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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2013
Takafumi Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukitoshi Tajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Takafumi Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukitoshi Tajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a droplet discharge head including a nozzle substrate including a nozzle, an individual liquid chamber substrate including an individual liquid chamber, and a common liquid chamber substrate including a common liquid chamber, wherein the substrates are laminated, wherein a portion of a top surface of the common liquid chamber is flexible, wherein the top surface of the common liquid chamber is disposed at a side opposite to another side at which the nozzle plate is disposed, wherein the common liquid chamber has a shape such that one portion of the common liquid chamber is narrowed in a direction in which the substrates are laminated, wherein a height of a wall of the common liquid chamber in the direction in which the substrates are laminated is constant, and wherein the wall is substantially perpendicular to the top surface.