摘要:
An improved ink jet head is provided. This improved ink jet head comprises a diaphragm, which is part of an ink chamber. The diaphragm includes a segment which contacts an opposing wall by a drive voltage lower than that for the rest of the diaphragm. The ink jet head also comprises an opposing wall opposite to the diaphragm. When the pressure for ink droplet ejection is generated, the segment of the diaphragm contacts the opposing wall, creating an extremely low compliance state. After ink droplet ejection, the segment of the diaphragm separates from the opposing wall, producing a high compliance state that absorbs the pressure created in the ink chamber by oscillation in the ink channel. Thus, pressure in the ink chamber resulting from ink vibration in the ink path including the ink chamber is buffered to prevent satellite emissions. When plural different gaps are formed between the diaphragm and the opposing wall to create the segments requires different drive voltage for contacting the opposing wall, the part of the diaphragm contributing to ink droplet ejection can be selected by appropriately controlling the voltage applied to opposing electrodes. The mass of the ejected ink droplets can thus be variably controlled. Drive at a lower drive voltage is also possible because contact with the opposing wall is propagated from the segment of the diaphragm to the other parts of the diaphragm. A high ink nozzle density is also achieved in an ink jet head using an electrostatic actuator without increasing the drive voltage.
摘要:
A method of jetting drops of ink from a print head, and a print head adapted to the method are described. The drops of ink are stably jet with a size smaller than the nozzle openings. Described is a method in which a meniscus m that is initially stationary at a nozzle opening is rapidly drawn so that a central region mc of the meniscus is strongly drawn toward a pressure producing chamber. When the movement of the central region of the meniscus toward the pressure producing chamber begins to reverse, the pressure producing chamber is caused to contract to produce an inertial stream and causing the inertial stream to act intensively on the central region of the meniscus close to the pressure producing chamber side. As a result, by pushing only the central region of the meniscus at a high speed, an ink droplet whose size is smaller than the diameter of the nozzle opening is jetted out stably at a speed suitable for printing.
摘要:
An ink supply communication path is formed so that one end thereof is arranged outside a region confronting a pressure producing chamber at a region confronting a reservoir chamber; and an ink supply constricted port is arranged at a portion of the ink supply communication path, the portion being remotest from the pressure producing chamber. Since the pressure producing chamber is connected to the ink supply constricted port through the elongated ink supply communication path, a jet flow from the ink supply constricted port grows into a large flow along the ink supply communication path, which in turn allows air bubbles susceptible to stagnation in the vicinity of the ink supply constricted port to be discharged by such large flow.
摘要:
An ink-jet recording head, in which two piezoelectric substrates are opposite each other in polarization direction, and grooves are formed across the interface of the two substrates at a predetermined pitch so as to form cavities. One of each of the cavities is opened to the atmosphere and include an orifice adapted for squirting ink drops. The cavities have electrodes formed on their inner surfaces. When a voltage of one polarity is applied to the electrode for the cavity from which ink drops is to be generated whereas a voltage of the other polarity is applied to the electrodes for the two adjacent cavities, the diaphragms separating the three cavities deform in a shear mode towards the cavity from which ink drops is to be generated. As a result, the capacity of the cavity from which ink drops is to be generated decreases to have the ink in the cavity squirt outward from the orifice.
摘要:
Droplets of a liquid are ejected through a plurality of nozzles to a plurality of coating regions on a substrate based on nozzle information including the ejection amount of a droplet of the liquid ejected through each nozzle. According to arrangement information for disposing the liquid, a plurality of droplet groups are disposed in each coating region while the plurality of nozzles and the substrate are scanned for relative movement. A calculation is performed according to the nozzle information and the arrangement information. Adjustment amount is calculated so that the assigned adjustment amounts vary from one droplet group to another. Driving signals, which drive selected nozzles, are set so that combinations of the driving signals give coating amounts that have taken the assigned adjustment amounts into account.
摘要:
An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a partition disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of electro-optical elements disposed on the substrate. Each element includes a functional layer having an electro-optic function, with a resolution in a first direction that corresponds to an interval between the elements in the first direction. The plurality of elements constitute element arrays and are divided into a plurality of element groups. The element arrays are arranged in a direction crossing the first direction. Each group includes the corresponding electro-optical elements aligned in a second direction crossing the first direction, and each of the plurality of element regions includes at least one of the element groups and extends in a third direction crossing the first direction as viewed from the top.
摘要:
A pattern forming method for forming a functional film with a prescribed pattern on a substrate using a droplet discharge method, the pattern forming method includes: a sub region configuration process for: configuring, in a design pattern of the functional film, a plurality of sub regions which divide the designing pattern; and categorizing the plurality of sub regions into a plurality of non-adjacent groups; a first drawing process for arranging the liquid substance so as to draw a sub region that belongs to a first group categorized in the sub region configuration process; and a second drawing process for arranging the liquid substance so as to draw a sub region that belongs to a second group categorized in the sub region configuration process; wherein a solidification process for solidifying the liquid substance arranged in the first drawing process is provided between the first drawing process and the second drawing process.
摘要:
A droplet discharging head includes a first through hole having an outlet for discharging of a liquid material and a second through hole having an inlet for injection of the liquid material, the second through hole having a protrusion on
摘要:
A pattern forming method for forming a functional film with a prescribed pattern on a substrate using a droplet discharge method, the pattern forming method includes: a sub region configuration process for: configuring, in a design pattern of the functional films a plurality of sub regions which divide the designing pattern; and categorizing the plurality of sub regions into a plurality of non-adjacent groups; a first drawing process for arranging the liquid substance so as to draw a sub region that belongs to a first group categorized in the sub region configuration process; and a second drawing process for arranging the liquid substance so as to draw a sub region that belongs to a second group categorized in the sub region configuration process; wherein a solidification process for solidifying the liquid substance arranged in the first drawing process is provided between the first drawing process and the second drawing process.
摘要:
To provide an ink jet recording head with a decreased initial deflection amount of a diaphragm and an ink jet recorder comprising the ink jet recording head. An ink jet recording head which has a flow passage formation substrate 10 where pressure generation chambers 12 communicating with nozzle openings are defined and a piezoelectric element being placed on one side of the flow passage formation substrate 10 via a diaphragm and having at least a lower electrode 60, a piezoelectric layer 70, and an upper electrode 80, characterized in that at least one of layers deposited together with the piezoelectric layer 70 is a compression film 50 having a compressive stress and the compression film 50 has at least a part in a thickness direction removed in at least a part of an area opposed to the pressure generation chamber, whereby the stress of the whole film is decreased.