Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Mustafa Turan

Tzer-Yi Chen

Luigi A Cazzaniga

A restrictor plate for an ink jet print head assembly includes a substantially flat body having fluid flow passageways extending through the body. The fluid flow passageways are elongated between a fluid receiving volume end and an opposite fluid ejection volume end. The receiving volume end is fluidly coupled with a chamber and the ejection volume end is fluidly coupled with an orifice of the assembly from which the fluid is ejected. The receiving volume end receives the ink from the chamber so that the ink flows through the passageways along a printing direction. The body is shaped around the one or more fluid flow passageways to form one or more bottlenecks in the one or more fluid flow passageways that increase a fluid flow resistance of the fluid along a direction in the one or more fluid flow passageways that is opposite of the printing direction.

Printing fluid restrictor plate for an ink jet print head assembly and method

An ink jet print head assembly includes a carrier body, plural pistons, and a printing plate. The carrier body has an ejection side configured to face an object to be printed upon. The pistons are coupled with the carrier body. The printing plate is coupled with the ejection side of the carrier body and includes a diaphragm plate. The printing plate is configured to hold a fluid to be printed on the object on a side of the diaphragm plate that is opposite of the pistons. The printing plate includes orifices through which the fluid is ejected from the printing plate and onto the object being printed upon. The pistons are configured to actuate in ejection directions in order to engage the diaphragm plate and cause the fluid to be ejected from the orifices of the printing plate along printing directions. The ejection directions in which the pistons are actuated are transversely oriented with respect to the printing directions in which the fluid is ejected from the printing plate.

Ink jet print head assembly

An ink jet print head assembly includes a carrier body, plural pistons, and a printing plate. The pistons are configured to actuate in ejection directions in order to engage a diaphragm plate of the printing plate and cause fluid to be ejected from orifices of the printing plate along printing directions. The ejection directions in which the pistons are actuated are transversely oriented with respect to printing directions in which the fluid is ejected from the printing plate.

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Brookfield, CT, United States of America

Mustafa Turan