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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 12, 2011
Yoshimasa Okamura, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Birkmeyer, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Higginson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gregory DE Brabander, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul A. Hoisington, Hanover, NH (US);
Andreas Bibl, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yoshimasa Okamura, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Birkmeyer, San Jose, CA (US);
John A. Higginson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gregory De Brabander, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul A. Hoisington, Hanover, NH (US);
Andreas Bibl, Los Altos, CA (US);
FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc., Lebanon, NH (US);
Abstract
A fluid ejector having an inner surface, an outer surface, and an orifice that allows fluid in contact with the inner surface to be ejected. The fluid ejector has a non-wetting monolayer covering at least a portion of the outer surface of the fluid ejector and surrounding an orifice in the fluid ejector. Fabrication of the non-wetting monolayer can include removing a non-wetting monolayer from a second region of a fluid ejector while leaving the non-wetting monolayer on a first region surrounding an orifice in the fluid ejector, or protecting a second region of a fluid ejector from having a non-wetting monolayer formed thereon, wherein the second region does not include a first region surrounding the orifice in the fluid ejector.