Ink-jet printing head, ink-jet printing method and ink-jet printing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9987844-B2
Application number	US-201615123395-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 15, 2016
Priority date	Jul 28, 2015
Publication date	Jun 5, 2018
Grant date	Jun 5, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed are an ink-jet printing head, an ink-jet printing method using the ink-jet printing head and an ink-jet printing device including the ink-jet printing head. The ink-jet printing head includes a chamber for accommodating ink and nozzle sets provided on a sidewall of the chamber where ink is sprayed. The nozzle sets are used for ink-jet printing on pixels at different positions, respectively. Each of nozzle sets includes sub-nozzles and the sub-nozzles in each nozzle set can spray different volumes of ink. In the printing head, by providing sub-nozzles having different ink spraying volumes in each nozzle set, ink droplets having desirable volumes can be sprayed from nozzle sets such that total volumes of ink droplets sprayed at different positions from nozzle sets could be more accurate. Therefore, a thickness of a film layer formed by ink-jet printing can be flexibly controlled and adjusted, while having a significantly improved accuracy.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An ink-jet printing head, including a chamber for accommodating ink and nozzle sets provided on a sidewall of the chamber where ink is sprayed, the nozzle sets being used for ink-jet printing on pixels at different positions, respectively, wherein
each of the nozzle sets includes sub-nozzles, and the sub-nozzles in each nozzle set are able to spray different volumes of ink;
the sub-nozzles in each nozzle set have different specifications and sizes;
the nozzle sets are arranged in one or more columns in parallel, and the sub-nozzles in the nozzle set in any one of columns are arranged in a row and aligned to the sub-nozzles in the adjacent nozzle set in the adjacent column;
in each column of the nozzle sets, the sub-nozzles having the same specification and size are arranged in a column, and columns of the sub-nozzles are parallel to each other, such that the sub-nozzles in the nozzle sets in one or more columns are arranged in an array; and
positions of the one or more columns of nozzle sets correspond to positions of one or more columns of pixels, so as to ink-jet print on one or more columns of pixels simultaneously.

2. The ink-jet printing head according to claim 1 , wherein
in each column of the nozzle sets, any two adjacent columns of the sub-nozzles have an equal interval, and in each column of the sub-nozzles, any two adjacent sub-nozzles have an equal interval.

3. The ink-jet printing head according to claim 2 , wherein
the nozzle sets are used for ink-jet printing on pixels to be printed in a pixel array.

4. The ink-jet printing head according to claim 3 , wherein
the number of sub-nozzles in each column is equivalent to that of pixels in each column, and an interval between any two adjacent sub-nozzles in each column of sub-nozzles is equivalent to an interval between any two adjacent pixels in each column of pixels;
in the case of one column of nozzle sets, the column of nozzle sets is used for ink-jet printing on a column of pixels, and the column of nozzle sets is able to displace in parallel to successively perform the ink-jet printing on each column of pixels; or
in the case of columns of nozzle sets, the columns of nozzle sets are used for ink-jet printing on columns of pixels in the pixel array at a time.

5. The ink-jet printing head according to claim 4 , wherein
the ink-jet printing head further comprises a calculation module and a control module,
the calculation module is configured to calculate a combination mode of different sub-nozzles in the nozzle set for printing each pixel on the basis of a total ink volume required by the pixel to be printed and ink volumes capable of being sprayed by the sub-nozzles in the nozzle set, and to send the combination mode to the control module; and
the control module is configured to control the ink spraying volume of the sub-nozzles on the basis of the combination mode.

6. The ink-jet printing head according to claim 1 , wherein
the sidewall of the chamber for spraying ink is provided with partitions on its inside, and
the partitions are interposed between any two adjacent columns of sub-nozzles, or
the partitions are uniformly distributed in spaced regions between the nozzle sets, so as to divide an area where the nozzle sets are located into areas having equivalent size.

7. The ink-jet printing head according to claim 6 , wherein
the partitions divide the whole chamber into sub-chambers, or
the partitions divide a bottom portion of the chamber closed to the sidewall where the ink is sprayed into sub-chambers such that top portions of the sub-chambers far away from the sidewall where the ink is sprayed are communicated with each other.

8. An ink-jet printing device comprising an ink-jet printing head, the ink-jet printing head including a chamber for accommodating ink and nozzle sets provided on a sidewall of the chamber where ink is sprayed, the nozzle sets being used for ink-jet printing on pixels at different positions, respectively, wherein
each of the nozzle sets includes sub-nozzles, and the sub-nozzles in each nozzle set are able to spray different volumes of ink;
the sub-nozzles in each nozzle set have different specifications and sizes;
the nozzle sets are arranged in one or more columns in parallel, and the sub-nozzles in the nozzle set in any one of columns are arranged in a row aligned to the sub-nozzles in the adjacent nozzle set in the adjacent column;
in each column of the nozzle sets, the sub-nozzles having the same specification and size are arranged in a column, and columns of the sub-nozzles are parallel to each other, such that the sub-nozzles in the nozzle sets in one or more columns are arranged in an array; and
positions of the one or more columns of nozzle sets correspond to positions of one or more columns of pixels, so as to ink-jet print on one or more columns of pixels simultaneously.

9. The ink-jet printing device according to claim 8 , wherein
in each column of the nozzle sets, any two adjacent columns of the sub-nozzles have an equal interval, and in each column of the sub-nozzles, any two adjacent sub-nozzles have an equal interval.

10. The ink-jet printing device according to claim 9 , wherein
the nozzle sets are used for ink-jet printing on pixels to be printed in a pixel array.

11. The ink-jet printing device according to claim 10 , wherein
the number of sub-nozzles in each column is equivalent to that of pixels in each column, and an interval between any two adjacent sub-nozzles in each column of sub-nozzles is equivalent to an interval between any two adjacent pixels in each column of pixels;
in the case of one column of nozzle sets, the column of nozzle sets is used for ink-jet printing on a column of pixels, and the column of nozzle sets is able to displace in parallel to successively perform the ink-jet printing on each column of pixels; or
in the case of columns of nozzle sets, the columns of nozzle sets are used for ink-jet printing on columns of pixels in the pixel array at a time.

12. The ink-jet printing device according to claim 11 , wherein
the ink-jet printing head further comprises a calculation module and a control module,
the calculation module is configured to calculate a combination mode of different sub-nozzles in the nozzle set for printing each pixel on the basis of a total ink volume required by the pixel to be printed and ink volumes capable of being sprayed by the sub-nozzles in the nozzle set, and to send the combination mode to the control module; and
the control module is configured to control the ink spraying volume of the sub-nozzles on the basis of the combination mode.

13. The ink-jet printing device according to claim 8 , wherein
the sidewall of the chamber for spraying ink is provided with partitions on its inside, and
the partitions are interposed between any two adjacent columns of sub-nozzles, or
the partitions are uniformly distributed in spaced regions between the nozzle sets, so as to divide an area where the nozzle sets are located into areas having equivalent size.

14. The ink-jet printing device according to claim 13 , wherein
the partitions divide the whole chamber into sub-chambers, or
the partitions divide a bottom portion of the chamber closed to the sidewall where the ink is sprayed into sub-chambers such that top portions of the sub-chambers far away from the sidewall where the ink is sprayed are communicated with each other.

15. An ink-jet printing method using the ink-jet printing head according to claim 1 , wherein the method comprises steps of:
determining a total ink volume required by pi

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhao Dejiang

Classifications

• B41J2/1433 Primary

  Structure of nozzle plates · CPC title

• B41J2/135

  Nozzles · CPC title

• B41J2/155

  for line printing · CPC title

• B41J2/04593

  Dot-size modulation by changing the size of the drop · CPC title

• B41J2/2125

  by means of nozzle diameter selection · CPC title