Seiko Precision Inc.

Seikosha Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Kojima

Hajime Oda

Tsuyoshi Hayakawa

Toshiya Tamura

Takashi Kogo

Shoichi Sato

Yukiharu Shimizu

Included are a recording medium feeder which feeds a recording medium, a printer which carries out a printing for the fed recording medium by ink discharged from a nozzle surface formed on a print head, and a cleaner () which cleans the nozzle surface, wherein the cleaner () includes a wiper blade unit () which wipes the nozzle surface with a wiper blade (), and a roller wiper unit () which absorbs ink on the nozzle surface by ink absorbers (). The cleaner () enables to clean the nozzle surface sufficiently, whereby a good print quality can be maintained.

Inkjet printer

Ink is reserved in a cartridge case. On this cartridge case, there are fixed an ink jet head and an electric connecting member in a stacked state. The ink jet head is constructed to include: ink supply holes adapted to be supplied with the ink from the cartridge case; ink passages communicating with the ink supply holes; nozzles formed in the leading ends of the ink passages; and ink ejecting device such as piezoelectric elements disposed to correspond to the ink passages for ejecting the ink from the nozzles. These nozzles and the ink passages are substantially perpendicular. Moreover, the stacking direction, the ink supply direction from the cartridge case to the ink supply holes, and the ink ejecting direction from the nozzles are made substantially identical. The electric connecting member is made of a flexible frame or a metal lead frame. Thus, the ink jet head is assembled merely by stacking those individual components in the common direction.

Ink jet head block

An ink jet head includes a nozzle plate having a nozzle through the nozzle plate in its thickness direction, a base plate laminated with the nozzle plate and having an ink supplying hole through the base plate in its thickness direction, a pressure chamber connected to the nozzle and the ink supplying hole in the substantially perpendicular manner and provided with a pressure means on the bonded surface of the nozzle plate and the base plate. The nozzle and the ink supplying hole are made narrower than the pressure chamber and the connecting channel. The plural nozzles, pressure chambers, connecting channels, and ink supplying holes are provided. A common ink chamber connecting to a plurality of the ink supplying holes are provided on the opposite surface to the nozzle plate laminated with the base plate in the perpendicular manner to the nozzle plate. A projection is formed in the nozzle plate and the nozzle is provided through the projection. The ink head enables to prevent bonding materials from flowing into the thin portions during bonding process, to eliminate variations in efficiency of ink ejection at the respective nozzles, and to improve the printing finish in quality.

Ink jet head

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Hiroyuki Kojima