Driving method of liquid feeding apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRei Kurashima, Akihisa Iio, Takahiro Akiyama, Toru Nakakubo, Noriyuki Kaifu
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRei Kurashima, Akihisa Iio, Takahiro Akiyama, Toru Nakakubo, Noriyuki Kaifu
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A driving method enables a liquid feeding apparatus using a driving element in the form of a membrane to feed a liquid at high liquid feeding accuracy. To this end, a voltage applied to the driving element is controlled in such a way as to repeat a first period in which the voltage is changed from a first voltage to a second voltage and a second period which is a longer period than the first period and in which the voltage is changed from the second voltage to the first voltage, and such that an inflection point is provided in each predetermined interval during the first period based on a Helmholtz vibration period unique to the liquid feeding apparatus.
A driving method of a liquid feeding apparatus including a liquid chamber configured to store a liquid, and a driving element provided in the liquid chamber and configured to circulate a liquid stored in the liquid chamber to an external unit by expanding and contracting a capacity of the liquid chamber along with application of a voltage, the method comprising:
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