Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Caron Kabushiki Kaisha

Isamu Horiuchi

Kazunari Ishizuka

Ken Ikegame

Yohei Hamade

Satoshi Tsutsui

Miho Ishii

Isao Imamura

Yasunori Takei

Kenji Yabe

Shimpei Otaka

Takuma Kodoi

Hyou Takahashi

Hyo Takahashi

Kenji Fujii

Junichi Kobayashi

Keiji Watanabe

Hideo Tamura

Aya Yoshihira

Shoji Shiba

Yoshinori Tagawa

Tamaki Sato

Hiroyuki Murayama

Jun Kawai

Hiroaki Mihara

Kyosuke Nagaoka

Taichi Yonemoto

Etsuko Hino

Masumi Ikeda

Masamichi Yoshinari

Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head including an ejection orifice for ejecting a liquid, a substrate and a flow path forming member that is joined to the substrate to form a liquid flow path communicating with the ejection orifice, the method including: (1) forming a resin layer having a flow path mold pattern, on the substrate; (2) adding a hydrophilizing material represented by Chemical Formula 1 to an entire surface layer of the resin layer; (3) forming a covering resin layer serving as the flow path forming member, on the resin layer and forming a compatible layer containing the resin layer, the covering resin layer and the hydrophilizing material, at an interface between the resin layer and the covering resin layer; (4) forming the ejection orifice by exposing the covering resin layer; and (5) forming a flow path by removing the resin layer.

Method for manufacturing liquid ejection head and liquid ejection head

A hydrophilic coating material including an alginate compound having a bond with a silane compound is used. The material is produced by reacting a water-soluble alginate compound and a silane compound and then by adding a divalent metal ion to an alginic acid-derived carboxyl group in the reaction product.

Hydrophilic coating material, method for producing the same and inkjet recording head

A liquid discharge head including: a substrate having a liquid supply port; a flow channel forming member that is provided on the substrate and has discharge ports for discharging a liquid and a liquid flow channel that makes the liquid supply port and the discharge ports communicate with each other; and a support member that is provided on the substrate and arranged to be in contact with at least one surface of the flow channel forming member, with the one surface not being in contact with the liquid, wherein the flow channel forming member includes a cured product of a first photosensitive resin composition including a photosensitive resin, the support member includes a cured product of a second photosensitive resin composition including the epoxy resin A having a structure represented by formula (a1) or (a2) below in main chain structure: where, nand nrepresent integers of at least 2.

Liquid discharge head and method for manufacturing liquid discharge head

A liquid discharge head comprising a substrate comprising a liquid feeding port and an energy generating element for liquid discharge, and a flow channel member comprising, on the substrate, a discharge port through which a liquid is discharged and a liquid flow channel communicating with both the liquid feeding port and the discharge port, wherein the flow channel member comprises a flow channel member () not comprising a surface in contact with the liquid and a flow channel member () comprising a surface in contact with the liquid, a film stress Sand Sof the flow channel members () and (), respectively, satisfy S&#x3c;S, a film thickness Land Lof the flow channel member () and (), respectively, in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, satisfy L&#x3c;L, and satisfying 470 MPa&#xb7;&#x3bc;m&#x3c;[L&#xd7;S+(L&#x2212;L)&#xd7;S]&#x3c;1200 MPa&#xb7;&#x3bc;m.

Liquid discharge head and method for producing liquid discharge head

A liquid discharge head is provided which has a substrate, a flow channel forming member provided on a substrate surface of the substrate and forming a flow channel of a liquid, and a discharge port forming member provided on the flow channel forming member and having a discharge port through which a liquid is discharged, wherein the discharge port forming member and the flow channel forming member are formed of materials different from each other, a thickness of the flow channel forming member is greater than a thickness of the discharge port forming member in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface, the discharge port forming member is a cured product of a photosensitive resin composition, and the flow channel forming member contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyether amide resin, a polyether imide resin and a polyether amide-imide resin.

A hydrophilic coating material including an alginic acid compound and a resin, in which the alginic acid compound is granulated and dispersed in the resin. In a coating film using the material, it is preferred that the granulated alginic acid compound is exposed on the surface. Such a hydrophilic coating film is suitable as a hydrophilization treatment film of a nozzle face surface of an inkjet recording head.

Hydrophilic coating material, method of producing hydrophilic coating film, and inkjet recording head

A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes forming a first negative photosensitive resin layer containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator over a substrate, exposing the first negative photosensitive resin layer to light to form a latent image of a flow channel member, forming a second negative photosensitive resin layer containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator over the first negative photosensitive resin layer having the latent image, and exposing the second negative photosensitive resin layer to light to form a latent image of an ejection opening member. The first negative photosensitive resin layer has a thickness of 10 &#x3bc;m or less and further contains a sensitivity adjusting agent capable of reducing the sensitivity of the first negative photosensitive resin layer. The transmittance A of the first negative photosensitive resin layer is 0.70 or less for the exposure light for the second negative photosensitive resin layer.

Method for manufacturing liquid ejection head

A liquid ejection head includes a substrate; and an ejection orifice-forming member formed on the substrate and including an ejection orifice configured to eject liquid and a liquid channel communicating with the ejection orifice. The ejection orifice-forming member includes an ejection orifice-forming member layer A, an intermediate water-repellent layer, and an ejection orifice-forming member layer B in this order from a substrate-side of the member. The ejection orifice-forming member also includes a protrusion protruding into the ejection orifice, and the ejection orifice-forming member includes a water-repellent projection portion that is at least a portion of the intermediate water-repellent layer and that projects farther into the ejection orifice than the ejection orifice-forming member layer A and the ejection orifice-forming member layer B.

Liquid ejection head and method for producing the same

A production process for an optically shaped product, including applying a photosensitive resin composition in a form of a dry film on to a substrate in which a hole opening to a surface thereof is formed so as to cover the hole and performing patterning to form an optically shaped product, wherein the photosensitive resin composition contains a resin comprising a tri- or higher functional epoxy resin and a bifunctional epoxy resin, the bifunctional epoxy resin has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 5,500 to 60,000, the resin has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) ranging from 4,500 to 11,000, and the mixing ratio by mass between the tri- or higher functional epoxy resin and the bifunctional epoxy resin satisfies (b)/(a)&#x2266;1.5, where (a) is the mass of the tri- or higher functional epoxy resin, and (b) is the mass of the bifunctional epoxy resin.

Production process for optically shaped product and production process for liquid discharge head

A liquid ejection head includes a substrate on a surface of which an energy-generating element for generating energy for ejecting liquid is formed; and a flow path forming member formed on the substrate, the flow path forming member forming an ejection orifice for ejecting the liquid and a liquid flow path communicating with the ejection orifice. The flow path forming member includes, at a position surrounding the liquid flow path, a depression that opens to an upper surface of the flow path forming member and a groove that opens to the first depression. The angle between the upper surface of the flow path forming member and a slope surface of the depression on the flow path forming member side is an obtuse angle. The groove has a serrated side wall.

Liquid ejection head and process for producing the same

A print head includes an energy generating element, a chamber for accommodating liquid, and an ejection opening for ejecting liquid from the chamber, thus applying the energy to the liquid in the chamber from the energy generating element to eject the liquid from the ejection opening, wherein the ejection opening includes at least two projections convex to an inside of the ejection opening in a cross section perpendicular to a liquid ejecting direction and has a tapered angle &#x398;in regard to the liquid ejecting direction, enabling a meniscus of the liquid to be formed therebetween at the liquid ejecting time, and an outer edge portion has a tapered angle &#x398;in regard to the liquid ejecting direction, wherein the tapered angles &#x398;and &#x398;are defined to meet a formula of 0&#xb0;&#x2266;&#x398;&#x2266;10&#xb0; and a formula of &#x398;

Print head and inkjet printing apparatus

Without being dependent on design changes, a liquid ejection head and a method of production thereof are provided in which when time-division driving, liquid drop landing deviance in the direction of printing is capable of being corrected. In order to achieve this, before performing an exposure in order to form an ejection port, after forming a cavity that is shifted with respect to the location at which the ejection port is formed, exposure is performed.

Liquid ejection head and method of production thereof

A liquid ejection head is manufactured by forming a dent representing a substantially spherical profile so as to include a position for forming an ejection port on a surface of a photosensitive resin layer, then forming a latent image of the ejection port in the dent by an exposure treatment using a projection lens system, and developing the latent image. The center of the top surface of the latent image is shifted to the incoming side of the beam of exposure light from the lowest point of the dent.

Liquid ejection head and method of manufacturing the same

There is provided a method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head having a substrate and a channel-forming member having an ejection port from which a liquid is ejected, the method including forming a negative photosensitive resin layer on or above the substrate; forming a lens layer on the negative photosensitive resin layer, the lens layer having a lens; exposing the negative photosensitive resin layer through the lens to form an ejection port in the negative photosensitive resin layer; and removing the lens layer.

The manufacturing method includes forming, on a surface of a negative photosensitive resin layer formed on a substrate, a hollow having inclinations at both sides in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to a row direction of the ejection orifice, and then forming a latent image in the hollow, thereby forming the ejection orifice so that an angle between a side surface portion thereof and a normal to the outer opening in a cross section of the ejection orifice taken along a plane which passes through a center of the ejection orifice and is perpendicular to the row direction is larger than an angle between the side surface portion and the normal to the outer opening in a cross section of the ejection orifice taken along a plane which includes a center line of the ejection orifice in the row direction and is perpendicular to a substrate surface.

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Yokohama, Japan

Isamu Horiuchi