Injection head manufacturing method and injection head
AssigneeKonica Minolta IJ Technologies, Inc.
InventorHideo Watanabe
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Abstract
A flow path regulating member for regulating an ink flow path leading into the channels is formed on the rear side of the head chip by exposure and development through lamination of the photo masks having an opening of a predetermined pattern, after a photosensitive resin film has been bonded on the rear side of the head chip by heat and pressure without using an adhesive; this head chip being characterized in that the channels, and drive walls made up of piezoelectric elements are arranged alternately, the apertures of the channels are arranged on the front side and rear side, respectively, and drive electrodes are formed in channels.
Claims1
A manufacturing method of an inkjet head having a head chip wherein channels and drive walls configured with piezoelectric elements are arranged alternately, apertures of the channels are arranged respectively at a front surface and a rear surface of the head chip, a drive electrode is formed in each channel, and a flow path regulating member arranged at the rear surface of the head chip to regulate ink flow into the channel, wherein shear deformation is caused at the drive wall by applying a voltage so that ink in the channel is emitted, the manufacturing method comprising:
- adhering a photosensitive resin film by heat and pressure onto the rear surface of the head chip without using adhesives;
- covering the photosensitive resin film by a photo mask having openings in shape of a predetermined pattern;
- exposing and developing the photosensitive resin film covered by the photo mask so as to form the flow path regulating member;
- coating both surfaces of the flow path regulating member by coating the head chip with a film made of paraxylylene and derivatives thereof after forming the flow path regulating member;
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- adhering a nozzle plate onto a front surface of the head chip afterward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.