Liquid jet head and liquid jet device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9802406-B2
Application number	US-201615380306-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2016
Priority date	Dec 16, 2015
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to a liquid jet device comprising an actuator plate on which injection channels and non-injection channels are arranged side by side, a cover plate laminated on a surface of the actuator plate and including slits communicating into the injection channels, common electrodes and individual electrodes formed on inner surfaces of the injection channels and the non-injection channels, and common wires and individual wires formed on surfaces of bank portions of the actuator plate, and common pad portions and individual pad portions connected to the common wires and the individual wires, and connected to flexible boards in protruding end portions are formed in a portion of a back surface of the cover plate outside the slits.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A liquid jet head comprising:
an actuator plate on which jet channels and non-jet channels extend along a first direction and are alternately arranged side by side at intervals in a second direction intersecting with the first direction;
a cover plate laminated on a surface of the actuator plate, and including a liquid supply path communicating into a jet channel;
a drive electrode formed on inner surfaces of the jet channel and a non-jet channel; and
a drive wire formed on the surface of the actuator plate outside the liquid supply path in the first direction, and connected to the drive electrode,
wherein the cover plate includes:
a protruding end portion protruding outward in the first direction with respect to the actuator plate, and
a pad portion connected to the drive wire and connected to an external wire in the protruding end portion, the pad portion being formed on a portion of a back surface of the cover plate outside the liquid supply path in the first direction.

2. The liquid jet head according to claim 1 , wherein
the drive electrode includes:
a common electrode formed on the inner surface of the jet channel; and
an individual electrode formed on the inner surface of the non-jet channel,

the drive wire includes:
a common wire connected to the common electrode; and
an individual wire bridging the individual electrodes facing each other in the second direction across the jet channel,

a connection wire that collectively connects a plurality of the common wires is formed on the cover plate, and
the pad portion includes:
a common pad portion connected to the common wire through the connection wire; and
an individual pad portion connected to each of the corresponding individual wires.

3. The liquid jet head according to claim 2 , wherein
one of the common wire and the individual wire is formed on one side in the first direction of the jet channel, on the surface of the actuator plate, and
the other of the common wire and the individual wire is formed on the other side in the first direction of the jet channel, on the surface of the actuator plate.

4. The liquid jet head according to claim 3 , wherein
an uneven portion is formed in a forming area of the pad portion, of the back surface of the cover plate.

5. The liquid jet head according to claim 2 , wherein
an uneven portion is formed in a forming area of the pad portion, of the back surface of the cover plate.

6. The liquid jet head according to claim 1 , wherein
an uneven portion is formed in a forming area of the pad portion, of the back surface of the cover plate.

7. A liquid jet device comprising:
the liquid jet head according to claim 1 ; and
a moving mechanism configured to relatively move the liquid jet head and a recording medium.

8. A liquid jet head comprising:
an actuator plate on which jet channels and non-jet channels extend along a first direction and are alternately arranged side by side at intervals in a second direction intersecting with the first direction;
a cover plate laminated on a surface of the actuator plate, and including a liquid supply path communicating into a jet channel;
a common electrode formed on an inner surface of the jet channel;
an individual electrode formed on an inner surface of a non-jet channel;
a common wire formed on the surface of the actuator plate outside the liquid supply path in the first direction, and connected to the common electrode; and
an individual wire formed on the surface of the actuator plate outside the liquid supply path in the first direction, and bridging the individual electrodes facing each other in the second direction across the jet channel, wherein
an individual pad portion connected to the individual wire and connected to an external wire, the individual pad portion being formed on a portion of the cover plate outside the liquid supply path in the first direction.

9. A liquid jet device comprising:
the liquid jet head according to claim 8 ; and
a moving mechanism configured to relatively move the liquid jet head and a recording medium.

Assignees

• Sii Printek Inc

Inventors

• Nishikawa Daichi

Classifications

• B41J2202/18

  Electrical connection established using vias · CPC title

• B41J2/14072

  Electrical connections, e.g. details on electrodes, connecting the chip to the outside... · CPC title

• B41J2002/14491

  Electrical connection · CPC title

• B41J2/14209 Primary

  of finger type, chamber walls consisting integrally of piezoelectric material · CPC title

• B41J2/14201

  Structure of print heads with piezoelectric elements · CPC title