Process for manufacturing thermal ink jet printheads having metal
substrates and printheads manufactured thereby
    3.
    发明授权
    Process for manufacturing thermal ink jet printheads having metal substrates and printheads manufactured thereby 失效
    制造具有金属基材和其制造原理的热喷枪喷嘴的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5194877A

    公开(公告)日:1993-03-16

    申请号:US705218

    申请日:1991-05-24

    IPC分类号: B41J2/05 B41J2/16

    摘要: A method of manufacturing a thermal ink jet printhead wherein a reusable mandrel consisting of either a metal pattern on an insulating or semiconductive substrate or an insulating pattern on a metal substrate or metal layer is used in the process of electroforming a plurality of metal substrates used for starting a batch fabrication process. Next, thin film layers of insulating, resistive, and conductive materials are formed on the surfaces of the metal substrates to thereby define heater resistors and lead-in conductors for the plurality of thermal ink jet printheads being formed. Then, a barrier layer such as Vacrel is photodefined on the surface of the thin film insulating, resistive, and conductive layers to thereby define a plurality of ink drop ejection chambers surrounding each of the previously formed heater resistors. Next, a plurality of orifice plates are secured, respectively, to the barrier layers in each of the printheads being formed. Finally, the plurality of metal substrates may be removed from the mandrel, such as by stripping away, without the requirement for substrate dicing, and an appropriate mask on the mandrel may be used to create an ink feed hole in each of the metal substrates. The metal substrates are further provided with a break tab line during the electroforming process which is aligned with break patterns in both the above thin film layers and orifice plates. In this manner, the individual thin film printheads may be easily broken away and separated one from another.

    Ink jet head structure
    5.
    发明授权
    Ink jet head structure 失效
    喷墨头结构

    公开(公告)号:US4306243A

    公开(公告)日:1981-12-15

    申请号:US77858

    申请日:1979-09-21

    IPC分类号: B41J2/025 G01D15/18

    CPC分类号: B41J2/025

    摘要: An improved ink jet print head structure. The print head includes a cylindrical glass rod having a bore extending along the axis of the rod. A surface is ground on the rod parallel to and near the bore. A metal organic paste is fired on the surface and a piezoelectric driver plate is soldered to the paste. A silicon nozzle plate is bonded to the front of the rod by means of an anodic bonding technique. The head structure may be attached to a charging electrode by means of an insulating support member, resulting in a prealigned and easily replaceable unit. Several alternative embodiments of the head structure and means for attaching the structure to an input line are disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 改进的喷墨打印头结构。 打印头包括具有沿杆的轴线延伸的孔的圆柱形玻璃棒。 表面在杆上平行于孔附近并在孔附近被研磨。 在表面上烧制金属有机糊剂,并将压电驱动器板焊接到糊料上。 通过阳极接合技术将硅喷嘴板结合到杆的前部。 头部结构可以通过绝缘支撑构件附接到充电电极,导致预先对准并且易于更换的单元。 公开了用于将结构附接到输入线的头部结构和装置的几个替代实施例。

    Jet nozzle structure for electrohydrodynamic droplet formation and ink
jet printing system therewith
    6.
    发明授权
    Jet nozzle structure for electrohydrodynamic droplet formation and ink jet printing system therewith 失效
    用于电动液滴形成的喷嘴结构及其喷墨打印系统

    公开(公告)号:US3949410A

    公开(公告)日:1976-04-06

    申请号:US543569

    申请日:1975-01-23

    摘要: The practice of this disclosure obtains a monolithic structure useful for electrohydrodynamically synchronizing the formation of droplets in a jet stream exiting from a jet nozzle. The monolithic structure is primarily adaptable for ink jet printing. The jet nozzle structure provided by the practice of this disclosure includes a jet nozzle design in a crystalline semiconductor block, e.g., of silicon (Si), germanium (Ge) or gallium arsenide (GaAs), with an electrode structure which is integrally incorporated therewith whereby a variable electric field is established proximate to the orifice of the jet nozzle structure. The electric field electrohydrodynamically perturbs the jet stream emitting from the jet nozzle structure so that formation of drops in the jet stream is controllably achieved, e.g., synchronously when the variable electric field is oscillating with a given periodicity.

    摘要翻译: 本公开的实践获得了一种整体结构,其可用于在从喷嘴喷出的射流中电流动力同步液滴的形成。 整体结构主要适用于喷墨印刷。 通过本公开的实践提供的喷嘴结构包括在诸如硅(Si),锗(Ge)或砷化镓(GaAs)的结晶半导体块中的喷嘴设计,其具有与其整体结合的电极结构 由此在喷嘴结构的孔口附近建立可变电场。 电流动力学地扰动从喷嘴结构发射的喷射流,从而例如当可变电场以给定的周期振荡时可控地实现射流中的液滴的形成。

    Spray-mode inkjet printer
    7.
    发明授权
    Spray-mode inkjet printer 失效
    喷雾式喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5984457A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-16

    申请号:US948094

    申请日:1997-10-09

    IPC分类号: B41J2/05 B41J2/21 G01D15/18

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2132 B41J2002/14322

    摘要: A thermal inkjet printer is operated in a spray-mode by deliberately firing ink droplets from a printhead while the meniscus of the remaining ink in the printhead is settling down. Generally, the drops will not travel in a direction perpendicular to the printing surface. By calibrating the printhead, one can determine how many drops are needed to be fired within the boundaries of a pixel to achieve any given optical density. Drops may be fired at rates above 50 kHz, and, depending on the ink, above 70 kHz. Ink with a viscosity of 10 centi-Poise or less, and even 2 centi-Poise or less, may be used. When one is printing both text and non-text images on the same surface, a digital representation of an image to be printed is analyzed and divided into non-text image fields and text fields. Each non-text image field is printed on the printing surface by projecting the corresponding ink droplets in the spray-mode. Each text field is printed on the printing surface in a text-mode, in which the firing rate is typically reduced to 5-10 kHz and the corresponding ink droplets are projected substantially perpendicular to the printing surface.

    摘要翻译: 热喷墨打印机通过在打印头中剩余墨水的弯液面稳定下来故意地从打印头喷射墨滴而以喷雾模式操作。 通常,液滴不会在垂直于印刷表面的方向上行进。 通过校准打印头,可以确定需要在像素的边界内发射多少液滴以实现任何给定的光密度。 滴液可以以50kHz以上的速率被发射,并且取决于油墨,高于70kHz。 可以使用粘度为10厘泊或更小,甚至2厘泊或更小的墨。 当在相同表面上打印文本和非文本图像时,将要打印的图像的数字表示被分析并分成非文本图像字段和文本字段。 通过将相应的墨滴投影在喷射模式中,每个非文本图像场被印刷在打印表面上。 每个文本字段以文本模式打印在打印表面上,其中喷射速率通常降低到5-10kHz,并且相应的墨滴基本上垂直于打印表面投影。

    Ink jet nozzle
    8.
    发明授权
    Ink jet nozzle 失效
    喷墨喷嘴

    公开(公告)号:US4007464A

    公开(公告)日:1977-02-08

    申请号:US543600

    申请日:1975-01-23

    摘要: In an ink jet printing system, a single nozzle or an array of nozzles are etched in a semiconductor material such as silicon. Each nozzle has polygonal or N-sided entrance and exit apertures of different cross-sectional area. Preferably, the nozzle is in the shape of a truncated pyramid with the entrance and exit apertures being substantially square in cross-section. The corners of the apertures and wall interfaces may be rounded to reduce stress concentrations.

    摘要翻译: 在喷墨打印系统中,在诸如硅的半导体材料中蚀刻单个喷嘴或喷嘴阵列。 每个喷嘴具有不同横截面积的多边形或N侧入口和出口孔。 优选地,喷嘴是截头棱锥的形状,其中入口孔和出口孔的横截面基本上是正方形。 孔和壁界面的角可以是圆形的以减少应力集中。

    Printhead and a method for the manufacture thereof
    9.
    发明授权
    Printhead and a method for the manufacture thereof 失效
    打印头及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5453769A

    公开(公告)日:1995-09-26

    申请号:US208100

    申请日:1994-03-08

    IPC分类号: B41J2/05 B41J2/16

    摘要: An inkjet printhead including a flexible substrate having at least one fold therein such that a first section of the substrate overlies a second section of the substrate. Inkdrop ejection chambers are disposed between opposed surfaces of the first and second sections of the substrate. Ink inlet orifices are provided in the first section of the substrate and each of the ink inlet orifices are in fluid communication with a respective one of the inkdrop ejection chambers. Ink outlet apertures are provided in the second section of the substrate and each of the ink outlet apertures are in fluid flow communication with a respective one of the inkdrop ejection chambers.

    摘要翻译: 一种喷墨打印头,包括柔性基板,其中至少一个折叠部分,使得基板的第一部分覆盖在基板的第二部分上。 墨滴喷射室设置在基板的第一和第二部分的相对表面之间。 墨水入口孔设置在基板的第一部分中,并且每个墨入口孔与相应的墨滴喷射室流体连通。 墨水出口孔设置在基板的第二部分中,并且每个墨出口孔与相应的一个墨滴喷射腔流体流动连通。

    Anisotropically etched ink fill slots in silicon
    10.
    发明授权
    Anisotropically etched ink fill slots in silicon 失效
    各向异性蚀刻的墨水填充槽中的硅

    公开(公告)号:US5308442A

    公开(公告)日:1994-05-03

    申请号:US9181

    申请日:1993-01-25

    摘要: An ink fill slot 18 can be precisely manufactured in a substrate 12 utilizing photolithographic techniques with chemical etching. N-type silicon wafers are double-side coated with a dielectric layer 26 comprising a silicon dioxide layer and/or a silicon nitride layer. A photoresist step, mask alignment, and plasma etch treatment precede an anisotropic etch process, which employs an anisotropic etchant for silicon such as KOH or ethylene diamine para-catechol. The anisotropic etch is done from the backside 12b of the wafer to the frontside 12a, and terminates on the dielectric layer on the frontside. The dielectric layer on the frontside creates a flat surface for further photoresist processing of thin film resistors 16.

    摘要翻译: 墨水填充槽18可以利用具有化学蚀刻的光刻技术在衬底12中精确地制造。 N型<100>硅晶片被双面涂覆有包括二氧化硅层和/或氮化硅层的电介质层26。 光刻胶步骤,掩模对准和等离子体蚀刻处理在各向异性蚀刻工艺之前进行,其中使用各向异性蚀刻剂用于诸如KOH或乙二胺对邻苯二酚的硅。 各向异性蚀刻从晶片的背面12b到前侧12a完成,并且在前侧的电介质层上终止。 前端的电介质层产生平坦的表面,用于薄膜电阻器16的进一步的光致抗蚀剂处理。