An inkjet head or the like that is capable of efficiently applying a pressure required for discharging a liquid material includes: a nozzle hole; a pressure chamber; a liquid material supply flow path; a liquid material recovery flow path; a diaphragm; a piezoelectric element; and orifice structures that are respectively disposed between the liquid material supply flow path and the pressure chamber, and between the liquid material recovery flow path and the pressure chamber, and that are narrower than the pressure chamber in a plan view as viewed from a discharge direction of the liquid material.

A liquid-discharging-head includes a nozzle having a first-nozzle-portion having a first-sectional-area and a second-nozzle-portion having a second-sectional-area larger than the first-sectional-area, a liquid chamber which communicates with the nozzle, and a piezoelectric-element which changes a pressure inside the liquid chamber, in which the piezoelectric-element is driven from the control section, and the liquid-discharging-head executes a first control in which an apex of a liquid surface is drawn into the second-nozzle-portion in a state in which an inner wall surface of the first-nozzle-portion is covered by a liquid film by decreasing the pressure inside the liquid chamber, and a second control in which a shape of the apex of the liquid surface is inverted to a protruding shape towed the opening and the droplet is discharged from the nozzle by increasing the pressure inside the liquid chamber in a state in which the inner wall surface is covered by the liquid film.

A liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid, the liquid discharge head includes a thin film member including a first layer, a second layer bonded with the first layer, and a through hole penetrating through the first layer and the second layer. The through hole includes the first opening in the first layer and the second opening in the second layer.

A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber in which liquid can be stored, a diaphragm forming a bottom wall of the pressure chamber and having a nozzle opening through which liquid supplied from the pressure chamber is discharged in a first direction, and a drive element on a lower surface of the diaphragm and configured to change a volume of the pressure chamber. A protective film covers the drive element and having a first opening corresponding in position with the nozzle opening, and a liquid repellent film covers the protective film and the lower surface of the diaphragm within the first opening. The liquid repellent film has an opening aligned with the nozzle opening and has the same diameter as the nozzle opening. The liquid repellent film on the drive element is thinner than the liquid repellent film on the lower surface of the diaphragm within the first opening.

A liquid ejection head having a channel member which includes an ejection hole surface and a pressurization chamber surface opposite thereto. An actuator substrate overlaps the pressurization chamber surface. The channel member includes a plurality of ejection holes opening in the ejection hole surface, a plurality of pressurization chambers individually communicating with the plurality of ejection holes and arranged in plan view of the pressurization chamber surface, and a plurality of dummy pressurization chambers positioned outside of the predetermined region in plan view of the pressurization chamber surface. The actuator substrate includes a plurality of pressurization portions that individually pressurize the pressurization chambers, and a plurality of dummy pressurization portions that individually pressurize the dummy pressurization chambers. The dummy pressurization chambers communicate with each other via a plurality of communication paths. A closed space including the plurality of dummy pressurization chambers and the plurality of communication paths is hermetically closed.

According to one aspect, the disclosure provides an image recording apparatus including a liquid supplying device. The liquid supplying device includes a tank, a cartridge, an atmospheric communication portion, and a recording portion. The tank has a second storage chamber configured to store liquid, a liquid passage in communication with the second storage chamber, and a gas passage in communication with the second storage chamber. The atmospheric communication portion includes a buffer tank defining a buffer chamber configured to store gas, a single communication flow passage allowing the buffer chamber to communicate with the second storage chamber, and an air communication passage allowing the buffer chamber to communicate with an atmosphere. When the cartridge is attached to the tank, the buffer chamber is positioned below the first storage chamber and the second storage chamber is positioned below the buffer chamber.

A liquid discharging head includes a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is discharged; a plurality of individual liquid chambers that are communicably connected to the plurality of nozzles, respectively; a common liquid chamber that supplies liquid to the plurality of individual liquid chambers; and a circulation common liquid chamber that leads to a plurality of circulation channels. A part of the common liquid chamber overlaps the circulation common liquid chamber from a direction in which liquid is discharged from the nozzles, and another part of the common liquid chamber overlaps the circulation common liquid chamber from a direction orthogonal to both the direction in which liquid is discharged from the nozzles and a direction in which the nozzles are aligned.

A droplet discharging apparatus that discharges liquid droplets from one or more nozzles based on drive waveforms, includes a memory and a processor configured to execute generating, as the drive waveforms, a first drive waveform, and a second drive waveform to change a drive voltage without discharging the liquid droplets; and controlling to output one set of drive waveforms including a predetermined number of instances of the first drive waveform and one instance of the second drive waveform.

A liquid discharge apparatus is configure to drive nozzles with drive waveforms with which timing of discharge pulses fall within a range where a condition |A−C|<|B−D| is satisfied, where “A” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having a first size when drive units are driven to discharge a droplet having the first size, “B” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having a second size larger than the first size when drive units are driven to discharge a droplet having the second size, “C” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having the first size when drive units are driven to discharge droplets having the first size and the second size, and “D” is a discharge velocity of a droplet having the second size when drive units are driven to discharge droplets having the second size and the first size.

A piezoelectric actuator includes a vibration portion, a support portion that is integrally configured with the vibration portion and supports the vibration portion, and a piezoelectric element that is disposed on the vibration portion. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric film including columnar crystal grains extending in a thickness direction. When a thickness of the piezoelectric film is referred to as T [μm] and an average diameter of the crystal grains in the width direction is referred to as D [μm], T/D is within a range of 10 to 100. The thickness T of the piezoelectric film is larger than or equal to 2 μm. A standard deviation of diameters of the crystal grains in the width direction is less than or equal to 1.8 μm.