to liquid and discharging the liquid from a liquid discharging head. The viscosity of the liquid ranges from 8 to 20 millipascal seconds. The liquid discharging head includes a nozzle that discharges the liquid, a pressure chamber that causes a pressure change in... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244204 - Liquid droplet jetting apparatus and liquid droplet jetting head: A piezoelectric actuator includes piezoelectric material layers, individual electrodes corresponding to pressure chambers, a first common constant electric potential electrode corresponding to outer peripheral portions of the pressure chambers, and a second common constant electric potential electrode corresponding to central portions of the individual electrodes. A plurality of first active... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244203 - Method of manufacturing piezoelectric actuator, and liquid ejection head: The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, includes the steps of: forming a lower electrode film on an insulating substrate; forming a piezoelectric film on the lower electrode film; forming a slit on the piezoelectric film to expose a portion of the lower electrode film on an upper surface side... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244205 - Piezoelectric actuator, liquid transporting apparatus, and method for manufacturing piezoelectric actuator: A piezoelectric actuator includes a first piezoelectric layer, a second piezoelectric layer stacked on the first piezoelectric layer, a first electrode arranged on the first piezoelectric layer, a second electrode arranged between the first and second piezoelectric layers, and a third electrode arranged on the second piezoelectric layer. A portion... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244206 - Piezoelectric element and its manufacturing method, piezoelectric actuator, and liquid jet head: A piezoelectric element includes: a substrate; a lower electrode formed above the substrate; a piezoelectric layer formed above the lower electrode; and an upper electrode formed above and at least in a portion of the piezoelectric layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer has a first portion formed between the lower electrode... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244208 - Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and actuator: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow passage forming substrate that includes a plurality of pressure generating chambers juxtaposed to each other and each in communication with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and piezoelectric elements disposed on the flow passage forming substrate with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The piezoelectric elements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244209 - Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and actuator: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow passage forming substrate that includes a plurality of pressure generating chambers juxtaposed to each other and each in communication with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and piezoelectric elements disposed on the flow passage forming substrate with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The piezoelectric elements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244210 - Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and actuator: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow passage forming substrate that includes a plurality of pressure generating chambers juxtaposed to each other and each in communication with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and piezoelectric elements disposed on the flow passage forming substrate with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The piezoelectric elements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244207 - Liquid jet head, a liquid jet apparatus and a method of manufacturing a liquid jet head: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric layer disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. Anti-deformation layers continue from the piezoelectric layers ad contain a less moisture-permeable component than the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layers and the anti-deformation layers are alternately and continuously disposed in the direction of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244212 - Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and actuator: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow passage forming substrate that includes a plurality of pressure generating chambers juxtaposed to each other and each in communication with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and piezoelectric elements disposed on the flow passage forming substrate with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The piezoelectric elements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244213 - Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and actuator: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow passage forming substrate that includes a plurality of pressure generating chambers juxtaposed to each other and each in communication with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and piezoelectric elements disposed on the flow passage forming substrate with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The piezoelectric elements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244214 - Liquid ejecting head, piezoelectric element, and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric element in which a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper electrode are laminated in this order, and a flow path forming substrate in which the piezoelectric element is formed above one surface thereof and a pressure generating chamber being communicated with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244211 - Liquid transporting apparatus: A liquid transporting apparatus which transports a liquid includes a channel unit having a surface which is electroconductive and a liquid channel which includes a pressure chamber; a piezoelectric actuator applying a pressure to the liquid in the pressure chamber and having a piezoelectric layer arranged to face the surface... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244217 - Ink container and ink jet recording system: An ink container for retaining ink includes an ink containing body, an elastically displaceable supporting member, a light emitting portion, a light receiving portion for receiving light from the light emitting portion, a display portion for displaying the received light, and a light guide portion for optically connecting the light... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244215 - Print head unit with printhead and transport rollers: A print head unit has an elongate print head integrated circuit. An ink supply unit defines an elongate print head slot in which the print head integrated circuit is received. Ink supply vias supply ink to the print head slot. Longitudinally extending channels are in fluid communication with the print... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244216 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus to form an image on a recording medium is provided. The printing apparatus includes a first recording head, which is movable in a main scanning direction and ejects a specific-colored ink onto the recording medium, a first ink cartridge to store the specific-colored ink, a first ink... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244218 - Refill unit for refilling one of a number of ink compartments: An ink refill unit is provided for refilling a printer ink cartridge unit. The ink refill unit includes a base assembly that has ink refilling components and outlets for engaging a docking member connected to the ink storage compartments. Each outlet corresponds to a respective type of ink with only... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244219 - Ink cartridge: The present invention provides an ink cartridge including a cartridge body defining an air vent at an upper section thereof and an ink discharge port detachably assembled to a lower section of the cartridge body. The cartridge body and/or the ink discharge port can be replaced separately when they are... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090244222 - Ink cartridges and methods of forming groove in ink cartridge: An ink cartridge includes a frame including a portion of a first chamber formed therein, and the first chamber is configured to store ink. The ink cartridge also includes a hollow portion positioned at a side wall of the frame. The hollow portion includes a second chamber formed therein, and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244220 - Ink jet cartridge having an ink container comprising two porous materials: An ink jet cartridge comprising an ink container which comprises a bottom portion and an upper portion, said bottom portion being in communication with the printhead through an ink supply port, and said upper portion being in communication with a vent hole, wherein said bottom portion comprises a first ink... Agent: Venable LLP

20090244223 - Liquid container and membrane valve: A membrane valve having a membrane portion is used. The membrane valve can be formed using an elastomer. Also, the membrane valve can include N (N is an integer of 2 or greater) engaging portions that engage with the membrane support portion. Also, the membrane portion can also be affixed... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090244221 - Liquid droplet discharging apparatuses and liquid cartridges: A liquid cartridge has a liquid chamber configured to store liquid, and a liquid supply opening configured to supply liquid from an interior of the liquid chamber to an exterior of the liquid chamber. A first closing mechanism is configured to selectively cover and uncover the liquid supply opening. An... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244224 - Liquid jetting system, liquid container, holder, and liquid jetting apparatus having holder: A liquid jetting system includes a liquid container including a front wall, and a side wall having a bias-force receiving part, and a liquid jetting apparatus including a holder that receives installation of the liquid container through insertion of the liquid container in a prescribed insertion direction with the front... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244225 - Melting device for increased production of melted ink in a solid ink printer: A solid ink printer is enabled to eject ink onto image substrates at rates that are greater than previously known solid ink printers. The solid ink printer includes a print head that ejects melted ink, a web of image substrate that moves past the print head to receive melted ink... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20090244226 - Liquid ejecting device: Ink is supplied to a supply tank from a second buffer tank, and ink is pressure-fed from the supply tank to a head. Further, ink is supplied from the second buffer tank to a recovery tank, and ink is pressure-fed from the recovery tank to the head. In both pressure-feedings,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244227 - Fluid ejecting apparatus and method for producing the fluid ejecting apparatus: A fluid ejecting apparatus, contains: an ejecting head having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting a fluid and having a laminated structure in which a flow passage plate, in which a passage for the fluid is formed, is provided via an adhesive, in which the adhesive contains an adhesion resin,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244228 - Liquid discharging head and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid discharging head is provided. The liquid discharging head has a flow path unit in which a common liquid flow path for supplying liquid to a nozzle which discharges liquid is formed by a plurality of plates being stacked together, the plurality of plates including a damper plate of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244229 - Color-filter manufacturing method and color-filter manufacturing apparatus: A color-filter manufacturing method includes a first step in which an ink jet method is used to eject liquid inks which contain color components to form a land pattern made up of lands of light transmitting materials and a second step in which after drying of the thus ejected liquid... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090244235 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by using an ink and a treatment liquid. The ink contains coloring material, and the treatment liquid contains a component which causes the coloring material to aggregate. The image forming apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244236 - Ink jet printer and method of ink jet printing: An ink jet printer prints an image by ejecting ink on recording medium. Information of an ink volume of the ink for application to the recording medium, for example, dot number, is specified. A first dryer dries the recording medium before forming the image. A memory stores a data table... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244233 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink jet head on which a plurality of nozzles are arranged, a sub-scan driving unit which carries a recording medium on which an image is formed, a first carrying unit which is disposed on a downstream side of a carrying direction of the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090244231 - Inkjet printer: An inkjet printer includes: a printing part including a print head for ejecting ink to paper to print an image on the paper; a drying part including a heater for drying the ink adhering to the paper printed by the print head; and an agitator for agitating the air in... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090244237 - Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method: The inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording surface of a recording medium, includes: an inkjet head which ejects an ink; a first drum-shaped member for printing which has a first drum circumferential surface opposing the inkjet head, and holds and rotationally conveys the recording medium in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244232 - Printing apparatus, target transport device, and target transport method: A target transport device includes a transport belt that transports a target from an upstream side to a downstream side, a support member that supports the target transported by the transport belt over the transport belt, a heating unit that heats the support member, and a heat applying unit that... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244238 - Printing system for cured 3d structures: A printing system is provided having a plurality of printers, a conveyor for serially conveying a print medium past each printer so that voxels printed by the successive printer form successive layers of a three dimensional printed structure on the conveyed print medium, and a plurality of curing mechanisms between... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244234 - Recording apparatus and recording method: A recording apparatus is provided which includes: a recording unit that performs a recording operation on a target by causing liquid to adhere onto the target; a drying unit that performs a drying operation on the target on which the liquid is adhered by the recording operation of the recording... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244230 - Ultraviolet curing inkjet printer, printing method used in ultraviolet curing inkjet printer, and head: An ultraviolet curing inkjet printer includes a first ejecting device, a first ultraviolet light irradiation device, and a second ultraviolet light irradiation device. The first ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to emit ultraviolet light of a first light quantity for temporarily curing the ultraviolet curable inks ejected from the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090244239 - Transfer sheet for ink jet printing and fiber product equipped with the same: Provided are a transfer sheet for ink jet printing capable of photographically printing on a cloth and capable of favorably keeping the texture of the cloth material and a spatial effect also after printing without generating bleeding and color fade-out with time, and a fiber product provided with the same.... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090244243 - Image recording apparatus: In an image recording apparatus using an inkjet mode, printing paper fed from a paper feeder 2 is supplied onto tables 1 movable by an endless transport mechanism of a table moving mechanism 5. After each table 1 is transferred from the endless transport mechanism to linear motor mechanisms 61... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090244246 - Inkjet printer and a paper transportation method: An inkjet printer prevents the paper from lifting away from the platen when the suction action of the platen is stopped, and thereby prevents paper jams and other printing problems. The printer 1 conveys the printing paper 12a while holding the paper 12a to the surface of the platen 19... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244247 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus may include at least one inkjet head configured to eject ink onto a recording medium. The inkjet recording apparatus may also include a conveying device configured to convey the recording medium in a conveying direction, the conveying device including a recording-medium support surface that opposes the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090244240 - Liquid droplet jetting apparatus: An ink-jet printer has a line ink-jet head which includes a plurality of heat units arranged in two rows in a zigzag form along a main scanning direction, and a spur which is arranged to be in line in the main scanning direction, with a first head unit belonging to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244245 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head disposed on a transport path of a target to eject a liquid from nozzles at a nozzle forming surface, a target transport unit transporting the target such that the target passes through a position opposite the nozzle forming surface on the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244241 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printing apparatus includes a rotating drum that holds a recording medium on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface thereof and rotates around a rotating shaft, and a printing head that is disposed opposite to the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum and ejects ink onto the recording medium held... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244242 - Recording device: A recording device includes: a recording head which performs a recording operation on a recording medium; a transport member which has a plurality of through holes arranged therein and transports the recording medium; and a suction unit which has a suction force generating section for generating a suction force for... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244244 - Recording device: A recording device includes: a first suction unit which has a support member for supporting a recording medium and a plurality of suction holes provided in the support member to support the recording medium under control that a second suction force of the suction holes not covered by the recording... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244248 - Inkjet recording medium and method of manufacturing the same: An inkjet recording material is provided which is capable of suppressing the generation of change in color tone (color change) of an image even when image-recorded surfaces are in contact with each other. The inkjet recording material includes: a support; and an ink-receiving layer including inorganic fine particles, a water-soluble... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244249 - Layered structure: A layered structure is provided with a recording unit, a reading unit whose back edge is connected to the recording unit via a pivot member, a support member having (i) a connecting portion that is connected pivotally to the reading unit, (ii) a contact portion that contacts a counterface surface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244250 - Handy printer and mobile phone provided with the same: A handy printer and a mobile phone based on the use of the same are provided, wherein the printing can be performed on recording paper sheets having various sizes. The handy printer comprises a cover member which is movable between an exposure position at which an ink discharge surface of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244251 - Thermal transfer printing method: A thermal transfer printing method for forming a screen on photographic paper without providing a margin between the screen and a screen adjacent thereto. Photographic paper is unwound from a roll and then a screen having an image is formed on the paper, by transferring yellow, magenta, and cyan colorants... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090244252 - Apparatus for forming an image and corresponding methods: Disclosed are an apparatus, optical scanning device, and a corresponding method of forming images on a photosensitive surface. The apparatus includes a laser raster output scanner (ROS) including laser emitters arranged to simultaneously scan a plurality of laser beams across a single scan line of the photosensitive surface in response... Agent: Prass LLP

20090244253 - Multi-beam optical scanning device: It is an object of the present invention to realize a multi-beam optical scanning device which is suitable for high speed and high recording density by almost completely offsetting and correcting a deviation of focusing positions in a main scanning direction of plural spots in an entire surface to be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244254 - Image recording apparatus and image recording method: In an image recording apparatus, a shift amount for shifting a transition position of an output light amount from a light modulator element is obtained with respect to each pixel value-change point in a pixel line in order to correct displacement of writing. In a case where the shift amount... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP