Abstract:
A liquid jet head (1) includes a nozzle plate (4) including nozzles (3) for ejecting liquid, side walls (6) placed above the nozzle plate (4), the side walls (6) forming grooves (5) having a fixed depth in a longitudinal direction thereof, drive electrodes (7) formed on wall surfaces of the side walls (6), for selectively deforming the side walls (6), a cover plate (10) placed on upper surfaces (US) of the side walls (6), the cover plate (10) including a supply port (8) for supplying liquid to the grooves (5) and a discharge port (9) for discharging liquid from the grooves (5), and sealing materials (11) for closing the grooves (5) outside communicating portions between the grooves (5) and the supply port (8) and between the grooves (5) and the discharge port (9). Accordingly, an outside shape of the liquid jet head is downsized and patterning of electrodes is facilitated.
Abstract:
An ink jet or other printer serves to print for each row of input pixels, two superimposed rows of contiguous "super pixels", each print pixel being capable of receiving print contributions from N super pixels. The super pixels are twice the width of the input pixels and one row of super pixels is offset by half a super pixel width from the next row of super pixels. Redundancy is thus provided against the loss of a print element. The effects of smoothing of an image are reduced by edge enhancement processes.
Abstract:
A liquid jet head (1) includes a nozzle plate (4) including nozzles (3) for ejecting liquid, side walls (6) placed above the nozzle plate (4), the side walls (6) forming grooves (5) having a fixed depth in a longitudinal direction thereof, drive electrodes (7) formed on wall surfaces of the side walls (6), for selectively deforming the side walls (6), a cover plate (10) placed on upper surfaces (US) of the side walls (6), the cover plate (10) including a supply port (8) for supplying liquid to the grooves (5) and a discharge port (9) for discharging liquid from the grooves (5), and sealing materials (11) for closing the grooves (5) outside communicating portions between the grooves (5) and the supply port (8) and between the grooves (5) and the discharge port (9). Accordingly, an outside shape of the liquid jet head is downsized and patterning of electrodes is facilitated.
Abstract:
Provided is a highly durable liquid jet head capable of improving conversion efficiency in converting deformation of side walls (6) into change in capacity of grooves (5). A liquid jet head (1) includes side walls (6) forming grooves (5), a reinforcing plate (17) which is formed of a ceramic material and is placed below the side walls (6), a nozzle plate (4) including nozzles (3) communicating with the grooves (5), respectively, the nozzle plate being placed on the reinforcing plate (17) on a side opposite to the side walls (6), drive electrodes (7) formed on wall surfaces (WS) of the side walls (6), and a cover plate (10) placed above the side walls (6), the cover plate including a supply port (8) for supplying liquid to the grooves (5) and a discharge port (9) for discharging liquid from the grooves (5).