Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance productivity remarkably by sticking even a thin and wide nozzle sheet produced through electrocast easily and accurately, and to realize good ejection characteristics by a nozzle sheet ensuring flatness. SOLUTION: A nozzle sheet 17 having a nozzle formed on a mother die 30 is produced by electrocast using the mother die 30 and then stuck to a head frame 16 along with the mother die 30. Subsequently, the mother die 30 is released from the nozzle sheet 17 thus ensuring highly accurate positional relation between the nozzle and a heating resistor for imparting energy to ink. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer head, a printer and a process for manufacturing a printer head being applied to a so-called full line type print head provided with a nozzle array depending on the width of a print object, e.g. a sheet, and to a printer employing that print head in order to shorten the time required for bonding a nozzle sheet in an arrangement where a sheet material having a nozzle array is arranged on a frame by bonding and then a head chip is arranged on the sheet material to manufacture the printer head. SOLUTION: After thermosetting adhesive 34 is arranged on a head frame 32 and prebaked, a nozzle sheet 25 is arranged and subjected to thermosetting. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer head, a printer and a process for manufacturing a printer head being applied to a so-called full line type print head provided with a nozzle array depending on the width of a print object, e.g. a sheet, and a printer employing that print head in order to prevent a sheet material stuck to a frame from slacking. SOLUTION: After a nozzle sheet 25 is held on a head frame 32 by bonding, the nozzle sheet is bonded to the head frame by bending the wall face inward so that a stress is generated to bend the wall face outward at a scooped part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate assembling by simplifying a wiring structure of a heating resistor. SOLUTION: Electrodes for driving the heating resistors 8 formed to head chips 6, and a wiring member 19 for supplying signals are set to a gap between a head frame 4 which supports a nozzle-forming member 2 where the head chips 6 are arranged, and a channel plate 12 which constitutes channels for ink to be supplied to ink pressure chambers 9. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink jet printer and its head cartridge in which various types of head cartridge are prevented from being loaded at an erroneous loading position. SOLUTION: The head cartridge 120a comprises an ink jet head 120, and a plurality of ink holding containers containing ink being ejected from the head wherein each ink holding container 122 is connected with one head chip having a plurality of nozzles. A plurality of head chips are arranged along the longitudinal direction while being shifted alternately, in the way, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to have an overlap 120d at the end part. A space 122e is formed by shifting the space for containing the ink holding container at the end part in the longitudinal direction based on the overlap and the space has a different shape corresponding to the type of the cartridge.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable coexistence of ensuring rigidity of a nozzle sheet and improving the quality of a print. SOLUTION: On the surface of the nozzle sheet 17 in which a nozzle 18 is formed, a recessed part 19 having an opening width larger than an opening width of the nozzle 18 and surrounding the outside of the nozzle 18, is formed. The nozzle 18 is positioned on the bottom face part of the recessed part 19, and by making the inner angle of a corner angle part 19a of the recessed part 19 have an angle larger than 90° (for example, the corner angle part 19a is made to be a curved face or an inclined face), the ink stuck within the recessed part 19 is returned into the nozzle 18 without being torn, so as not to generate a standing of the ink in the recessed part 19. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid discharging device which has a line head made compact. SOLUTION: The liquid discharging device is equipped with a discharging means which has a plurality of discharging parts arranged side by side straight in a specific direction. The discharging part includes a liquid chamber for storing a liquid to be discharged, a pressure generating element for pressing the liquid stored in the liquid chamber, and a discharge opening for discharging the liquid pressed by the pressure generating element from the liquid chamber. The liquid discharging device has a discharge control means which controls the supply of energy for driving the pressure generating element, drives the pressure generating element and controls a discharge direction of the liquid discharged from the discharge opening. The discharging means has a plurality of pressure generating elements set in one liquid chamber in at least one discharging part among the plurality of discharging parts which are arranged side by side straight in the specific direction and are set at an end part of the discharging means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress displacement (curving) of a nozzle array formed in a nozzle sheet of a printer head. SOLUTION: In the printer head provided with the nozzle sheet where nozzles 18 for discharging ink liquid drops are formed, a head frame for supporting the nozzle sheet, and a substrate member which has a heating resistor for heating ink and is bonded to the nozzle sheet, the head frame and the substrate member have nearly equal coefficients of linear expansion, and the nozzle sheet has a coefficient of linear expansion larger than the coefficients of linear expansion of the head frame and the substrate member. Openings 19 for joining electrodes of the substrate member are formed in the nozzle sheet, and moreover, openings, 20 are formed at the opposite side region via an array of the nozzles 18 to a region where the openings 19 are formed. The openings 20 are formed to have the opening area gradually reduced from an edge part of the head frame 2 towards a center part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a printing quality decrease by a positional deviation of discharge nozzles and also stabilize a recording paper landing position of discharged ink. SOLUTION: A nozzle sheet 23 is set which is formed by a metal electroforming layer formed of nickel or a material including the nickel and has a discharge nozzle array formed for each ink color. A plurality of head chips 25 having a plurality of heaters are arranged. The head chips 25 are bonded to the nozzle sheet 23 while registered to the side of a grow face of the nozzle sheet to make discharge nozzles and heaters correspond to each other for each predetermined number of the discharge nozzles of the discharge nozzle array for each color. Moreover, the discharge nozzle array for each color is formed into a serpentine array so that a part of the predetermined number of discharge nozzles overlaps with respect to a paper feed direction for each predetermined number of discharge nozzles. The head chips 25 are arranged into a serpentine form to match the discharge nozzles.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize positional shift between an ink pressurization chamber provided with a heating resistor and an ink ejection nozzle corresponding to the ink pressurization chamber. SOLUTION: The print head comprises a substrate member 6 including at least ink pressurization chambers 9, heating resistors 8 and ink ejection nozzles 3 and constituting the side wall part and one end face of the ink pressurization chambers, a nozzle forming member 2 provided with ink ejection nozzles corresponding to the ink pressurization chambers and constituting the other end face of the ink pressurization chambers, and a head frame 4 supporting the nozzle forming member.