Inkjet head and printer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10086611-B2
Application number	US-201515112112-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2015
Priority date	Jul 30, 2014
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

The head has a passage member having a nozzle and a pressurizing chamber which is communicated with the nozzle and is positioned on the side opposite to the side where the nozzle is opened, a piezoelectric actuator substrate which is superimposed on the passage member so as to cover the pressurizing chamber, and a flexible printed circuit which faces the piezoelectric actuator substrate from the opposite side to the passage member. The piezoelectric actuator substrate has a piezoelectric body which is exposed on the flexible printed circuit side. The piezoelectric body has a via hole opened toward the flexible printed circuit and has a projection portion at the edge part of the via hole which projects to the flexible printed circuit side.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An inkjet head comprising:
a passage member having a nozzle comprising a nozzle opening on a first surface, and a pressurizing chamber which is communicated with the nozzle and is positioned on a second surface opposite to the first surface,
a piezoelectric actuator substrate which is superimposed on the passage member so as to cover the pressurizing chamber, and
a flexible printed circuit which faces the piezoelectric actuator substrate from a side opposite to the passage member, wherein
the piezoelectric actuator substrate has an electrically insulated layer which is exposed on a flexible printed circuit side, and
the electrically insulated layer has a via hole opened toward the flexible printed circuit, and
in a cross-sectional view of the piezoelectric actuator substrate including the via hole, the electrically insulated layer comprises a projection portion formed on one portion of an edge of the via hole, and the projection portion, formed on the one portion of the edge of the via hole, projects towards the flexible printed circuit higher than the electrically insulated layer formed at an other portion of the edge of the via hole.

2. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein:
the electrically insulated layer comprises a piezoelectric body, and
an external electrode is superimposed on a flexible printed circuit side of the piezoelectric body while avoiding the projection portion, and

a top face of the projection portion is positioned nearer to the flexible printed circuit than a surface of the external electrode which faces the flexible printed circuit.

3. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein:
the electrically insulated layer comprises a piezoelectric body, and
an external electrode is superimposed on a flexible printed circuit side of the piezoelectric body while avoiding the projection portion, and
a connection pattern is superimposed on the flexible printed circuit side of the piezoelectric body while avoiding the external electrode and connected through a bump to the flexible printed circuit, and
the connection pattern has a connection pattern portion covering the projection portion, and a top face of the connection pattern portion is positioned nearer to the flexible printed circuit than a surface of the external electrode which faces the flexible printed circuit.

4. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric actuator substrate further has a via conductor which is arranged in the via hole and connects conductor layers, which are arranged on a front and back of the electrically insulated layer, with each other.

5. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein in a top view of the electrically insulated layer including the via hole, the projection portion extends a length along the one portion of the edge of the via hole, the length having a range between ⅓ of a circumference of the edge of the via hole and ⅔ of the circumference of the edge of the via hole.

6. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein in a top view of the electrically insulated layer including the via hole,
the electrically insulated layer comprises a piezoelectric body,
an internal electrode is superimposed on a passage member side of the piezoelectric body,
a via conductor is arranged in the via hole and is connected to the internal electrode, and
a connection pattern is superimposed on a flexible printed circuit side of the piezoelectric body and is connected to the via conductor,

the projection portion extends a length along the one portion of the edge of the via hole, the length having a range between ⅓ of a circumference of the edge of the via hole and ⅔ of the circumference of the edge of the via hole, and
the connection pattern, when viewed in a plan view, extends from a position superimposed on the via conductor to an outside of the via conductor through at least the other portion of the edge of the via hole at which the projection portion is not formed.

7. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising an external electrode superimposed on the electrically insulated layer, wherein a portion of a surface of the external electrode facing the flexible printed circuit and the flexible printed circuit are arranged at an interval of not more than 20 μm.

8. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a surface of the piezoelectric actuator substrate which is bonded to the passage member comprises a region having a recessed shape superimposed with the via hole.

9. A printer comprising
the inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 ,
a scanning portion which makes media and the inkjet head move relative to each other, and
a control part which controls the inkjet head.

10. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the projection portion is provided on the one portion of the edge of the via hole on a surface of the electrically insulated layer facing the flexible printed board, and is not provided on the other portion of the edge of the via hole on the surface of the electrically insulated layer facing the flexible printed board.

11. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric actuator substrate comprises an elastic body positioned closer to the passage member than the electrically insulated layer, and a part of the elastic body on a piezoelectric actuator side overlaps with the via hole and protrudes toward an inside of the via hole.

12. The inkjet head as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the piezoelectric actuator substrate comprises an elastic body positioned closer to the passage member than the electrically insulated layer, and the elastic body comprises a concave portion, on a passage member side, that overlaps the via hole.

13. An inkjet head comprising:
a passage member comprising a pressurizing chamber communicated with a nozzle;
a flexible printed circuit; and
a piezoelectric actuator substrate between the passage member and the flexible printed circuit, and superimposed on the passage member so as to cover the pressurizing chamber, the piezoelectric actuator substrate comprising:
a piezoelectric body comprising a via hole having an opening facing the flexible printed circuit, the piezoelectric body comprising a projection portion, formed on one portion of an edge of the via hole, the projection portion projecting toward the flexible printed circuit higher than the piezoelectric body formed at an other portion of the edge of the via hole.

14. The inkjet head of claim 13 , the piezoelectric actuator substrate further comprising:
an external electrode superimposed on a flexible printed circuit side of the piezoelectric body;
a common electrode superimposed on a passage member side of the piezoelectric body;
a connection pattern superimposed on the flexible printed circuit side of the piezoelectric body while avoiding the external electrode, the connection pattern connected to the flexible printed circuit through a bump;
a via conductor arranged in the via hole, and connected to the connection pattern on an other edge of the via hole, and connected to the common electrode through the via hole.

15. The inkjet head of claim 14 , wherein a topmost surface of the projection portion extends above the via conductor, the connection pattern and the external electrode to provide a separation from the flexible printed circuit.

16. The inkjet head of claim 14 , wherein the connection pattern has a connection pattern portion covering the projection portion, and a topmost surface of the connection pattern portion extends above the via conductor and the external e

Assignees

• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Makise Keisuke

Classifications

• B41J2002/14459

  Matrix arrangement of the pressure chambers · CPC title

• B41J2/14233 Primary

  of film type, deformed by bending and disposed on a diaphragm · CPC title

• B41J2202/18

  Electrical connection established using vias · CPC title

• B41J2/04533

  controlling a head having several actuators per chamber · CPC title

• B41J2/161

  of film type, deformed by bending and disposed on a diaphragm · CPC title