B41J2002/14241

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting system

A liquid ejecting head including: an individual flow path row in which a plurality of individual flow paths communicating with a nozzle that ejects a liquid in a first axis direction are arranged in parallel along a second axis orthogonal to a first axis, and a first common liquid chamber communicating with the plurality of individual flow paths, in which each of the plurality of individual flow paths has a pressure chamber that stores a liquid.

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus
11691418 · 2023-07-04 · ·

A liquid ejecting head includes nozzles configured to eject liquid, pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles, the pressure chambers being configured to generate pressure for ejecting the liquid, a first liquid chamber configured to store the liquid to be supplied to the pressure chambers, a second liquid chamber configured to store the liquid that passed through the pressure chambers, first communication paths communicating with the pressure chambers from the first liquid chamber, second communication paths respectively communicating with the second liquid chamber from between the pressure chambers and the nozzles in which flow path resistance in the first communication paths is higher than flow path resistance in the second communication paths.

Piezoelectric element, liquid discharge head, and printer
11527699 · 2022-12-13 · ·

A piezoelectric element includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and having a perovskite structure, in which 0<P1/P2≤0.5 and 0<P1 where, when a positive predetermined voltage is applied to the piezoelectric layer, then a voltage applied to the piezoelectric layer is set to 0 V for 0.1 seconds, and then a triangular wave voltage waveform having a maximum voltage of the predetermined voltage is applied to the piezoelectric layer to obtain a hysteresis curve drawn counterclockwise, P1 is a residual polarization amount at a start point of the hysteresis curve and P2 is a residual polarization amount at an end point of the hysteresis curve.

LIQUID DISCHARGING HEAD AND INK-JET APPARATUS

A liquid discharging head includes a nozzle configured to discharge liquid, a pressure chamber communicated with the nozzle, and an individual channel communicated with the pressure chamber through a narrow part. The liquid discharging head also includes a common channel communicated with the individual channel, an energy generation element configured to generate energy, and a diaphragm configured to convey the energy to the pressure chamber. A metal oxide film is formed at inner walls of the nozzle, the pressure chamber, the narrow part, the diaphragm, and the individual channel, and a hydroxyl group has come out from the metal oxide film.

Liquid Discharging Head And Liquid Discharging Apparatus
20220379614 · 2022-12-01 ·

an adhesive having a first amount exists on a side of the first piezoelectric element line, of a joint of the wiring substrate and the pressure chamber substrate or the vibration plate, an adhesive having a second amount that is larger than the first amount exists on a side of the second piezoelectric element line of the wiring substrate, of the joint, and a first discharging element related to the first piezoelectric element line is different from a second discharging element related to the second piezoelectric element line.

Piezoelectric actuator
11515464 · 2022-11-29 · ·

There is provided a piezoelectric actuator, including: a vibration plate; a first piezoelectric body; a second piezoelectric body; a first electrode disposed on a first surface of the first piezoelectric body; a second electrode disposed on a second surface of the second piezoelectric body; an intermediate electrode disposed on an intermediate surface of the first piezoelectric body and overlapping with the first and second electrodes; an intermediate trace connected to the intermediate electrode on the intermediate surface and drawn out to one side in a first direction beyond the first piezoelectric body and the second piezoelectric body; a first trace overlapping with the intermediate trace in the thickness direction and being conducted with the intermediate trace; and a second trace overlapping with the intermediate trace in the thickness direction and being conducted with the intermediate trace.

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE
20220363058 · 2022-11-17 ·

A piezoelectric device includes a substrate, a diaphragm; and a piezoelectric actuator, in which the substrate, the diaphragm, and the piezoelectric actuator are laminated in this order in a first direction, the diaphragm includes a first layer containing silicon as a constituent element, a third layer disposed between the first layer and the piezoelectric actuator and containing zirconium as a constituent element, and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the third layer and containing at least one impurity element selected from the group consisting of a metal, a metalloid, and a semiconductor other than silicon and zirconium, as a constituent element, and the impurity element diffuses into the third layer.

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE

The diaphragm includes a first layer containing silicon as a constituent element, a third layer disposed between the first layer and the piezoelectric actuator and containing zirconium as a constituent element, and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the third layer and containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal other than iron, silicon, and zirconium, a metalloid, and a semiconductor, as a constituent element, in the second layer and the third layer, a position with a highest concentration of impurities other than the constituent elements of the second layer and the third layer is in the second layer, a position with a highest concentration of zirconium is in the third layer, and a position with a highest concentration of silicon is in the first layer.

Method for manufacturing a fluid-ejection device with improved resonance frequency and fluid ejection velocity, and fluid-ejection device

A method for manufacturing a device for ejecting a fluid, including the steps of: forming, in a first semiconductor wafer that houses a nozzle of the ejection device, a first structural layer; removing selective portions of the first structural layer to form a first portion of a chamber for containing the fluid; removing, in a second semiconductor wafer that houses an actuator of the ejection device, selective portions of a second structural layer to form a second portion of the chamber; and coupling together the first and second semiconductor wafers so that the first portion directly faces the second portion, thus forming the chamber. The first portion defines a part of volume of the chamber that is larger than a respective part of volume of the chamber defined by the second portion.

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting system

A liquid ejecting head including: an individual flow path row in which a plurality of individual flow paths communicating with a nozzle that ejects a liquid in a first axis direction are arranged in parallel along a second axis orthogonal to a first axis, and a first common liquid chamber communicating with the plurality of individual flow paths, in which each of the plurality of individual flow paths has a pressure chamber that stores a liquid.