B41J 2/164
Thin film formation
Official title: {thin film formation}
B41J2/164 (Thin film formation) appears on 4,618 US grants and 4,189 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Liquid ejection head6 Oct 2026US 12,752,535 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Apparatus for manufacturing display devices29 Sep 2026US 12,746,754 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,715,214 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Method for manufacturing liquid ejection head and liquid ejection head25 Aug 2026US 12,715,216 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Liquid ejection head11 Aug 2026US 12,703,182 B2RISO Technologies Corporation
- Apparatus and method for manufacturing display apparatus and electronic device including the display apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305150 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Liquid ejection head substrate and method for manufacturing liquid ejection head substrate10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264403 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Manufacturing method of liquid discharge head and liquid discharge head10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264405 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Inkjet printing apparatus, inkjet printing method, and electronic device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257477 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Patterned print heads and resistive anodes for electrodeposition thickness distribution control3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257478 A1Lam Research Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ink jet head and a method of manufacturing thereof420US 5,666,141 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Ink-jet recording head with piezoelectric device and method for manufacturing the same368US 6,142,615 ASeiko Epson Corporation · 2000
- Polymer-based micromachining for microfluidic devices351US 6,136,212 AThe Regents of the University of Michigan · 2000
- Ink jet print device and print head or print apparatus using the same348US 6,019,457 ACanon Information Systems Research Australia Pty. Ltd. · 2000
- Method of fabricating bubblejet print devices using semiconductor fabrication techniques311US 5,841,452 ACanon Information Systems Research Australia Pty. Ltd. · 1998