Thermal head and thermal printer
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorsNaoto MATSUKUBO, Hidetaka SONOBATA, Taiki ASAYAMA, Tadayasu KOMURA, Kenji NAKAI
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Abstract
A thermal head includes a substrate, a heat storage layer located on the substrate, and a heat generating part located on the heat storage layer. A transport direction of a recording medium is defined as a first direction, a direction opposite to the first direction is defined as a second direction, and in the heat storage layer, a thickness of a portion located under an end portion of the heat generating part on a side of the second direction is thicker than a thickness of a portion located under an end portion of the heat generating part on a side of the first direction.
Claims10
A thermal head, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a heat storage layer located on the substrate;
- and
- a heat generating part located on the heat storage layer,
- wherein a transport direction of a recording medium is defined as a first direction,
- a direction opposite to the first direction is defined as a second direction, and
- in the heat storage layer, a thickness of a portion located under an end portion of the heat generating part on a side of the second direction is thicker than a thickness of a portion located under an end portion of the heat generating part on a side of the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.