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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2008
Zachary Justin Reitmeier, Lexington, KY (US);
Zachary Justin Reitmeier, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A heater stack includes first strata configured to form a fluid heater element responsive to energy from repetitive electrical activation and deactivation to fire repetitive cycles of heating and ejecting fluid from an ejection chamber above the fluid heater element and second strata overlying the first strata and contiguous with the ejection chamber to provide protection of the fluid heater element. The first strata includes a substrate and a heater substrata overlying the substrate and including a resistive layer having lateral portions spaced apart, a central portion extending between the lateral portions and defining the fluid heater element, and transitional portions interconnecting the central portion and lateral portions and elevating the central portion relative to the lateral portions and above the substrate to form a gap between the lateral portions and between the central portion and substrate insulating the substrate from the fluid heater element and a planar upper surface on the heater substrata.