Printer head chip and printer head
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTakeo Eguehi, Minoru Kohno, Shinichi Horii, Takumi Namekawa
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Abstract
A printer head chip includes a plurality of ink compressing chambers which include heat-generating resistors and which are disposed side by side on a substrate. The printer head chip is used to discharge ink inside the plurality of ink compressing chambers from a nozzle by driving the heat-generating resistors. The printer head chip further includes an ink flow path groove, which is formed in the substrate and which is connected to each of the ink compressing chambers, for supplying ink to each of the ink compressing chambers. The invention makes it possible to supply ink to the printer head chip without increasing the size of a printer head, and to simplify the structure of the printer head.
Claims17
A printer head chip comprising a plurality of ink compressing chambers which include heat-generating resistors and which are disposed side by side on a substrate and the printer head chip being used to discharge ink inside the plurality of ink compressing chambers from a nozzle by driving the heat-generating resistors, the printer head chip including:
- an ink flow path groove, which is formed in the substrate and which is connected to each of the ink compressing chambers, for supplying ink to each of the ink compressing chambers,
- an ink flow path hole which connects the ink flow path groove and the outside of the substrate,
- wherein the ink flow path hole is connected to an ink supplying means or an ink flow path hole of the other printer head chip.
A printer head comprising:
- a plurality of printer head chips each comprising a plurality of ink compressing chambers which include heat-generating resistors and which are disposed side by side on a substrate, each of the plurality of printer head chips including an ink flow path groove which is provided in the substrate, which connects to each of the corresponding ink compressing chambers, and which is used to supply ink to each of the corresponding ink compressing chambers, and
- an ink flow path hole which connects the ink flow path groove and the outside of the substrate,
- wherein the ink flow path hole is connected to an ink supplying means or an ink flow path hole of the other printer head chip;
- the plurality of printer head chips being used to discharge the ink inside the plurality of ink compressing chambers from corresponding nozzles by driving the heat-generating resistors;
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- one nozzle sheet having the plurality of printer head chips disposed thereat and having the nozzles formed at locations corresponding to locations of the heat-generating resistors;
- wherein the ink flow path grooves of the plurality of printer head chips are connected together.
A printer head comprising:
- a plurality of printer head chips each comprising a plurality of ink compressing chambers which include heat-generating resistors and which are disposed side by side on a substrate, each of the plurality of printer head chips including an ink flow path groove which is provided in the substrate, which connects to each of the corresponding ink compressing chambers, and which is used to supply ink to each of the corresponding ink compressing chambers, and the plurality of printer head chips being used to discharge the ink inside the plurality of ink compressing chambers from corresponding nozzles by driving the heat-generating resistors;
- an ink flow path hole which connects the ink flow path groove and the outside of the substrate,
- wherein the ink flow path hole is connected to an ink supplying means or an ink flow path hole of the other printer head chip;
- one nozzle sheet having the plurality of printer head chips disposed thereat and having the nozzles formed at locations corresponding to locations of the heat-generating resistors;
- first ink supplying means for supplying ink to the ink flow path groove of one printer head chip;
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- second ink supplying means for supplying ink of a color which is different from a color of the ink supplied from the first ink supplying means to the ink flow path groove of another printer head chip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.