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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
May. 04, 1995
Kenji Shinozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Hirano, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording head and a recording apparatus using this recording head with which while exploiting the merits of an ink-vaporizing laser beam printer it is also possible to maintain good performance during repeated ink transfer. In a printer head 40 and a printer 81 which vaporize a recording substance 22 and transfer it onto a body to be recorded on 50, the radius of the circle having as its circumference the overall length of the inner periphery of an aperture 33 for discharging vaporized recording substance 32 to the body to be recorded on 50 side is 5 .mu.m to 300 .mu.m and is made smaller than the radius of the circle having as its circumference the overall length of the inner periphery of a supply part 27 for supplying the recording substance 22 to this aperture 33; as a result, a sufficient capillary phenomenon drawing action on the recording substance is maintained in the aperture and the amount of recording substance supplied from the supply part to the aperture can be kept sufficient even during repeated transfer, the amount of recording substance supplied corresponding to the transfer rate can be secured and the vaporized amount (transfer amount) can be kept full.