Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080317971 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head including a flow path forming member to form a flow path communicating with a discharge port for discharging liquids includes forming an organic material layer on a substrate, applying a soluble resin on the organic material layer to form a resin layer, patterning the resin layer to form a pattern with a shape of the flow path, forming a cover layer as the flow path forming member on the pattern, forming the discharge port to expose a part of the pattern from the cover layer, eluting the pattern from the discharge port to form the flow path, irradiating a substance sticking to a surface of the flow path forming member on which the discharge port is formed with ultraviolet light, wherein the substance contains at least the organic material, and removing the sticking substance. | 12-25-2008 |
20090007428 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A method of manufacturing a liquid discharge head including a plurality of passages on a substrate, the passages communicating with a plurality of discharge ports configured to discharge liquid. The method includes the step of forming first to fourth patterns, the first pattern having a shape of one passage of the passages, the second pattern having a shape of other passage of the passages, the third pattern being formed near the first pattern, the fourth pattern being formed near the second pattern, the first to fourth patterns being formed on the substrate. The method also includes coating the substrate with a cover layer covering the first to fourth patterns, removing the first pattern to form the one passage, and removing the second pattern to form the other passage. | 01-08-2009 |
20090133256 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A manufacturing method of a liquid ejection head provided with a flow passage communicating with an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid includes steps of preparing a substrate on which a flow passage wall forming member for forming a part of a wall of the flow passage and a solid layer having a shape of a part of the flow passage contact each other, wherein the flow passage wall forming member has a height, from a surface of the substrate, substantially equal to that of the solid layer; providing on the solid layer a pattern having a shape of another part of the flow passage; providing a coating layer, for forming another part of the wall of the flow passage, so as to coat the pattern; providing the ejection outlet to the coating layer; and forming the flow passage by removing the solid layer and the pattern. | 05-28-2009 |
20090136875 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A manufacturing method of a liquid ejection head including an ejection outlet forming member provided with an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid and a flow passage communicating with the ejection outlet is constituted by the steps of: preparing a substrate on which a flow passage wall forming member for forming a part of a wall of the flow passage and a solid layer having a shape of a part of the flow passage contact each other, wherein the flow passage wall forming member has a height, from a surface of the substrate, substantially equal to that of the solid layer; providing a first layer, on the solid layer and the flow passage wall forming member, formed of a negative photosensitive resin material for forming another part of the wall of the flow passage; exposing to light a portion of the first layer correspondingly to the another part of the wall of the flow passage; providing a second layer, on the exposed first layer, formed of a negative photosensitive resin material to constitute the ejection outlet forming member; exposing to light a portion of the second layer correspondingly to the ejection outlet forming member; and forming the ejection outlet and another part of the flow passage by removing unexposed portions of the first layer and the second layer. | 05-28-2009 |
20090183368 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INK JET RECORDING HEAD - A method of manufacturing an ink jet recording head includes the steps of: forming an adhesive layers and the side walls of a flow path on a substrate; pasting a dry film, which is a part of a flow path forming member, on the side walls; and forming discharge ports in the layer. | 07-23-2009 |
20090191487 | LIQUID JET HEAD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID JET HEAD, AND METHOD FOR FORMING STRUCTURE FOR LIQUID JET HEAD - A liquid ejecting head including a coating resin layer including a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting liquid and flow paths which are in fluid communication with the ejection outlets, respectively; an energy generating element for generating energy for ejecting liquid; and an adhesion improving layer provided between the coating resin layer and the substrate, wherein the coating resin layer further includes a first resin material layer closest to the substrate and at least one second resin material layer, and the first resin material layer provides at least one stepped portion continuing from a periphery of the second resin material layer. | 07-30-2009 |
20090303289 | LIQUID DISCHARGE RECORDING HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A liquid discharge recording head includes a flow passage forming member having discharge ports and a flow passage, the discharge ports configured to discharge droplets, the flow passage communicating with the discharge ports. The flow passage forming member also has a first opening and a second opening, the first opening provided at a surface of the flow passage forming member with the discharge ports, the second opening causing the inside of the first opening to communicate with the outside of the flow passage forming member through a communication passage. | 12-10-2009 |
20100147793 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid discharge head including a silicon substrate having, on a first surface, energy generating elements, and a supply port penetrating the substrate from the first surface to a second surface, which is a rear surface of the first surface of the substrate. The method includes the steps of: preparing the silicon substrate having a sacrifice layer at a portion on the first surface where the ink supply port is to be formed and an etching mask layer having a plurality of openings on the second surface, the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to a portion between two adjacent said openings being smaller than the volume of a portion of the sacrifice layer at a position corresponding to the opening; etching the silicon substrate from the plurality of openings and etching the sacrifice layer. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149280 | SUBSTRATE FOR INK EJECTION HEADS, INK EJECTION HEAD, METHOD OFMANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INK EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head according to the present invention includes a heat-generating resistor layer, a first electrode layer, an insulating layer extending over the heat-generating resistive layers and the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer that has a first portion which extending through the insulating layer and which is electrically connected to the first electrode layer and also has a second portion which is not in contact with the insulating layer. The second portion has a space or a piece of resin disposed between the insulating layer and the second electrode layer. | 06-17-2010 |
20100233630 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head that includes a flow path wall member which forms a wall of a flow path communicating with a discharge port for discharging a liquid and a substrate which forms the flow path in contact with the flow path wall member includes providing a first layer, which is made of a photosensitive resin on the substrate, for forming a pattern having a shape of the flow path, providing a second layer which is capable of absorbing light within a photosensitive wavelength range of the photosensitive resin and has a shape corresponding to the shape of the flow path, on the first layer so as to come into contact with the first layer, performing patterning of the first layer which includes exposure of the first layer with the light using the second layer as a mask, and forming the pattern from the first layer, providing a cover layer which is made of a photosensitive resin and serves as the flow path wall member so as to cover the second layer and the pattern, forming the discharge port on the cover layer by performing patterning of the cover layer which includes exposure of the cover layer with the light, and forming the flow path by removing the second layer and the pattern. | 09-16-2010 |
20100315467 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid discharge head includes, a substrate, a flow path wall member provided with a wall of a liquid flow path connected to a discharge port for discharging liquid, the flow path being formed by the flow path wall member and one surface of the substrate which are in contact with each other, and a coated resin member made of a cured material of a resin composition provided to cover end surfaces of the substrate, wherein a liquid repellent member having a contact angle of the resin composition larger than that of both the flow path wall member and the one surface is provided to cover at least a part of an intersection line between an outer lateral surface of the flow path wall member and the one surface. | 12-16-2010 |
20110018933 | INK JET RECORDING HEAD - An ink jet recording head includes a coating resin layer including a plurality of ejection outlets for ejecting ink and a plurality of ink flow passages communicating with the plurality of ejection outlets; a substrate provided with an energy generating element for generating energy for ejecting the ink; and an adhesiveness-improving layer, provided between the coating resin layer and the substrate, for improving adhesiveness between the coating resin layer and the substrate. The adhesiveness-improving layer has a thickness so as to be larger at an end portion of the substrate than that at a portion other than the end portion. | 01-27-2011 |
20110050828 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid discharge head of the present invention comprises a substrate and a flow path wall member provided on the substrate and having a wall of a flow path communicated with a discharge port for discharging liquid, wherein said flow path wall member is provided with a cavity not communicated with said flow path, when viewed in a direction from said discharge port toward said substrate, said cavity has a shape of a character, and said character corresponds to information regarding said liquid discharge head. | 03-03-2011 |
20110107598 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head and a method of forming the same. The liquid ejection head includes a substrate, an ejection port, a liquid channel, and a supply port. The substrate has, above one side thereof, an energy generating element configured to generate energy used to eject liquid. The ejection port, from which a liquid is ejected, is located at a position corresponding to the energy generating element. The liquid channel communicates with the ejection port and penetrates the substrate from the one side to another side of the substrate. The supply port communicates with the liquid channel. The substrate has a projecting layer extending inward of an inner peripheral portion of an opening in the supply port in the one side, and the projecting layer and the energy generating element are formed of the same material. | 05-12-2011 |
20110141193 | INK DISCHARGE HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An ink discharge head includes a coating resin layer having a plurality of discharge ports for discharging ink, and ink flow passages which communicate with the plurality of discharge ports, respectively; and a substrate having energy generation elements which generate the energy for discharging ink and provided with the coating resin layer. A crack inducing portion for relieving the stress produced at the interface between the coating resin layer and the substrate is formed at lateral faces of the outer peripheral edge of the coating resin layer. | 06-16-2011 |
20110141197 | SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID-EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID-EJECTION HEAD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - When an insulating layer is provided in order to protect an energy generating element, there arises a possibility that the layer dissolves in a contacting liquid. Therefore, in order to eject liquid, a first protection layer containing metal is provided on the insulating layer facing a substrate for a liquid-ejection head and a second protection layer containing metal is provided on the surface of a liquid supply port to which a base containing silicon is exposed. | 06-16-2011 |
20110148960 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS HAVING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - The opening area and shape of ejection orifices provided in an ejection orifice member influence the amount of liquid droplet. Therefore, it is necessary to check the opening area and shape of the ejection orifices in detail. For this purpose, in a liquid ejection head having ejection orifices used for ejecting liquid using energy generated by energy generating elements and a dummy ejection orifice having the same shape as the ejection orifices and not used for ejection of liquid, an examination member is provided at a position facing the dummy ejection orifice. | 06-23-2011 |
20110167636 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - There is disclosed a manufacturing method of a liquid discharge head including a substrate in which a first energy generating element and a second energy generating element that generate energy used for discharging liquid are provided, a discharge port member in which a first discharge port discharging the liquid is provided corresponding to the first energy generating element and a second discharge port discharging the liquid is provided corresponding to the second energy generating element, and a flow path wall member having a portion of the liquid flow path wall that communicates with the first discharge port and the second discharge port, in which a distance between the second energy generating element and the second discharge port is larger than that between the first energy generating element and the first discharge port. | 07-14-2011 |
20110195192 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head, the liquid discharge head includes a substrate provided on a surface with a first energy generating part and a second energy generating part for generating energy utilized for discharging a liquid; a first discharge port provided corresponding to the first energy generating part so as to face the surface; a second discharge port provided corresponding to the second energy generating part so as to face the surface; a first wall member which has a wall of a first liquid flow path which communicates with the first discharge port; and a second wall member which has a wall of a second liquid flow path which communicates the second discharge port, wherein a distance between the second energy generating part and the second discharge port is greater than a distance between the first energy generating part and the first discharge port. | 08-11-2011 |
20120013682 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a liquid ejection head, including: a flow path forming member including: an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid therefrom; and a liquid flow path communicated with the ejection orifice; a silicon substrate including a supply port for supplying the liquid to the liquid flow path; and a protective film which is formed on a wall surface of the supply port and which is formed of an organic resin which is the same as a material of a member forming the flow path forming member. | 01-19-2012 |
20120028384 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LIQUID-EJECTION HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid-ejection head having a plurality of nozzles arranged to eject liquid includes: preparing a substrate having a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer stacked in this order, the second layer more resistant than the third layer to etching by an etching method to be used on the third layer; partially etching the third layer by the etching method to expose the second layer; and removing the exposed second layer at least in part to expose some area on the top surface of the first layer, opening a first one of the nozzles down from the exposed area of the top surface, and opening a second one of the nozzles down from the top surface of the third layer. | 02-02-2012 |
20120044294 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD THAT PERFORMS RECORDING BY EJECTING LIQUID AND METHOD OF INSPECTING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a member having ejection ports and dummy ejection ports. The ejection ports are provided in correspondence with energy-generating elements used in ejecting liquid. The dummy ejection ports are provided in correspondence with a light-receiving element outputting current whose level changes in accordance with the intensity of light applied thereto. By detecting the level of current that is output from the light-receiving element, the shapes of the ejection ports are estimated. | 02-23-2012 |
20120139998 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A liquid ejection head including a flow path forming member which forms an ejection orifice which is opened on a front surface and which ejects a liquid, and a liquid flow path which continues to the ejection orifice; and a substrate including a liquid chamber which is opened on a back surface on an opposite side of the front surface and which includes a first slope which becomes narrower from a back surface side toward a front surface side, a liquid pathway which is opened in the first slope and connects the liquid flow path and the liquid chamber, and a first hollow portion which is provided in a bottom portion of the liquid chamber. | 06-07-2012 |
20120218350 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a process for producing a liquid ejection head including an ejection orifice member having a plurality of ejection orifices for ejecting liquid provided along an arrangement direction, the process including preparing a substrate provided with a resin layer which contains a photocurable resin;carrying out a first exposure treatment and a second exposure treatment which are each of an exposure treatment of subjecting the resin layer to exposure; and forming the ejection orifices of the resin layer subjected to the first exposure treatment and the second exposure treatment. An inclination angle of a side wall of the ejection orifices formed by the first exposure treatment with respect to the substrate differs from an inclination angle of a side wall of the ejection orifices formed by the second exposure treatment with respect to the substrate. | 08-30-2012 |
20120242747 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a liquid ejection head, including: an ejection orifice forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid; a substrate having a supply port for supplying the liquid to the ejection orifice; and a filter disposed at a position upstream of the ejection orifice when the liquid is supplied to the ejection orifice, in which the filter includes an opening having a diameter smaller than or equal to a diameter of the ejection orifice, and a tapered shape structure disposed at a position upstream of the opening when the liquid is supplied to the ejection orifice, the tapered shape structure having a distal end directed toward an upstream side. | 09-27-2012 |
20130027468 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid ejecting head including a liquid ejecting port for ejecting a liquid and nozzle layer having a liquid channel communicating with the liquid ejecting port, wherein the nozzle layer has two layers, and a first layer which is a layer at the side of the liquid channel among the two layers has a resin film-formed with an acid and has a smaller static contact angle of water as compared with a second layer which is the other layer. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029056 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid ejecting head including an orifice plate having an ejecting orifice and a liquid channel, and a substrate having a liquid ejecting energy generating element and a liquid supply port, the method including: (1) forming a liquid channel mold of a soluble resin dissolved in (6) on the substrate; (2) coating the liquid channel mold with a photosensitive resin layer having a refractive index of n at an exposure wavelength used in (4); (3) forming an antireflective film having a refractive index of ānā0.2 or more to ān+0.2 or less at the exposure wavelength used in (4) on the photosensitive resin layer; (4) exposing and developing the photosensitive resin layer and antireflective film to form the ejecting orifice; (5) forming the liquid supply port on the substrate; and (6) dissolving and removing the liquid channel mold from the liquid supply port. | 01-31-2013 |
20130149648 | METHOD OF MAKING NOZZLE CHIP - The present disclosure provides a method of making a nozzle chip including a step of forming an ejection orifice row by performing irradiation with light rays using a mask having ejection orifice row patterns that form an ejection orifice row pattern of one nozzle chip when the ejection orifice row patterns are connected to each other through a connection portion. The mask is configured such that, with respect to a direction in which ejection orifices of the ejection orifice row are arranged, an absolute value of off-axis telecentricity of one of the light rays with which an ejection orifice that is at the smallest distance from the connection portion is irradiated is less than an absolute value of off-axis telecentricity of one of the light rays with which an ejection orifice that is at the greatest distance from the connection portion is irradiated. | 06-13-2013 |
20130288405 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - The method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes: forming a first protective layer on one surface of the substrate; forming the wiring layer on another surface of the substrate; forming the insulating layer on the wiring layer, and then partially removing the insulating layer to partially expose the wiring layer; forming the electrode pad on an exposed portion of the wiring layer; forming a flow path member on the another surface of the substrate; forming a second protective layer on the one surface of the substrate after the formation of the flow path member; and partially removing at least one of the first protective layer and the second protective layer, and then forming the supply port leading from the one surface of the substrate to the another surface of the substrate. | 10-31-2013 |
20140028757 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a silicon substrate and an orifice plate disposed on or above the silicon substrate. The silicon substrate has a concave portion formed therein, and the orifice plate is disposed in the concave portion. | 01-30-2014 |
20140035999 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a print element board and an electric wiring board electrically connected to a bump of the print element board using an interconnecting wire. The bump has a first surface and a second surface. The height of the second surface from a surface of a base plate is higher than that of the first surface. The first surface has a protrusion formed therein, and the bump is connected to the interconnecting wire in the second surface. | 02-06-2014 |
20140061152 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes the steps of: disposing an etching mask layer on a substrate having a first face and a second face that is on an opposite side of the first face, the etching mask layer being disposed on the second face; forming a concave line pattern at a region of the etching mask layer other than a region where an opening for the support port is to be formed; providing an etching opening at the etching mask layer; performing anisotropic etching from a side of the second face using the etching mask layer provided with the etching opening as a mask, thus forming the supply port at the substrate; comparing the line pattern with a recess generated at the substrate, thus selecting a device chip for liquid ejection; and connecting the selected device chip to a liquid supply part. | 03-06-2014 |
20140313261 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes: a substrate which has an energy-generating element that generates energy to be utilized for ejecting a liquid, and a supply orifice for supplying the liquid to the energy-generating element; and an ejection orifice forming member that has a plurality of ejection orifices through which the liquid is ejected, and at least one beam-like projection which projects toward the substrate and extends along an array direction of the ejection orifices at a position corresponding to the supply orifice; wherein a sectional area perpendicular to the array direction of the ejection orifices in the central part of the beam-like projection in the array direction of the ejection orifices is larger than a sectional area in the direction perpendicular to the array direction of the ejection orifices in both ends of the beam-like projection in the array direction. | 10-23-2014 |
20140347426 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A liquid ejecting head includes a substrate; and flow path forming members that form a plurality of liquid flow paths on or above the substrate, wherein grooves are formed between the plurality of liquid flow paths that adjoin in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the flow path forming members are formed on or above the substrate via an intermediate layer. | 11-27-2014 |
20140361458 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - Provided is a method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head, including: forming, on a substrate, a flow path mold pattern that becomes a mold of a liquid flow path; forming a negative photosensitive resin layer on the flow path mold pattern; subjecting the negative photosensitive resin layer to exposure processing with use of a reduction projection exposing apparatus and a mask pattern having an ejection orifice mask shape for forming ejection orifices; and subjecting the negative photosensitive resin layer obtained after the exposure processing to development processing to form the ejection orifices, in which the ejection orifices are formed by correcting, by the ejection orifice mask shape, an inclination of an ejection angle due to an off-axis telecentricity caused by the reduction projection exposing apparatus so as to be close to a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362140 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head has an element substrate constituted of a substrate body having a plurality of energy generating elements for liquid ejection and a nozzle plate having a plurality of ejection ports arranged corresponding to the respective energy generating elements so as to form a plurality of ejection port rows each extending in a first direction, the rows being arranged side by side so as to expand in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The nozzle plate has also a groove section, or a plurality of hollow sections arranged to form a hollow section row, as extending in the first direction, at least between one of the opposite edges as viewed in the second direction of the nozzle plate and the ejection port row arranged close to the same edge. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368579 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid ejection head chip includes a liquid ejection unit having a plurality of ejection orifices for ejecting a liquid, a flow path in communication with the ejection orifices, and an energy generating element that generates energy for ejecting the liquid, the liquid ejection unit being provided on an upper surface formed of a (100) surface of a silicon single-crystal substrate. The side surfaces in at least one of two combinations of opposing side surfaces of the substrate have (111) surfaces of silicon single crystal and the angles of the (111) surfaces relative to the (100) surface are supplementary to each other. | 12-18-2014 |