Liquid jetting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShuji Yonekubo
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Abstract
A liquid jetting apparatus of the invention includes: a head member having a nozzle; a pressure-changing unit that can cause pressure of liquid in the nozzle to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle; a jetting-mode setting unit that can set a selected jetting mode from a plurality of jetting modes; a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal; a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse, based on the selected jetting mode and the common jetting-driving signal; and a full-jetting main controller that can cause the pressure-changing unit to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse.
Claims38
A liquid jetting apparatus comprising:
- a head member having a nozzle,
- a pressure-changing unit that can cause pressure of liquid in the nozzle to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle,
- a jetting-mode setting unit that can set a selected jetting mode from a plurality of jetting modes,
- a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal,
- a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse, based on the selected jetting mode and the common jetting-driving signal, and
- a full-jetting main controller that can cause the pressure-changing unit to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse,
- wherein the full-jetting driving pulse is used to fully cover an image unit of a recording medium with the liquid jetted from the nozzle, and
- wherein respective full-jetting drive pulses are different according to respective jetting modes.
A controlling unit for controlling a liquid jetting apparatus including a head member having a nozzle, and a pressure-changing unit that can cause pressure of liquid in the nozzle to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle, comprising
- a jetting-mode setting unit that can set a selected jetting mode from a plurality of jetting modes,
- a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal,
- a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse, based on the selected jetting mode and the common jetting-driving signal, and
- a full-jetting main controller that can cause the pressure-changing unit to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse,
- wherein the full-jetting driving pulse is used to fully cover an image unit of a recording medium with the liquid jetted from the nozzle, and
- wherein respective full-jetting drive pulses are different according to respective jetting modes.
A liquid jetting apparatus comprising
- a head member having a plurality of nozzles,
- a plurality of pressure-changing units each of which can cause pressure of liquid in each of the plurality of nozzles to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle,
- a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal,
- a mode storing unit that can store a jetting-amount-adjusting mode that has been set for each of the plurality of nozzles,
- a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse for each of the plurality of nozzles, based on the jetting-amount-adjusting mode and the common jetting-driving signal, and
- a full-jetting main controller that can cause each of the plurality of pressure-changing units to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse,
- wherein the full-jetting driving pulses are used to fully cover an image unit of a recording medium with the liquid jetted from the nozzle, and
- wherein respective full-jetting driving pulses are different according to respective jetting-amount-adjusting modes.
A liquid jetting apparatus comprising
- a head member having a plurality of nozzles forming a plurality of nozzle rows,
- a plurality of pressure-changing units each of which can cause pressure of liquid in each of the plurality of nozzles to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle,
- a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal,
- a mode storing unit that can store a jetting-amount-adjusting mode that has been set for each of the plurality of nozzle rows,
- a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse for each of the plurality of nozzle rows, based on the jetting-amount-adjusting mode and the common jetting-driving signal, and
- a full-jetting main controller that can cause each of the plurality of pressure-changing units to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse,
- wherein the full-jetting driving pulses are used to fully cover an image unit of a recording medium with the liquid jetted from the nozzle, and
- wherein respective full-jetting driving pulses are different according to respective jetting-amount-adjusting modes.
A controlling unit for controlling a liquid jetting apparatus including a head member having a plurality of nozzles, and a plurality of pressure-changing units each of which can cause pressure of liquid in each of the plurality of nozzles to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle, comprising
- a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal,
- a mode storing unit that can store a jetting-amount-adjusting mode that has been set for each of the plurality of nozzles,
- a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse for each of the plurality of nozzles, based on the jetting-amount-adjusting mode and the common jetting-driving signal, and
- a full-jetting main controller that can cause each of the plurality of pressure-changing units to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse,
- wherein the full-jetting driving pulses are used to fully cover an image unit of a recording medium with the liquid jetted from the nozzle, and
- wherein respective full-jetting driving pulses are different according to respective jetting-amount-adjusting modes.
A controlling unit for controlling a liquid jetting apparatus including a head member having a plurality of nozzles forming a plurality of nozzle rows, and a plurality of pressure-changing units each of which can cause pressure of liquid in each of the plurality of nozzles to change in such a manner that the liquid is jetted from the nozzle, comprising
- a driving-signal generator that can generate a common jetting-driving signal,
- a mode storing unit that can store a jetting-amount-adjusting mode that has been set for each of the plurality of nozzle rows,
- a driving-pulse generator that can generate a full-jetting driving pulse for each of the plurality of nozzle rows, based on the jetting-amount-adjusting mode and the common jetting-driving signal, and
- a full-jetting main controller that can cause each of the plurality of pressure-changing units to operate, based on the full-jetting driving pulse,
- wherein the full-jetting driving pulses are used to fully cover an image unit of a recording medium with the liquid jetted from the nozzle, and
- wherein respective full-jetting driving pulses are different according to respective jetting-amount-adjusting modes.
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