Seiko Epson Corporation

Seiko Epson Corporatio

Eiju Hirai

Motoki Takabe

Yoichi Naganuma

Shiro Yazaki

Toshihiro Shimizu

Masao Nakayama

Hiroshi Ito

Yuma Fukuzawa

Jiro Kato

Toshiaki Hamaguchi

Naoto Yokoyama

Masaki Mori

Yu Shiozawa

Katsutomo Tsukahara

Munehide Saimen

Hitoshi Takaai

Chikara Kojima

Daisuke Yamada

Shunya Fukuda

Yoshihiro Hokari

Koji Sumi

Tsutomu Nishiwaki

Shuichi Tanaka

Takahiro Kamijo

Yasuyuki Matsumoto

Tatsuro Torimoto

Yoshinao Miyata

Setsuya Iwashita

Hiroaki Okui

Yoichiro Kondo

Takanori Aimono

Shotaro Tamai

Eiji Osawa

Osamu Tonomura

Hiromu Miyazawa

Koji Ohashi

Takahiro Kanegae

Masayoshi Todorokihara

Akira Miyagishi

Hajime Nakao

Shingo Tomimatsu

Toru Kashimura

Tsuyoshi Yoda

Yasuhiro Itayama

Takeshi Saito

Motohisa Noguchi

Akinori Taniuchi

Yuko Komatsu

Hiroshi Kato

Shunsuke Watanabe

Noritaka Ide

Junichi Karasawa

Yasushi Yamazaki

Ichiro Asaoka

Shohei Mizuta

Noboru Furuya

Ikuya Miyazawa

Isao Yanagisawa

Yuki Watanabe

Koji Asada

Yue Gao

Shoichiro Yokoo

Masashi Fujioka

Sayaka Kimura

Michiya Kubokawa

Satoshi Takemoto

The vibration plate, the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode are stacked in this order from the pressure chamber plate side in an active area facing the pressure chamber. An area located outwardly from the active area in a longitudinal direction of the pressure chamber includes a first area in which the piezoelectric layer, the second electrode, the insulating layer, and the first conductive layer are stacked in this order, and a second area in which the piezoelectric layer and the insulating layer are stacked in this order without the second electrode and the first conductive layer.

Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and piezoelectric device

A liquid ejecting head includes: a piezoelectric element that includes a first drive electrode, a piezoelectric body, and a second drive electrode in a lamination direction; a vibration plate that is provided on one side of the lamination direction with respect to the piezoelectric element and is deformed by driving of the piezoelectric element; a pressure chamber substrate that is provided on the one side of the lamination direction with respect to the vibration plate and is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers; an interlayer that is laminated on at least one of the piezoelectric body, the vibration plate, or the pressure chamber substrate and of which capacitance changes according to humidity; a first detection electrode that is in contact with the interlayer; and a second detection electrode that is in contact with the interlayer and is disposed to be separated from the first detection electrode.

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus

a first compliance portion provided at a position on the first side of a coupling area in the common flow path where the common flow path is coupled to the plurality of individual flow paths; and a second compliance portion, different from the first compliance portion, provided at a position on a second side of the coupling area in the common flow path, the second side being the other side in the second direction and being opposite to the first side, and the first compliance portion and the second compliance portion have an overlapping portion where the first compliance portion and the second compliance portion partially overlap each other as viewed in the second direction.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle substrate having a nozzle configured to eject liquid; a pressure chamber substrate having a pressure chamber in which a pressure for ejecting liquid through the nozzle is applied to liquid and an absorption chamber adjacent to an upstream portion of the pressure chamber and configured to absorb vibration of liquid that occurs when a pressure is applied to the liquid in the pressure chamber; a first piezoelectric element associated with the pressure chamber and configured to be driven by voltage application; and a second piezoelectric element associated with the absorption chamber and configured to be driven independently of the first piezoelectric element by voltage application.

The controller drives the piezoelectric body such that, when the cumulative number of times of the driving is a second number of times greater than the first number of times, the voltage difference is a second value smaller than the first value.

Liquid ejecting apparatus

A piezoelectric actuator includes a substrate, and a first piezoelectric device and a second piezoelectric device formed at the substrate. The first piezoelectric device includes a first lower electrode, a first piezoelectric body, and a first upper electrode. The second piezoelectric device includes a second lower electrode, a second piezoelectric body, and a second upper electrode. A side surface of the first lower electrode is not covered with the first piezoelectric body, and a side surface of the second lower electrode is not covered with the second piezoelectric body. The piezoelectric actuator further includes a common electrode formed at the substrate and coupled to the first upper electrode and the second upper electrode, and an insulating layer located between the common electrode and the first lower electrode and between the common electrode and the second lower electrode.

Piezoelectric actuator and manufacturing method thereof, liquid droplet discharge head, and ultrasonic device

A liquid discharge device has a liquid discharge head that includes a pressure chamber substrate provided with a first pressure chamber in which a liquid is accommodated, a first piezoelectric body provided to correspond to the first pressure chamber, and a detection resistor for detecting a temperature in a vicinity of the first pressure chamber, and a decision section that decides a degree of deterioration of the first piezoelectric body based on a detection result of the detection resistor.

Liquid discharge device and system

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a channel substrate having one or more pressure chambers, an absorbing chamber that absorbs vibration of a liquid; a vibration plate that is stacked on the channel substrate; a first piezoelectric element that is provided on a first surface of the vibration plate, which is on a side opposite to a side on which the pressure chamber is present, at a position overlapping the pressure chamber when viewed and that vibrates the vibration plate to apply pressure to the liquid; a second piezoelectric element that is provided on the first surface of the vibration plate at a position overlapping the absorbing chamber and that deforms to absorb the vibration of the liquid propagated from the pressure chamber; and a pressure detecting section that detects, based on an electromotive force of the second piezoelectric element, pressure of the liquid in the absorbing chamber.

A piezoelectric body that is driven to apply pressure to a liquid in the plurality of pressure chambers, and contains lead atoms, a first electrode that is provided on a first surface of two surfaces of the piezoelectric body, a second electrode that is provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the two surfaces of the piezoelectric body, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode, and applies a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body, a resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the drive wiring to measure a temperature of the liquid in the plurality of pressure chambers, and a diffusion suppression layer that is provided between the resistor and the piezoelectric body to suppress diffusion of lead atoms contained in the piezoelectric body into the resistor.

Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge device

A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber substrate that has a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric element that is laminated at the pressure chamber substrate, and has an individual electrode individually provided for each of the plurality of pressure chambers, a common electrode commonly provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, and a piezoelectric body provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode in a lamination direction of the piezoelectric element and provided to apply pressure to a liquid in the pressure chamber, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the individual electrode and the common electrode, and provided to apply a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body to the piezoelectric body, and a heating resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring, and provided to heat the liquid in the pressure chamber.

A liquid discharge head includes an individual electrode that is individually provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, a common electrode that is commonly provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric body that is provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode for applying pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the individual electrode and the common electrode, and applies a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a first layer that is provided on a surface opposite to a surface facing the pressure chamber substrate in the detection resistor, and has a lower thermal conductivity than the detection resistor.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a pressure chamber; a piezoelectric element that generates energy for applying pressure to an ink in the pressure chamber; a nozzle channel that extends in the X-axis direction and communicates with a nozzle for ejecting the ink; a supply communication channel which enables the pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other; a discharge communication channel which communicates with the nozzle channel; a wiring substrate electrically coupled to a drive circuit that drives the piezoelectric element; and a wiring section that electrically couples the wiring substrate and the piezoelectric element, in which, as viewed in the Z-axis direction orthogonal to the X-axis direction, the wiring section is provided at a position at which the wiring section overlaps the nozzle channel, and the wiring section extends in the ±Q direction, which differs from the X-axis direction.

A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber substrate that is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric body that is driven to apply pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, an upper electrode that is provided above the piezoelectric body for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, a lower electrode that is provided below the piezoelectric body for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is provided below the piezoelectric body for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a first wiring portion that is electrically coupled to the detection resistor. The first wiring portion includes a first part that is extended above the piezoelectric body, and a second part that is provided in at least a part of a through hole penetrating the piezoelectric body and electrically coupled to the detection resistor.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a first pressure chamber to which a first liquid is supplied; a first drive element that applies pressure to the first liquid in the first pressure chamber; a second pressure chamber to which a second liquid is supplied; a second drive element that applies pressure to the second liquid in the second pressure chamber; a nozzle channel which has one end communicating with the first pressure chamber and another end communicating with the second pressure chamber and in which the first liquid supplied from the first pressure chamber and the second liquid supplied from the second pressure chamber are mixed; and a nozzle that is provided in the nozzle channel and ejects a mixture of the first liquid and the second liquid.

Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and liquid ejecting method

A distance between the first circuit and the second circuit is a first distance, a distance between the first circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a second distance longer than the first distance, and a distance between the second circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a third distance longer than the first distance.

Liquid discharge head unit and liquid discharge device

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Eiju Hirai