# US 10,369,789 B2 · Liquid ejection device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,369,789 B2 - Document ID: US10369789B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/948,096 - Filed: 2018-04-09 - Published: 2018-08-16 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-01-25 - Assignees: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Kyohei Naito - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10369789B2 ## CPC - B41J 2/14233: {of film type, deformed by bending and disposed on a diaphragm} - B41J 2002/14419: {Manifold} - B41J 2002/14491: {Electrical connection} - B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS ## Abstract A liquid ejection device is disclosed. One liquid ejection device includes a plurality of first contacts connected to a plurality of first piezoelectric elements, respectively, and positioned at a more outer position than a first piezoelectric element row and a second piezoelectric element row from a center of the device in a second direction. The liquid ejection device includes a plurality of second contacts connected to a plurality of second piezoelectric elements, respectively, and positioned at a more outer position than a third piezoelectric element row and a fourth piezoelectric element row from the center of the liquid ejection device in the second direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A liquid ejection device comprising: a first channel member having a plurality of first pressure chambers constituting a first pressure-chamber row and a second pressure-chamber row, wherein the first and second pressure-chamber rows extend along a first direction and the second pressure-chamber row is next to the first pressure-chamber row in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a second channel member positioned next to the first channel member in the second direction, the second channel member having a plurality of second pressure chambers constituting a third pressure-chamber row and a fourth pressure-chamber row, wherein the third and fourth pressure-chamber rows extend along the first direction and the fourth pressure-chamber row is next to the third pressure-chamber row in the second direction; and a liquid chamber member having a common liquid chamber communicating in common with pressure chambers included in the second pressure-chamber row, wherein the second pressure-chamber row is positioned between the first pressure-chamber row and the third pressure-chamber row in the second direction, wherein the third pressure-chamber row is positioned between the second pressure-chamber row and the fourth pressure-chamber row in the second direction, and wherein the common liquid chamber extending from the second pressure-chamber row to the third pressure-chamber row in the second direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The liquid ejection device according to claim 1, wherein the second pressure-chamber row and the third pressure-chamber row communicate with the common liquid chamber. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The liquid ejection device according to claim 1, wherein a support is disposed in the common liquid chamber and between the first channel member and the second channel member in the second direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The liquid ejection device according to claim 1, wherein the liquid chamber member includes a projecting portion at a wall thereof, wherein the wall defines a portion of the common liquid chamber, and wherein the projecting portion is positioned between the first channel member and the second channel member in the second direction and the projecting portion extends towards an opposite wall opposing to the wall. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The liquid ejection device according to claim 1, wherein pressure chambers of the second pressure-chamber row are offset with pressure chambers of the first pressure-chamber row in the first direction. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The liquid ejection device according to claim 1, wherein pressure chambers of the third pressure-chamber row are offset with the pressure chambers of the first pressure-chamber row in the first direction, and the pressure chambers of the third pressure-chamber row are offset with the pressure chambers of the second pressure-chamber row in the first direction. ### Claim 7 A liquid ejection device comprising: a first channel member having a plurality of first pressure chambers constituting a first pressure-chamber row extending along a first direction, wherein the first channel member extends from one end of the first channel member in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to another end of the first channel member in the second direction; a second channel member having a plurality of second pressure chambers constituting a second pressure-chamber row extending along the first direction, wherein the second channel member extends from one end of the second channel member in the second direction to another end of the second channel member in the second direction; a liquid chamber member having a common liquid chamber communicating in common with pressure chambers included in the first pressure-chamber row, wherein the second channel member is positioned next to the first channel member in the second direction, wherein the another end of the first channel member in the second direction and the one end of the second channel member in the second direction are positioned between the one end of the first channel member in the second direction and the another end of the second channel member in the second direction, wherein the common liquid chamber extends from one end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction to another end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction, and wherein the another end of the first channel member in the second direction and the one end of the second channel member in the second direction are positioned between the one end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction and the another end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The liquid ejection device according to claim 7, wherein the first pressure-chamber row and the second pressure-chamber row communicate with the common liquid chamber. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The liquid ejection device according to claim 7, wherein a support is disposed in the common liquid chamber and between the one end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction and the another end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The liquid ejection device according to claim 9, wherein the support is disposed between the another end of the first channel member in the second direction and the one end of the second channel member in the second direction. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The liquid ejection device according to claim 7, wherein the liquid chamber member includes a projecting portion at a wall thereof, wherein the wall defines a portion of the common liquid chamber, wherein the projecting portion is positioned between the one end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction and the another end of the common liquid chamber in the second direction, and wherein the projecting portion extends toward an opposite wall opposing to the wall. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The liquid ejection device according to claim 11, wherein the projecting portion extends from one end of the projecting portion in the second direction to another end of the projecting portion in the second direction, wherein the one end of the projecting portion in the second direction is disposed between the one end of the first channel member in the second direction and the another end of the first channel member in the second direction. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The liquid ejection device according to claim 12, wherein the another end of the projecting portion in the second direction is disposed between the one end of the second channel member in the second direction and the another end of the second channel member in the second direction.