摘要:
A liquid ejection head includes a substrate including an electrically insulating film, an energy generating element provided on the substrate and configured to generate energy used to eject a liquid, a flow path formed through the substrate and communicating with an ejection port configured to eject a liquid, and a wiring layer formed in the electrically insulating film of the substrate, used to drive the energy generating element, provided apart from a wall defining the flow path, and provided to surround the flow path in a plan view of the substrate.
摘要:
A liquid ejection head including: a recording element substrate provided with an element; an electric wiring substrate having a bent portion, a connecting portion provided on one side of the bent portion and connected with the recording element substrate, and an input portion provided on the other side of the bent portion; and a housing having a first surface, a second surface, a depression provided on the second surface, and a member separated from a bottom surface of the depression and extending into an opening of the depression, wherein part of the other side of the electric wiring substrate is disposed between the bottom surface of the depression and the member.
摘要:
A process for producing a liquid ejection head by providing, in one chip, a liquid ejection head having a portion for ejection in which an ejection orifice array is arranged and a side portion having no ejection orifice array, these portions being provided with a member of a photosensitive material, arranging the chip on a common substrate in such a chip array that these two portions are alternately arranged, and separating each chip from the substrate, the process including the steps of relatively moving a reticle of an aligner along the chip array for a photosensitive material on the substrate to expose each chip, and developing the material to obtain the member. A first reticle for forming the portion for ejection and a second reticle for forming only the side portion are used. The exposure includes a first and a second exposure treatment respectively by the first and second reticles.
摘要:
A liquid discharge head includes: a substrate including an element that generates energy to discharge liquid and a liquid supply port; a flow path forming member on the substrate which forms a space therebetween with the substrate and has a discharge port therein, the space constituting a pressure chamber, and a flow path causing the pressure chamber and the liquid supply port to communicate; an interlayer provided between the substrate and the flow path forming member; and a protection layer including metal for protection, wherein the interlayer is disposed so as to avoid a first region corresponding to the element, a second region corresponding to a region of the flow path on a pressure chamber side, and a portion corresponding to a boundary between the first region and the second region, and wherein at least apart of the portion is covered with the protection layer.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present invention is a liquid ejection apparatus having: a liquid ejection head including a heating element, a first protection layer that blocks contact between the heating element and liquid, a second protection layer that partially covers the first protection layer and functions as a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode through the liquid, and an ejection port that ejects the liquid; and a control unit configured to perform control of setting a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode to a predetermined value in each of aging and printing by changing at least one of potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein ΔVa≠ΔVp is satisfied in the case where the potential difference in the aging is represented by ΔVa and the potential difference in the printing is represented by ΔVp.
摘要:
In a liquid ejection head in which ejection modules are arrayed on a flow path forming member, each ejection module includes a recording element substrate provided on a support member. The recording element substrate includes a liquid supply channel, a liquid collection channel, and ejection ports. The support member includes supply-side liquid communication ports communicating with the liquid supply channel and collection-side liquid communication ports communicating with the liquid collection channel. The supply-side liquid communication ports and the collection-side liquid communication ports are alternately provided along the direction in which the ejection modules are arrayed. The closest pair of liquid communication ports in the adjacent ends of two adjacent ejection modules are both supply-side or collection-side liquid communication ports.
摘要:
A liquid injection head improving electric reliability includes: a substrate including: energy generating elements configured to apply energy for ejection to a liquid, and a substrate upper surface on which terminals respectively connected to electric wirings are provided, an ejection port forming member having: an ejection port forming surface in which the ejection ports for ejecting a liquid are formed, and a back surface on a side opposite to the ejection port forming surface, which is arranged so as to opposite to the substrate upper surface, and a sealant configured to cover connecting portions between the electric wirings and the terminals.
摘要:
A printing apparatus comprises: a plurality of printing elements; driving circuits that have at least one source follower transistor and correspond to each of the plurality of printing elements; and a control unit configured to, in a case where a number of printing elements driven simultaneously does not exceed a predetermined number, perform a first control for driving the at least one source follower transistor by a fixed pulse width irrespective of the number of printing elements driven simultaneously, and, in a case where the number of printing elements driven simultaneously exceed the predetermined number, perform a second control for changing a pulse width to drive the at least one source follower transistor based on the number of printing elements driven simultaneously.
摘要:
A liquid ejection head includes a substrate, a heat generating resistor element arranged on the substrate and a flow channel forming member for forming a flow channel. The flow channel forming member has a side wall surrounding at least part of the heat generating resistor element. The heat generating resistor element has a pair of oppositely disposed sides and a pair of electrical connection regions which extend along the respective ones of the pair of sides and are separated from the respective ones of the pair of sides by a distance. The side wall has at least one concave corner which is comprised of a curved surface or a surface extending obliquely to the pair of sides and the heat generating resistor element has at least one convex corner which faces the at least one concave corner of the side wall and is rounded or chamfered.
摘要:
A printing apparatus comprises: a plurality of printing elements; driving circuits that have at least one source follower transistor and correspond to each of the plurality of printing elements; and a control unit configured to, in a case where a number of printing elements driven simultaneously does not exceed a predetermined number, perform a first control for driving the at least one source follower transistor by a fixed pulse width irrespective of the number of printing elements driven simultaneously, and, in a case where the number of printing elements driven simultaneously exceed the predetermined number, perform a second control for changing a pulse width to drive the at least one source follower transistor based on the number of printing elements driven simultaneously.