Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Keita Sugiura

Hiroshi Katayama

Shohei Koide

Taisuke Mizuno

Keita Hirai

Hideki Hayashi

Jiro Yamamoto

Shotaro Kanzaki

Takashi Aiba

Masayuki Takata

Shingo Hattori

Yasuo Kato

Atsushi Ito

Yuki Takagi

Yoichiro Shimizu

Takaaki Oguchi

A liquid discharge head includes a channel member and an actuator member. A plurality of individual channels each including a nozzle and a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, and a communicating channel communicating with the plurality of individual channels are formed in the channel member. The actuator member is arranged on a surface of the channel member and has: a plurality of actuators each overlapping with the pressure chamber of one of the plurality of individual channels in a first direction orthogonal to the surface and having a plurality of individual electrodes, a plurality of branched parts each of which connects individual electrodes, and a trunk part connecting the plurality of branched parts and provided with a contact with respect to an electric power supply part. The communicating channel has an overlapping part overlapping with the trunk part in the first direction.

Liquid discharge head

There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a channel member having individual channels, each of the individual channels including a nozzle and a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle; and an actuator member arranged on a surface of the channel member and having actuators each of which overlaps with the pressure chamber of one of the individual channels in a first direction orthogonal to the surface, the actuator member including individual electrodes constructing the actuators, branched parts each connecting individual electrodes of the individual electrodes, and a trunk part connecting the branched parts and provided with a contact with respect to an electric power supply part. A cooling channel which is independent from the individual channels and in which a cooling liquid flows is formed in the liquid discharge head. The cooling channel has a first part overlapping with the trunk part in the first direction.

A liquid jetting apparatus includes: individual channels; and a manifold commonly provided for the individual channels. Each of the individual channels has: a nozzle; a pressure chamber arranged away from the nozzle in a predetermined direction to extend along a plane orthogonal to the predetermined direction and connected to the manifold, a connecting channel connected to the pressure chamber to form at least a part of a channel communicating the pressure chamber and the nozzle, and a circulation channel connected to the connecting channel to form a part of a channel communicating the connecting channel and the pressure chamber. The connecting channel has a throttle, and the throttle has a smaller diameter along the plane orthogonal to the predetermined direction than a diameter, of a part of the connecting channel except the throttle, along the plane orthogonal to the predetermined direction.

Liquid jetting apparatus

There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a first channel member including individual channel rows and first common channels that correspond to the respective individual channel rows; a second channel member including a second common channel provided in common to the first common channels; and a third channel member including at least parts of connection channels connected to the second common channel. One of the connection channels is connected to an end in a longitudinal direction of the second common channel. The liquid discharge head further comprises a communication opening disposed at any other part of the second common channel except the end in the longitudinal direction, the second common channel communicating with the outside through the communication opening.

There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a pressure chamber configured to apply a pressure to a liquid so as to discharge the liquid from a nozzle; a descender arranged to overlap, in a plan view, with the nozzle and communicating the pressure chamber and the nozzle with each other; at least one return throttle channel connected to the descender; and a return manifold which communicates with the at least one return throttle channel and which is configured to receive the liquid not having been discharged from the nozzle. A cross section of the descender orthogonal to a depth direction of the descender is a non-circular shape having a major axis and a minor axis. The at least one return throttle channel is connected to at least one of a first end side of the minor axis and a second end side of the minor axis.

Liquid discharging head

A liquid discharging head includes: individual channels; a first common liquid chamber provided commonly for the individual channels; and a second common liquid chamber provided commonly for the individual channels. Liquid is supplied from the first common liquid chamber to the individual channels and the liquid flows into the second common liquid chamber from the individual channels. Each of the individual channels has: a pressure chamber; a first channel; a nozzle connected to the first channel and configured to discharge the liquid; a second channel separated from the nozzle in a first direction and connecting the pressure chamber and the first channel; and a third channel connected to the first channel on a side opposite to the second channel in the first direction with the nozzle sandwiched between the third channel and the second channel.

A liquid ejection head includes: head units arranged in a first direction; first individual heat dissipators each corresponding to one of the head units and disposed on a first side of the head unit in a second direction; and a first common heat dissipator disposed on the first side of the head units in the second direction. The first common heat dissipator extends in the first direction and shared among the head units. Each head unit includes: a unit body including an actuator; and a first driver integrated circuit disposed on the first side of the unit body in the second direction. Each of the first individual heat dissipators is disposed between the first driver integrated circuit and the first common heat dissipator of the head unit so as to be in thermal contact with the first driver integrated circuit and the first common heat dissipator.

Liquid ejection head

There is provided an image recording apparatus which is provided with a housing, a holder configured to be drawable from the housing, a supporting member supported by the holder and configured to support a sheet roll, a liquid container supported by the holder and configured to hold liquid, a conveyance mechanism arranged in an inner space of the housing and configured to convey a sheet unwound from the sheet roll, and a print head arranged in the inner space of the housing and configured to record an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance mechanism. The liquid container is configured to include at least one of tanks configured to hold liquid to be provided to the print head and a waste tank configured to pool liquid discharged from the print head.

Image recording apparatus

There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a nozzle member formed having nozzle rows extending in a first direction, the nozzle rows being arranged in a second direction; driving elements; a first channel member disposed at one side of the nozzle member in a third direction; a second channel member disposed at the one side of the first channel member in the third direction; and a third channel member disposed at the one side of the second channel member in the third direction.

A liquid ejection head includes a supply manifold, a return manifold, a plurality of individual channels, and a connecting throttle channel. The supply manifold includes a supply port through which liquid is supplied from an exterior. The return manifold includes a return port through which liquid is discharged to the exterior. Each individual channel is connected, at an upstream end thereof, to the supply manifold and, at a downstream end thereof, to the return manifold. Each individual channel communicates with a corresponding one of nozzles and includes an individual throttle channel Through the connecting throttle channel, adjacent ones of the individual throttle channels communicate with each other. The connecting throttle channel has a channel resistance less than or equal to a channel resistance of each individual throttle channel.

There is provide a liquid discharge head including: a supply manifold; a feedback manifold; and a plurality of individual flow channels having: a supply portion, a descender portion, and a feedback portion. The supply manifold has a plurality of supply ports, and the feedback manifold has a plurality of feedback ports. At least part of the supply manifold overlaps with the feedback manifold in the second direction. The plurality of pressure chambers have first pressure chambers forming a first pressure chamber array and second pressure chambers forming a second pressure chamber array. The first pressure chamber array is arranged at one side, of the supply manifold, in a third direction and the second pressure chamber array is arranged at the other side, of the supply manifold, in the third direction. The first pressure chamber array and the second pressure chamber array are connected to the supply manifold.

A liquid ejection head, including: a first head unit; a second head unit shifted with respect to the first head unit in both of a first direction in which nozzles of the head units are arranged and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and disposed so as to overlap the first head unit in the second direction; and a first wiring member having flexibility and drawn from the second head unit in the second direction toward the first head unit, wherein the first wiring member includes a large-width portion on which a drive circuit is mounted and a small-width portion having a width in the first direction smaller than a width of the large-width portion in the first direction, and wherein the small-width portion passes through a space existing next to the first head unit in the first direction and extends in the second direction.

There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a plurality of supply manifolds configured to receive a liquid to be discharged from a plurality of nozzles and provided side by side with each other; a supply integration channel arranged on a first side in a longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; a first connecting channel connecting the supply integration channel and a first supply manifold of the supply manifolds; and a second connecting channel connecting the supply integration channel and a second supply manifold, of the supply manifolds, being adjacent to the first supply manifold in a short direction of the first supply manifold. An outlet of the first connecting channel is arranged on the first side in the longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; and an outlet of the second connecting channel is arranged on a second side in the longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds.

There is provided an image recording apparatus having a housing having a front wall and a rear wall, and a right wall and a left wall defining an internal space of the housing, a sheet roll holder configured to hold a sheet roll, a supporting member configured to support the sheet roll, the supporting member extending in an axial direction of the sheet roll and being supported by the sheet roll holder, a sheet conveyer arranged in an internal space of the housing, the sheet conveyer being configured to convey a sheet unwound from the sheet roll, and a recording device configured to record an image on the sheet unwound from the sheet roll and conveyed by the sheet conveyer. The sheet roll holder is configured to be slidable with respect to the housing so as to be detachable from and attachable to the housing.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Keita Sugiura