摘要:
A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric inkjet printhead includes processing a lower silicon-on-insulator substrate having a sequentially stacked structure with a first silicon layer, an intervening oxide layer, and a second silicon layer, processing the lower silicon-on-insulator substrate by etching the second silicon layer to form a manifold, a plurality of pressure chambers arranged along at least one side of the manifold and connected with the manifold, and a plurality of dampers connected with the pressure chambers, and by etching the first silicon layer and the intervening oxide layer to form a plurality of vertical nozzles through the first silicon layer and the intervening oxide layer to corresponding ones of the plurality of dampers, stacking and bonding an upper substrate on the lower substrate, reducing the upper substrate to a predetermined thickness, and forming a piezoelectric actuator on the upper substrate.
摘要:
Provided are a nozzle plate and a method of fabricating the nozzle plate. In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a nozzle plate may include a body and at least one nozzle protruding from the body, wherein the at least one nozzle includes a wall having a thickness that increases the farther the wall gets away from an exit of the at least one nozzle.
摘要:
A printing apparatus includes: a flow channel plate including, a pressure chamber, a nozzle including an outlet through which ink contained in the pressure chamber is ejected, and a trench disposed around the nozzle, and the outlet extending into the trench; a piezoelectric actuator configured to provide a change in pressure to eject the ink contained in the pressure chamber; and an electrostatic actuator configured to provide an electrostatic driving force to the ink contained in the nozzle.
摘要:
A method of forming a hydrophobic coating layer on a surface of a nozzle plate of an inkjet printhead includes forming a plurality of nozzles in the nozzle plate, each of the nozzles having an exit, stacking a film on the surface of the nozzle plate to cover the exit of each of the nozzles, forming a predetermined metal layer on an inner wall of each of the nozzles and an inner surface of the film covering the exit of each of the nozzles using a plating method, removing the film from the surface of the nozzle plate, forming a hydrophobic coating layer on the surface of the nozzle plate to cover the metal layer exposed through the exit of each of the nozzles, and removing the metal layer formed on the inner wall of each of the nozzles and the hydrophobic coating layer formed on the surface of the metal layer.
摘要:
A piezoelectric inkjet head and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric inkjet head. The piezoelectric inkjet head includes three single crystal silicon substrates bonded to each other. An upper substrate includes an ink inlet, a plurality of pressure chambers, and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators, a middle substrate includes a manifold, a plurality of restrictors, and a plurality of first dampers, and a lower substrate includes a plurality of nozzles. The middle substrate also includes a membrane that is formed under the manifold to mitigate a rapid pressure change in the manifold and if formed of a material different from the material used for forming the middle substrate. A cavity located under the membrane and at least one venting channel that connects the cavity to the outside are formed in the middle substrate or the lower substrate. Due to the above configuration, the membrane having flexibility mitigates a rapid pressure change in the manifold caused by backflow of ink, and thus, cross-talk between adjacent pressure chambers during ink ejection can be effectively prevented.
摘要:
A nozzle plate of an inkjet printhead, and a method of manufacturing the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate includes a substrate through which nozzles are formed; an ink-philic coating layer formed on an outer surface of the substrate and inner walls of the nozzles; and an ink-phobic coating layer selectively formed on the ink-philic coating layer disposed around the nozzles.
摘要:
Provided are a nozzle plate and a method of fabricating the nozzle plate. In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a nozzle plate may include a body and at least one nozzle protruding from the body, wherein the at least one nozzle includes a wall having a thickness that increases the farther the wall gets away from an exit of the at least one nozzle.
摘要:
A silicon direct bonding (SDB) method by which void formation caused by gases is suppressed. The SDB method includes: preparing two silicon substrates having corresponding bonding surfaces; forming trenches having a predetermined depth in at least one bonding surface of the two silicon substrates; forming gas discharge outlets connected to the trenches on at least one of the two silicon substrates to vertically penetrate the bonding surface; cleaning the two silicon substrates; closely contacting the two silicon substrates to each other; and thermally treating the two substrates to bond them to each other. The trenches are formed along at least a part of a plurality of dicing lines, and both ends of the trenches are clogged. Gases generated during a thermal treatment process can be smoothly and easily discharged through the trenches and the gas discharge outlet such that a void is prevented from being formed in the junctions of the two silicon substrates due to the gases.
摘要:
In a piezoelectric actuator for an ink-jet printhead, and a method of forming the same, formed on a flow path plate having a pressurizing chamber, the piezoelectric actuator for applying a driving force for ink ejection to the pressurizing chamber, the piezoelectric actuator includes a lower electrode formed on the flow path plate, a bonding pad formed on the flow path plate to be insulated from the lower electrode, wherein a driving circuit for voltage application is bonded to an upper surface of the bonding pad, a piezoelectric layer formed on the lower electrode at a position corresponding to the pressurizing chamber, wherein an end of the piezoelectric layer extends onto the bonding pad, and an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer, wherein an end of the upper electrode extends beyond the end of the piezoelectric layer and contacts the upper surface of the bonding pad.
摘要:
Provided is a nozzle plate and methods of manufacturing the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate may include a substrate having a nozzle. The nozzle plate may also include a permittivity reducing area in an upper portion of the substrate around the nozzle, wherein the permittivity reducing area includes a plurality of porosities and a plurality of walls between the plurality of porosities. Additionally, the nozzle plate may include a protection layer on the substrate, wherein the protection layer covers the plurality of porosities and the plurality of walls.