40th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120249592 | Situational Awareness Components of an Enhanced Vision System - A virtual sphere provided by an enhanced vision system includes synthetic imagery filling said virtual sphere and a common view window mapped to a dedicated position within the synthetic imagery. Imagery of the line of sight of a user is displayed in the common view window. By providing the common view window, visual communication between all users may be possible. By connecting a virtual user to the enhanced vision system and by displaying the imagery for the line of sight of the virtual user in the common view window, the workload of a human operator may be reduced and the time line of actions may be shortened. The enhanced vision system of the present invention may be used, but is not limited to, in a military aircraft to enhance the situational awareness of the flight crew. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249593 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CAPABLE OF IDENTIFYING SUBJECT MOTION - An image capturing apparatus | 2012-10-04 |
20120249594 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EDITING IMAGES FOR A PHOTO ALBUM - For generating photo albums on events such as weddings, the photo albums can always be generated in the same quality. A professional photographer photographs the bride and groom on a wedding. Images are read from a developed film and stored in a file server. A template used for generating a photo album is added with composition information representing composition of images to be inserted in image insertion areas therein. When an operator selects one of the images to be inserted in any one of the image insertion areas with reference to an editing screen having a catalog display field and a template display field, processing information representing a magnification ratio and/or a trimming position is generated based on the composition information so that the selected image has the composition appropriate for the image insertion area. The selected image is processed according to the processing information. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249595 | AREA SELECTION FOR HAND HELD DEVICES WITH DISPLAY - Systems and methods for selecting an area from the virtual display of a hand held device with a touch screen display and a tilt and movement sensor are provided. View navigation during regular operation is performed by touch screen commands and tilt and movement gestures. During area selection operation, all touch screen commands that perform view navigation or links activation are suspended, limiting touch commands to perform only boundary corner selections. The virtual display may be navigated using the tilt and movement sensor during area selection operation. This eliminates unintended touch commands that may inadvertently change the display during the area selection. The user may perform accurate repositioning of corners or markers placed on the touch screen display by using touch control or tilt and movement gestures. The boundary of the selected area can be automatically adjusted to reduce the affect of unwanted truncation of contents. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249596 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMICALLY SCALING A TOUCH DISPLAY USER INTERFACE - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for dynamically scaling a touch display user interface. Some embodiments provide a method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring a user's error rate and adapting the size of the on-screen virtual keyboard, or other touch display user interface, to compensate for the monitored error rate in an effort to obtain an acceptable error rate. A method may include receiving user input to a touch display user interface. The method may further include determining, by a processor, an error parameter that corresponds to the user input for the touch display user interface. The method may also include causing, based at least in part on the determined error parameter, a modification in size of the touch display user interface. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249597 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control apparatus includes a display module, a virtual desktop module, a determining module, and a control module. The display module displays a first image having a first size. The virtual desktop module sets, as the first image to be displayed by the display module, a partial region of a second image having a second size that is larger than the first size. The determining module allows a user to determine a region of the second image to be set as the first image by the virtual desktop module. The control module controls the virtual desktop module to change the determined region so that an undisplayed part of an object that exists in the determined region is displayed or the whole of the object is undisplayed where the object has the undisplayed part. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249598 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display control apparatus can quickly switch a state displaying an image without enlargement and a state displaying an image in enlargement display in the least amount of operation effort. When the display control apparatus receives an instruction to start an enlargement mode in a state displaying an image by single display in which an entirety of one image is displayed in the display area of a display unit, the display control apparatus performs control to display a part of the enlarged image in a display area. When the display control apparatus receives an instruction to start the enlargement mode in a state displaying an image by multi display where a plurality of images are displayed in the display area, the display control apparatus displays a part of the image more enlarged than a case of the single display in the display area without going through the single display. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249599 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A MULTI-TOUCH SCALING GESTURE AND DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of identifying a scaling gesture comprises detecting one or more induction signals induced by one or more pointing objects that come into contact with a touch-sensitive surface, determining the number of the pointing object, determining a scaling gesture, generating a control signal associated with the determined scaling gesture and executing the scaling gesture in response to the generated control signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249600 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In one embodiment, the information processing apparatus includes an acceleration sensor configured to detect acceleration of the information processing apparatus, and a display part configured to include a screen for displaying an image. The apparatus further includes a determination part configured to determine whether a displayed position of the image is to be corrected, based on duration of a state in which the acceleration occurs in a predetermined direction. The apparatus further includes a correction part configured to correct the displayed position of the image according to the determination made by the determination part. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249601 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a display control apparatus is configured to display a single display image on a plurality of two-dimensionally-arranged display devices combined as a single display device. The display control apparatus includes a display module configured to shift, when a predetermined target image included in the display image is displayed across display screens of the display devices, a display position of the display image so that the target image fits into one of the display screens of the display devices. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249602 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING SAME - In one aspect of the present invention, an electroluminescent (EL) display device has a plurality of pixels spatially arranged in a form of a matrix, each pixel having a first EL element, a second EL element, a third EL element, and a fourth EL element, a plurality of gate lines, each gate line coupled to a respective row of pixels, a plurality of first data lines, each first data line coupled to the first EL elements of a respective column of pixels, a plurality of second data lines, each second data line coupled to the second EL elements of a respective column of pixels, a plurality of first switches, each first switch coupled to a respective third EL element, a plurality of second switches, each second switch coupled to a respective fourth EL element, a switch control line coupled to the plurality of first switches and the plurality of second switches for providing a switching control signal to set the first switches and the second switches to be in an ON state or an OFF state, such that when the first switches are cooperatively in the ON state, the second switches are cooperatively in the OFF state, and vice versus, and a plurality of third data lines, each third data line coupled to the first switches and the second switches corresponding to a respective column of pixels for transmitting a data signal, such that when the first switches are cooperatively in the ON state, the data signal is provided to the third EL elements of the respective column of pixels, and when the second switches are cooperatively in the ON state, the data signal is provided to the fourth EL elements of the respective column of pixels. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249603 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels, and a data driver connected to the plurality of data lines, where the data driver supplies data voltage to the plurality of data lines, where the data driver includes a data latch which outputs input image data in response to image data corresponding to the plurality of pixels, wherein the data latch rearranges a sequence of the image data, and a digital-to-analog converting unit which includes a positive digital-to-analog converter which generates a positive data voltage in response to the input image data, and a negative digital-to-analog converter which generates a negative data voltage in response to the input image data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249604 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display includes a first display unit having pixels coupled to odd scan and data lines, a second display unit having pixels coupled to even scan and data lines, a third display unit having pixels coupled to the odd scan lines and even data lines, and a fourth display unit having pixels coupled to the even scan lines and odd data lines. A timing controller extracts image data corresponding to each of the display units from inputted image data of one frame. A scan driver sequentially supplies a scan signal to the scan lines in each of four sub-frame periods of one frame period. A data driver converts extracted image data of each of the display units into corresponding data voltages, and supplies the corresponding data voltages to respective ones of the display units through the data lines for respective sub-frame periods of the one frame period. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249605 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THEREOF - A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel including a first region and a second region; a first signal controller which generates a first representative value representing image signals of the first region; a second signal controller which generates a second representative value representing image signals of the second region and transmits the second representative value to the first signal controller; a light source unit which irradiates light to the liquid crystal panel; and a light source driver which controls luminance of the light source unit. The first signal controller transmits a luminance of the light source unit to the light source driver. The luminance of the light source unit is calculated from the first representative value and the second representative value. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249606 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A display device includes: pixels each including a display element; potential lines maintained at respective gray-scale potentials different from one another, the potential lines including first potential lines each maintained at a first gray-scale potential level allowing a luminance gradient to be relatively steep and second potential lines each maintained at a second gray-scale potential level allowing a luminance gradient to be relatively gentle, the luminance gradient representing a magnitude of a display luminance variation caused by a variation in a voltage or current applied to the display element; and a driving section performing display drive on the pixels based on an image signal, through supplying the display element of each of the pixels with a gray-scale potential level of selected one of the plurality of potential lines. A resistance of the first potential line is lower than a resistance of the second potential line. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249607 | OUTPUT CIRCUIT FOR REDUCING OFFSET FOR USE IN SOURCE DRIVER ADAPTED TO DRIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE - An offset-reducing output circuit of a source driver adapted to drive a liquid crystal device. The output circuit includes an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input to receive a reference voltage. The output circuit also includes input and output capacitors. One terminal of the input capacitor and one terminal of the output capacitor are connected to a node extending to an inverting input of the operational amplifier in at least a normal output operation mode. The output circuit also includes a switching circuit to short both terminals of the input capacitor and both terminals of the output capacitor in a reset operation so that the reference voltage is applied to the terminals of the input and output capacitors respectively. The switching device applies a gray scale voltage to an opposite terminal of the input capacitor in a normal operation mode. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249608 | DRIVER CIRCUIT FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVER CELL - A driver circuit for driving a display panel is formed on a substrate and is organized into two families of sections. Each section includes a logic circuit, a level shifter, a decoder, an operational amplifier, and an output pad. In the first family, each section is laid out in the stated sequence (logic circuit, level shifter, decoder, operational amplifier, output pad). In the second family, each section is laid out in a different sequence: output pad, operational amplifier, logic circuit, level shifter, decoder. The output pads in the two families of sections are located on opposite sides of the substrate, and every output pad is adjacent to the operational amplifier to which it is connected. This arrangement reduces signal-to-signal variations in the output characteristics of the driver circuit and improves the slew rate of the output signals. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249609 | IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display medium comprises a display member, a back substrate, spacers having a cell structure held between the substrates, and first particles and second particles, whose colors and charging polarities are different from one another, enclosed between the display member and back substrate. The display member includes a transparent support base, a transparent electrode formed thereon, a transparent dielectric layer formed on the transparent electrode, filters formed on the opposite side from the transparent electrodes side of the support base, and a protective layer formed thereon. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249610 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR - In the present display device with each pixel being composed of subpixels of four or more colors, a backlight data processing portion sets a backlight source luminance to be high enough to compensate for a display luminance reduction caused by a maximum luminance adjustment portion ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120249611 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - The invention includes: an input section ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120249612 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes luminescence pixels that each include a driving transistor, a luminescence element, and a switching transistor that switches between conduction and non-conduction between a data line and an anode or a cathode of the luminescence element. A data driving circuit supplies a signal voltage to the data line, and a bias supplying circuit supplies a predetermined bias voltage to the data line. A controller applies the predetermined bias voltage to the anode or the cathode of the luminescence element by causing a non-conduction state between the data line and the data driving circuit, causing a conduction state between the data line and the bias supplying circuit, and switching the switching transistor ON within a period in which a signal current does not flow to the luminescence element. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249613 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A processing portion for conversion from RGB to RGBW includes a W generating circuit, a sub-pixel rendering circuit, a W intensity calculating portion which transmits a W intensity setting value to a W generating circuit, and a low power backlight control circuit which expands data on the basis of the RGBW pixels generated by the sub-pixel rendering portion and lowers the backlight in accordance with the amount by which the data is expanded. The inputted RGB data is used as the RGBW data with the W intensity calculated by the W intensity calculating portion. A backlight control signal is generated based on the amount of data expansion in the sub-pixel rendering portion. Deterioration (darkness) of image quality due to a reduction in the brightness of a single color as a result of the conversion from RGB pixels to RGBW pixels is prevented and a reduction in the power is achieved. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249614 | VISUAL DRIVE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH MULTI PHASE ENCODING - A visual drive control method with multi-phase encoding includes the following steps. A plurality of flickering sequences are generated by an encoding process according to a reference phase and a plurality of shifting phases divided in time division under at least one phase shift state, then a display unit is driven to display corresponding optical images. An optic nerve of an organism is evoked by the optical images, such that the organism generates a corresponding biological signal. Next, a computation process is performed to a digital biological signal converted from the biological signal to acquire an average captured reference phase and an average captured shifting phase of the digital biological signal. Then, the frequencies and the phase states of the digital biological signal and the flickering sequences are compared to output a corresponding control signal. A visual drive control apparatus with multi-phase encoding is disclosed herein. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249615 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A method of driving a display device including a plurality of pixels, the method including transmitting a plurality of data signals to first group pixels during a first scan period, simultaneously emitting light through the first group pixels according to a programmed data signal during a first light emitting period adjacent to the first scan period, transmitting a plurality of data signals to second group pixels, different from the first group pixels, during a second scan period, and simultaneously emitting light through the second group pixels according to a programmed data signal during a second light emitting period adjacent to the second scan period. A first field including the first scan period and the first light emitting period and a second field including the second scan period and the second light emitting period are temporally divided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249616 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING A DATA SELECTOR CIRCUIT - A display device includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a gate circuit, a driver, and a data selector circuit that includes a plurality of switch groups each of which has a time division switch and a timing adjustment switch that are connected in parallel. The data selector circuit outputs output signals from the driver, which have different polarities every one or more data lines of the plurality of data lines, to the respective data lines. Each of the time division switches and the timing adjustment switches is an NMOS transistor. The driver turns on the timing adjustment switches connected to the data lines to which positive output signals are output from the driver, earlier than the time division switches connected to the data lines to which negative output signals are output from the driver, by a predetermined period. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249617 | DISPLAY UNIT AND DISPLAYING METHOD - A display unit includes: a liquid crystal display section displaying a series of original frame images and a series of interpolated frame images in a time-divisional manner, the interpolated frame images being generated based on the original frame images; a backlight emitting light intermittently; and a backlight control section controlling a first light-emission amount and a second light-emission amount of the backlight independently of each other, the first light-emission amount being an amount during a first period corresponding to a period for displaying the original frame images, and the second light-emission amount being an amount during a second period corresponding to a period for displaying the interpolated frame images. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249618 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A data transmission system for a display device, which is an mBnB encoding system encoding a signal of m (m is a natural number) bits into a signal of n (n is a natural number and n>m) bits on the basis of a certain translation table to be transmitted thereafter, the system including: an output driver of outputting a gray scale voltage in accordance with the data decoded at a receiver side, in which in the translation table, a bit pattern with a larger data change index from among 2 | 2012-10-04 |
20120249619 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120249620 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller, data and gate driving parts. The display panel includes first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates, and displays an image. The timing controller includes a data compensating unit that outputs compensated grayscale data in an n-th pixel row, based upon a coupling capacitance generated according to a grayscale data variation between an (n−1)-th pixel row and the n-th pixel row, n′ being a natural number. The data driving part converts the compensated grayscale data to an analog data voltage, and outputs the analog data voltage to data lines. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249621 | ILLUMINATION UNIT, PROJECTION DISPLAY UNIT, AND DIRECT VIEW DISPLAY UNIT - An illumination unit includes: one or more light sources, an optical member, and an optical device. The optical member includes an integrator having a first fly-eye lens on which light from a solid-state light-emitting device is incident and a second fly-eye lens on which the light from the first fly-eye lens is incident. The integrator uniformalizes an illuminance distribution of light in a predetermined illumination region illuminated by the light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device. The optical device is disposed on an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and one or more light sources including one or more chips configured by the laser diode, and allows a shape of a luminance distribution of incidence light on an incidence plane of the first fly-eye lens to be expanded along a minor axis direction of the shape of the luminance distribution. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249622 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - The present invention includes: a view angle data detecting section ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120249623 | INKJET INK COMPOSITION CONTAINING ANTI-KOGATION AGENTS - Ink compositions and methods of using the same are disclosed. An example ink composition includes an inkjet vehicle, from about 0.1 wt % to about 10 wt % of colorants, from about 0.01 wt % to about 10 wt % of anti-kogation agents, and from about 0.01 wt % to about 10 wt % of dispersed resin beads. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249624 | Thermal Indicators - A thermal indicator using indicia formed by opaque ink applied to a thermal imaging material element is described. The ink is substantially the same color as the imaging element background and remains substantially hidden until the imaging element background changes color when heated. Time-temperature exposure indicating labels can be prepared using a printer with direct thermal type and ink jet type print heads. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249625 | CONTROL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A CONTROL DEVICE - What ink cartridge is best suited to a recording device can be determined. A management server includes a related information acquisition unit that gets related information, which is information related to recording using an ink cartridge in a coupon printer, from a central server; and a model information output unit that based on the acquired related information outputs model information including information identifying the model of ink cartridge suited to use by the coupon printer. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249626 | Control System, Control Device, and Method of Controlling a Control Device - The possibility of information acquired from a recording device not being correct can be detected. A management server | 2012-10-04 |
20120249627 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including an image forming device forming an image on a surface of a recording material; a recording material passage; a treatment liquid applicator including a tray containing a treatment liquid, a first roller applying the treatment liquid to the surface of the recording material, and a second roller drawing the treatment liquid from the tray to supply the treatment liquid to the first roller; a liquid level inclination detector detecting whether the surface of the treatment liquid is inclined; a treatment liquid supplying device supplying the treatment liquid to the tray; and a controller connected with liquid level detector and the treatment liquid supplying device. The controller stops the operation of the treatment liquid supplying device when determining according to the detection result of the liquid level detector that the surface of the treatment liquid is inclined in a predetermined amount or more. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249628 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MOISTURIZING FLUID SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - A fluid ejection device including: a fluid ejection head having a nozzle surface in which fluid ejection nozzles are arrayed; a head cap that covers the nozzle surface; a fluid storage unit in which an ejection fluid that is ejected from the nozzles of the fluid ejection head is stored; a moisturizing fluid supply unit that supplies to the head cap a moisturizing fluid that keeps the head cap moist; a moisturizing fluid storage unit that stores the moisturizing fluid supplied to the head cap from the moisturizing fluid supply unit; and a moisturizing fluid supply control unit that controls the amount of moisturizing fluid supplied to the head cap after the ejection fluid stored in the fluid storage unit reaches a predetermined level. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249629 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus, including: a tank mount on which a tank is mountable; a first casing; a second casing provided with the tank mount, connected to the first casing with a shaft, and pivotable between a close position and a distant position about the shaft; a judging section configured to judge whether a tank mount state is a middle-of-mounting state; a limitation portion configured to establish a limitation state for limiting the pivotal movement of the second casing at the close position and a release state for allowing the pivotal movement at the close position; and a limitation control section configured to control the limitation portion to establish the limitation state when the tank is in the middle-of-mounting state, and control the limitation portion to establish the release state when the tank is not in the middle-of-mounting state. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249630 | INKJET PRINTING PROCESS - A process for printing an image includes printing a substrate with an aqueous inkjet ink and drying the printed image with a near-infrared drying system, wherein the inkjet ink is a yellow or magenta inkjet ink and comprises a yellow or magenta colorant and a distinct near-infrared absorbing compound. Inkjet ink sets for use with an inkjet printing system employing a near-infrared drying system in the process include at least a black ink and a yellow ink, wherein the yellow ink comprises a yellow colorant and dispersed nanoparticulate colloidal silica at a concentration of from 0.1 to about 10 wt %, and the black ink comprises a black colorant and dispersed nanoparticulate colloidal silica at a concentration of from 0 wt. % to at most ½ of the wt. % of the dispersed nanoparticulate colloidal silica in the yellow ink. Various embodiments provide a process for inkjet printing and drying inks with improved absorption in the near-IR region of the spectrum for improved drying performance of aqueous, hypsochromic inks, and an inkjet ink set with improved balanced near-IR drying of black and yellow inkjet inks. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249631 | RECOVERY PRINT MODE - In one embodiment, first printing is caused in response to a print job, applying ink upon a media utilizing a first row of printheads and a second row of printheads. The first row of printheads includes a plurality of printhead types. The second row of printheads is adjacent to the first row and includes at least one printhead of each of types. Failure of a first printhead within the first row is detected. The status of printheads included within the second row is analyzed. Second printing is caused applying ink upon the media utilizing the second row of printheads, and not the first row of printheads, in response to determining that printheads within the second row are operable to complete the print job. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249632 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a light irradiation unit including a light emitting element row having therein a plurality of light emitting elements aligned in the same direction as a nozzle row, and a fault detection unit that detects whether there is a fault in each of the light emitting elements. The light emitting elements apply light to a photoreactive liquid discharged onto a recording target material. The light irradiation unit includes a plurality of the light emitting element rows arranged therein. When the fault detection unit detects a fault in a light emitting element, operation enters a fault mode where the light emitting element row to which the faulty light emitting element belongs is turned off and recording is performed with the remaining light emitting element rows. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249633 | BRONZING INDEX VALUE CALCULATION METHOD, BRONZING INDEX VALUE CALCULATION DEVICE, AND PRINTING DEVICE - Calculating a difference between a hue angle of a colorimetric value of a printed object with respect to diffuse reflection and the hue angle of a colorimetric value of the printed object with respect to specular reflection, calculating the difference between a standard chroma with respect to an observational light source and the chroma of the colorimetric value of the printed object with respect to specular reflection under the observational light source, and calculating a bronzing index value on the basis of a value obtained by multiplying the calculated difference of the hue angles by the calculated difference of the chromas. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249634 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRINTING AN IMAGE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PEN AND BENCHMARK FOR SAID DEVICE - The invention relates to a portable device for printing an image in a printing area provided on a material substrate, which includes: at least one removable benchmark ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120249635 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge head includes a signal processing circuit which operates with a first voltage, and generates a discharge control signal, a liquid driving circuit including an electrothermal transducer, a driving element which drives the electrothermal transducer, and a control circuit which receives the discharge control signal and outputs, to the driving element, a driving signal having a second voltage higher than the first voltage, and a monitoring circuit which monitors the first voltage and outputs a stop signal upon a drop of the first voltage. The control circuit stops driving the electrothermal transducer by the driving element in accordance with the stop signal. The monitoring circuit includes a transistor including a drain connected to power supply voltage node through a step-down circuit, a source connected to ground side, and a gate receiving the first voltage. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249636 | NOZZLE DISCHARGE QUANTITY CORRECTION METHOD, DROPLET DISCHARGING METHOD, AND ORGANIC EL DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A nozzle discharge quantity correction method includes performing correction quantity calculation as the number of the nozzle array units in stages such that a total sum C of the weight of droplets in nozzle array units after correction and the weight of the droplets in other nozzle array units in which discharge is performed on the discharge region becomes a previously set predetermined quantity B based on the difference between the total sum A of the weight of all the droplets discharged to a discharge region when the weight of the droplets discharged from a nozzle are not corrected and the predetermined quantity B. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249637 | INKJET HEAD DRIVE METHOD AND INKJET HEAD DRIVE DEVICE - An inkjet head driving method is a method for driving an inkjet head having a property in which heat is generated when a drive waveform is applied to a piezoelectric element section connected to a plurality of discharge nozzles. Based on drawing data, a discharge waveform, which is a drive waveform that causes discharging of ink, is applied to a driven nozzle for discharging the ink in a predetermined drive cycle, and a non-discharge waveform, which is a drive waveform that does not cause discharging of the ink, is applied to a non-driven nozzle other than the driven nozzle in the predetermined drive cycle. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249638 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head, having a pressure chamber filled with a liquid, and a pressure generation element that causes the pressure of the liquid within the pressure chamber to fluctuate that ejects the liquid from a nozzle based on the pressure fluctuation in the liquid within the pressure chamber; a driving waveform generation unit that generates a driving waveform for ejects the liquid; a control unit that causes the liquid ejecting head to execute a flushing operation that discharges the liquid within the pressure chamber; and a residual vibration detection unit that detects a residual vibration in the liquid within the pressure chamber. The control unit calculates a characteristic value in accordance with a characteristic of the liquid based on the residual vibration produced by the flushing operation, and corrects the driving waveform based on the characteristic value. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249639 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A temperature sensor provided to a recording head detects a temperature when the recording head relatively moves outside an opposite region opposite to a platen heater. A driving signal generating circuit compensates an ejection pulse in accordance with the detected temperature. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249640 | INKJET PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINT DELIVERABLE, AND PRINT DELIVERABLE - (Problem to be Solved) | 2012-10-04 |
20120249641 | System and Method for Single Pass Printing on Textiles - Systems and methods are described for printing directly onto textiles including digitally printing an image in a single pass. The systems and methods provide for printing in one pass, thereby reducing distortion from movement of the textile or misalignment of the print head(s). The systems and methods provide for a second print head that may operate as a redundant print head. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249642 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including a liquid discharge head having a plurality of nozzles; a common chamber; a liquid chamber; a liquid supply port; and a communication channel; and a discharge control mechanism which controls the liquid discharge head to perform a discharge operation of discharging the liquid from the nozzles to the medium. The discharge control mechanism controls the liquid discharge head to perform a flushing operation, as the discharge operation, so that the liquid is discharged from a first nozzle group in a discharge mode, which is different from a discharge mode of a second nozzle group, to generate a flow of the liquid in the communication channel. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249643 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING INCLINATION OF NOZZLE ROW OF INK-JET HEAD - An ink-jet recording apparatus, including: a head having nozzles arranged in at least one row along an arrangement direction; a conveyor mechanism; and a controller including a pattern forming portion to form a pattern for detecting inclination of the at least one nozzle row with respect to the nozzle arrangement direction, the pattern including (A) a first inclination detect pattern including parallel two lines formed by ejection respectively from: a first nozzle group located at a first section of one of the at least one nozzle low and a second nozzle group located at a second section different from the first section, when the head moves in one direction in a scanning direction, and (B) a second inclination detect pattern including parallel two lines formed by ejection respectively from: the first nozzle group; and the second nozzle group, when the head moves in another direction opposite to the one direction. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249644 | INKJET PRINTER AND EJECTION TIMING CORRECTION METHOD - A head includes first and second outlet rows, and records uniform images in check regions. In each uniform image, a combination of a first dot row formed with the first outlet row and a second dot row formed with the second outlet row while being spaced apart from the first dot row in a movement direction is repeatedly arranged with a repeat pitch in its direction. When recording the uniform image in each check region, a distance obtained by changing a reference distance, which is half the repeat pitch, by a set shift amount is assigned as a distance between each first dot row and each second dot row, the set shift amount being progressively changed for the check regions. A maximum density check region is specified, and ejection timing of the second outlet row is corrected based on the set shift amount corresponding to the maximum density check region. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249645 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER-READABLY STORING PROGRAM THEREIN - An inkjet printer includes a liquid discharge head, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The controller changes a voltage waveform to be input to the ink discharge head, while a nozzle surface is facing a first gap. The temperature sensor measures a first actual temperature of the ink discharge head, while the nozzle surface is facing a second gap. The controller calculates, on the basis of the first actual temperature and a discharge history of ink discharged to a sheet located between the first gap and the second gap, a first estimated temperature of the ink discharge head corresponding to the time in which the nozzle surface is facing the first gap. The controller changes the voltage waveform on the basis of the first estimated temperature. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249646 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method capable of suppressing generation of bronze phenomenon regardless of the color gamut is provided. For this purpose, in multipass printing, there are set more pixels permitted to print by at least one type of achromatic color ink than pixels permitted to print by chromatic color ink in the last print scan to a unit region. Accordingly, it becomes possible to apply achromatic color ink having a high bronze phenomenon reduction effect on the topmost layer of the print medium, and thereby generation of bronze phenomenon can be suppressed without any hue shift. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249647 | Water-Based Ink for Ink-Jet Recording, Ink Cartridge, Water-Based Ink Set for Ink-Jet Recording, Ink-Jet Recording Method, and Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus - Disclosed is a water-based ink for ink jet recording, including: a colorant; water; and tetraethylene glycol monobutyl ether and pentaethylene glycol monobutyl ether, wherein: tetraethylene glycol monobutyl ether and pentaethylene glycol monobutyl ether are contained by 1% by weight to 10% by weight in total in the water-based ink for ink jet recording; and a weight ratio (X:Y) of tetraethylene glycol monobutyl ether (X) to pentaethylene glycol monobutyl ether (Y) is 50:50 to 90:10. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249648 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a processing barrel for performing predetermined processing on a recording medium, transfer barrels disposed upstream and downstream of the processing barrel, two detection sensors facing the two transfer barrels, respectively, each detecting the pass of the recording medium, and a detecting circuit for detecting an abnormal pass of the recording medium from two output signals output from the two sensors and including two reverse logic delay timers, each delaying timing of a logic reverse to a detection logic of each of the two sensors with respect to the each output signals. Signal changes shorter than timer setting periods of the timers are removed from the output signals, respectively, to thereby prevent detection errors of the abnormal pass of the recording medium. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249649 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a conveying device for paper; an image forming device for forming an image on the paper; and a paper discharge tray where the image-formed paper is discharged and loaded at a predetermined discharge angle by the conveying device. A speed of the paper discharge by the conveying device is controlled in accordance with at least one of the discharge angle and a type of paper to be used. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249650 | PRINTING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR STORING PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS - A printing apparatus includes a printing unit printing an image on a print sheet with a print agent; a discharging unit; a conveying unit including a conveying path; a measuring unit provided on the conveying path of the conveying unit to measure each colored area formed by the printing unit that deposits the print agent on the print sheet from at least one of a first face and a second face; and a conveyance control unit performing a first conveying process in which the colored area passes through a measurement point after a certain time from the formation of the colored area in the measurement of the colored area and a second conveying process in which the colored area passes through the measurement point before the certain time from the formation of the colored area in non-measurement of the colored area. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249651 | INKJET PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INKJET PRINTER - A inkjet printer includes an ejection head, a curing-light-emitting part, a head retaining part, a relative scanning part, a drive output detecting part, and a curing-light-emission-control part. The ejection head ejects a photocuring liquid onto a printing medium retained by a medium retaining part. The curing-light-emitting part emits curing light onto the printing medium. The head retaining part retains the ejection head and the curing light emitting part. The relative scanning part performs relative movement of the head retaining part and the medium retaining part. The drive output detecting part detects an output of a drive source of the relative scanning part. The curing-light-emission-control part controls the curing-light-emitting part based on a detection result from the drive output detecting point. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249652 | Duplex Printing Apparatus - A duplex printing apparatus designed and adapted to efficiently print on both surfaces of a web of paper using a single digital printer. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249653 | FILTER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND FILTER MANUFACTURING METHOD - A filter manufacturing apparatus includes a printing cell setting unit that sets, based on a predetermined filter pitch and a head resolution, printing cells having an equal number of dot areas in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the printing medium, a shift amount calculating unit that calculates shift amounts between the filter pitch and the printing cells in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the printing medium, a shift amount determining unit that determines whether shift amounts of the printing cells exceed a unit dot area; and a printing cell complementing unit that complements the shift amounts of the printing cells exceeding the unit dot area by adjusting the number of dot areas included in the printing cells. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249654 | TEMPERATURE DETECTING APPARATUS - A temperature detecting apparatus includes: a temperature sensor having an element whose resistance value changes depending on temperature and detecting temperature based on a voltage value obtained by supply of a supply current to the element from a power source and outputting an output voltage depending on the voltage value; a change-instructing-signal output portion connected to the temperature sensor and outputting a change instructing signal for changing the supply current based on the output voltage outputted from the temperature sensor; and a current-value change portion disposed between the power source and the element, connected to the change-instructing-signal output portion, and changing a current value of the supply current to be supplied to the element when having received the change instructing signal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249655 | PRINTING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA, FOR STORING PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS - A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints an image on a print sheet with a print agent; a discharging unit; a conveying unit including a conveying path through which a print sheet is conveyed from the printing unit to the discharging unit; a measuring unit provided on the conveying path of the conveying unit to measure each colored area formed by the printing unit that adds the print agent on the print sheet from at least one of a first face and a second face opposite to the first face; an identifying unit that identifies a measurement area satisfying a certain condition from the colored areas; and a measurement control unit that performs the measurement for the identified measurement area and does not perform the measurement for the colored areas that are not identified by the identifying unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249656 | PRINTER AND PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A printer capable of preventing clogging the printhead nozzles due to paper dust produced from sprocket holes in continuous paper, and preventing the printhead from ejecting ink droplets except on the continuous paper, has a printhead that ejects ink droplets toward continuous paper having sprocket holes formed along both sides of the paper width; a cover member that covers the edge part of the width of the continuous paper where sprocket holes are formed in the range of the printhead in the conveyance direction of the continuous paper, and can move in the paper width direction; and a detection mechanism that detects the position of the cover member in the paper width direction. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249657 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VELOCITY OF AN OBJECT IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - In a method for determining a velocity of an object in a printing system, a reference pattern is moved, in particular in a substantial linear movement or in a rotational movement, relative to an fixed reference point independent of the object. A first sensor, configured to have substantially the same velocity as said object with respect to said reference pattern, provides a sensor signal based on the sensed reference pattern. The velocity of the object with respect to said fixed reference point is determined based on the determined velocity of said reference pattern with respect to said fixed reference point, and based on the sensor signal. The movement of the reference pattern enables improved accuracy of the determination of the velocity of the object, in particular for a slow moving object. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249658 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - Including either a platen or a flat bed, and a printer head; the printing device is configured in such a way as to print by making a combination of a reciprocating motion of the printer head and an operation of discharging ink toward a white medium. Meanwhile, the printer head includes a plurality of heads individually corresponding to each color. The printing device includes a control unit for setting a test pattern for testing each color, and pattern print areas where the test pattern is printed. The control unit makes a setting in such a way that, for the pattern print area where a test pattern is printed by discharging white ink of a nearly-identical color as a color of the white medium, the test pattern is printed with the white ink on a primer print prepared with black ink. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249659 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS USING A NON-GOLD CORROSION INHIBITOR - A circuit can include a die configured to electronically control particular elements and a flex circuit having copper leads coated with a non-gold corrosion inhibitor, the flex circuit being electrically connected to the die by the copper leads. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249660 | PRINTING CONDUCTIVE LINES - An apparatus ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120249661 | INKJET INK COMPOSITION CONTAINING ANTI-KOGATION AGENTS - Ink compositions and methods of using the same are disclosed. An example ink composition includes an inkjet vehicle, from about 0.1 wt % to about 10 wt % of colorants, from about 0.01 wt % to about 10 wt % of anti-kogation agents, and from about 0.01 wt % to about 6 wt % of a water soluble component represented by formula (I). | 2012-10-04 |
20120249662 | INK JET INK, INK CARTRIDGE, AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet ink contains a polyurethane polymer and a pigment. The polyurethane polymer has units derived from a polyisocyanate, a polyether polyol having no acid group, and a diol having an acid group. The pigment is dispersed using a polymer other than the polyurethane polymer. The ratio of the percentage of the urethane bond in the polyurethane polymer to the percentage of the urea bond in the polyurethane polymer is 85.0/15.0 or more and 98.5/1.5 or less. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249663 | INK JET INK, INK CARTRIDGE, AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet ink contains a polyurethane polymer and a pigment. The polyurethane polymer has units derived from a polyisocyanate, a polyether polyol having no acid group, and a diol having an acid group. The pigment is dispersed using a polymer other than the polyurethane polymer. The molar ratio of the percentage of the urethane bond in the polyurethane polymer to the percentage of the urea bond in the polyurethane polymer is 85.0/15.0 or more and 100.0/0 or less. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249664 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A pattern forming method includes: performing a first droplet ejection step by ejecting droplets containing 0.1%-2% polysiloxane by mass onto a substrate; performing a first layer forming step by solidifying the droplets ejected onto the substrate so that a first layer is formed; performing a second droplet ejection step by ejecting more droplets over the first layer; and performing a second layer forming step by solidifying the droplets ejected onto the first layer so that a second layer is formed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249665 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects a liquid onto an ejection target medium, a housing that houses the liquid ejecting unit, and a wall that is disposed at a position above the liquid ejecting unit and extends from the housing in the vertical direction so that the liquid adheres thereto. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249666 | NONAQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET RECORDING AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD USING NONAQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION - A nonaqueous ink composition for ink jet recording contains a glitter pigment and a solvent represented by the following formula: | 2012-10-04 |
20120249667 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORD - An ink jet recording method includes forming a first image by applying by an ink jet method a glitter ink in which a glitter pigment is dispersed to a first region of a recording medium in which the glitter first image is to be formed, and forming a second image by applying by an ink jet method a color ink containing a coloring material to a second region of the recording medium in which the colored second image is to be formed, the amount per unit area of the glitter ink ejected in an overlapping region in which the first region overlaps the second region being larger than the amount per unit area of the glitter ink ejected in the first region excluding the overlapping region. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249668 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK SET, AND RECORDED ARTICLE - An ink jet recording method includes forming a glittering image on a recording medium by ejecting a glittering ink containing silver onto the recording medium by an ink jet method, applying a protective ink containing a resin and substantially no coloring material onto the glittering image, and forming a color image by ejecting a color ink containing a coloring material to the glittering image by an ink jet method. The protective ink is applied between the glittering image and the color image. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING ON TAPE - A method for printing ink on adhesive tape including providing a tape supply roll having tape wound thereon, unwinding the tape from the roll, printing ink on the side of the tape having a release agent, exposing the release agent and ink to a temperature increase to cure, and rewinding the tape onto a reel. A system for printing ink on adhesive tape. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249670 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid droplet jetting apparatus, including: a liquid droplet jetting head in which a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of individual channels are formed; a purge mechanism; a judgment mechanism which judges whether or not a defective nozzle in which a jetting failure occurs is included in purge target nozzles; a heating mechanism which heats a liquid in the plurality of individual channels; and a controller which controls the purge mechanism and the heating mechanism. In a case that the judgment mechanism judges that the defective nozzle is included in the purge target nozzles, the controller controls the heating mechanism and the purge mechanism to heat the liquid in a part of the plurality of individual channels, which include an individual channel communicating with the defective nozzle, and to execute the purge operation for the purge target nozzles. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249671 | CAP OF LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - The invention provides a cap of a liquid discharge head that discharges liquid from nozzle holes, can come in contact with a nozzle hole surface, and has an opposite surface opposite the nozzle hole surface, in which the opposite surface has protrusions. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249672 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer has a valve unit in a moisture supply path that connects a moisture tank and the fluid nozzles of a moisture discharge head. The moisture discharge head has an operating lever for opening and closing the valve unit, and when the cap approaches the moisture discharge head to seal the fluid nozzle faces of the moisture discharge head, a wiper unit that moves with the cap depresses the operating lever and opens the valve unit. Because the valve unit is open while the fluid nozzle faces are sealed by the cap, moisture leakage and backflow are suppressed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249673 | INKJET HEAD, INKJET HEAD CLEANING SYSTEM AND MAINTENANCE METHOD OF INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head includes: a plurality of nozzle plates which are arranged in a width direction of a recording medium and each of which has a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink and has a hydrophobic property; and cleaning liquid holding members which are provided respectively on both sides of the plurality of nozzle plates in terms of a direction perpendicular to a direction of arrangement of the plurality of nozzle plates so as to extend substantially in parallel with the direction of arrangement of the plurality of nozzle plates, and which have a lower hydrophobic property than the plurality of nozzle plates, wherein the cleaning liquid holding members include a cleaning liquid holding mechanism for holding cleaning liquid. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249674 | Image Forming Apparatus, Maintenance Assembly Usable with Image Forming Apparatus, and Method Thereof - A method of maintaining a fluid applicator unit of an image forming apparatus in which the fluid applicator unit includes a nozzle surface having nozzles is disclosed. The method includes ejecting fluid through nozzles of a fluid applicator unit of an image forming apparatus during a maintenance mode to maintain flow paths therethrough such that the fluid is emitted from the nozzles in a form of fluid drops. The method also includes receiving the fluid drops emitted from the nozzles during the maintenance mode on a receiving member to form waste liquid therefrom and directing the waste liquid from the receiving member to a waste receiving unit through a liquid passage. The method also includes directing aerosol formed from the fluid drops emitted from the nozzles to the aerosol receiving unit through an aerosol passage such that the aerosol passage is separate from the liquid passage and receiving the aerosol directed to the aerosol receiving unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249675 | PRINTHEAD MAINTENANCE STATION INCLUDING STATION BACKFLUSH - A maintenance station apparatus for a printhead including a nozzle face with the nozzle face including a nozzle array for jetting a liquid is provided. The maintenance station includes a capping unit including a drain and a waste liquid tank that receives a waste liquid from the capping unit. A valve is in fluid communication with the capping unit through a first fluid passage and in fluid communication with the waste liquid tank through a second fluid passage. The valve includes a first state that permits the waste liquid to flow from the capping unit through the valve to the waste liquid tank and a second state that prevents the waste liquid from flowing from the capping unit through the valve to the waste liquid tank. A cleaning liquid tank is in fluid communication with the valve through a third fluid passage and is configured to provide a cleaning liquid through the valve and into the first fluid passage when the valve is in the second state. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249676 | MAINTAINING PRINTHEAD USING MAINTENANCE STATION WITH BACKFLUSH - A capping unit, a waste liquid tank, a valve, and a cleaning liquid tank are provided for maintaining a printhead. The capping unit includes a drain. The waste liquid tank receives a waste liquid from the capping unit. The valve is in fluid communication with the capping unit through a first fluid passage connected to the drain. The valve is also in fluid communication with the waste liquid tank through a second fluid passage. The valve includes a first state that permits the waste liquid to flow from the capping unit through the valve to the waste liquid tank. The valve includes a second state that prevents the waste liquid from flowing from the capping unit through the valve to the waste liquid tank. The cleaning liquid tank is in fluid communication with the valve through a third fluid passage. The cleaning liquid tank is configured to provide a cleaning liquid through the valve and into the first fluid passage when the valve is in the second state. The valve is operated to cause the valve to move between the first state and the second state. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249677 | ADJUSTING DEVICE AND PRINTING APPARATUS WITH ADJUSTING DEVICE - A printing apparatus comprises a print head moving module comprising a mounting plate, a first wheel, a second wheel, an endless belt, a retaining member of the mounting plate to clamp with the second wheel; an adjusting device comprising a positioning member of the mounting plate, a driving member of the positioning member comprising an indicating block, a moveable member of the positioning member abutting the retaining member, the moveable member comprises a receiving portion having graduations; the indicating block is through the positioning member in the receiving portion; a resilient member in the receiving portion between the driving and the moveable members; wherein the driving member drives the moveable and the retaining members from a first to a second position, in the first position, the indicating block is away from a predetermined graduation; in the second position, resilient member deformed, the indicating block is at the predetermined graduation. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249678 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - Gradation data for each color to be input to a recording apparatus includes dot-recording-position information for every unit pixel and information for determining a nozzle position in a recording head for recording a dot. The information for determining the nozzle position makes determination in accordance with image data of an ink with resin and image data of an ink without resin. In a region where the ink with resin and the ink without resin overlap with each other, the ink without resin can land first. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249679 | APPARATUS FOR PRINTING SURFACES HAVING A PLURALITY OF MOVABLE PRINT HEADS AND SYSTEM HAVING THE APPARATUS - An apparatus for printing surfaces, for example of three-dimensionally shaped vehicle body parts, includes movable print heads having actuable, preferably inkjet, nozzles, and at least one printing position and one parking position into which the print heads can be moved or rotated. At least one first and one second print head have mutually different nozzle configurations, sizes or shapes. In a first mode, the first print head is in a printing position and the second print head is in a parking position, and in a second mode, the first print head is in a parking position and the second print head is in a printing position. The print heads can be on a rotation apparatus which can be on a robot arm. Surfaces of any shape, having curvatures and/or undercuts, can be printed in one or multiple colors (in image terms). A system having the apparatus is also provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249680 | INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head with a harmonica-type head tip is configured in a way that wirings electrically connected to drive electrodes within channels are led rearward from a rear surface of the head tip. A groove is provided along en array direction of the channels in areas on the rear surface of the head tip in which the channels are not formed. A lead-out electrode, which is electrically connected to drive electrodes, is formed from the rear surface of the head tip to the interior of the groove. One end of a wiring member, which has connecting wirings upon an insulating material corresponding to the lead-out electrodes, is inserted into the groove. The drive electrode is electrically connected to the connecting wiring via the lead-out electrode as a result of the electrical connection of the connecting wiring within the groove to the lead-out electrode | 2012-10-04 |
20120249681 | LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE APPARATUS, PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid droplet discharge apparatus, which discharges liquid droplets of a liquid, includes: a flow passage unit which is formed with a plurality of nozzles for discharging the liquid droplets of the liquid and a plurality of liquid flow passages including a plurality of pressure chambers communicated with the plurality of nozzles respectively; an actuator which has a sealing plate joined to the flow passage unit for defining the plurality of pressure chambers and which applies a pressure to the liquid contained in each of the plurality of pressure chambers by changing a volume of each of the plurality of pressure chambers by deforming the sealing plate; and a deformation adjusting member which adjusts a deformation amount of the sealing plate. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249682 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A nozzle plate made of conductive ceramics is grounded. Therefore, electric charges do not easily accumulate on the nozzle plate. The migration of electric charges from nozzle orifices to a diaphragm plate through ink filled in pressure generation chambers is unlikely to occur or significantly less likely to occur. Thus, it is possible to prevent the dielectric breakdown of the diaphragm plate caused conventionally by accumulated electric charges and to provide an ink-jet recording head that is substantially free from the damage of a driving circuit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249683 | DROPLET EJECTING DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE - A droplet ejecting device includes an ejection head, a moving body, a guide part, an attachment part, a fixed part and a liquid reservoir. The ejection head is configured and arranged to eject liquid droplets onto a substrate. The moving body supports the ejection head, and is configured and arranged to move integrally with the ejection head with respect to the substrate. The guide part is configured and arranged to guide a relative movement of the moving body. The attachment part is attached to the guide part and supporting the moving body, and configured and arranged to move integrally with the moving body. The fixed part is fixed to the attachment part separately from the moving body. The liquid reservoir is provided to the fixed part, and configured and arranged to store the liquid supplied to the ejection head. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249684 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD UNIT AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - Ink solvent having reached a buffer chamber through a manifold and a flexible portion is discharged in a direction different from the direction in which a holder opening is provided. Accordingly, the ink solvent is less likely to reach a connecting portion of a lead electrode and a COF substrate through the holder opening, a through-hole, and a support hole, through which the COF substrate extends. Thus, it is possible to make the solvent take a long time to reach the connecting portion, achieving an ink jet recording head in which the time taken to cause poor contact between the lead electrode and the COF substrate occurs is longer than that in the case where the solvent is discharged in the same direction as the direction in which the holder opening is provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249685 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A charge accumulated on an insulative nozzle plate flows into the ink with which nozzle openings and pressure generation chambers are filled and reaches a vibration plate. The charge that has reached the vibration plate is driven out therethrough because the vibration plate is made of a conductive ceramic material and is grounded. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an ink jet recording head in which insulation breakdown of the vibration plate caused by the charge accumulated on the vibration plate is suppressed from occurring and a driving circuit is suppressed from being damaged. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249686 | INKJET CHAMBER AND INLETS FOR CIRCULATING FLOW - An inkjet printhead including a drop generator includes: a substrate including a surface; a chamber disposed on the surface of the substrate, the chamber including: an inlet having a first edge and a second edge, the second edge being separated from the first edge by an inlet width along an inlet width direction; and a chamber center, wherein the first edge and the second edge of the inlet are disposed on a same side of the chamber center relative to the inlet width direction. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249687 | INKJET CHAMBER REFILL METHOD WITH CIRCULATING FLOW - A method of printing with an inkjet printhead, the method includes providing an ink source that is fluidically connected to the printhead; filling a chamber of a drop generator of the inkjet printhead with ink; ejecting a drop of ink from the chamber of the inkjet printhead; and refilling the chamber with ink, wherein refilling the chamber comprises: providing an influx of ink into the chamber; and providing a circulating flow of ink around a periphery of the chamber. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249688 | DISCHARGE-PRINTING TREATMENT AGENT STORAGE CONTAINER - A discharge-printing treatment agent storage container includes: a first treatment agent-storage container; and a second treatment agent-storage container. The first treatment agent-storage container is provided with an introduction port for introducing a second treatment agent. The introduction port is sealed with a seal member. The second treatment agent-storage container is provided with a discharge port for discharging the second treatment agent. The discharge port is linked to a discharge tube. The tip of the discharge tube is capable of being placed in the first treatment agent-storage container by releasing the introduction port from being sealed with the seal member. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249689 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR INK-JET PRINTHEAD - The present invention relates to a protection device for ink-jet printheads, comprising: a tank confining a cavity adapted to contain a humidifying liquid and having a mouth designed to be associated with at least one nozzle of an ink-jet printhead; a seal disposed around the mouth and suitable to be put sealingly in engagement against the printhead and around the nozzle; a mechanism integrated into the tank, for opening or closing the mouth for selectively bringing the mouth into fluid communication with the cavity. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249690 | FLOW THROUGH DROP DISPENSER INCLUDING POROUS MEMBER - A liquid dispenser includes a liquid supply channel, a liquid dispensing channel that includes an outlet opening, and a liquid return channel that includes a porous member located therein. A liquid supply provides liquid under pressure from the liquid supply channel through the liquid dispensing channel to the liquid return channel. A diverter member is selectively actuatable to divert a portion of the liquid toward outlet opening of the liquid dispensing channel. | 2012-10-04 |
20120249691 | PRINTING-LIQUID CARTRIDGE AND RECORDING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A print liquid cartridge comprising a print liquid chamber, print liquid supply portion, a stopper, and a release member. The print liquid supply portion establishes a communication between an interior of the print liquid chamber and an exterior of the print liquid chamber. The stopper prevents the printing-liquid cartridge from moving in a direction opposite to the liquid communication direction. The release member releases the stopper, such that the printing-liquid cartridge is permitted to move in a direction opposite to the fluid outflow direction. The stopper is aligned with the release member in a height direction orthogonal to the liquid communication direction and a width direction. | 2012-10-04 |