Liquid ejection head
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideki Hayashi, Taisuke Mizuno
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Abstract
A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle surface having a plurality of nozzles, a channel structure stacked on the nozzle surface in a stacking direction, and a supply channel structure formed of a material having a lower thermal conductivity than a material of the channel structure. The channel structure has a liquid ejection channel communicating with the nozzles. The supply channel structure has a supply channel communicating with the liquid ejection channel. The supply channel structure has a covering portion covering at least a portion of an end surface on a side of the channel structure in a width direction orthogonal to the stacking direction.
Claims21
A liquid ejection head comprising:
- a nozzle surface having a plurality of nozzles;
- a channel structure stacked on the nozzle surface in a stacking direction, the channel structure having a liquid ejection channel communicating with the nozzles;
- a supply channel structure formed of a material having a lower thermal conductivity than a material of the channel structure, the supply channel structure having a supply channel communicating with the liquid ejection channel,
- wherein the supply channel structure has a covering portion contacting at least a portion of a side end surface of the channel structure in a width direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, and
- wherein the supply channel structure has a main portion overlapping the plurality of nozzles in the stacking direction;
- a damper configured to attenuate remaining vibrations propagating from liquid flowing;
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- a holding frame holding the damper, the holding frame being formed of a material with a lower thermal conductivity than the material of the channel structure,
- wherein, when a side of the liquid ejection head with the nozzle surface faces downward and a side of the liquid ejection head opposite to the nozzle surface faces upward, the supply channel structure is located over the channel structure,
- wherein the damper is located at a lower surface of the channel structure thereby defining a portion of the liquid ejection channel, and
- wherein the covering portion of the supply channel structure extends from an upper end portion of the channel structure along the side end surface thereof toward a position where the damper is provided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.