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Liquid Discharge Device And Drive Circuit Substrate
20230126918 · 2023-04-27 ·

A liquid discharge device including a drive circuit substrate that drives a piezoelectric element of a liquid discharge head, and that includes a substrate which includes a first wiring layer having a first wiring through which the first drive signal propagates, a second wiring layer having a second wiring through which the second drive signal propagates, and a third wiring layer located between the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer and having a fourth wiring through which the reference voltage signal propagates, in which a third wiring through which the third drive signal propagates is provided on any one of the first wiring layer, the second wiring layer, and the third wiring layer.

Fluid ejection devices including electrical interconnect elements for fluid ejection dies

A device includes a plurality of fluid ejection dies, wherein each of the fluid ejection dies includes a contact pad and a plurality of fluid actuation devices. The device includes an electrical interconnect element in contact with the contact pad of each of the fluid ejection dies to electrically interconnect the plurality of fluid ejection dies.

Liquid Discharge Device
20230126703 · 2023-04-27 ·

A liquid discharge device including a first piezoelectric element that has a first electrode and a second electrode and discharges a liquid from a first nozzle by being driven, a second piezoelectric element that has a third electrode and a fourth electrode and discharges a liquid from a second nozzle by being driven, a reference voltage signal propagation path that electrically couples the second electrode and the fourth electrode and propagates the reference voltage signal supplied to a first coupling point to the second electrode and the fourth electrode, and a first capacitor electrically coupled to the reference voltage signal propagation path at a second coupling point provided in the reference voltage signal propagation path, in which the second coupling point is located between the first coupling point and the second electrode in the reference voltage signal propagation path.

Liquid discharging apparatus
11472184 · 2022-10-18 · ·

A liquid discharging apparatus may include a first head unit and a second head unit. The first head unit includes first and second parts. A position of the second part in a first direction is different from that of the first part, and a width is shorter than a width of the first part in a second direction. The second head unit includes a fourth part and a fifth part. A position of the fifth part in the first direction is different from that of the fourth part, and a width is shorter than a width of the fourth part in the second direction. The first head unit and the second head unit are disposed side by side in the second direction. At least a part of the second part and at least a part of the fifth part do not overlap with each other in the first direction.

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus
11633953 · 2023-04-25 · ·

A liquid ejecting head includes head chips configured to eject a liquid toward a medium in a first-direction, in which, when a width direction of the medium is a second-direction, a direction orthogonal to the first-direction and the second-direction is a third-direction, and a direction perpendicular to the first-direction and intersecting the second-direction and the third-direction is a fourth-direction, the head chips include a first-chip group in which first head-chips are arranged side by side in the second-direction, the first-head chip having a first-nozzle row formed by arranging first-nozzles side by side in the fourth-direction, and a second-chip group in which second-head chips are arranged side by side in the second-direction, the second-head chip having a second-nozzle row formed by arranging second-nozzles side by side in the fourth-direction, and the first-chip group is arranged side by side in the third-direction with respect to the second-chip group.

Liquid ejection device and inkjet recording apparatus
11472177 · 2022-10-18 · ·

Provided is a liquid ejection device capable of improving the sealing property of a gap between a main housing and a liquid ejection head while maintaining a position adjustment allowance of the liquid ejection head with respect to the main housing. A main housing has one or more ejection unit protrusion opening into which the liquid ejection unit is inserted downward and protrudes through a gap in a horizontal direction, and covers and internally houses a portion of the liquid ejection head other than the liquid ejection unit. The size of the ejection unit insertion opening is smaller than the size of the ejection unit protrusion opening. The sealing member comes in contact with the outer peripheral portion of the liquid ejection unit in a state where the edge portion of the ejection unit insertion opening is bent.

Liquid ejection head including a plurality of recording element substrates formed adjacent to each other to form an array such that a gap in temperature distribution is prevented

In a liquid ejection head in which ejection modules are arrayed on a flow path forming member, each ejection module includes a recording element substrate provided on a support member. The recording element substrate includes a liquid supply channel, a liquid collection channel, and ejection ports. The support member includes supply-side liquid communication ports communicating with the liquid supply channel and collection-side liquid communication ports communicating with the liquid collection channel. The supply-side liquid communication ports and the collection-side liquid communication ports are alternately provided along the direction in which the ejection modules are arrayed. The closest pair of liquid communication ports in the adjacent ends of two adjacent ejection modules are both supply-side or collection-side liquid communication ports.

IMAGE FORMATION METHOD AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS
20230060390 · 2023-03-02 · ·

There is provided image formation method for forming image on medium by discharging liquid from head having nozzles arranged in first direction and actuators corresponding respectively to the nozzles. The method includes: discharging the liquid onto the medium from the nozzles by applying first voltage to the actuators while performing relative displacement between the head and the medium in second direction intersecting the first direction; and applying second voltage higher than the first voltage to actuator, of the actuators, corresponding to correction nozzle, based on information identifying discharge defect nozzle being a nozzle, of the nozzles, unable to discharge the liquid normally, the correction nozzle being a nozzle, of the nozzles, adjacent to the discharge defect nozzle in the first direction.

LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS
20230117336 · 2023-04-20 · ·

A liquid discharge device includes: a piezoelectric element to which a drive voltage is applied; a nozzle from which a liquid is to be discharged in accordance with a change of the drive voltage; and circuitry configured to: generate: a first drive waveform including first multiple pulses switchable at first switch timings; and a second drive waveform including second multiple pulses different from the first multiple pulses switchable at second switch timings, at least one the first switch timings of the first multiple pulses of the first drive waveform and at least one of the second switch timings of the second multiple pulses of the second drive waveform are the same; select first selected pulses from the first multiple pulses in the first drive waveform; and select second selected pulses from the second multiple pulses in the second drive waveform.

Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus
11628670 · 2023-04-18 · ·

A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate, an individual liquid chamber, and an actuator. The nozzle plate has a nozzle on a liquid discharge face and a through hole communicating with the nozzle and penetrating the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate includes a substrate including a first silicon layer on a side of the liquid discharge face, a second silicon layer, a first silicon oxide film layer, and a second silicon oxide layer on a surface of the second silicon layer different from a surface of the second silicon layer in contact with the first silicon oxide film layer. A thickness of the first silicon layer is smaller than a thickness of the second silicon layer. A portion of the through hole penetrating the first silicon layer has a smaller diameter than a portion of the through hole penetrating the second silicon layer.