Thermal print head, manufacturing method of the same, and thermal printer
AssigneeRohm Co., Ltd.
InventorGoro Nakatani
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Abstract
Provided is a thermal print head including: a substrate having a convex part thereon; a wiring layer over the convex part; a heat storage layer over the wiring layer; a heating resistive part that is formed over the heat storage layer and is arranged along a main scanning direction; a first electrode in contact with the heating resistive part on one side in a sub-scanning direction; a second electrode in contact with the heating resistive part on another side in the sub-scanning direction; and a connection wiring formed in an opening that passes through the heating resistive part and the heat storage layer and reaches the wiring layer, in which the first electrode is electrically connected to the wiring layer via the connection wiring.
Claims11
A thermal print head comprising:
- a substrate having a convex part thereon;
- a wiring layer over the convex part;
- a heat storage layer over the wiring layer;
- a heating resistive part that is formed over the heat storage layer and is arranged along a main scanning direction;
- a plurality of first electrodes in contact with the heating resistive part on one side in a sub-scanning direction;
- a plurality of second electrodes in contact with the heating resistive part on another side in the sub-scanning direction;
- a plurality of openings, wherein each of the openings corresponds to a respective one of the first electrodes and to a respective one or more of the plurality of second electrodes and passes through the heating resistive part and the heat storage layer and reaches the wiring layer, and
- a plurality of connection wirings, wherein each of the connection wirings is present in a respective one of the openings,
- wherein
- the first electrodes are electrically connected to the wiring layer via the connection wirings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.