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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2005
Applicants:
Stephen Temple, Cambridge, GB;
Paul Raymond Drury, Hertfordshire, GB;
Inventors:
Stephen Temple, Cambridge, GB;
Paul Raymond Drury, Hertfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
XAAR Technology Limited, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An actuator taking the form of a piezoelectric wall separating two chambers, which utilizes two actuation modes. Both actuation modes cause volume displacements in both chambers, but act to reinforce one another in one chamber and cancel one another in the other chamber. A fluid pump for droplet deposition having an array of channels separated by such actuators can be operated with each channel acting substantially independently of its neighbors.