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US 4,733,447 AGranted
Ink jet head and method of producing same
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYukihiro Ageishi
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Abstract
An ink jet head includes a metallic nozzle member and a metallic ink chamber member which are bonded to each other by Joule effect with a thin metallic layer interposed therebetween. The metallic layer is deposited on a mirror-finished surface of the ink chamber member to make contact with a mirror-finished surface of the nozzle member in the event of bonding.
Claims1
A method of producing an ink jet head, comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming at least one orifice for ink ejection through a flat nozzle member which includes a smooth surface;
- (b) smoothing a surface of an ink chamber member, which defines an ink chamber inclusive of an ink passageway, to form a smoothed surface which corresponds to said smooth surface of said flat nozzle member;
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- (c) bonding said nozzle member and said ink chamber member such that metallic bond is set up between the smoothed surface of the nozzle member and the smoothed surface of the ink chamber member by generating Joule heat by application of pressure and power,
- wherein a member having high resistivity is associated with the nozzle member to concentrate the heat generation to the nozzle member side.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.