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US 2007/0165069 A1Published application
Droplet ejection head and droplet ejection apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsKatsuhiro Notsu, Masaki Kataoka, Hideki Fukunaga, Hiroshi Inoue, Shigeru Umehara, Takaharu Kondo
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Abstract
A droplet ejection head includes a nozzle plate that has nozzles and includes a polymer material. The polymer material forming the nozzle plate includes a lubricant having an average particle size of not smaller than 0.01 μm and not larger than 8% of a hole diameter of each of the nozzles.
Claims6
A droplet ejection head comprising:
- a nozzle plate that has nozzles and comprises a polymer material,
- wherein the polymer material forming the nozzle plate comprises a lubricant having an average particle size of not smaller than 0.01 μm and not larger than 8% of a hole diameter of each of the nozzles.
A droplet ejection apparatus comprising
- a droplet ejection head comprising a nozzle plate that has a plurality of nozzles and comprises a polymer material, the apparatus ejecting droplets from the plurality of nozzles to a droplet-landing surface in accordance with a driving signal,
- wherein the polymer material forming the nozzle plate comprises a lubricant having an average particle size of not smaller than 0.01 μm and not larger than 8% of a hole diameter of each of the nozzles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.