Abstract:
A liquid jet head includes a side wall installed between channels, and in which two piezoelectric materials having mutually different polarization directions are laminated in a height direction, interposing a polarization boundary, an upper member fixed to an upper end of the side wall and installed on an upper portion of the channel, a lower member fixed to a lower end of the side wall and installed on a lower portion of the channel, and an electrode installed on a wall surface of the side wall, wherein the polarization boundary is positioned above ½ the height of the side wall, and the electrode is installed from an upper end of the wall surface, to a vicinity of the polarization boundary, or below the polarization boundary and above a lower end of the wall surface.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head is provided with: a nozzle plate which includes a nozzle array having a plurality of nozzle holes arranged side by side along a Y direction; an actuator plate which is laminated on the nozzle plate and includes a channel group having a plurality of first channels communicating with the nozzle holes, the first channels being arranged in parallel at intervals along the Y direction; and an inlet ink chamber and an outlet ink chamber both communicating with the first channels on opposite ends in an extending direction of the first channels. A film member which can be warp-deformed along with pressure fluctuation inside the inlet ink chamber and the outlet ink chamber is arranged as a part of inner surfaces of each of the inlet ink chamber and the outlet ink chamber.
Abstract:
To prevent deterioration of an ejection characteristic, which is caused by adhesion of an air bubble mixed in liquid to channels (6) and slits (13) communicated therewith, provided is a liquid jet head, including: a supply port (2) through which liquid is supplied; a discharge port (3) through which the liquid is discharged; a liquid supply chamber (4) communicated with the supply port (2); a liquid discharge chamber (5) communicated with the discharge port (3); a channel row (7) forced of a plurality of channels (6), which are provided in parallel between the liquid supply chamber (4) and the liquid discharge chamber (5) and communicated with the liquid supply chamber (4) and the liquid discharge chamber (5); and a communication path (9) for bypassing the liquid from the liquid supply chamber (4) to the liquid discharge chamber (5). An air bubble is removed outside via the communication path (9).
Abstract:
The liquid jet head is provided with a piezoelectric substrate having a plurality of groove rows in each of which elongated ejection grooves and elongated non-ejection grooves are alternately arranged in a reference direction. In adjacent ones of the groove rows, ends on a second side of ejection grooves included in a groove row located on a first side and ends on the first side of non-ejection grooves included in a groove row located on the second side are separated from each other, and overlap each other in a thickness direction of the piezoelectric substrate.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head includes a piezoelectric body substrate on which ejection grooves penetrating from an upper surface to a lower surface and non-ejection grooves open on the lower surface are alternately arranged in a reference direction and form a groove row, a cover plate that includes a liquid chamber communicating with the ejection grooves and is bonded on the upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate, a nozzle plate that includes nozzles communicating with the ejection grooves and is bonded on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate. Common drive electrodes are installed on side surfaces of the ejection grooves, which are on the lower-surface side from nearly 1/2 of a thickness of the piezoelectric body substrate, and individual drive electrodes are installed on side surfaces of the non-ejection grooves, which are on the lower-surface side from nearly 1/2 of a thickness of the piezoelectric body substrate.
Abstract:
In a head chip, a cover plate includes a positioning reference provided at a position facing at least one of nozzle holes through at least one liquid jet channel. The positioning reference can be detected from underneath the nozzle plate through the nozzle hole and the liquid jet channel. A method of manufacturing the head chip includes a positioning step for positioning the nozzle plate by detecting the positioning reference provided in the cover plate.
Abstract:
The liquid jet head includes an actuator substrate on which a plurality of grooves is arranged, and a nozzle plate having nozzle holes communicated with the grooves. Drive electrodes extending in an X direction and insulating films covering a part of both side surfaces of a wall portion are installed on both of the side surfaces of the wall portion. Each of the drive electrodes are installed on the surface of the wall portion around the nozzle hole 11 and holds the insulating films with the wall portion at both of the X-direction ends.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head is provided with an actuator substrate partitioned by elongated walls of a piezoelectric body and having elongated ejection grooves and elongated non-ejection grooves alternately arrayed thereon so as to penetrate the actuator substrate from an upper surface through a lower surface thereof; a cover plate provided on the upper surface and having first slits communicating with the ejection grooves on one side and second slits communicating with the ejection grooves on the other side; and a nozzle plate provided on the lower surface and having nozzles communicating with the ejection grooves. The non-ejection grooves extend, on the other side, up to a second-side peripheral end of the actuator substrate, and the actuator substrate is left to form raised bottom portions on bottoms of the non-ejection grooves near the second-side peripheral end.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head includes ejection channels which extend in a channel extending direction and are filled with ink, dummy channels which extend in the channel extending direction and are not filled with ink, and a nozzle plate which is laminated on an actuator plate and includes nozzle holes each communicating with the corresponding ejection channel at a central part in the channel extending direction of the ejection channel. The actuator plate includes a first channel row and a second channel row each of which includes the ejection channels and the dummy channels alternately arranged side by side in the X direction, the first and second channel rows being spaced apart in the channel extending direction. The ejection channel and the dummy channel are each symmetric with respect to a plane that passes through the center in the channel extending direction and perpendicular to the channel extending direction.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head includes a piezoelectric body substrate in which a groove array in which an ejection groove opening to a surface and a non-ejection groove opening to the surface are alternately arrayed in a reference direction K, common drive electrodes are installed at both side surfaces of the ejection groove, and individual drive electrodes are installed at both side surfaces of the non-ejection groove. The piezoelectric body substrate includes pieces of individual wiring electrically separated to each other on the surface at both end sides of the non-ejection groove in a longitudinal direction, and the individual wiring at one end side is electrically connected to the individual drive electrode installed at one side surface of the non-ejection groove, and the individual wiring at the other end side is electrically connected to the individual drive electrode installed at the other side surface of the non-ejection groove.