摘要:
The present application is directed to electrostatic actuators, and methods of making electrostatic actuators. In one embodiment, an electrostatic actuator of the present application comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. The second electrode is positioned in proximity to the first electrode so as to provide a gap between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode is capable of being deflected toward the second electrode. A dielectric structure comprising a dielectric landing post is positioned in the gap between the first electrode and the second electrode, the dielectric structure extending over a greater surface of the gap than the landing post. The landing post protrudes out into the gap so as to limit the minimum contact spacing between the first electrode and the second electrode.
摘要:
The present application is directed to electrostatic actuators, and methods of making electrostatic actuators. In one embodiment, an electrostatic actuator of the present application comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. The second electrode is positioned in proximity to the first electrode so as to provide a gap between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode is capable of being deflected toward the second electrode. A dielectric structure comprising a dielectric landing post is positioned in the gap between the first electrode and the second electrode, the dielectric structure extending over a greater surface of the gap than the landing post. The landing post protrudes out into the gap so as to limit the minimum contact spacing between the first electrode and the second electrode.
摘要:
In a technique for obscuring the stitch error perceived the eye of a viewer, a first plurality of drops of fluid are ejected in a first firing sequence at a medium in a first swath from a print head including at least one die having a plurality of nozzles while moving in a first direction relative to the medium. Thereafter, the medium is advanced in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The print head is again moved in the first direction and a second plurality of drops of the fluid are fired at the medium in a second swath adjacent the first swath. A controller randomly modulates the spot size resulting from the drops of the fluid. The stitch error may be a misplacement of the second swath relative to the first swath and the second plurality of drops includes a random variety of drop sizes.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for forming an image with a print head that fires groups of drops of fluid results in a reduction in stitch joint error. The stitch joint error is reduced by changing the firing sequence of the nozzles of adjacent dies of the print head.
摘要:
An improved ink jet printhead including a channel plate and a heater plate having an improved flatness top bonding surface. The heater plate includes a silicon wafer base, a first insulating layer formed on the wafer base, and at least an intermediate component sublayer formed over the first insulating layer. The heater plate also includes a second insulating layer formed over the at least intermediate component sublayer, and having a top bonding surface for bonding the: heater plate to the channel plate. To substantially improve flatness of the top bonding surface of the second insulating layer, the component sublayer includes active thin film layer patterns in circuit areas of the thin sublayer, and non-active relief compensating patterns in non-circuit areas thereof. The non-active relief-compensating patterns each have a thickness substantially equal to the thickness of the active thin film patterns in the circuit areas of the sublayer.
摘要:
A full width read and/or write assemblies, such as a full width thermal ink jet printbar, is disclosed, having materials with both a high thermal coefficient of expansion and a low thermal coefficient of expansion. A suitable adhesive which provides lateral give while firmly holding the respective components together provides dimensional stability to the printbar element having a low thermal coefficient of expansion when components having high thermal coefficient of expansion are assembled thereto. The flexible or floating mounting enabled by lateral give of the adhesive allows for the application of cost effective materials with a high thermal coefficient of expansion to be used for support functions such as, for example, circuit boards and ink manifolds. The flexible or floating mounting relieves shear stress cased by a differential in the expansion or contraction of materials having a different thermal coefficient of expansion. Since the thermal expansion of the various components expand and contract from a center location thereof, this center location is bonded by an adhesive which does not provide lateral give, so that alignment between parts are maintained while the remainder of the respective components float relative to each other and prevent thermally induced stresses which tend to cause warpage.
摘要:
A wide semiconductor transducer device comprises a linear array of semiconductor chips. Each of the semiconductor chips has a plurality of transducer elements arranged on it along a front edge at a constant spacing, the constant spacing being maintained across the semiconductor chip boundaries. Each of the semiconductor chips also includes associated transducer circuits which are each connected one of the plurality of transducer elements formed on the semiconductor chip. While the requirement that the transducer elements maintain the constant spacing requires them to be located within a damage zone created during the dicing and/or thermally induced compression of the semiconductor chip, the associated transducer circuits can be located within an interior portion of the semiconductor chip. The interior portion of the semiconductor chip is located a sufficient distance from the edges of the semiconductor chip such that it does not encroach on the damage zone.
摘要:
A printhead for a thermal ink jet printer, preferably a roofshooter type printer, includes at least two arrays of linear spaced apart nozzles and heating elements, each array having a different resolution to produce printed pages at a draft print using a low resolution array, at a letter quality print using a high resolution array, or a combination of both arrays to provide enhanced grey scale reproduction. The high resolution array allows for accurate reproduction at a reduced throughput while the low resolution array allows for moderate reproduction at a higher throughput. Alternatively, the two arrays could be used simultaneously to provide a fast, broad, coarse stroke and a slower, fine detail stroke.
摘要:
A fabricating process for pagewidth reading and/or writing bars assembled from subunits, such as ink jet printhead subunits, is disclosed. At least two lengths of subunits are cut and placed on corresponding flat containers. An assembly robot places the subunits in a butted array on an alignment fixture and checks the accumulated positional error of the subunits as they are being assembled. When the robot detects an error exceeding some preset limits, it chooses a subunit of a known size to compensate for the detected error.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a buttable edge from a first wafer having first and second opposite planar surfaces and a second wafer having first and second opposite planar surfaces is disclosed. A first component is formed on the first planar surface of the first wafer. A precision dice cut is placed in the first planar surface of the first wafer closely adjacent to the first component. The precision dice cut extends partially through the first surface of the first wafer and defines the buttable edge. The first surface of the first wafer is bonded to the first surface of the second wafer, the first surface of the second wafer containing a second component and being aligned with and bonded to the first wafer so that the first and second components cooperate to form the semiconductor device. Portions of the first and second wafers surrounding the first and second components, respectively, are then removed to define the semiconductor device. The step of removing can include placing a second dice cut entirely through the first and second wafers parallel to and slightly offset from the precision dice cut. The second dice cut being located slightly further away from the first component than the precision dice cut and intersects a portion of the precision dice cut so that a side of the semiconductor device which includes the buttable edge is defined by the precision dice cut and the second dice cut.