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|Oct 28, 1997
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|Mar 16, 1995
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|Sep 9, 1992
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|Neal W. Meyer, Eric G. Hanson, Alfred Pan, Glenn W. Weberg
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|Hewlett-Packard Company
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This is a file wrapper continuation of application Ser. No. 07/942,566 filed on Sep. 9, 1992, now abandoned.
This invention generally relates to thermal inkjet printing. More particularly, this invention relates to the design of heater resistors within the printhead.
Thermal inkjet printers typically have a printhead mounted on a carriage which traverses back and forth across the width of paper being fed through the printer. The printhead includes a vertical array of nozzles which faces the paper. Ink-filled channels in communication with the nozzles also connect to an ink source such as a reservoir. As ink in the channels is expelled as droplets through the nozzles onto the paper, more ink fills the channels from the reservoir. Bubble-generating heater resistors in the channels near the nozzles are individually addressable by current pulses. These pulses are print commands representative of information to be printed such as video signals from a monitor. Each ink droplet expelled from the nozzles prints a picture element or pixel on the paper.
The current pulses are applied to the heater resistors to momentarily vaporize the ink in the channels into bubbles. The ink droplets are expelled from each nozzle by the growth and then collapse of the bubbles.
The heater resistors, which generate the heat for vaporizing the inks, can be fabricated as a resistive layer on a silicon substrate having a silicon dioxide (SiO2) layer. These layers together with other layers above the resistive layer form a heating element. The resistive layer can be deposited on the substrate using standard thin-film processing techniques and typically comprises a layer of tantalum aluminum (TaAl) up to several hundred Angstroms (Å) thick.
On the scale of the heater resistor, the shock of the ink bubble collapsing upon the resistive layer is a source of significant mechanical fatigue. The problem of fatigue is aggravated in printers which provide for burst mode operation, in which ink droplets can be formed and expelled over fifty thousand times a second.
In addition to the mechanical shock produced by collapsing bubbles, the resistor is subject to thermal fatigue when it is switched on and off at high frequencies. Thermal fatigue is suspected to aggravate a crack nucleation process, eroding the structural integrity of the resistor. Extended burst-mode operation can additionally cause heat accumulation, compounding the problem of thermal fatigue. The turbulent ink can also be quite corrosive on the resistive layer and subject it to corrosion and erosion.
A conventional technique for protecting the resistive layer is to cover it with one or more passivation layers. For example, a TaAl resistor can be coated with a layer of silicon nitride, silicon carbide or, more commonly, both. In addition, an overcoat of tantalum or other metal is applied over the passivation layers as an additional impact buffer and as a means for evacuating leakage current. These additional layers reduce the intensity of the impact stress wave induced by the collapsing bubble on the resistor to protect it from cavitation damage.
These passivation layers, however, have their drawbacks. For one, there is the additional manufacturing complexity involved. Typically seven film layers are required as opposed to two layers for an unpassivated resistor structure. Correspondingly, five (rather than two) masking steps are required. The increased manufacturing complexity also increases costs and decreases yields on a per wafer basis. A second drawback is that the passivation layers impede the dissipation of heat. The unwanted accumulation of heat can affect ink viscosity significantly, which is a critical variable in determining droplet size and velocity. Furthermore, substantial heat accumulation increases stress levels and thus failure rates of the various layers of the heating element. A third drawback of passivated resistors is that the turn-on voltage varies with passivation thickness. This variation makes it more difficult to determine the proper driving voltage for a given resistor. Driving the resistor with too low a voltage can result in insufficient bubble formation, while driving the resistor with too high a voltage rapidly diminishes resistor life through excessive heating.
One solution to the drawbacks posed by passivation layers is to remove them and increase the thickness of the resistive layer. This approach is described and shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,931,813, commonly assigned to the present assignee and hereby incorporated by reference. The additional thickness of the resistive layer obviates the need for the passivation layers. The resistor can be constructed to contact fluid in the form of ink or vapor in the form of a thermal bubble in the channel. The resistive layer is homogeneous in that a single material, generally a metal alloy such as TaAl, can be used to form the resistor.
Increasing the thickness of the resistive layer, however, reduces the resistance of the heater resistor because its volume is now greater than before while its resistivity is unchanged. To generate the same heat, the drive current (which generates the pulses) must be increased. Increasing the drive current, in turn, may require a redesign of the printer control circuitry within the printer or printhead.
An object of the invention, therefore, is to provide the benefits of an unpassivated heater resistor without requiring a redesign of the printhead or printer using such resistor.
Another object of the invention is to provide an unpassivated heater resistor of greater thickness that has the resistance of a smaller heater resistor presently used in thermal inkjet printheads.
A printhead according to the invention includes an ink source for supplying ink, an orifice, and a channel for conveying the ink from the ink source to the orifice. A circuit supplies a signal to control the expulsion of ink from the printhead. A resistive layer in the printhead is responsive to the signal from the circuit for generating heat to expel ink from the channel through the orifice. The resistive layer may comprise a first material doped with a second material to increase the resistivity of the resistive layer above the resistivity of the first material.
In a preferred embodiment the resistive layer may be constructed to contact ink within the channel. The first material may be TaAl and the second material may be oxygen, nitrogen or an equivalent dopant. The resistive layer is preferably at least 5000 Å thick.
The foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment, which refers to the following drawings.
FIG. 1 is an exploded view of a drop generating mechanism within a printhead according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-section view of a heating element within the drop generating mechanism of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart summarizing the steps for producing the heating element of FIG. 2.
Referring to FIG. 1, a drop generating mechanism within a printhead 10 according to the invention includes an ink source 12 for supplying ink, channels 14 for conveying ink, and an orifice plate 16 with orifices 18 through which droplets 20 are expelled from the channels 14. The droplets are propelled toward a recording medium such as paper in an inkjet printer, as is known in the art. Heater resistors 22 are shown symbolically in FIG. 1 and positioned so that ink within a channel 14 can be expelled through a respective orifice 18 when a resistor 22 generates sufficient heat to vaporize the ink. The resistors 22 are arranged in series with respective pairs of conductors 24 which provide the current, the electrical energy of which is converted to thermal energy by the resistors 22.
FIG. 2 shows a cross sectional view of a heating element 25 according to the invention. The element 25 includes a resistor 22 in the form of a resistive layer fabricated on a semiconductor structure 26 that includes a silicon substrate 28 of about 675 μm, and a thermal barrier layer 30 of silicon dioxide (SiO2) or equivalent thermal oxide of about 1.7 μm. Resistive layer 22 is deposited over the thermal barrier layer 30, followed by deposition of an adhesion layer 34, a conductive layer 36 for forming conductors 24 and an overcoat layer 38. A preferred resistive material for the resistive layer is tantalum aluminum oxide (TaAlOx), where x can vary so that oxygen is within a range of about 0.1% to 10% of the weight percent of the TaAlO compound. The adhesion layer 34 and overcoat 38 can be a refractory metal such as tantalum and the conductive layer 36 can be composed of gold or equivalent conductor. The overcoat 38 may also be of tantalum. The conductive layer can be about 5,000 Å thick. The resistive layer 22 can be more than 1000 Å thick to improve on the performance of thinner unpassivated resistors. This figure can be at least doubled to achieve performance comparable to passivated resistor structures. In the illustrated embodiment, the thickness of the resistive layer 22 is about 5000 Å to provide superior life characteristics.
The processing steps for constructing the heater element 25 are summarized in FIG. 3. Starting with a wafer having a silicon substrate 28, a thermal SiO2 barrier is first deposited. The TaAlOx resistive layer is then sputter deposited onto the wafer to form a film of about 5000 Å in thickness. The preferred atomic weight percent range of both Ta and Al in the TaAlOx compound is 40% to 60% each. The oxygen doping level is chosen in the range of 0.1 to 10 atomic weight percent to yield a sheet resistance of about ten ohms per square. The deposition is followed by sputter depositions to form the tantalum adhesion layer 34, the gold conductive layer 36 and the tantalum overcoat layer 38 of about 100 Å, 5000 Å, and 200 Å, respectively.
These depositions are followed by two masking steps. The first mask step includes an etch of the tantalum overcoat 38 and an etch of the gold conductive film 36. The second mask step includes an etch of the adhesion layer 34, resistive layer 22 and the tantalum overcoat 38 to clear bonding pads and expose a resistive surface 40 within a channel 14. A preferred set of detailed processing steps is set forth for Appendix A.
The resistive layer 22 comprises in the preferred embodiment a first material such as TaAl doped with a second material such as oxygen to increase the resistivity of the resistive layer above the resistivity of the first material. Preferably the oxygen doping concentration is 0.1 to 10 atomic weight percent. By increasing the resistivity in this manner, the thickness of the resistive layer 22 can be increased to 5000 Å or more so that the resistance of the layer is the same as the resistance of passivated resistors found in conventional printheads. The greater thickness provides the required protection against structural and thermal fatigue.
Other alternative embodiments are, of course, possible. The first material may be any of several refractory materials and the second material may be an impurity such as oxygen, nitrogen or equivalent dopant. The substrate 28 may be any of a number of materials such as glass and the thermal barrier layer 30 may be formed from other equivalent materials as well.
Having illustrated and described the principles of the invention in a preferred embodiment, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the invention can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from such principles.
We recognize that the principles of this invention can be applied to a wide variety of equivalent embodiments. For example resistive materials other then TaAl can be doped with impurities other than oxygen. And deposition techniques other than sputtering may be employed. Therefore, the illustrated embodiment should be considered only as an example of a preferred form of the invention and not as a limitation on the scope of the invention. We claim all such modifications and equivalents coming within the scope and spirit of the following claims.
APPENDIX A______________________________________A Deposition 1 Deposit oxide layer 2 Deposit doped resistive layer 3 Deposit refractory metal adhesion layer and conductive layer 4 Deposit refractory metal overcoatB Mask 1 5 Ash substrate 6 Prebake substrate 7 Spin photo resist 8 Soft bake photo resist 9 Align and expose photo resist 10 Develop photo resistC Etch 1 11 Hard bake photo resist 12 Etch overcoat to clear resistors and between traces 13 Etch conductive layer to clear resistors and between traces 14 Strip photo resist 15 Rinse and dryD Mask 2 16 Ash substrate 17 Prebake substrate 18 Spin photo resist 19 Soft bake photo resist 20 Align and expose photo resist 21 Develop photo resistE Etch 2 22 Hard bake photo resist 23 Etch overcoat to clear pads and etch adhesion layer and resistive layer to clear between traces 24 Strip photo resist 25 Rinse and dryF Laminate barrierG Attach orificeH Dice waferI Assemble printhead______________________________________
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Of the 22,000 open in the mid-Eighties, 7,000 have since shut, dealing a huge blow to local communities, according to the National Audit Office.
A NAO warned that the future of the remaining post offices remained uncertain with many sub-post offices not making enough profit to stay open.
The threat remains despite a closure programme backed by £210m of Government money aimed at boosting their viability.
Edward Leigh, chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said: 'The future for some post offices is still bleak. I am concerned to learn that even after the programme of 2,500 closures in urban areas, and work to provide different kinds of financial services, many individual sub postmasters may still struggle to make enough profit to stay open.'
The NAO report said that a significant number of rural post offices were not viable and the rural network was 'heavily loss-making' for the Post Office.
Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, said: 'The Government faces some difficult decisions if it is to maintain a viable network of post offices.
'Although the rationalisation programme has put the remaining urban post offices on a firmer footing, their future is not guaranteed.'
Leigh, Tory MP for Gainsborough, added that the Government should stop 'sitting on the fence' over the future of rural post offices beyond 2008.
'It should either commit to subsidising post offices, where necessary, for the benefits they bring to communities, or take a totally business-minded view and throw its weight behind new services which hold genuine commercial potential.'
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The hCG diet is what one would call an "extreme" diet mainly because of how it is performed. This particular diet will have you eat only a calorie-restricted meal plan per day and you also need to inject yourself with the hCG hormone as well.
Even though it is an extreme diet, a lot of people have actually successfully completed their hCG diet journeys and they are now reaping the results of their hard work.
For those of you who do not know, the heavy calorie restriction imposed by the diet is because of how the hCG hormone works.
Back in the day, Dr. Simeons, the main author of this diet, found out that a lot of people lose weight because of the hCG hormone.
The hCG hormone was originally used for treating infertility in men and women but has since found a place in the diet niche.
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The hCG hormone will not work as intended if you eat a sufficient amount of calories per day.
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Neck pains are common on the hCG diet. Why is this a common occurrence when you're undergoing the hCG diet, you ask?
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It has been said that the hCG hormone is a heavily calorie restricted diet. Most people who do not know how to portion their food accordingly will most likely have a higher chance of neck pains.
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Fujifilm Canada offers sneak peek at X100 firmware
Fujifilm Canada has released details of the forthcoming X100 firmware update on its '@fujiguys' Twitter feed. A series of updates detail ten significant changes to the X100's firmware, designed to address some of the criticisms of the camera's behavior. Changes include more responsive 'wake from sleep' behavior without a long press of the shutter button, clear indication of the eye sensor being engaged and the maintaining of ISO/Self-Timer/DR/Flash/Macro settings when exposure mode, review mode or power state is changed.
The original messages can be found at http://twitter.com/#!/fujiguys but, as yet, no official announcement of when the updated firmware will become available has been made.
List of published changes (presented in the order in which they were published)
- 1/3EV adjustments now available in all shooting modes
- Red-eye removal can be disabled when shooting RAW
- 'FN' button assignment menu can be activated with a long press of the FN button
- Camera can be woken from sleep with regular half-press of shutter button (not long press)
- Size of the AF area is maintained after switching from OVF/EVF/LCD
- Holding down menu/ok button for 3secs locks 4-way controller (stops drive/flash/macro/WB from being accidentally set)
- When 'eye sensor' mode is enabled, an 'Eye Sensor' reminder appears on the LCD display
- Macro/ISO/DR/Self-timer/Flash settings are maintained when exposure mode, review mode or power state are changed/cycled
- When Auto ISO control is set to 'on', actual ISO sensitivity is displayed on half-press of shutter button
- When switching between shooting/playback mode, the last viewed photograph is remembered unless a new photograph is taken
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I want to know if it actually has useful AF speed. I want a camera this size, with a decently large sensor, that focuses as fast as my D3s!
Released at 3pm Australian time [20minutes]
Well thank you very much FUJI! A firmware update for a camera I would love to have but can't even buy! Thanks Again!
In the long build up for this product we were asked to send Fujifilm our suggestions before the camera was supposedly finalised. This has all been taken off the web now I suppose, but I distinctly remember my polite reply. I suggested that they did not release such a beautiful looking camera with so much potential before rigorous testing every aspect of it. Put pre production units out with professionals who would give them valuable feedback. Alas they rushed it onto the market with a number of niggling faults and now they are going through this image damaging update procedure. Paradise Lost.But I would love one.
What the heck happened here?
Is it possible that Fuji built a wonderful camera, then assigned the firmware writing task to some new intern?
How could they put so much effort into building a great camera, and then put so little into creating good firmware to make it work properly?
The firms should be embarrassed by spending a year developing a new product, then releasing it, only to have to rush out multiple firmware updates.
Its like they do no product testing, and just sit back and let their customers debug it. (Like Microsoft does).
I think the standard Japanese apology is in order here from Fuji....
I don't know whether I'm missing the point altogether or not. When I upgrade either my computer's system program or my suite of working programs, I very often need quite a bit of time to get used to the new environment. Not only do I not find that dramatic, I actually take pleasure in the challenge (where have they put this? Oh, there!). The X100 is a bit of the same, only much simpler, because there are far fewer places where Fuji could hide things (the menu tree is basically two dimensional), and the rest is all buttons. So I'm spending some interesting time getting to know where things are - and taking rather good pictures in the process. It's a very good camera, and complaining about the software is a bit like complaining about the Ciba process in the now distant past; it was finicky as hell, but it produced good results, and I don't remember anyone complaining about it then.
I'm having fun getting acquainted with it. Hope you can all have some fun too.
OK when S5 pro?
more today from Fujiguys
#11 Corrected AF Frame option now available in setup. Displays additional AF frame to reduce parallax for close up shots via OVF #Fuji #X100
#12 focus zoom using command level now possible in the post-view mode when "Image Disp" set to continuous (LCD/EVF) #Fuji #X100
#13 When image ratio is set to 16:9, correct 16:9 frame lines will now appear in OVF #Fuji #X100
#14 IQ improved in Velvia/Astia mode (shadow tone) when DR is set to 200%/400% #Fuji #X100
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:) no more updates i guess
I like the list and it seems appropriate. When I got the camera I had one of the slowest SD cards possible (Class 4), since then I've gotten a UHS-I card and what a difference. Since I received the UHS-I card, the camera doesn't lockup, time to shoot is much, much better and the battery is lasting longer.
For example, last night I went out to watch some bands for a few hours and I took over 300 images and the battery didn't run out (the battery wasn't even full when I started). I'm shooting with all of the fast startup stuff turned off, which with the UHS-I card I found I just didn't need and I have auto shutoff set to 5 minutes.
I think the lockups I experienced before the new card might have been:
1. trying to start the camera by a quick press on the shutter (now I hold it down slightly for a sec)
2. because the sd card was so slow, startup was slower and I'd give up before waiting long enough. Not sure but works great now...
Thom Hogan is absolutely right when he says that Japanese companies are way behind the curve in software and don't even have a clue about how clueless they are.
Yesterday, I promised to send my neighbor a picture of my side of our common party wall (don't ask.) I already had a photo from a D3s shot with the legendary 14-24/2.8 on my computer one floor away. But I had my new Iphone 4 with me right there. I took a new shot and emailed it to him. Saved going up and down a flight of stairs. The iphone picture was good enough, and the software was far, far better from Apple.
Too many companies think that software, firmware, drivers are just an inconvenience and must be done at minimal cost.
The X100 reflected the mindset that software is a nuisance and not to be labored over. If the software had been competent, demand would probably have doubled. If the software had been competent, creative and transparent, they would have had to build new factories to meet demand.
Agree entirely. I eagerly await andoid-based camera OSs, so that we can create and customize new interfaces and apps. This type of customization WILL come someday -- you'd think m4/3 companies would be leading the charge.
Maybe we just need Apple to partner with a camera company so that all the rest can follow!
I wrote about this a while ago.. http://arcrental.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/a-call-for-connected-cameras/
These are the significant issues with the X100?
I wonder, what are the hidden fixes in this firmware?
Also, what about the very poor battery life ?
Nice... but I would love to see the MF ring working as much closer as a MF lens as possible - faster and continuously, not in steps ... if possible.
So it seems that Fuji did not care to fix the "aperture dance before actual capture" issue. Nice touch ! That issue alone kills manual focus shooting by adding useless shutter lag.
its because you have ovf batterysave set to off (rtfm)
How about turn that useless RAW button into a second customizable function button?
How about giving more options with the custom settings? Like ND filter and AF assist light options.
How about when you change the ISO setting you make the ISO increase when you rotate the dial clockwise and decrease when you rotate it counterclockwise (same goes with the jog lever). Right now it's in reverse and feels very counter-intuitive.
Definitely agree with what Tashley said about the ability to see overexposed highlight warnings instantly when you go to review. All you have to do is let the camera 'remember' what view mode it was in (the advanced one with the highlight warnings) when you hit the review button. Come on! Even basic P&S cameras have this option!!
How about fixing the MAJOR live Histogram glitch in the OVF? (See http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1020&thread=38707185)
How about giving us the option to increase the minimum focus distance when viewing through the OVF? Right now it's limited to 80cm which is too far, but if you're viewing through the OVF and switch to MF and hit the AFL/AEL button you can focus down to 10cm. The camera is capable of focusing alot closer than 10cm so give us an option in the menu to change the minimum focusing distance! Why limit us?
Another suggestion for changing ISO when viewing through the OVF, why not keep the dial to changing ISO in 1/3 increments, but change the jog lever to change ISO to full stop increments? That way changing ISO won't have to be so tedious and long and you don't have to cycle through all the 1/3 increments. As it is right now, they both do the same thing, and it slows down the whole intuitive physical manual experience to the camera.
Sorry, I meant to say "The camera is capable of focusing alot closer than 80cm", not 10cm!
"The camera is capable of focusing alot closer than 10cm so give us an option in the menu to change the minimum focusing distance! Why limit us?"
Maybe because there would be parallax error where the center of the lens would not correspond to the center of the frame in the ovf
An experienced user (which is the audience this camera is targeted towards) would be smart enough to recompose. That's why I said give us an 'option' to increase the minimum focus distance in the menu (and maybe give a display that says 'warning: parallax error may occur') where you can switch it on or off or better yet set the actual minimum AF distance. The only way to get around this right now is by having to change over to MF and press AFL/AEL (and the switch is fiddly when you try to switch back to AF mode) or menu change to Macro mode and the back, and it's just annoying and unintuitive. Just like how the auto ISO mode is SEPARATELY hidden in the menu from the function ISO menu, and how the self timer automatically switches itself off after EVERY shot you take so you have to menu dive and switch it back on.
If they haven't fixed the inability to see highlight warnings in image review immediately rather than after several button presses I'm going to sell mine: it's a very basic requirement in a camera that inconsistently but frequently overexposes and has no better than average DR.
TThis demonstrates that the "big bad errors", in vast majority, is the main commonly type of error in software industry, the software bug.
Its very important understand the critical moment in Fuji´s Seidan Factory in Japan, post tsunami. The Fuji´s crew has made a big effort to mantain, up to date, this big product, made in Japan.
Well done Fuji, and, only the time will show us the real potential of this excellent digicam.
Well, not always the software fixes are for software errors. sometimes you have hardware errors for whom you can implement a software fix.
For example, if the focus moves when you close the aperture (It happens in some lens designs), you can implement a software fix to compensate (at least partially) for that problem.
I'm not saying that it is always like that, I also see lots of software errors everywhere, but sometimes the problems are not in the software, but in the hardware.
I´just said "In vast mayority" not in all errors. Obviously, sometimes the problems are in hardware, but in this case, the software its plague of errors.
my look its from a computer programmer, not only an amateur photographer, and in my category business the software errors its the mainly source of problems.
I just try to say, Fuji will need refocused in their control quality software departament. And this update demonstrate my point of view.
I´just said "In vast mayority" not in all errors. Obviously, sometimes the problems are in hardware, but in this case, the software its plague of errors.
my look its from a computer programmer, not only an amateur photographer, and in my category business the software errors its the mainly source of problems.
I just try to say, Fuji will need refocused in their control quality software departament. And this update demonstrate my point of view.
I hope so as well. none of these "fixes" above are spectacular.... I wish they would address the AF as well.
this is only designed to say "we fixed the firmware bugs", even though they did the easiest stuff there. I'm doubting they will ever fix the real mechanical stuff because that stuff is just plain hard to invest time and money into, which they should have done from the beginning.
I am the first one to comment? hahaha
Anyway, a good firmware update to a good camera. Awesome!
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