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US 10,500,847 B2Granted
Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting device
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoboru Nitta, Ryutaro Kusunoki
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting head includes an actuator communicating with a nozzle, configured to eject liquid from the nozzle, a drive circuit on a circuit board configured to drive the actuator, a flow path of liquid circulating, a first temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature on a surface on the circuit board proximate to the drive circuit, and a second temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of a liquid on the flow path of liquid circulating.
Claims7
A liquid ejecting device, comprising:
- an actuator communicating with a nozzle and configured to eject liquid from the nozzle;
- a drive circuit configured to drive the actuator;
- a flow path of liquid circulating;
- a wiring connector on a circuit board having a plurality of terminals;
- a first temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature on a surface on the circuit board proximate to the drive circuit and connected to a first terminal of the plurality of terminals;
- a second temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of a liquid on the flow path of liquid circulating and connected to a second terminal of the plurality of terminals;
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- a control board configured to:
- stop a printing operation if a first temperature value determined based on a signal supplied via the first terminal is outside of a first predetermined allowable range,
- not apply a drive voltage to the drive circuit if a second temperature value determined based on a signal supplied via the second terminal is outside of a second predetermined allowable range and the first temperature value is within the first predetermined allowable range, and
- apply a drive voltage to the drive circuit if the second temperature value is within the second predetermined allowable range and the first temperature value is within the first predetermined allowable range.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.