Seiko Epson Corporation

Yoshihiro Igarashi

Hiroshige Owaki

Yasuo Inaoka

Isao Yanagisawa

A liquid-jet head, including: a plurality of head bodies each furnished with a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles formed therein; a joining member, adhered to the nozzle plate via an adhesive agent, for binding and fixing the plurality of head bodies; an opening formed in a region of the joining member corresponding to the nozzles; and a protrusion formed in an edge portion of the opening facing the nozzle plate, and protruding toward the nozzle plate, wherein when the joining member is joined to the nozzle plate via the adhesive agent, the protrusion is allowed to bite into the nozzle plate.

Liquid-jet head apparatus having a fixing plate formed with a protrusion

Alignment jig, manufacturing method thereof, and method of manufacturing liquid-jet head unit

An alignment jig including a base jig which is used when bonding a nozzle plate provided with nozzle orifices which eject liquid in a liquid-jet head to a fixing member holding a nozzle plate side of a plurality of the liquid-jet heads, and which is provided with a penetrated hole in a thickness direction in a region facing a reference mark to be aligned with an alignment mark provided on the nozzle plate as well as the fixing member is held on one plane of the base jig; and a mask which is provided on the other plane of the base jig and has transparency, and where a protrusion protruding in the penetrated hole is formed with the reference mark provided on an edge plane of the mask.

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Nagano-ken, Japan

Yoshihiro Igarashi