摘要:
In one of the preferred embodiments, an inkjet printhead includes a nozzle member formed of a polymer material that has been laser-ablated to form tapered inkjet orifices. The nozzle member is then mounted to a substrate containing heating elements, each heating element being associated with a single orifice. In a preferred method, the orifices are formed by Excimer laser ablation.In other aspects of the invention, vaporization chambers as well as ink channels, providing fluid communication between an ink reservoir and the orifices, are also formed by Excimer laser ablation.
摘要:
In one of the preferred embodiments, an inkjet printhead includes a nozzle member formed of a polymer material that has been laser-ablated to form inkjet orifices, ink channels, and vaporization chambers in the unitary nozzle member. The nozzle member is then mounted to a substrate containing heating elements associated with each orifice. In a preferred method, the orifices, ink channels, and vaporization chambers are formed using an Excimer laser.
摘要:
In one of the preferred embodiments, an inkjet printhead includes a nozzle member formed of a polymer material that has been laser-ablated to form inkjet orifices, ink channels, and vaporization chambers in the unitary nozzle member. The nozzle member is then mounted to a substrate containing heating elements associated with each orifice. In a preferred method, the orifices, ink channels, and vaporization chambers are formed using an Excimer laser.
摘要:
In one of the preferred embodiments, an inkjet printhead includes a nozzle member formed of a polymer material that has been laser-ablated to form inkjet orifices. The nozzle member also has formed on it conductive traces for supplying electrical signals to heating elements on a substrate mounted to a surface of the nozzle member. In a preferred method, the orifices are formed by Excimer laser ablation.
摘要:
A novel, wide inkjet printhead and method of forming said inkjet printhead is disclosed, wherein a pattern of orifices are formed, using a step-and-repeat process, in a flexible tape using laser ablation or other suitable etching devices. The location of the orifices corresponds to where ink will be ejected from the inkjet printhead. The pattern of orifices may extend to any length without difficulty in aligning the orifices, since the tape may be continuous along the entire length of the printhead.
摘要:
A method for continuously manufacturing parts requiring precision micro-fabrication. According to the method, a surface of a mandrel having a reusable pattern thereon is moved through an electroforming bath. While the mandrel surface moves through the bath, a metal layer is deposited on the mandrel surface to define a pattern. After the metal layer has been deposited to the selected thickness, the metal layer is separated from the mandrel surface.
摘要:
Selected portions of the orifice plate surfaces are formed to have wetting and non-wetting surface characteristics for minimizing the accumulation of residual ink on the outer surface of the plate and for enhancing the flow of supply ink to the orifices of the plate.
摘要:
Selected portions of the orifice plate surfaces are formed to have wetting and non-wetting surface characteristics for minimizing the accumulation of residual ink on the outer surface of the plate and for enhancing the flow of supply ink to the orifices of the plate.
摘要:
Printhead fabrication methods and printheads are described. According to one aspect, a printhead fabrication method includes providing a spacer layer 36 over a plurality of bottom electrodes 10 of a printhead, providing a plurality of top electrodes 26 of the printhead over the spacer layer 36 and the bottom electrodes 10, aligning a plurality of printhead features 38 of the spacer layer 36 with a plurality of printhead features 28, 16 of the top electrodes 26 and the bottom electrodes 10, and bonding the spacer layer 36 with the top electrodes 26 and the bottom electrodes 10 with the printhead features 38 of the spacer layer 36 aligned with the printhead features 28, 16 of the top electrodes 26 and the bottom electrodes 10.
摘要:
A printhead for an inkjet printer employs an ink fill slot having an extended portion disposed as a depression on the primary surface of the printhead substrate. The barrier layer of the printhead forms the walls of the ink ejection chambers, the walls of and constrictions in the ink fill channels, and the contoured barrier lobes between the ink fill channels. The extended portion of the ink fill slot follows the contour of the barrier lobes such that the length of the substrate shelf between the ink fill channel constriction and the extended portion of the ink fill slot is equalized between ink ejection chambers.