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| 20080198187 | LIQUID RESIDUAL AMOUNT DETECTION APPARATUS FOR LIQUID CONTAINER - A liquid residual amount detection apparatus for a liquid container, includes: a sensor chamber that has a liquid supply port introducing liquid to be delivered from a liquid containing portion, and supplies the liquid to an external liquid consuming apparatus; a diaphragm that defines a part of the sensor chamber and is movable in response to a liquid containing amount in the sensor chamber; a pressure receiving plate that is attached to the diaphragm; a recess portion that is connected to the sensor chamber and is closed by the pressure receiving plate when the liquid containing amount in the sensor chamber becomes a predetermined amount or less; a piezoelectric element that applies vibration to at least a part of the recess portion so as to detect a free vibration state according to the applied vibration; a detection portion that detects an amplitude value or a frequency of a residual vibration waveform of a counter electromotive force by the free vibration state detected by the piezoelectric element; and a calculation portion that calculates a liquid residual amount in the liquid container on the basis of the amplitude value or the frequency of the residual vibration waveform detected by the detection portion. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080211838 | LIQUID CONTAINER - Provided herein a liquid container including a liquid containing portion for containing liquid; and an detection portion which is used to detect the amount of liquid contained in the liquid containing portion, receives an input driving signal, and outputs a detection signal having a frequency lower than that of the driving signal. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090219313 | METHOD, HEAD, AND APPARATUS FOR EJECTING LIQUID - A liquid ejecting method includes ejecting a liquid through a liquid ejecting head. Viscosity of the liquid falls within a range from 6 mPa·s to 15 mPa·s. The liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle that ejects the liquid, a pressure compartment that causes a change in the pressure of the liquid to eject the liquid through the nozzle, and a supply unit that communicates with the pressure compartment and supplies the liquid to the pressure compartment. A channel flow resistance of the supply unit ranges from equal to or higher than a channel flow resistance of the pressure compartment to equal to or lower than twice the channel flow resistance of the pressure compartment. A channel length of the pressure compartment ranges from equal to or longer than a channel length of the supply unit to equal to or shorter than twice the channel length of the supply unit, | 09-03-2009 |
| 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 to the liquid in order to eject the liquid from the nozzles; and a supply unit which communicates with the pressure chamber and supplies the liquid to the pressure chamber, and wherein the opening area of the nozzles on the side in which the liquid is ejected is or less of the opening area of the opening of the supply unit on the pressure chamber side. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100188451 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head which includes nozzles, pressure generating chambers communicating with the nozzles, and pressure generating elements causing a pressure change in a liquid of the pressure generating chambers and which ejects the liquid from the nozzles in response to an operation of the pressure generating elements; and a driving signal generating unit which drives the pressure generating elements to repeatedly generate a driving signal containing an ejection driving pulse used to eject the liquid from the nozzles. The ejection driving pulse has a pulse waveform containing a first pressure generating chamber expansion component which expands the pressure generating chamber to draw a meniscus toward the pressure generating chamber side, a pressure generating chamber contraction component which contracts the pressure generating chamber expanded by the first pressure generating chamber expansion component to push the meniscus toward the liquid ejection side, and a second pressure generating chamber expansion component which expands the pressure generating chamber contracted by the pressure generating chamber contraction component to draw the meniscus toward the pressure generating chamber side again. Each of the pressure generating chamber expansion components has a plurality of different potential change ratios. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110007108 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND METHOD - A liquid discharge apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber and a liquid supply portion that supplies the liquid to the pressure chamber. A discharge pulse generating unit generates a discharge pulse to discharge the liquid. The viscosity of the liquid is no less than 8 millipascal-seconds. The nozzle has a first portion with a discharge side that has an opening area smaller than that of a pressure chamber side and a second portion that communicates with an end portion of the discharge side. An opening area of the second portion is no greater than 1/9 of the opening area of the pressure chamber side. The discharge pulse has a decompression portion that decompresses the liquid to lead a meniscus in the second portion to the first portion and a compression portion that compresses the liquid to discharge the liquid before the meniscus returns to the second portion. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110221809 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A resonance pulse is a voltage waveform substantially containing an expansion element for varying a voltage to expand a pressure chamber, an expansion sustaining element generated following with the expansion element, and sustaining a maximum voltage at a predetermined value, and a contraction element generated following with the expansion sustaining element, and varying the voltage to contract the pressure chamber. A time span from a front end of the expansion element to a front end of the contraction element is set as ½ of an inherent vibration cycle of ink in the pressure chamber. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110242171 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - An ejection pulse DP sequentially and continuously includes an expansion phase p | 10-06-2011 |
