Seiko Epson Corporation

Hiromi Mimura

Minoru Usui

Noriaki Okazawa

Kazunaga Suzuki

Kazumi Kamoi

Shigeki Mizuno

Kazuhiko Yamamoto

Manabu Nagawatari

An ink jet recording head having high printing quality which is achieved independently of ambient temperature changes. An overhang portion (22) is formed on a surface of a frame (20) in such a manner that the overhang portion extends close to an island portion (9) of a resilient plate. A front end (17) of a fixed board (14) is fixed to the overhang portion (22) so that a gap (23) is interposed between a lateral side of the fixed board (14) and the frame (20). The piezoelectric vibration elements (8) are secured to the opposite end of the fixed board and abut against each of the island portions. The thickness (L0) of the overhang portion (22) affects that thermal expansion differential derived from a difference in the materials of the frame (20) and the piezoelectric vibration element. Since the thickness is minimized, the thermal expansion differential between the frame (20) and the piezoelectric vibration elements (8) is correspondingly minimized.

Ink jet recording head including a spacing member for defining a gap

An impact dot head of a printer provided with a plurality of printing wires. The top end guide and/or the nose formed with protrusions at the sides thereof and with holes for slidably guiding the tips of the printing wires. The top end guide is inserted into a hole and grooves of a nose. The protrusions are then deformed to interlock within the apertures in one of the nose and top end guide, so that the respective end surfaces of the top end guide and the nose surface confronting the printing medium are in a predetermined relation, preferably essentially flush. Further, a method is provided for mass producing the impact dot head at a relatively low cost by using heat to deform the projections made of a thermoplastic resin.

Dot matrix printer with improved wire guide

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Nagano, Japan

Hiromi Mimura