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8181595 Liquid droplet ejecting apparatus, electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus  
A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus of the present invention includes a cleaning unit, a regular flushing unit, capping unit, and an ejection-amount measuring unit as droplet ejecting head...
8177352 Drum maintenance system for reducing duplex dropout  
A drum maintenance system for use in an imaging device includes a reservoir having a supply of release agent, and an applicator configured to receive release agent from the reservoir and to apply...
8177324 Printers and apparatus to clean printer surfaces  
Printers and apparatus to clean printer surfaces are disclosed. An example apparatus to clean a surface in a printer includes an endless cleaning material loop and an advancer to advance the...
8172358 Droplet ejection head control device and control method, and program storage medium  
A droplet ejection head control device includes a pressure alteration section, a detector and a controller. The droplet ejection head is provided with plural nozzles and is supplied with a liquid....
8167400 Droplet ejecting device capable of recovering ejection performance efficiently  
A droplet ejecting head is formed with at least one nozzle and is configured to eject a liquid droplet through the at least one nozzle in a nozzle axis direction. A carriage supports the droplet...
8162434 Cap and ink-jet head protection assembly  
A head cap for protecting an ink ejecting face of an ink-jet head may be provided with a plate member. The plate member may be opposed to the ink ejecting face. The head cap may include a flexible,...
8162436 Fluid discharging apparatus  
A fluid discharging apparatus including a head that has a nozzle which discharges fluid from the nozzle and a sheet shaped wiping member for wiping a nozzle surface of the head. The wiping member...
8157347 Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording head cartridge  
An ink jet recording head comprising a discharge port for discharging an ink; and a sealing tape for sealing the discharge port; wherein the sealing tape includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive...
8157348 Print head servicing for a page wide array printer  
A page wide array printer comprises a print head bar which carries an array of print nozzles, and which is static during a printing operation. A carriage has print head service elements. The print...
8152271 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...
8147028 Nozzle inspecting device in fluid discharge apparatus, fluid discharge apparatus, and nozzle inspection method  
A nozzle inspection device includes an inspection electrode placed apart from a discharge unit with a gap therebetween, an inspection unit for inspecting the presence of a defective nozzle by...
8147031 Recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus includes: a plurality of recording heads each of which includes an ejection surface; a head frame; at least one annular protrusion; a support tray; and a moving device. One or...
8147055 Sticky baffle  
A baffle for use in a printer to protect a printhead from particulates associated with a printing medium. The baffle including a member, incorporated within the printer, that is positioned below...
8141976 Printing control method for a serial inkjet printer, and a serial inkjet printer  
A printing control method for a serial inkjet printer prevents paper dust that is dispersed by the air current produced by a vacuum platen from adhering to the ink nozzle area. An inkjet head that...
8136916 Image forming apparatus  
An image-forming apparatus includes a head unit configured to include line-type recording heads for ejecting ink droplets, a transport mechanism disposed facing the recording head and configured to...
8136909 Ink jet printing apparatus and ink processing method for same  
In an ink jet print head formed with ejection nozzles, which may use a wiping member to wipe ink adhered to the surface of the ink jet print head, it is desired to be able to perform a wiping...
8136906 Image recording apparatus and ink amount calculation method for this image recording apparatus  
An image forming apparatus calculates an ink temperature considering a thermal capacity near nozzles and an ink circulation flow quantity of a circulation pump in addition to an ink temperature...
8132903 Ink jet system and method for removing air bubbles inside of an ink jet nozzle  
An ink jet system according to the present invention is provided with an air bubble removing unit including: an ink jet body having a plurality of ink supply path; a nozzle plate connected to an...
8132888 Inkjet recording apparatus and head maintenance method  
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head, a tank in which liquid to be supplied to the inkjet head is retained, and a flow path for connecting the inkjet head and the tank to each...
8128190 Ink circulation type inkjet printer  
An ink circulation type inkjet printer includes a maintenance controller configured to: (1) allow a maintenance mechanism to execute maintenance processing for a plurality of inkjet heads before a...
8123330 Circuit board for ink jet head, ink jet head having the same, method for cleaning the head and ink jet printing apparatus using the head  
In an ink jet head using a thermal energy for ejecting ink, this invention aims to reliably and uniformly remove kogations deposited on a heat application portion in contact with the ink. To...
8118392 Movable web support and cap  
A method and apparatus raise and lower a web support and move a cap over and above the web support.
8118397 Printhead assembly with a wicking element  
A printhead maintenance station includes a housing operatively positioned with respect to an ink ejection face to be maintained. The housing defines a pair of slots. A support arm has lugs at each...
8118395 Mobile device with a printhead and a capper actuated by contact with the media to be printed  
A mobile device that is (a) an inkjet printhead, (b) a print media feed path extending past the printhead, (c) a capping mechanism with a capper moveable between a capping position, in which the...
8113621 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...
8109596 Printhead maintenance assembly comprising pair of transfer rollers  
A printhead maintenance assembly for removing particulates from an ink ejection face of a printhead. The assembly comprises: pressure means for flooding the face and thereby dispersing the...
8109595 Droplet ejection apparatus and cleaning method of a droplet receiving surface  
A droplet ejection apparatus includes: a droplet ejection head that ejects droplets; a conveying member that retains a recording medium and conveys the recording medium with facing the recording...
8104888 Inkjet recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus includes: a conveyor which has one or more holes penetrating from a first surface to a second surface thereof, and which conveys, in a conveyance direction, a recording medium...
8100492 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...
8083312 Maintenance station of an inkjet printer  
A maintenance station of an inkjet printer mounted in a housing of the inkjet printer includes an ink cup rotationally and slidably coupled to the housing about/along an axis of rotation. The ink...
8083311 Ink-jet printing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium  
An object of this invention is to prevent prolongation of the time taken for a suction recovery operation while suppressing wasteful consumption of ink in the suction recovery operation. An ink-jet...
8072474 Cleaning apparatus for roller and printing apparatus using cleaning apparatus  
A cleaning apparatus for a roller includes a platen roller and a cleaning roller brought into contact with the platen roller to clean a surface of the platen roller, where the cleaning roller is...
8070267 Ink jet recording head and production process thereof  
An ink jet recording element substrate includes a substrate; an ejection outlet array for ejecting ink; a heat generating element array comprising a plurality of heat generating elements for...
8066350 Ink-jet recording apparatus  
An ink-jet recording apparatus including: a cartridge mount; a recording head; an ink passage; an ink discharger; and a controller. An ink cartridge that stores ink is to be replaceably mounted on...
8052246 Recording device and recording medium conveying method  
A cleaning roller is arranged at a position facing an image sensor with a conveying belt interposed therebetween. The conveying belt has a through hole. In an image sensor cleaning mode, the...
8038286 Liquid removal apparatus, image forming apparatus and liquid removal method  
A liquid removal apparatus which removes liquid on a base material, has; an absorbing member which absorbs and removes the liquid on the base material by making contact with or by approaching to...
8033635 Printer with ink pressure regulator  
An inkjet printer includes a printhead integrated circuit (IC) with an array of nozzles for ejecting ink on to print media; an ink supply reservoir for storing ink; an ink supply line defining a...
8033639 Inkjet recording apparatus, method of cleaning a recording head, and a computer readable medium encoding the method  
An inkjet recording apparatus, method and computer readable medium are provided. The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head comprising a nozzle formation surface having a plurality of...
8029093 Overprint trough for an image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes a reference surface that is partitioned into an array of chambers; an image forming head for forming an image on a media; and a source of negative pressure. The...
8029860 Manufacturing method for a nozzle plate and a nozzle plate  
A manufacturing method for a nozzle plate including a plurality of nozzle holes may include the step of forming a plurality of through-holes extending through a plate member in a thickness...
8025359 Protector for ink cartridge container  
A protector for an ink cartridge container including a containing case body, an ink inlet for a recording head, a cartridge containing part into which an ink cartridge is removably insertable, and...
8007071 Image forming apparatus and information recording medium  
An image forming apparatus includes: a liquid tank which retains a liquid; a liquid jetting head connected to the liquid tank and having a nozzle for jetting the liquid; a carriage on which the...
8007072 Cleaning blade, method of fabricating cleaning blade, and cleaning apparatus for liquid discharge head  
A cleaning blade which wipes a liquid discharge area by being moved relatively with respect to the liquid discharge area of a liquid discharge head having the liquid discharge area in which liquid...
8007073 Liquid ejecting apparatus and method of wiping liquid discharge head in liquid ejecting apparatus  
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes two liquid discharge heads, a wiper unit, and an actuating mechanism. Each of the two liquid discharge heads has a nozzle face on which at least one nozzle...
8002381 Inkjet printer with reciprocally movable maintenance station  
An inkjet printer comprises a stationary pagewidth inkjet printhead and a printhead maintenance station. The maintenance station comprises a chassis having a maintenance roller and a transfer...
8002383 Liquid ejection apparatus and image forming apparatus  
The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: a liquid ejection head having an ejection port surface on which ejection ports for ejecting liquid are formed; a wiping device having a blade member which...
7997682 Mobile telecommunications device having printhead  
A mobile telecommunications device is provided having a printhead for printing on print media, a capper moveable between a capped position in which the printhead is capped and an uncapped position...
7997673 Printhead IC with temperature based de-clog ejection  
A printhead IC is provided having an ejection nozzle, drive circuitry for generating drive signals for driving the ejection nozzle, and a temperature sensor connected to the drive circuitry. The...
7988271 Ink jet printer, ink supply mechanism for the ink jet printer, and ink supply method  
An ink jet printer system includes an ink jet head, a plurality of ink supplying cartridges, an ink flow channel and a control device. The ink flow channel connects the ink jet head and the...
7988256 Web  
A web has a surface layer integrally extending between opposite transverse edges. The surface layer includes absorbent region separated by at least one nonabsorbent region.