Abstract:
A method and apparatus to check an operation of a piezoelectric inkjet head includes a first current detection unit to detect a first current output from a piezoelectric element of the piezoelectric inkjet head when a predetermined voltage is applied, a second current detection unit to detect a second current from a capacitor having a capacitance with the same magnitude as a capacitor component of the piezoelectric element when the voltage is applied to the capacitor, and a third current detection unit to detect a third current corresponding to a difference between the first current and the second current, as the amount of deformation of the piezoelectric element according to the application of the voltage.
Abstract:
An optical shutter includes a cell having a transparent panel and a hydrophobic transparent insulation panel which are arranged to face each other, a transparent electrode formed on an outer surface of the hydrophobic transparent insulation panel, and an opaque droplet contained in the cell and contacting an inner surface of the hydrophobic transparent insulation panel, wherein the amount of light transmitted is adjusted by changing a contact angle of the opaque droplet with respect to the hydrophobic transparent insulation panel. The opaque droplet may be hydrophobic or hydrophilic. The contact angle of the opaque droplet may be changed by applying an electric field between the transparent electrode and the opaque droplet.
Abstract:
A normalization method of ink drops to ensure uniformity of an amount of ink drops ejected from nozzles of an inkjet head. The normalization method including ejecting a predetermined number of ink drops from the nozzles into pixels while changing a voltage applied to the nozzles, measuring the mean thicknesses of ink layers formed in the pixels, and setting a target thickness of the ink layers and applying a voltage corresponding to the target thickness to each of the nozzles.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a color filter forming a black matrix on a substrate, the black matrix defining a plurality of pixels, forming liquid ink layers within the pixels and drying the liquid ink layers, penetrating solvent vapor into surfaces of the dried liquid ink layers to form ink layers have mobile surfaces, and drying the ink layers having the mobile surfaces.
Abstract:
A nozzle plate and printhead allowing for control of a deflection direction of ejected droplets using electro-wetting, and methods of operating and manufacturing the same. The nozzle plate has at least one nozzle for ejecting fluid and includes electrode segments disposed along a circumference of the nozzle, an insulating layer disposed on a surface of each electrode segment so as to contact fluid in the nozzle, the insulating layer divided into at least two insulating layer segments corresponding to the electrode segments, and a wire pattern electrically coupled to the electrode segments.
Abstract:
An inkjet printhead having a cantilever actuator, the inkjet printhead including a plurality of ink chambers containing ink to be ejected; a manifold containing ink to be supplied to the plurality of ink chambers; a plurality of restrictors supplying ink to the plurality of ink chambers from the manifold; a plurality of nozzles ejecting ink from the plurality of ink chambers; and a plurality of cantilever actuators each installed in each of the plurality of ink chambers and having one fixed end and the other deflectable end, such that pressure for ejection of ink is applied due to the deflection of the other end of the cantilever actuator to the ink inside the ink chamber. The cantilever actuator may be made of a bimorph element, eject ink through the nozzle from the ink chamber, and also prevent backflow of ink from the ink chamber to the restrictor by virtue of the deflection of the other end thereof. Since the cantilever actuator can have a greater displacement and can prevent backflow of ink, the size of the ink chamber needed to eject ink droplets of uniform volume can be reduced, and thus the number of channels per inch (CPI) of the inkjet printhead can be increased.
Abstract:
A nozzle plate, inkjet printhead with the same and method of manufacturing the same. The nozzle plate includes at least one nozzle and has at least one heater segment disposed adjacent to the nozzle. The heater segment is configured to heat a first fraction of the circumference to a greater degree than a second fraction of the circumference. Heater segments are disposed at intervals around a circumference of the nozzle and are independently operable.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image forming medium, a charge unit charging the surface of the electrostatic latent image forming medium with a predetermined potential, a toner supply unit (TSU) supplying toner to an electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrostatic latent image forming medium to develop the electrostatic latent image into a toner image, and a transfer unit transferring the toner image to a print medium, the electrostatic latent image forming medium including a transparent frame member, a light source inside the frame member, an optical shutter array including a plurality of optical shutters, and a photoconductive layer on which the electrostatic latent image is formed using light transmitted through the optical shutter array. A diffuser may surround the light source to diffuse light to maintain the intensity of light reaching the optical shutters at a uniform level.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a reciprocating motor including a multi type outer core having a plurality of single cores constructed with consecutively-stacked lamination sheets centering around a plurality of ring-shaped winding coils so as form a cylindrical structure and an insulating member placed between a plurality of the single cores, an inner core inserted in the multi type outer core so as to leave a predetermined gap with an inside circumferential face of the multi type outer core, and a moving part having a plurality of magnet rows confronting the winding coils of the multi type outer core respectively so as to reciprocate in accordance with a variation of currents flowing through the winding coils. The present invention generates simple fluxes formed in the flux paths and prevents the fluxes from being cancelled each other, thereby enabling to increase an efficiency of a motor by decreasing the magnetic saturation as well as provide a simple design of the motor. Moreover, the present invention enables to reduce the amount of magnets required for the motor, thereby saving a manufacturing cost.
Abstract:
In an apparatus and a method for controlling operation of a reciprocating compressor which is capable of operating a compressor stably by detecting a phase difference and using an inflection point of the phase difference, an apparatus and a method for controlling operation of a reciprocating compressor including an electric circuit unit operating a reciprocating compressor by varying a stroke with motion of a piston, a phase difference detecting unit detecting a phase difference of a current and a voltage from the electric circuit unit, a phase inflection point detecting unit detecting a phase inflection point by being inputted the phase difference, and a stroke controlling unit being inputted the detected phase inflection point from the phase inflection point detecting unit and applying a voltage, to the electric circuit unit in order to make the stroke correspond to the phase inflection point can control a TDC of a piston regardless of load variation, improve an operation efficiency of a reciprocating compressor, and because a stroke calculating circuit is not required, there is no stroke calculating error according to the motor constant variation, in addition, it is possible to operate a reciprocating compressor by corresponding instantly to a load and operate the reciprocating compressor in a safe region in sensing of an overload by grasping the present load condition using a reference value of a phase difference.