Method of forming plate having fine bores
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKunio Ikeda
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Abstract
A method of forming a plate having a plurality of uniform and precisely sized fine bores. The method comprises winding around a mold member a wire having a diameter equal to that of the fine bores to be formed, forming an electro-cast layer on the mold member, superposing and uniting another mold member to the first-mentioned mold member, removing only the wire to a predetermined depth to form a mold, forming a plurality of plastic sheets using this mold, effecting a treatment for obtaining a conductivity on each plastic sheet to form an electro-cast master, forming an electro-cast film using this electro-cast master and separating the electro-cast layer thereby to form the plates having fine bores dispersed and sized uniformly and finished at high circularity and cylindricalness.
Claims1
A method of producing a multi-nozzle head having fine bores comprising the steps of:
- winding a wire of a diameter coinciding with the diameter of the fine bores to be formed around a mold member having a flat surface in such a manner that the turns of the wire extend in parallel with one another on the flat surface of the mold member;
- forming on said flat surface an electro-cast layer having a thickness large enough to embed said wire and coat said flat surface;
- polishing the exterior surface of the electro-cast layer to make the same flat;
- attaching another mold member of the same material as the first-mentioned mold member to the latter;
- forming a polished surface on at least one of said mold members in a direction perpendicular to said wire, removing said wire to a desired depth by dissolution to form a shaping mold having cavities, pressing a heated thermoplastic resin onto said polished surface and against said cavities by using said shaping mold and then separating said resin, thereby to form a plastic sheet having a plurality of projections of the same diameter as said wire, effecting a treatment for obtaining a conductivity on said plastic sheet thereby to form an electro-cast master;
- forming an electro-cast film on said master;
- effecting a lapping on said electro-cast film;
- and separating said electro-cast film, thereby to obtain a plate having a plurality of fine bores.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.