A liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid includes a piezoelectric body, a first electrode layer disposed at least partly on the piezoelectric body in a stacking direction, and a first wiring disposed on the first electrode layer in the stacking direction, the first wiring being more likely to cause ion migration than the first electrode layer, in which the piezoelectric body, the first electrode layer, and the first wiring are stacked in the stacking direction. When a predetermined area on the piezoelectric body is a first area, and a predetermined area adjacent to the first area on the piezoelectric body is a second area, both the first wiring and the first electrode layer are disposed in the first area, and the first wiring is not disposed while the first electrode layer is disposed in the second area.

A liquid ejecting head includes a first pressure compartment extending in a first direction; a second pressure compartment extending in the first direction; a first communication passage continuous from the first pressure compartment and extending in the first direction; a second communication passage continuous to the second pressure compartment and extending in the first direction; a third communication passage continuous from the first communication passage and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a fourth communication passage continuous to the second communication passage and extending in the second direction; a fifth communication passage continuous from the third communication passage and continuous to the fourth communication passage and extending in the first direction; and a nozzle provided on the fifth communication passage.

A liquid ejecting head includes wiring members including a first-wiring member having a first-output terminal portion extending in a first-direction and a first-input terminal portion extending in the first-direction, and a second-wiring member having a second-output terminal portion extending in the first-direction and a second-input terminal portion extending in the first-direction; and a first-wiring substrate coupled to the first and second input terminal portions, in which a center of the first-output terminal portion is located in the first-direction with respect to a center of the second-output terminal portion in plan view, a center of the first-input terminal portion is disposed in a second-direction opposite to the first-direction with respect to the center of the first-output terminal portion in the plan view, and a center of the second-input terminal portion is disposed in the first-direction with respect to the center of the second-output terminal portion in the plan view.

a first sloped portion that is provided between the first wall surface and the third wall surface includes a first constituting surface that extends in a third direction between the first direction and the second direction.

A liquid ejecting head in which a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode layer of a piezoelectric element are laminated, a pressure chamber, which is partitioned by a partition wall, has an elongated shape, in a structure including the diaphragm and the piezoelectric element including an active portion and a non-active portion lateral direction, a first position is a position on an inner side of the active portion when viewed in the thickness direction, a second position is a position on an inner side of the non-active portion and closest to a boundary between the pressure chamber and the partition wall, and EI1/EI2≤40, wherein EI1 is a bending rigidity of the active portion at the first position and EI2 is a bending rigidity of the non-active portion at the second position.

A printhead is provided having an elongate support having a plurality of internal webs protruding from a base section to define a plurality of parallel fluid supply channels, a shim supported by the support and defining a plurality of rows of openings through which fluid from respective supply channels is supplied, and a plurality of elongate printhead modules supported serially on the shim. Each module defines a plurality of fluid supply passages through which fluid passes to fluid ejection nozzles from respective rows of the openings. Either end of each module defines complementary formations such that adjacent modules nest together.

Provided are an MEMS device, a head, and a liquid jet device in which substrates are inhibited from warping, so that a primary electrode and a secondary electrode can be reliably connected to each other. Included are a primary substrate 30 provided with a bump 32 including a primary electrode 34, and a secondary substrate 10 provided with a secondary electrode 91 on a bottom surface of a recessed portion 36 formed by an adhesive layer 35. The primary substrate 10 and the secondary substrate 30 are joined together with the adhesive layer 35, the primary electrode 34 is electrically connected to the secondary electrode 91 with the bump 32 inserted into the recessed portion 36, and part of the bump 32 and the adhesive layer 35 forming the recessed portion 36 overlap each other in a direction in which the bump 32 is inserted into the recessed portion 36.

A liquid ejection head, including: nozzles; and a supply passage through which a liquid is supplied to the nozzles, wherein the supply passage includes (a) a first flow passage and (b) a second flow passage connected to the first flow passage and including two sections that extend in different directions from a connected position at which the first flow passage is connected to the second flow passage, the liquid being supplied to the second flow passage from the first flow passage, wherein the second flow passage has a liquid flow resistance larger in a first section than in a second section, and wherein a protrusion protruding toward the first flow passage is provided on an inner wall surface of the second flow passage facing the first flow passage, for permitting the liquid to more easily flow from the first flow passage into the first section than the second section.

A piezoelectric device includes a diaphragm provided on a side of one surface of a substrate, and a piezoelectric actuator having a first electrode, a piezoelectric body layer, and a second electrode which are stacked in a first direction on a side of a surface opposite to the substrate of the diaphragm, in which when one area far from an end portion of the second electrode is a first area and one area near the end portion of the second electrode is a second area, of two areas of the second electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the second electrode has a stiffness of 17,000 N/m or more in the second area in the first direction, which is higher than a stiffness in the first area in the first direction, and a length in the second area in the first direction is equal to or less than a length of the piezoelectric body layer in the second area in the first direction.

A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided comprising: a liquid ejecting head; and a controller. The liquid ejecting head including: a nozzle from which a liquid is ejected; a first communication passage that is in communication with the first nozzle; a first pressure compartment; a first drive element that changes a pressure of the first pressure compartment; a first passage that connects the first pressure compartment and the first communication passage; a second pressure compartment; a second drive element that changes a pressure of the second pressure compartment; a second passage that connects the second pressure compartment and the first communication passage. The controller performs a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which liquid flows from the first pressure compartment through the first communication passage to the nozzle, and liquid flows the second pressure compartment through the second communication passage to the nozzle, and, the second mode being a mode in which liquid flows from the first pressure compartment through the first communication passage to the nozzle, and liquid flows from the nozzle through the second communication passage to the second pressure compartment.