Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Riso Technologies Corporation

Tsubasa Konishi

Masashi Shimosato

Isao Suzuki

Makoto Oguma

Noboru Nitta

Minoru Koyata

Akimasa Toyama

Takashi Tozuka

A liquid ejection head includes a plate including a nozzle for ejecting a liquid, a substrate, an actuator including a pressure chamber. The actuator includes an upper surface and a side surface connecting the upper surface to the substrate. The side surface is at an angle θ between 45 and 90 degrees. The head includes an electrode connected to the chamber. The electrode includes a first wiring on the side surface and a second wiring on the substrate within a first region thereof. The first region has a length A from a position of a line along which the upper and side surfaces meet, and the value of length A is B/tan θ', where B is a distance between the upper surface and the substrate and θ′ is (θ−45)×2.

Liquid ejection head

According to one embodiment, a liquid ejection head includes an actuator with a plurality of pressure chambers and dummy chambers. The pressure chambers are each part of a groove that is disposed between an adjacent pair of sidewalls. Each pressure chamber is in fluid communication with a nozzle for ejecting a liquid. The dummy chambers are each between an adjacent pair of pressure chambers. A common chamber is fluidly connected to an end of each of the pressure chambers. A throttle portion is at the end portion of each pressure chamber. Each throttle portion blocks a part of a liquid flow path from the first common chamber to the pressure chamber. The first throttle portion is formed of a resin material.

Liquid ejecting head and method of manufacturing liquid ejecting head

A liquid ejection head of a side shooter type includes a plate including nozzles arranged along a first direction and through which liquid is ejected, an actuator including pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles, dummy chambers each disposed between two adjacent pressure chambers, and sidewalls separating the chambers along the first direction and deformable to change a volume of each pressure chamber according to a signal, and covers having apertures and partly covering both ends of each pressure chamber in a second direction intersecting the first direction such that the pressure chambers communicate with a common chamber at both ends thereof through the apertures. Each cover includes a first portion on and between the sidewalls and a second portion other than the first portion, and a first length of the first portion is equal to or greater than a second length of the second portion in the second direction.

A liquid ejection head includes a plate with a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction through which liquid is ejected. A substrate is on the plate and includes a hole extending along the first direction by which the liquid is supplied. An actuator is on the substrate along the hole. The actuator has a plurality of pressure chambers, from which the liquid from the hole is ejected by the nozzles, and a plurality of air chambers. Each air chamber is between two of the pressure chambers that are adjacent to each other. A plurality of individual electrodes is formed on the substrate and each is connected to a corresponding one of the pressure chambers. A common electrode is formed on the substrate and an inner peripheral surface of the hole.

A liquid ejecting head of a side shooter type includes a plate including a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction and an actuator with a plurality of pressure chambers arranged along the first direction. Each pressure chamber communicates with a corresponding one of the nozzles. The actuator further includes dummy chambers, each of which is between two otherwise adjacent pressure chambers. Common chambers are provided in the actuator. The pressure and dummy chambers are arranged between the common chambers. The end portions of the pressure chambers are connected to a common chamber. The width of the end portions of each of the pressure chambers is less than the width of a portion of the pressure chamber between the end portions.

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Tsubasa Konishi