Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett-packard Company

Byron K Davis

Neal W Meyer

Craig Olbrich

Janis Horvath

Lawrence E Gibson

Mark Sanders Taylor

Gerald Vincent Rapp

David K Mc Elfresh

In one example, a printhead structure includes: a first layer; an array of openings in the first layer to form printing fluid ejection chambers; a second layer on the first layer; an array of orifices through the second layer, each orifice located adjacent to one of the openings in the first layer; a groove in the first layer spanning substantially a full length of the array of openings; and multiple holes through the second layer to the groove in the first layer.

Printhead structure

A printhead assembly includes a carrier including a substrate and a substructure joined to a first surface of the substrate, and a plurality of printhead dies each mounted on a second surface of the substrate. The first surface of the substrate includes a surface deformation and the substructure is joined to the first surface by an adhesive. As such, the adhesive conforms to the surface deformation.

Surface deformation of carrier for printhead dies

A double-sided electrical interconnect flexible circuit particularly useful for ink-jet pens and a method for assembling an ink-jet pen with the flexible circuit is described. A wide web, dielectric, flexible tape, such as of a polyimide material, is used to allow the substantially simultaneous formation of redundant flexible circuits across the web. The web is laminated with a conductive material foil and a plurality of redundant circuit patterns formed on the web in a single masking and etching process, or the like. A cover layer, also of a wide web format, dielectric material is coated over the circuit patterned conductive layer. Vias are provided in both the tape under layer and the tape over layer for appropriate electrical connections whereby a first device, such as an ink-jet printer controller, can be connected through one layer and a second device, such as a replaceable ink-jet pen's electrically active components can be connected through the other layer.

Method for assembling an ink-jet pen having a double-sided electrical

Double-sided electrical interconnect flexible circuit for ink-jet hard

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Byron K Davis