Abstract:
A liquid jet head includes a piezoelectric body substrate having a plurality of groove arrays, in each of which ejection grooves penetrating from the upper surface to the lower surface are arrayed in a reference direction, drive electrode provided on side faces of the ejection grooves, and terminal electrodes provided on the lower surface, and electrically connected to the drive electrodes; and a flexible circuit board electrically connected from the terminal electrodes, and connected to the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate. The piezoelectric body substrate includes a first opening portion that penetrates from the upper surface to the lower surface between the plurality of groove arrays, and the flexible circuit board is led out from the lower surface to the upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate through the first opening portion.
Abstract:
The liquid jet head includes a nozzle guard as a liquid storage unit configured to store the residual liquid attaching to the nozzle plate. Channel lines include a dummy channel incapable of driving. Liquid is supplied into the dummy channel while being brought to a negative pressure. The nozzle plate includes a dummy nozzle hole communicated with the dummy channel. The dummy nozzle hole is formed at a position to aspirate the residual liquid stored using the nozzle guard.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an actuator substrate having slender ejection grooves and slender non-ejection grooves partitioned by slender walls each including a piezoelectric body. The non-ejection grooves have, at ends on one side thereof, respective inclined surfaces rising from bottom surfaces thereof to upper surface openings at upper portions thereof, common electrodes are provided in a strip form along a longitudinal direction of walls on both side surfaces of the walls facing the ejection grooves, active electrodes are provided in a strip form along the longitudinal direction of the walls on both side surfaces of the walls facing the non-ejection grooves, and the active electrodes are provided from positions in the vicinity of the ends on one side of the non-ejection grooves to ends on the other side thereof.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an actuator substrate formed by arraying a plurality of grooves, which penetrates from an upper surface to a lower surface of the actuator substrate and is long in a surface direction, a cover plate provided at the actuator substrate so as to cover an upper surface opening of the groove, and a nozzle plate provided at the actuator substrate so as to cover a lower surface opening of the groove. The groove includes an ejection groove and a non-ejection groove which are alternately arrayed, and is formed in such a manner that configurations of the lower surface openings of the ejection groove and the non-ejection groove are different.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head includes: a head portion including a supply flow path configured to allow liquid supplied from the outside to flow therethrough, a pressure chamber communicating with the supply flow path, a driver element configured to drive the pressure chamber, and a nozzle communicating with the pressure chamber, the head portion being configured to eject liquid droplets through the nozzle; a circuit portion configured to supply a drive waveform to the driver element; and a cooling portion including a cooling flow path configured to allow the liquid to flow therethrough, the cooling portion being coupled and fixed to the circuit portion, wherein the liquid flows through the supply flow path and through the cooling flow path in parallel.
Abstract:
The liquid jet head is provided with: a piezoelectric body substrate which includes a groove row in which ejection grooves penetrating the piezoelectric body substrate from an upper surface through a lower surface and non-ejection grooves open on the upper surface are alternately arranged in a reference direction, common drive electrodes formed on both side surfaces of each of the ejection grooves, and individual drive electrodes formed on both side surfaces of each of the non-ejection grooves; and a cover plate which is bonded to the upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate and includes a liquid chamber communicating with the ejection grooves, first through electrodes which penetrate the cover plate in a thickness direction and are electrically connected to the individual drive electrodes, and individual terminals which are placed on a front surface opposite to the piezoelectric body substrate and electrically connected to the first through electrodes.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head is provided with an actuator substrate which is partitioned by elongated walls of piezoelectric body and has elongated grooves arrayed thereon so as to penetrate the substrate from an upper surface through a lower surface thereof, a cover plate which is attached to the substrate so as to cover upper surface openings of the grooves and has a liquid supply chamber which supplies liquid to the grooves, and a nozzle plate which is attached to the substrate so as to cover lower surface openings of the grooves and has nozzles communicating with the respective grooves. Drive electrodes are formed in strip form on side surfaces of the walls along the longitudinal direction thereof so as to be separated from the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate has a lower stiffness than the cover plate.
Abstract:
A liquid jet unit is provided with a circulation path through which liquid is circulated, a liquid jet head which includes an inflow port, an outflow port and a flow path between the inflow port and the outflow port, the flow path constituting a part of the circulation path, and ejects liquid from a nozzle communicating with the flow path, a liquid pump which circulates liquid in the circulation path, a supply path which supplies liquid to the circulation path, and a pressure sensor which generates pressure information according to the pressure of liquid in the circulation path. The liquid pump changes the amount of liquid to be fed on the basis of the pressure information to maintain liquid in the nozzle at a predetermined pressure and draw liquid into the circulation path from the supply path.
Abstract:
Provided are a head chip, a liquid jet head, and a liquid jet recording apparatus, which can reduce the effect on image quality due to difference in volume of jetted liquid caused by pressure loss of the liquid during the liquid is in the process of circulating through a liquid flow path. The head chip includes first and second circulation paths (21a and 21b) extending along the longitudinal direction of the head chip so as to communicate to portions of a plurality of liquid jet channels, which are away from nozzle holes on an upstream side. The first and second circulation paths (21a and 21b) enable liquid to flow, the liquid being supplied to the plurality of liquid jet channels, and form liquid flows which are symmetrical with each other in the longitudinal direction of the head chip.