发明授权
- 专利标题: Printhead support structure with cavities for pulse damping
- 专利标题(中): 具有用于脉冲阻尼的空腔的打印头支撑结构
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申请号: US13219702申请日: 2011-08-28
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公开(公告)号: US08500244B2公开(公告)日: 2013-08-06
- 发明人: Brian Robert Brown , Norman Micheal Berry , Garry Raymond Jackson , Paul Timothy Sharp , John Douglas Peter Morgan , Kia Silverbrook , Akira Nakazawa , Michael John Hudson , Samuel George Mallinson , Paul Justin Reichl , Christopher Hibbard
- 申请人: Brian Robert Brown , Norman Micheal Berry , Garry Raymond Jackson , Paul Timothy Sharp , John Douglas Peter Morgan , Kia Silverbrook , Akira Nakazawa , Michael John Hudson , Samuel George Mallinson , Paul Justin Reichl , Christopher Hibbard
- 申请人地址: IE Dublin
- 专利权人: Zamtec Ltd
- 当前专利权人: Zamtec Ltd
- 当前专利权人地址: IE Dublin
- 代理机构: Cooley LLP
- 优先权: AU2006901084 20060303; AU2006901287 20060307; AU2006201083 20060315
- 主分类号: B41J2/155
- IPC分类号: B41J2/155 ; B41J2/165
摘要:
A structure for an inkjet printhead is disclosed. The printhead structure has an elongate support structure for supporting a printhead integrated circuit, and ink conduits formed in the elongate support structure for supplying ink to an array of nozzles of the printhead integrated circuit. Each ink conduit includes cavities distributed along a roof of the ink conduit. An opening to each cavity has an upstream edge and a downstream edge. The upstream edge contacts the ink before the downstream edge during initial priming of the ink conduits from an ink supply. The upstream edge has a transition face between the ink conduit and the cavity interior, the transition face being configured to inhibit ink from filling the cavity by capillary action during initial priming of the ink conduit. This causes gas to be trapped within the cavity. The gas acts to compress pressure pulses in the ink.