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US 2025/0050637 A1Published application
Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsNaoto YOKOYAMA, Masaki MORI, Hitoshi TAKAAI, Motoki TAKABE, Toshihiro SHIMIZU
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting head may include a first electrode to which a reference voltage is applied, a second electrode to which a drive voltage is applied, a piezoelectric body provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and driven by a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the drive voltage, a diaphragm that vibrates in response to the driving of the piezoelectric body, and a nozzle from which a liquid is ejected by the vibration of the diaphragm.
Claims10
A liquid ejecting head comprising:
- a first electrode to which a reference voltage that does not change over time is applied;
- a second electrode to which a drive voltage that changes over time is applied;
- a piezoelectric body provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and driven by a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the drive voltage;
- a diaphragm that vibrates in response to the driving of the piezoelectric body;
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- a nozzle from which a liquid is ejected by the vibration of the diaphragm,
- wherein in a case where a displacement amount of the diaphragm when a first reference voltage is applied to the first electrode and a first drive voltage is applied to the second electrode is a first displacement amount, and a displacement amount of the diaphragm when a second reference voltage is applied to the first electrode and a second drive voltage is applied to the second electrode is a second displacement amount, a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the first drive voltage is equal to a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the second drive voltage, a difference between the minimum value of the first drive voltage and the first reference voltage corresponds to a coercive electric field of the piezoelectric body, a difference between the minimum value of the second drive voltage and the second reference voltage is closer to 0 than the difference between the minimum value of the first drive voltage and the first reference voltage, and the second displacement amount is larger than 90% of the first displacement amount.
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