Inkjet printhead with spillage pits
    91.
    发明申请
    Inkjet printhead with spillage pits 失效
    喷墨打印头带有溢油坑

    公开(公告)号:US20070146432A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-06-28

    申请号:US11706310

    申请日:2007-02-15

    Inventor: Kia Silverbrook

    Abstract: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer assembly defining a plurality of spaced apart groups of ink supply channels and a plurality of groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements in fluid communication with respective ink supply channel groups. Each ink ejection nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber structure mounted to the wafer assembly. Each ink ejection nozzle arrangement also defines a nozzle chamber for receiving ink from an ink supply channel and an ink ejection port through which ink in the nozzle chamber can be ejected. An anchor extends from the wafer assembly in a location external to the nozzle chamber. An elongate thermal actuator mechanism extends from the anchor and into the nozzle chamber. A pit is defined adjacent each nozzle chamber structure for catching ink and thereby impeding spilt ink from spreading across the printhead.

    Abstract translation: 为喷墨打印机提供打印头。 打印头包括限定多个间隔开的供墨通道组的晶圆组件和与相应供墨通道组流体连通的多组喷墨喷嘴装置。 每个喷墨喷嘴装置包括安装到晶片组件的喷嘴室结构。 每个喷墨喷嘴装置还限定一个用于从墨水供应通道和墨水喷射口接收墨水的喷嘴腔,喷墨口中的墨水可通过喷墨口喷出。 锚固体在喷嘴室外部的位置从晶片组件延伸。 细长的热致动器机构从锚固件延伸到喷嘴室中。 在每个喷嘴室结构附近限定一个凹坑,用于捕捉墨水,从而阻止溢出的墨水扩散穿过打印头。

    Inkjet printhead integrated circuit with optimized trace orientation
    94.
    发明申请
    Inkjet printhead integrated circuit with optimized trace orientation 失效
    喷墨打印头集成电路具有优化的走线方位

    公开(公告)号:US20060268048A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-11-30

    申请号:US11499741

    申请日:2006-08-07

    Inventor: Kia Silverbrook

    Abstract: A printhead integrated circuit (IC) for an inkjet printer, with a plurality of nozzle chamber structures positioned on a wafer substrate to define nozzle chambers and an ink ejection nozzle in fluid communication with each nozzle chamber, has drive control and drive circuitry connectable to data and power supplies, and a plurality of elongate actuators attached to the substrate for displacement towards and away from the substrate in response to actuating signals from the drive control and drive circuitry. A plurality of ink ejection members are attached to respective actuators, each ejection member being positioned for acting on ink within respective nozzle chambers to eject a drop of ink from the ink ejection nozzle. The drive control and drive circuitry has traces between each actuator and the substrate and oriented transverse to a longitudinal axis of each respective actuator.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于喷墨打印机的打印头集成电路(IC),具有定位在晶片基板上以限定喷嘴室的多个喷嘴室结构和与每个喷嘴室流体连通的喷墨喷嘴,具有可连接到数据的驱动控制和驱动电路 和电源,以及响应于来自驱动控制和驱动电路的致动信号,附接到基板的多个细长致动器朝向和远离基板移位。 多个喷墨部件安装在相应的致动器上,每个喷射部件被定位成用于作用在相应的喷嘴腔内的油墨上以从喷墨喷嘴喷出墨滴。 驱动控制和驱动电路在每个致动器和基板之间具有纵向并且横向于每个相应致动器的纵向轴线的迹线。

    Thermal bend actuator with spatial thermal pattern
    96.
    发明授权
    Thermal bend actuator with spatial thermal pattern 失效
    具有空间热图的热弯曲致动器

    公开(公告)号:US06938991B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-09-06

    申请号:US10884888

    申请日:2004-07-06

    Inventor: Kia Silverbrook

    Abstract: A thermal actuator for a micro-electromechanical device such as an inkjet printer nozzle. The actuator has: (a) a base element; (b) a cantilevered element including a thermo-mechanical bender portion extending from the base element and a free end tip residing in a first position, the thermo-mechanical bender portion having a base end adjacent the base element and a free end adjacent the free end tip; and (c) apparatus adapted to apply a heat pulse having a spatial thermal pattern directly to the thermo-mechanical bender portion, causing the deflection of the free end tip of the cantilevered element to a second position, and wherein said spatial thermal pattern results in a substantially greater temperature increase of the base end than the free end of the thermo-mechanical bender portion. By designing the actuator such that the material with a high coefficient of thermal expansion heats with a predetermined spatial thermal pattern concentrated toward the base of the cantilever beam, the paddle end movement is greater and faster. The ink above the paddle is given the necessary pressure such that the ink in the bulging meniscus has sufficient momentum to break the surface tension and form a drop.

    Abstract translation: 用于诸如喷墨打印机喷嘴的微机电装置的热致动器。 致动器具有:(a)基座元件; (b)悬臂元件,其包括从基部元件延伸的热机械弯曲部分和位于第一位置的自由端头部,热机械弯曲部分具有邻近基部元件的基端部和与自由端部相邻的自由端部 末端 以及(c)适于将具有空间热图案的热脉冲直接施加到热机械弯曲部分的装置,使得悬臂元件的自由端尖端偏转到第二位置,并且其中所述空间热图案导致 基端的温度比热机械弯曲部分的自由端大大增加。 通过设计致动器,使得具有高的热膨胀系数的材料以预定的空间热图案加热,朝向悬臂梁的底部集中,桨端运动越来越快。 给予桨上方的油墨具有必要的压力,使得凸出的弯液面中的油墨具有足够的动量来破坏表面张力并形成液滴。

    Thermal bend actuator and control circuitry for a micro-electromechanical device
    98.
    发明授权
    Thermal bend actuator and control circuitry for a micro-electromechanical device 失效
    用于微机电装置的热弯曲致动器和控制电路

    公开(公告)号:US06786573B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-07

    申请号:US10713059

    申请日:2003-11-17

    Inventor: Kia Silverbrook

    Abstract: A thermal bend actuator includes a wafer substrate. An elongate actuator arm is fixed to the substrate at a fixed end. The elongate actuator arm includes a heater layer of a conductive material and a dielectric, resiliently flexible layer. The heater layer defines a heater circuit which is connected to an electrical potential. A working member is fixed to an opposite free end of the actuator arm. Control logic circuitry is positioned on the substrate, between, and generally aligned with, the heater layer and the substrate. The control logic circuitry is interconnected between a data input means and the heater circuit and includes register circuitry connected to the data input means to generate an enabling signal. Firing circuitry is connected between the register circuitry and the heater circuit to close the heater circuit on receipt of the enabling signal so that said electrical potential generates a current in the heater circuit, resistively to heat the heater layer. At least the heater layer is of a material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion which is such that the heater layer can expand on heating and contract on cooling to do work. The heater layer is positioned so that the elongate actuator arm experiences differential thermal expansion and contraction and thus reciprocally displaces the working member.

    Abstract translation: 热弯曲致动器包括晶片衬底。 细长的致动臂在固定端固定到基板上。 细长致动器臂包括导电材料的加热器层和电介质弹性柔性层。 加热器层限定了连接到电位的加热器电路。 工作构件固定在致动器臂的相对的自由端上。 控制逻辑电路位于衬底上,并且与加热器层和衬底大致对准。 控制逻辑电路在数据输入装置和加热器电路之间互连,并且包括连接到数据输入装置以产生使能信号的寄存器电路。 点火电路连接在寄存器电路和加热器电路之间,以在接收到使能信号时关闭加热器电路,使得所述电位在加热器电路中产生电流,以电阻地加热加热器层。 至少加热器层是具有热膨胀系数的材料,其使得加热器层可以在加热时膨胀并在冷却时收缩以进行工作。 加热器层被定位成使得细长致动器臂经受不同的热膨胀和收缩并且因此使工作构件相互置换。

    Polymeric coating formulations and steel substrate composites
    100.
    发明申请
    Polymeric coating formulations and steel substrate composites 失效
    聚合物涂料配方和钢底材复合材料

    公开(公告)号:US20040022604A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-05

    申请号:US10208454

    申请日:2002-07-30

    Abstract: Specific materials, percentages, dimensions, and other values have been set forth for purposes of presenting specific embodiments enabling one skilled in the art to make and use the invention. However, it should be recognized that the above description and disclosures of specific embodiments, along with descriptions of combinations of materials, percentages, dimensions and other values set forth in the above specification, provide technical information enabling those skilled in the art to arrive at other values, while continuing to rely on the principles of the invention as taught by the above specification. Therefore, in evaluating valid patent coverage for the disclosed subject matter, reference should be made to the scope and breadth of the appended claims; it is submitted that the language of those claims should be construed in the light of the above disclosures considering the breadth of the embodiments described.

    Abstract translation: 已经阐述了具体材料,百分比,尺寸和其它值,以便呈现使得本领域技术人员能够制造和使用本发明的特定实施例。 然而,应当认识到,上述具体实施方案的描述和公开以及上述说明书中阐述的材料,百分比,尺寸和其他值的组合的描述提供了使本领域技术人员能够到达其他的技术信息 价值观,同时继续依靠上述说明书教导的本发明的原理。 因此,在评估所披露主题的有效专利覆盖面时,应参考所附权利要求的范围和宽度; 据认为,考虑到所描述的实施例的广度,这些权利要求的语言应当根据上述公开内容来解释。

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