Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Limited

Nippon Shinyaku Company, Ltd.

Satoshi Tsutsui

Yohei Hamade

Etsuko Sawada

Hiroaki Mihara

Kazunari Ishizuka

Ken Ikegame

Isamu Horiuchi

Miho Ishii

Katsuya Ohata

Sho Inoue

Tatsuo Nomura

Hyou Takahashi

Tadamitsu Sudo

Michio Ito

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 microstructure including a minute structural part is manufactured by transferring a laminate including a photosensitive resin composition onto a substrate having an opening and patterning the laminate. The laminate includes a first layer that includes a first resin composition and a second layer that includes a second resin composition, each of the first and second resin compositions being a negative type photosensitive resin composition including a cationically polymerizable compound having an epoxy group. The laminate is transferred such that the second layer faces the substrate. The first resin composition is in a liquid state and the second resin composition is in a liquid state in the course of transferring the laminate.

Method of manufacturing microstructure and method of manufacturing liquid ejection head

A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes selectively exposing a first photosensitive resin layer to light, thereby curing the portion of the first photosensitive resin layer defining a flow channel member; forming a second photosensitive resin layer on the first photosensitive resin layer; selectively exposing the second photosensitive resin layer to light, thereby curing the portion of the second photosensitive resin layer defining an ejection opening member; and removing the unexposed portions of the first and the second photosensitive resin layer at one time with a developer. Before removal with the developer, the water absorption W of the intermediate layer, the water absorption Wof the exposed portion of the first photosensitive resin layer, and the water absorption Wof the exposed portion of the second photosensitive resin layer satisfy the relationship W&#x2265;W&#x3e;W

In an inkjet recording head comprising a substrate including an energy-generating element that generates energy for ejecting a liquid, an ejection port for ejecting the liquid, and a liquid flow passage communicating with the ejection port, a liquid-repellent layer is formed on a surface of a member for forming the ejection port, and a liquid-repellent region and a liquid-nonrepellent region are formed on the same surface of the liquid-repellent layer by irradiating a part of the liquid-repellent layer with light including a wavelength decomposing the liquid-repellent component in the liquid-repellent layer.

Inkjet recording head and method of manufacturing the same

Provided is a liquid-ejecting head, including a member having opened therein an ejection orifice configured to eject a liquid, in which the liquid-ejecting head has, on a side being positioned on the member and having opened therein the ejection orifice, a cured layer of a mixture containing: (a) a condensate of hydrolyzable silane compounds containing a hydrolyzable silane compound having 20 or more fluorine atoms and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationically polymerizable group; (b) a fluorine atom-containing nonionic surfactant; and (c) an epoxy resin.

Liquid-ejecting head and method of manufacturing the liquid-ejecting head

A process for producing a liquid ejection head having a substrate and an ejection orifice forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid, including forming, on the substrate, a photocationically polymerizable resin layer which includes a photocationically polymerizable resin material and becomes the ejection orifice forming member; laminating, on the uncured photocationically polymerizable resin layer, a layer containing a condensation product of a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationically polymerizable epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine-containing group; laminating a water-repellent layer including a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on the condensation-product-containing layer; subjecting the photocationically polymerizable resin layer, condensation-product-containing layer, and water-repellent layer to pattern exposure; collectively curing exposed portions of the photocationically polymerizable resin layer, condensation-product-containing layer, and water-repellent layer; and removing non-exposed portions of the photocationically polymerizable resin layer, condensation-product-containing layer, and water-repellent layer to form the ejection orifice.

Process for producing a liquid ejection head

Provided is an ink jet recording head, including a member provided with an ejection orifice for ejecting ink, in which the ink jet recording head further includes a water-repellent layer including a cured product of a condensed product obtained by condensation of a hydrolyzable silane compound having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on a surface of the member on a side on which the ejection orifice opens.

Ink jet recording head

Provided is a sealant for use in ink jet recording heads, comprising a cationically polymerizable resin; a fluorine-containing compound that is liquid at a temperature in a range of 20&#xb0; C.&#xb1;15&#xb0; C.; and a cationic polymerization initiator.

Sealant for use in ink jet recording heads and ink jet recording head

Provided is a liquid discharge head comprising a discharge port-forming member having discharge ports for discharging a liquid and having a surface provided with a liquid-repellent film. The liquid-repellent film includes a layer containing a resin composition containing at least one of polyurethane and polyrotaxane disposed on the discharge port-forming member and a layer containing a fluorine compound and having a thickness of 10 nm or less disposed on the resin composition-containing layer. When a scratch-forming tool, a diamond tip having a tip diameter of 15 &#x3bc;m, is pressed onto the liquid-repellent film with a load of 0.098 N (10 gf) and is reciprocated ten times, the depth of a scratch formed on the surface of the liquid-repellent film is smaller than the thickness of the fluorine compound-containing layer.

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Satoshi Tsutsui