摘要:
An electric potential difference between both ends of a first fuse portion is increased to more than the electric potential difference that is generated by an electric potential applied to drive print elements in a state where a first print element and a first covering portion are electrically connected to each other.
摘要:
The liquid ejection head includes: a wall member having formed therein a void for communicating between a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber; a first energy generation element to eject the liquid in the first liquid chamber; a second energy generation element to eject the liquid in the second liquid chamber; a first electrode is arranged in a vicinity of the first energy generation element in the first liquid chamber; a second electrode for forming, between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electric field in liquid inside the first liquid chamber; and a supply port which supplies liquid to the first energy generation element, wherein the wall member includes a channel wall in which the second liquid chamber, the void, and the supply port communicate, and the second electrode is arranged between the second liquid chamber and the supply port in the channel.
摘要:
A liquid discharge head has a chamber wall member forming a liquid chamber and a discharge head substrate containing a laminate of a base substrate having a surface for an element generating energy for discharging liquid. A first and second layer is formed contacting the wall. The second layer has adhesiveness with the chamber wall member higher than adhesiveness of the first layer, forming the liquid chamber with the chamber wall member. The first layer has a portion exposed from the second layer as viewed from a first direction orthogonal to the surface and contacting the chamber wail member at a position distant from the liquid chamber in a second direction orthogonal to the inner surface of the wall relative to a portion where the wall and second layer contact, and the length in the second direction of the portion of the first layer is 0.3 μm or more.
摘要:
A method of cleaning a liquid discharge head having a substrate provided with a supply port, a heat-generating resistor covered with a covering layer, a liquid chamber forming member configured to form a liquid chamber, and at least one electrode and being configured to discharge liquid supplied to the liquid chamber from the supply port by causing the heat-generating resistor to generate heat, includes applying a voltage to the covering layer and the electrode to cause an electrochemical reaction between the covering layer and the liquid and dissolve the covering layer into the liquid to remove kogations accumulated on the covering layer, in which the covering layer and the electrode to which the voltage is to be applied are not provided in the same liquid chamber having the same cross-sectional area in a direction from the covering layer toward the electrode.
摘要:
A liquid discharge head has a chamber wall member forming a liquid chamber and a discharge head substrate containing a laminate of a base substrate having a surface for an element generating energy for discharging liquid. A first and second layer is formed contacting the wall. The second layer has adhesiveness with the chamber wall member higher than adhesiveness of the first layer, forming the liquid chamber with the chamber wall member. The first layer has a portion exposed from the second layer as viewed from a first direction orthogonal to the surface and contacting the chamber wail member at a position distant from the liquid chamber in a second direction orthogonal to the inner surface of the wall relative to a portion where the wall and second layer contact, and the length in the second direction of the portion of the first layer is 0.3 μm or more.
摘要:
Cleaning under appropriate cleaning conditions is performed by disposing an electrode pair for measuring conductivity in the same liquid chamber as that of a material layer (i.e., an upper electrode) of a surface of a thermal action portion to be eluted, and measuring conductivity of a liquid using the electrode pair before kogation is removed.
摘要:
A method for cleaning a liquid ejection head which includes applying a voltage to a coating layer of the liquid ejection head to cause the coating layer to be eluted in a liquid so that kogation deposited on a coating layer is removed. When removing kogation deposited on the coating layer, temperatures of the liquids in the liquid chambers are selectively changed among a plurality of liquid chambers.
摘要:
A reproduction method of a liquid ejecting head including: a process of filling the flow path with an electrolyte solution containing metal, and filling a space between an electrode capable of applying a voltage to between itself and the upper protective film and the upper protective film with the electrolyte solution; and a process of applying a voltage to between the upper protective film and the electrode to make the metal contained in the electrolyte solution deposit on the surface of the upper protective film.
摘要:
A technique capable of appropriately detecting a timing for replacement of a liquid ejection head is to be provided. A liquid ejection head including: a first electrode configured to protect an electrothermal conversion element that ejects a liquid from an ejection port and to be capable of eluting into the liquid by an electrochemical reaction with the liquid; and a second electrode installed so as to be electrically connectable to the first electrode via the liquid, wherein a voltage is applied to cause the second electrode to generate the electrochemical reaction with the first electrode, so that the first electrode is eluted into the liquid, wherein polarities can be reversed between the first electrode and the second electrode for applying the voltage, and wherein wiring resistance in a circuit including a plurality of second electrodes as a part of wiring can be measured.
摘要:
An electrode pad portion of a liquid ejection head substrate includes a layer containing one of an iridium metal and an iridium alloy, and at least a portion of a cavitation resistant layer is provided in the same layer with the same material as the layer containing one of the iridium metal and the iridium alloy.