Recording head and recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuo Furukawa
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Abstract
A recording-head substrate including a recording element, a driving circuit for driving the recording element, a temperature-detecting element for measuring the temperature of the recording-head substrate by outputting at least one of a maximum output voltage and a minimum output voltage, a first detection circuit for detecting the maximum output voltage from the temperature-detecting element, a second detection circuit for detecting the minimum output voltage from the temperature-detecting element, and first and second output terminals coupled to the first and second detection circuits for outputting the maximum and minimum output voltages respectively.
Claims3
A recording head comprising:
- a first recording-head substrate and a second recording-head substrate,
- wherein each of the first and second recording-head substrates comprises:
- a recording element;
- a driving circuit driving the recording element;
- a temperature-detecting element measuring a temperature of the recording-head substrate, the temperature-detecting element outputting a voltage corresponding to temperature;
- a first detection circuit outputting the output voltage from the temperature-detecting element;
- a second detection circuit outputting the output voltage from the temperature-detecting element;
- a first output terminal coupled to the first detection circuit to output the first signal from the first detection circuit;
- and
- a second output terminal coupled to the second detection circuit to output the second signal from the second detection circuit;
- a first current supply;
- a second current supply;
- a first output pad coupled to the first current supply, the first output terminal of the first recording-head substrate, and the first output terminal of the second recording-head substrate;
- and
- a second output pad coupled to the second current supply, the second output terminal of the first recording-head substrate, and the second output terminal of the second recording-head substrate,
- wherein the first detection circuit has an output stage including an n-channel MOS transistor and outputs from a source of the n-channel MOS transistor, and
- wherein the second detection circuit has an output stage including a p-channel MOS transistor and outputs from a source of the p-channel MOS transistor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.