Droplet discharge head and droplet discharge device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorHirotsuna MIURA
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Abstract
A droplet discharge head includes: a head body having a surface opposed to an object; a plurality of nozzles aligned on the surface and discharging a droplet to each of positions of the object; and an irradiation part disposed on the surface and irradiating the object with light. In the droplet discharge head, the irradiation part includes i×j pieces of irradiation parts arranged such that i (an integer number of 1 or more) pieces of irradiation parts are aligned in an alignment direction of the nozzles and j (an integer number of 2 or more) pieces of irradiation parts are disposed in a predetermined direction that is orthogonal to the alignment direction of the nozzles and aligned along the predetermined direction.
Claims17
A droplet discharge head, comprising:
- a head body having a surface opposed to an object;
- a plurality of nozzles aligned on the surface and discharging a droplet to each of positions of the object;
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- an irradiation part disposed on the surface and irradiating the object with light, wherein
- the irradiation part includes i×j pieces of irradiation parts arranged such that i (an integer number of 1 or more) pieces of irradiation parts are aligned in an alignment direction of the nozzles and j (an integer number of 2 or more) pieces of irradiation parts are disposed in a predetermined direction that is orthogonal to the alignment direction of the nozzles and aligned along the predetermined direction.
A droplet discharge device, comprising:
- a droplet discharge head discharging a droplet to an object;
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- a controlling unit drive-controlling the droplet discharge head by relatively moving the droplet discharge head and the object, wherein the droplet discharge head includes:
- a head body having a surface opposed to the object,
- a plurality of nozzles aligned on the surface and discharging the droplet to each of positions on the object opposed to the plurality of nozzles, and
- i×j pieces of irradiation parts arranged such that i (an integer number of 1 or more) pieces of irradiation parts are aligned along an alignment direction of the nozzles and j (an integer number of 2 or more) pieces of irradiation parts are disposed in a predetermined direction that is orthogonal to the alignment direction of the nozzles and aligned along the predetermined direction;
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- wherein when the controlling unit allows the object to move relatively to the droplet discharge head in the predetermined direction so as to discharge the droplet to a selected position that is selected from the positions, the controlling unit allows the j pieces of irradiation parts disposed in the predetermined direction of a nozzle opposed to the selected position to irradiate the object with light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.