Seiko Epson Corporation

Yuma Fukuzawa

Yoichi Naganuma

Shotaro Tamai

Motoki Takabe

Eiju Hirai

Shunsuke Watanabe

Kazuaki Uchida

Yoshinao Miyata

Shohei Mizuta

Shiro Yazaki

Hiroaki Okui

Shunya Fukuda

Akira Miyagishi

Katsumi Enomoto

Hitoshi Takaai

Satoshi Oguchi

Fujio Akahane

Toshiro Murayama

Yue Gao

Katsutomo Tsukahara

Takanori Aimono

Noriaki Okazawa

Shun Katsuie

Akinori Taniuchi

Sosuke Yamasaki

Takahiro Katakura

Hiroshige Owaki

Chikara Kojima

Masato Shimada

Eiichiro Watanabe

Mutsuhiko Ota

Daisuke Matsumoto

Junichi Sano

Takuma Hayashi

Yasuo Inaoka

Naohiro Nakagawa

Nobuhiro Naito

Yu Hasegawa

Takayuki Shimosaka

Hitoshi Yamada

Jun Kakizaki

Shinsuke Ichikawa

Madoka Ito

Yoshinobu Toyama

Kazuyuki Katagiri

Ito Madoka

A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate having a pressure chamber, a drive element, a communication substrate having a supply communication flow path communicating with the pressure chamber and a nozzle communication flow path communicating with the pressure chamber and communicating with a nozzle for ejecting a liquid at a position different from the supply communication flow path, and a coupling substrate disposed between the pressure chamber substrate and the communication substrate, the coupling substrate having a supply port located between the pressure chamber and the supply communication flow path and a discharge port located between the pressure chamber and the nozzle communication flow path, in which a flow path cross-sectional area of the supply port is smaller than a flow path cross-sectional area of the supply communication flow path, and the coupling substrate is made of a photosensitive resist film.

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus

A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate having a pressure chamber, a drive element, a communication substrate having a supply communication flow path and a nozzle communication flow path at a position different from the supply communication flow path, and a coupling substrate having a supply port and the supply communication flow path and a discharge port, in which the pressure chamber substrate has a partition wall, and the communication substrate includes a first region bonded to the coupling substrate and overlapping the pressure chamber between the supply communication flow path and the nozzle communication flow path when viewed in a thickness direction, and a second region bonded to the coupling substrate and overlapping the partition wall at a position adjacent to the first region via an opening of the supply communication flow path when viewed in the thickness direction of the pressure chamber substrate.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle; first to fourth pressure chambers; a communication flow path communicating between the nozzle and the first to fourth pressure chambers; first to fourth driving elements; a first common liquid chamber communicating with the first and the second pressure chambers; and a second common liquid chamber communicating with the third and the fourth pressure chambers. A first joining position from the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to the nozzle is closer to end portions of the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber on a nozzle side than to the nozzle, and a second joining position from the third pressure chamber and the fourth pressure chamber to the nozzle is closer to end portions of the third pressure chamber and the fourth pressure chamber on the nozzle side than to the nozzle.

A liquid ejecting head includes a first driving element, a first pressure chamber, and a first nozzle that is formed in a nozzle substrate, in which the first nozzle includes a first upstream nozzle portion including a first supply opening opened in a second surface of the nozzle substrate and a first bottom surface and a first downstream nozzle portion including a first ejection opening opened in a first surface of the nozzle substrate and a first coupling section opened in the first bottom surface, when viewed in a thickness direction of the nozzle substrate, a sectional area of the first upstream nozzle portion is larger than a sectional area of the first downstream nozzle portion, and a center of gravity of the first coupling section is positioned between a center of gravity of the first ejection opening and a center of gravity of the first bottom surface.

Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and nozzle substrate

A liquid ejecting head includes an introduction portion for introducing a gas supplied, a discharge portion for discharging the gas, and drive circuits provided in each of head chips, in which the drive circuits include a first drive circuit for driving the first head chip and a second drive circuit for driving the second head chip, a gas path through which the gas flows from the introduction portion to the discharge portion includes a first path coupled to the introduction portion, a second path coupled to the discharge portion, a first branch path coupling the first path and the second path, and a second branch path coupling the first path and the second path so as not to pass through the first branch path, the first drive circuit is disposed in the first branch path, and the second drive circuit is disposed in the second branch path.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle; first to fourth pressure chambers; a communication flow path coupled to the nozzle and communicating between the nozzle and the first to fourth pressure chambers; first to fourth flow paths coupling the communication flow path and the first to fourth pressure chambers; a first-common-liquid-chamber communicating with the first-pressure-chamber and the second-pressure-chamber; and a second-common-liquid-chamber communicating with the third-pressure-chamber and the fourth-pressure-chamber. The first-flow-path and the second-flow-path are arranged side by side in a first-direction, the third-flow-path and the fourth-flow-path are arranged side by side in the first-direction, and the first-flow-path and the second-flow-path, and the third-flow-path and the fourth-flow-path are arranged to be shifted in a second-direction orthogonal to the first-direction. The first-flow-path is shifted from each of the third-flow-path and the fourth-flow-path in the first-direction, and the second-flow-path is shifted from each of the third-flow-path and the fourth-flow-path in the first-direction.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a pressure chamber; a piezoelectric element that generates energy for applying pressure to an ink in the pressure chamber; a nozzle channel that extends in the X-axis direction and communicates with a nozzle for ejecting the ink; a supply communication channel which enables the pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other; a discharge communication channel which communicates with the nozzle channel; a wiring substrate electrically coupled to a drive circuit that drives the piezoelectric element; and a wiring section that electrically couples the wiring substrate and the piezoelectric element, in which, as viewed in the Z-axis direction orthogonal to the X-axis direction, the wiring section is provided at a position at which the wiring section overlaps the nozzle channel, and the wiring section extends in the ±Q direction, which differs from the X-axis direction.

A liquid ejecting head includes a first pressure compartment extending in a first direction; a second pressure compartment extending in the first direction; a first communication passage continuous from the first pressure compartment and extending in the first direction; a second communication passage continuous to the second pressure compartment and extending in the first direction; a third communication passage continuous from the first communication passage and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a fourth communication passage continuous to the second communication passage and extending in the second direction; a fifth communication passage continuous from the third communication passage and continuous to the fourth communication passage and extending in the first direction; and a nozzle provided on the fifth communication passage.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a first pressure chamber that applies pressure to a liquid; a second pressure chamber that applies pressure to the liquid; a nozzle channel that extends in a first direction and includes a nozzle that ejects the liquid; a first communication channel that extends in a second direction crossing the first direction and enables the first pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other; a second communication channel that extends in the second direction and enables the second pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other; and a first branch channel that has a portion extending in the first direction and enables the first pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other through a path different from a path of the first communication channel.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle array including nozzles via which liquid is to be discharged and which are arrayed in a first direction; a nozzle passage that leads to a nozzle and extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a first pressure chamber; a second pressure chamber disposed adjacent to the first pressure chamber in the first direction; a first communicating passage via which the first pressure chamber communicates with an interior of the nozzle passage and which extends in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions; and a second communicating passage via which the second pressure chamber communicates with the interior of the nozzle passage and which extends in the third direction. As viewed from the second direction, an inner wall surface of the first communicating passage positioned on a side of the second communicating passage includes a first inclined surface that extends in a fourth direction intersecting the first and third directions.

First and second individual flow paths coupling a first common liquid chamber to a second common liquid chamber are arranged side by side, and each individual flow path is provided with first and second pressure chambers. At least a part of the first individual flow path is provided in a space overlapping a region between the adjacent second pressure chambers when viewed in a Z axis direction, the space not overlapping the second pressure chamber when viewed in a Y axis direction.

Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting system

The nozzle channel includes a first portion that extends in the first direction and communicates with the first communication channel and a second portion that extends in a third direction crossing the first direction and orthogonal to the second direction and communicates with the first portion, and an angle formed between the first direction and the third direction is larger than 0&#xb0; and smaller than 90&#xb0;.

Wall surfaces of the nozzle channel include a first wall surface which extends in the first direction and in which the nozzle is provided and a second wall surface which extends in the first direction and is opposite to the first wall surface, wall surfaces of the first communication channel include a third wall surface which extends in the second direction and a distance from which to the nozzle in the first direction is longest and a fourth wall surface which extends in the second direction and is opposite to the third wall surface, and a fifth wall surface which extends in a third direction set between the first direction and the second direction is provided between the second wall surface and the fourth wall surface.

A liquid ejecting head including a plurality of nozzles, a row of individual flow paths that includes a plurality of individual flow paths arranged in parallel along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis when viewed in a direction of the first axis, and a common liquid chamber that is commonly in communication with the plurality of individual flow paths. In the liquid ejecting head, the plurality of individual flow paths include a first individual flow path and a second individual flow path that are adjacent to each other in the row of individual flow paths, and the level of a first opening that is a connection port between the common liquid chamber and the first individual flow path and the level of a second opening that is a connection port between the common liquid chamber and the second individual flow path are different.

A liquid ejecting head includes: a pressure chamber substrate; and a communication plate, in which the pressure chamber substrate includes a first pressure chamber that extends in a first direction and applies pressure to a liquid, and a first supply channel, and the communication plate includes a first communication channel that extends in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and communicates with the first supply channel, and a second supply channel that communicates with the first supply channel and the first pressure chamber.

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Yuma Fukuzawa