Patent ID: 9579886
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A liquid discharging apparatus comprising: a modulation portion that generates a modulation signal obtained by pulse-modulating a source signal; an amplifier that includes a gate driver generating first amplification control signal based on the modulation signal, a bootstrap circuit supplying power to the gate driver, a power source circuit supplying power to the gate driver and the bootstrap circuit, and a transistor generating an amplification modulation signal that is obtained by amplifying the modulation signal based on the first amplification control signal; a low-pass filter that generates a driving signal by demodulating the amplification modulation signal; a piezoelectric element that is displaced by applying the driving signal; a cavity of which an inside is filled with a liquid and an internal volume is changed by displacement of the piezoelectric element; a nozzle that communicates with the cavity and discharges the liquid on the inside of the cavity as liquid droplets in accordance with a change in the internal volume of the cavity; and a control portion that controls an operation of the amplifier, wherein the control portion performs a second process of starting an amplification operation of the amplifier after a first process of performing supply of power to the bootstrap circuit by starting an operation of the power source circuit, wherein the gate driver includes a first gate driver generating the first amplification control signal based on the modulation signal and a second gate driver generating a second amplification control signal based on the modulation signal, wherein the transistor includes a first transistor operating based on the first amplification control signal and a second transistor connecting to the first transistor on a low-potential side and operating based on the second amplification control signal, and wherein the bootstrap circuit includes a connection node electrically connecting the first transistor and the second transistor, a capacitive element electrically connected to the first gate driver on a high-potential side, and a rectifying element provided between the second gate driver on the high-potential side and the capacitive element, and wherein in the first process, the control portion stops an amplification operation of the amplifier by allowing the first transistor to be in a non-conductive state in which a current does not flow through the first transistor and the second transistor to be in a conductive state in which the current flows through the second transistor.