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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2013
Masataka Yoshiike, Kanagawa, JP;
Masataka Yoshiike, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a liquid discharge head including a nozzle plate including plural nozzles that discharge liquid droplets; a flow channel member that forms plural individual liquid chambers, the plural individual liquid chambers communicating with the corresponding nozzles; and a frame member that forms a common liquid chamber that supplies a liquid to the plural individual liquid chambers. The frame member covers a first outer circumferential surface of the nozzle plate and a second outer circumferential surface of the flow channel member. The frame member includes a protecting portion that covers a peripheral portion of a surface of the nozzle plate, where the protecting portion is made molten and adhered to the surface of the nozzle plate.