A manufacturing method for a structure includes preparing a dry film supported on one surface of a support; bonding the dry film to a substrate so that the dry film and the substrate are in contact with each other; performing first exposure of the dry film bonded to the substrate via the support; removing the support after the first exposure; performing second exposure of the dry film after the support is removed via a photomask; and developing the dry film after the first exposure and the second exposure.

A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate and an electric wiring substrate. The recording element substrate includes an ejection port configured to eject liquid, an energy generating element configured to generate energy for ejecting the liquid from the ejection port, and an electrode terminal that is electrically connected to the energy generating element. The electric wiring substrate is electrically connected to the electrode terminal by using wire bonding or the like. The electrode terminal is disposed on a connection surface of the recording element substrate, and a connection region in which electric connection to the electrode terminal is established is arranged at an end portion of the electric wiring substrate. The end portion of the electric wiring substrate is disposed above the surface of the recording element substrate on the connection surface side and is separated from the electrode terminal.

In example implementations, a printhead die is provided. The printhead die includes a substrate, a chamber layer formed on the substrate, a plurality of printing fluid ejection chambers coupled to opposite sides of the chamber layer and along a length of the chamber layer, and a top hat layer formed on the chamber layer and the plurality of printing fluid ejection chambers. The chamber layer includes a void to store printing fluid. The top hat layer includes an initial unsupported top hat layer portion over the void, wherein the initial unsupported top hat layer portion comprises a first end that is narrower than a second end.

A liquid ejection head has at least a structure including an ejection orifice forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting a liquid and a flow path communicating with the ejection orifice and a flow path forming substrate having a liquid introduction flow path communicating with the flow path and supplying the liquid, and includes: a first titanium oxide film with a pure water contact angle of 40° or less; and a second titanium oxide film with a pure water contact angle of 70° or more, wherein the first titanium oxide film covers the structure including inner walls of the flow path and the liquid introduction flow path and is exposed in the flow path and the liquid introduction flow path, and the second titanium oxide film has a portion covering the first titanium oxide film in a vicinity of an opening end.

A fluid cartridge having a plastic fluid body, a bottom wall having a fluid supply opening therein. A metal insert is adhesively attached to the bottom wall. The metal insert has a fluid supply slot therein corresponding to the fluid supply opening in the bottom wall, a die bond surface adjacent to the fluid supply slot for adhesively attaching an ejection head chip thereto, and a plurality of air vents adjacent to the die bond surface. An ejection head chip is adhesively attached to the die bond surface of the metal insert.

A method for manufacturing a microstructure comprising cured products of photosensitive resin compositions, the method comprising: a step of forming at least two layers of the photosensitive resin compositions each comprising a photopolymerization initiator; a step of subjecting each of the formed at least two layers of the photosensitive resin compositions to patterning exposure; and a step of collectively developing the exposed at least two layers of the photosensitive resin compositions to obtain a microstructure, wherein in the at least two layers of the photosensitive resin compositions, 90% by mass or more of the photopolymerization initiators contained in at least one of the two adjacent layers of the photosensitive resin compositions is a nonionic photopolymerization initiator.

A fluid jet ejection device, a method of making a fluid jet ejection head, and a method of improving the plume characteristics of fluid ejected from the fluid jet ejection head. The pharmaceutical drug delivery device includes a cartridge body; and a fluid jet ejection cartridge disposed in the cartridge body. The fluid jet ejection cartridge contains a fluid and an ejection head attached to the fluid jet ejection cartridge. The ejection head contains a plurality of fluid ejectors thereon and a nozzle plate having a plurality of fluid ejection nozzles therein associated with the plurality of fluid ejectors. At least one of the plurality of fluid ejection nozzles has an orthogonal axial flow path relative to a plane defined by the nozzle plate and at least one of the plurality of fluid ejection nozzles has an angled axial flow path relative to a plane define by the nozzle plate.

A wafer structure is disclosed and includes a chip substrate and a plurality of inkjet chips. The chip substrate is a silicon substrate which is fabricated by a semiconductor process on a wafer of at least 12 inches. The plurality of inkjet chips include at least one first inkjet chip and at least one second inkjet chip. The plurality of inkjet chips are directly formed on the chip substrate by the semiconductor process, respectively, and diced into the at least one first inkjet chip and the at least one second inkjet chip, to be implemented for inkjet printing. Each of the first inkjet chip and the second inkjet chip includes a plurality of ink-drop generators produced by the semiconductor process and formed on the chip substrate.

In one example, a liquid ejection device. The device includes a first metal layer over a substrate, a dielectric layer over the first metal layer, and an orifice through the dielectric layer to the first metal layer. The device also includes a second metal layer over the dielectric layer and partially filling the orifice to form a via to electrical connect the two metal layers. The via has a depth-to-width ratio of at least 0.4. The device further includes a passivation stack covering the second metal layer including all interior surfaces of the via. The stack includes an ALD-deposited layer formed by atomic layer deposition.

A method of manufacturing a plurality of semiconductor chips for a liquid discharge head from a substrate includes forming trenches of a linear form through etching from the second surface along intended cutting portions, forming modified portions in the substrate by irradiating a laser beam from the first surface side along the intended cutting portions, and splitting the substrate into the plurality of semiconductor chips for a liquid discharge head, by cutting the substrate with stress applied to the modified portions. The intended cutting portions include inclined portions extending in a direction inclined with respect to a crystal orientation plane of the substrate and uninclined portions extending in a direction along the crystal orientation plane of the substrate, and the trenches are formed at least along the inclined portions.