2616results about "Inking apparatus" patented technology

To provide a painting robot capable of reducing the effects of pressure fluctuations and ensuring a pressure range in which a pneumatic control valve can operate.SOLUTION: A painting robot 10 comprises: a painting head unit 50 including a plurality of nozzles 54 which eject droplets, and a painting head 53 having a piezoelectric substrate 62 for ejecting the droplets from the nozzles 54; a robot arm R1 for moving the painting head unit 50 to a desired position; and a paint supply mechanism 70 provided spanning the robot arm R1 and the painting head unit 50. Further, the paint supply mechanism 70 includes: a paint supply channel 72 for supplying a paint toward the painting head 53; a return flow channel 73 for recovering the paint that was not discharged from the nozzles 54; an air-operated paint regulator (AOPR) 92 provided in the paint supply channel 72 and capable of adjusting a valve opening degree in response to a controlled air pressure; and an orifice 96 provided on the downstream side of the paint supply channel 72 which is closer to the painting head side 53 than the AOPR 92.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle configured to discharge a liquid; a substrate including a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle; and an electromechanical conversion element, the liquid discharge head configured to drive the electromechanical conversion element to pressurize ink in the pressure chamber and discharge the liquid from the nozzle, the liquid discharge head provided with a surface layer having lyophilicity with respect to the liquid on inner peripheral surfaces of the nozzle and the pressure chamber.

A piezoelectric element includes: a first electrode provided above a substrate; a piezoelectric layer provided above the first electrode; a second electrode provided above the piezoelectric layer; and a moisture-resistant layer covering at least a part of the piezoelectric layer, and when secondary ion mass spectrometry is performed on the piezoelectric layer, a hydrogen concentration calculated based on an integrated intensity in a range of 50 nm or more and 300 nm or less from a surface of the piezoelectric layer is 1.50×1015 atom / cm2 or less.

There is provided a head module in which a first direction is a main scanning direction, including: a first nozzle row including a first nozzle; a second nozzle row including a second nozzle; and a third nozzle row including a third nozzle, in which a distance P1 between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the first direction and a distance P2 between the first nozzle row and the third nozzle row in the first direction are expressed as P1:P2=E1:O1 where a value E1 is a positive even number and a value O1 is a positive odd number satisfying O1>E1.

To provide a recording method which enables formation of an image having an excellent image quality even when recording speed is high.SOLUTION: A recording method includes: a deposition step of discharging an ink composition from an inkjet head and depositing the discharged ink composition onto a recording medium; and a primary heating step of heating the deposited ink composition, and includes main scanning of depositing the ink composition onto a recording medium while changing a relative position between the inkjet head and the recording medium in a main scanning direction, and sub-scanning of changing a relative position between the inkjet head and the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction. The number of main scanning performed on the same recording area of the recording medium is 5 times or less. The ink composition is aqueous ink containing a pigment, a resin and an organic solvent. A temperature of a first thickening peak is 30°C or higher and 65°C or lower and a temperature of a maximum thickening peak is 70°C or higher in a chart of a logarithmic decrement to a temperature obtained by measuring the ink composition by a rigid pendulum physical property test.SELECTED DRAWING: None

A liquid discharge system includes: a first head having a first nozzle, from which a liquid is to be discharged, on a first nozzle face oriented in a first direction; a second head having a second nozzle, from which a liquid is to be discharged, on a second nozzle face oriented in a second direction different from the first direction; a head holder holding the first head and the second head; a first sealer configured to contact and seal the first nozzle face; a second sealer configured to contact and seal the second nozzle face; a first cleaner configured to clean the first nozzle face in a state where the first sealer has contacted and sealed the first nozzle face; and a second cleaner configured to clean the second nozzle face in a state where the second sealer has contacted and sealed the second nozzle face.

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a first piezoelectric element, a first pressure chamber, a second piezoelectric element, a second pressure chamber, a nozzle flow path which communicates with the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber and which is provided with a nozzle, and a determination unit configured to determine a liquid state at the nozzle based on a first detection signal which represents a change in electromotive force of the first piezoelectric element after at least one of the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element is driven, and a second detection signal which represents a change in electromotive force of the second piezoelectric element after at least another of the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element is driven.

The invention relates to a PCB vertical vacuum hole plugging machine which comprises an LCS ink supply system and a hole plugging system, the LCS ink supply system is connected with the hole plugging system, the LCS ink supply system comprises a high-vacuum bin, a filtering device, a stirring defoaming device, an oil supply assembly and a station switching assembly, the filtering device is arranged on the outer side of the high-vacuum bin, and the stirring defoaming device is arranged on the outer side of the high-vacuum bin. The station switching assembly, the stirring and defoaming device and the oil supply assembly are arranged in the high-vacuum bin body, a filtering station corresponding to the filtering device is arranged in the high-vacuum bin body, a stirring and defoaming station corresponding to the stirring and defoaming device is arranged in the high-vacuum bin body, an oil supply station corresponding to the oil supply assembly is arranged in the high-vacuum bin body, and the oil supply assembly is connected with the hole plugging system; the rear chock plug is designed to be capable of automatically ascending and descending, automatic face turning and hole plugging can be achieved for double-face blind holes, double-face back drilling plates and the like, and the more automatic hole plugging capacity is achieved. According to the PCB vertical vacuum hole plugging machine, high-automation production of ink recovery, filtering, defoaming, oil supply and automatic turn-over hole plugging of the PCB vertical vacuum hole plugging machine is achieved, and the production efficiency is improved.

A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate, multiple individual liquid chambers, a circulation common liquid chamber, a common liquid chamber, a vibration damper, a circulation bridge, and a common bridge. The nozzle plate has multiple nozzles from which a liquid is dischargeable in a liquid discharge direction. The multiple nozzles are arrayed in a nozzle array direction orthogonal to the liquid discharge direction. The vibration damper damps vibration of the liquid in the common liquid chamber. The circulation bridge is bridging the circulation common liquid chamber in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the nozzle array direction and the liquid discharge direction. The common bridge is bridging the common liquid chamber in the orthogonal direction. The common bridge is disposed at the same position as the circulation bridge in the liquid discharge direction.

A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes a liquid ejection head that has a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid toward a workpiece, a multi-joint robot that has a tip end portion supporting the liquid ejection head and causes the liquid ejection head to scan with respect to the workpiece, and a control portion that creates a printing path along which the liquid ejection head is scanned, in which the control portion generates smoothing data by performing smoothing processing on workpiece data indicating a shape of a printing surface, which is a surface of the workpiece to be printed, and creates the printing path based on the smoothing data.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a head chip; a fixing plate having a first surface facing in an ejection direction, a second surface that is opposite from the first surface, and a lateral surface; and a holder configured to hold the head chip between itself and the fixing plate. In a plan view as seen toward the first surface, the first surface includes a water repellent region having water repellency, and a hydrophilic region that is disposed between the water repellent region and the lateral surface, and has lower water repellency than the water repellent region, and part of mold is bonded to the hydrophilic region of the first surface, the mold being disposed between the lateral surface and at least one of the head chip or the holder.

Inkjet print head (1) for selectively dosing a liquid (F) dropwise in a 3D printer, the inkjet print head (1) comprising: - an inkjet printing module (100) for selectively dosing the liquid (F) dropwise, the inkjet printing module (100) comprising: ▪ a liquid inlet (110) for supplying the liquid (F) into the inkjet printing module (100); ▪ at least one nozzle (120) for dispensing a metered drop of the liquid (FT) in the 3D printer; ▪ and a liquid return (130) for returning a return medium (R) from the inkjet printing module (100), comprising at least one liquid return capillary (131) for returning the return medium (M) from the nozzle (120), wherein the return medium (R) comprises the liquid (F) and / or a disturbing medium (S), in particular air (L) and / or particles (P) taken up into the nozzle (120) from the 3D printer; - a liquid tank (200) for holding the liquid (F) and for supplying the liquid inlet (110) of the inkjet printing module (100) with the liquid (F), wherein the liquid tank (200) comprises: ▪ a liquid supply (210) for supplying liquid (F) to the liquid tank (200); ▪ a vacuum connection (230) for applying a vacuum (U), in particular at the liquid tank (200), wherein a meniscus equilibrium pressure (MGD) in the nozzle (120) can be set as a result of the vacuum (U), by means of which an uncontrolled escape of the liquid (F) from the nozzle (120) and / or an uncontrolled suction of the interfering medium (S) from the 3D printer into the nozzle (120) is prevented; ▪ and a return liquid supply (240) for returning liquid (F) from the inkjet printing module (100) via the liquid return (130) into the liquid tank (200); - and a return pump (300) for pumping the return medium (R) from the inkjet printing module (100) via the liquid return (130) into the return liquid supply (240); wherein a pulsation damper (400) is arranged between the return pump (300) and the liquid return (130).

The utility model belongs to the technical field of thermal transfer printing, and discloses a thermal transfer printer. The thermal transfer printer comprises two reels, a printing mechanism, a first driving assembly, a bearing frame and a guiding assembly, the two reels can rotate around the axes of the reels, a colored tape is wound on one reel, the free end of the colored tape is fixed to the other reel, the printing mechanism comprises a first installation part and a wide printing assembly, and the wide printing assembly is arranged on the first installation part. The wide-width printing assembly extends in the Y-axis direction and is movably arranged on a first mounting part in the Z-axis direction, the first mounting part is connected with a first driving assembly, the first driving assembly is configured to drive the printing mechanism to move in the X-axis direction, the bearing frame comprises two bearing plates arranged in the Y-axis direction, and guide assemblies are arranged on the bearing plates; the two ends of the first mounting part are correspondingly arranged on the upper side faces of the two bearing plates in a sliding mode through guide assemblies, and the guide assemblies can provide guidance for movement of the printing mechanism in the X-axis direction.

A liquid ejection head includes: a vibration plate, and a piezoelectric element having a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode, which are laminated in a lamination direction, wherein the piezoelectric layer is formed of a piezoelectric material containing lead as a constituent element, the first electrode has an electrode layer and a lead-containing layer disposed between the electrode layer and the vibration plate and containing lead, and when, of two regions arranged in a crossing direction, which is a direction crossing the lamination direction, when seen in the lamination direction, a region farther away from a center of the first electrode is a first region and a region closer to the center of the first electrode is a second region, a lead content percentage in the lead-containing layer in the first region is higher than a lead content percentage in the lead-containing layer in the second region.

To provide a liquid discharge unit that when performing printing by discharging liquid with high viscosity which is used for a road surface, wall surfaces of architectural structures such as an exterior and an interior, wall surfaces of civil engineering structures such as a bridge and a tunnel and a porous material, can stably discharge the liquid through a nozzle hole which has been put in an uncapped state (a state where a nozzle is not capped in order to preventing the nozzle from drying and is exposed).SOLUTION: The liquid discharge unit comprises a nozzle part that discharges liquid with high viscosity. The nozzle part comprises a nozzle hole, a nozzle plate having the nozzle hole, a liquid chamber that supplies liquid to the nozzle hole, and a needle valve that closes or opens the nozzle hole at a tip thereof, while moving back and forth in the liquid chamber, where a liquid repellent layer whose surface free energy is less than 29 mJ / m2 is formed on a surface of the nozzle plate.SELECTED DRAWING: None

To provide a technique which enables a control unit of a printing device to automatically generate a dummy print image for suppressing winding misalignment during winding of a printing medium and also enables reduction of an ink amount used for printing the dummy print image.SOLUTION: A control unit 50 of this printing device includes a dummy print image generation unit 56 and a printing control unit 57. The dummy print image generation unit 56 generates a dummy print image D2 to be printed in a region of the lateral side of a real printing region in a width direction on the basis of a real print image D1 to be printed in the real printing region of a printing medium. The printing control unit 57 controls a conveyance mechanism 10 and an ink jet head 311, 321 so as to print the real print image D1 and the dummy print image D2. The dummy print image generation unit 56 generates the dummy print image D2 having a printing rate corresponding to that of the real print image D1. Thus, an ink amount used for printing the dummy print image D2 can be prevented from becoming excessive.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes discharging liquid droplets in a first area of a substrate, moving a discharge part by a first distance along a side of the substrate and discharging the liquid droplets in a second area of the substrate, and moving the discharge part by a second distance along the side of the substrate and discharging the liquid droplets in a third area of the substrate. The first distance is different from the second distance.

A media processing apparatus includes: a base defining (i) a chamber configured to receive a media supply, and (ii) a lower portion of a media outlet; a ribbon positioning assembly coupled to the base, the ribbon positioning assembly configured to support a print head at an upper portion of the media outlet; an input assembly affixed to the ribbon positioning assembly, the input assembly including an input device activatable to generate a signal to a controller of the media processing apparatus; a lid coupled to the base, and movable relative to the base between (i) a closed position to enclose the chamber and the ribbon positioning assembly, and (ii) an open position to expose the chamber for access from an exterior of the media processing apparatus; the lid including an opening configured to align with the input device when the lid is in the closed position.

To provide a coating system that can improve the property of discharging air bubbles and foreign matter from inside a coating head unit.SOLUTION: A painting robot 10 comprises: a painting head unit 50 comprising a painting head 53; a robot arm R1, which moves the painting head unit 50 to a desired position; a head control unit 90, which controls operation of the painting head 53; and a control unit comprising a robot arm control unit 70, which controls operation of the robot arm R1. The robot arm control unit 70 is configured to perform: head movement control to move the painting head unit 50 to shift a posture of the painting head unit 50 from an ejection position of ejecting droplets, so as to move air bubbles B1 present in the painting head 53; and posture return control to return the posture of the painting head unit 50 to the ejection position. The head control unit 90 is configured to perform droplet ejection control to eject droplets from a nozzle 54 during or immediately after the posture return control.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a first substrate and a second substrate are positioned such that the first substrate front surface and the second substrate front surface face each other along a fourth direction intersecting both a first direction and a second direction, the first drive circuit provided on the first substrate overlaps with at least a part of the second drive circuit provided on the first substrate, and a first integrated circuit included in the first drive circuit does not overlap with a second integrated circuit included in the second drive circuit, along the second direction, and the first drive circuit overlaps with at least a part of a third drive circuit provided on the second substrate, and the first integrated circuit included in the first drive circuit does not overlap with a third integrated circuit included in the third drive circuit, along the fourth direction.

To provide a liquid jet head which is prevented from deteriorating in reliability, and a liquid jet device.SOLUTION: The liquid jet head comprises: a head module including a flow passage opening forming member and a chip; a supply flow passage member that supplies liquid to the head module; an elastic seal member that liquid-tightly connects the flow passage opening forming member to the supply flow passage member; and a fixing member fixing the supply flow passage member to the flow passage opening forming member. A seal region held by the flow passage opening forming member and the supply flow passage member of the seal member overlaps with the chip when viewed in a jetting direction. A dimension in the jetting direction of a portion overlapping with the seal region, of the flow passage opening forming member, is larger than a distance between the seal region and the fixing member when viewed in the jetting direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

The utility model relates to an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) printer for a single hang tag, which comprises a thermal transfer ribbon printer and an RFID reader-writer, a hang tag stacking and conveying device is arranged in a hang tag stacking area, a plurality of hang tags are stacked on a conveying surface of a conveying belt in the hang tag stacking and conveying device, and an RFID tag is embedded in each hang tag; the thermal transfer ribbon printing head can conduct online thermal transfer printing on passing hangtags through a walking thermal transfer ribbon, a hangtag one-by-one output device is arranged at the output end of the hangtag stacking and conveying device, and an RFID read-write antenna is installed in the hangtag printing area and located between the hangtag one-by-one output device and the thermal transfer ribbon printing head. And the RFID reader-writer can write data into the hang tags which pass one by one through the RFID read-write antenna. The system has the advantages that firstly, the printer can perform online printing and data entry on a single hang tag embedded with an RFID tag at the same time, the printer can ensure that the single hang tag is printed one by one and data is entered one by one, and the hang tag is not easy to be stuck; and thirdly, the printer can print hang tags with different thicknesses, and is good in printing applicability and convenient to adjust.

The invention discloses a printing equipment detection method and device, printing equipment, a storage medium and a program product. The printing equipment comprises a driving part, a printing rubber roller, a first rotating part, a second rotating part, a code disc and a sensor. The method comprises the steps that in the process of executing a printing task, a driving part is controlled to complete one-time driving according to a preset time interval, and a detected area entering a detection area is determined after each-time driving is finished; the detected area is a light-transmitting area or a light-shielding area; if it is detected that the detected area does not change continuously for preset times, it is determined that the conveying channel of the printing medium is blocked or the thermal transfer ribbon is used up. By adopting the scheme, the abnormity of the printing equipment in the process of executing the printing task can be found in time, so that the problems that a motor is blocked due to the fact that a conveying channel of the printing medium is blocked, or the printing medium is wasted due to the fact that printing is still continued after a thermal transfer ribbon is used up are solved.

To provide a head chip that can suppress a driving electrode from being disconnected and is excellent in reliability over the long term, a liquid jet head, a liquid jet recording device, and a head chip manufacturing method.SOLUTION: A head chip according to one embodiment described in the disclosure comprises: a pressure chamber in which liquid is stored; a chip main body having a driving part arranged at a portion facing the pressure chamber; a driving electrode formed on the driving part; and driving wiring formed on the chip main body to connect the driving electrode to external wiring. The driving wiring comprises a first wiring part which has a first region and a second region, connected in an extending direction of the driving wiring to the first region, whose cross sectional areas in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction are smaller than cross sectional areas of the first region, and a second wiring part leading, in a direction crossing the extending direction, at least to the second region.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including a substrate unit, in which the substrate unit includes a wiring substrate which is a rigid flexible substrate having a plurality of rigid members and flexible member, the flexible member includes a first surface, a second surface, a first region, a second region, and a third region, a first rigid member among the plurality of rigid members is laminated on the first surface of the first region such that a first front surface, the second rigid member among the plurality of rigid members is laminated on the first surface of the second region such that a second front surface, the flexible member includes a power supply voltage wiring, and the power supply voltage wiring is continuously provided over the first region, the second region, and the third region of the flexible member.

Provided is a dielectric thin film including a metal oxide. The metal oxide includes bismuth, sodium, barium, and titanium, at least a part of the metal oxide is a tetragonal crystal having a perovskite structure, and a (100) plane of at least a part of the tetragonal crystal is oriented in a normal direction of a surface of the dielectric thin film.

A printing apparatus (101) includes: an ejection unit (110) configured to perform a print operation of forming an image on a print medium (103) by ejecting liquid from an ejection port by using drive of an ejection energy generation element (423) provided in a pressure chamber (424), the liquid flowing into the pressure chamber from a first flow passage (431); a circulation unit (408) configured to circulate the liquid in a circulation flow passage including the first flow passage, the pressure chamber, and a second flow passage (432) configured to allow the liquid in the pressure chamber to flow to an outside of the pressure chamber; a recovery unit (210) configured to perform a recovery operation of the ejection unit; and a control unit (301) configured to stop the circulation unit before completion of the print operation by the ejection unit in the case where the recovery operation is to be performed after the print operation.

To provide a piezoelectric element that can improve the insulating properties of the piezoelectric layer. [Solution] A piezoelectric element comprising a substrate, a first electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided on the first electrode and containing potassium, sodium, and niobium, and a second electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer has a first layer provided on the first electrode and a second layer provided on the first layer, and the piezoelectric layer has a first region including a first interface between the first layer and the second layer and a second region located within the first layer without including the first interface, and the molar ratio of potassium to sodium in the first region is greater than the molar ratio in the second region.