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Title:
DROPLET EJECTION HEAD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2014076645
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a droplet ejection head capable of achieving improvement of assembling a droplet ejection head and a low cost, while improving a charging property for a common liquid chamber and an air-bubble discharging property without affecting damping function.

There are provided the droplet ejection head and an image forming apparatus including the head, the head including: a nozzle substrate in which nozzles are formed to eject droplets; an individual liquid chamber substrate in which individual liquid chambers are formed to communicate with the nozzles; and a common liquid chamber substrate in which a common liquid chamber is formed to communicate with the individual liquid chambers. These substrates are laminated. At least a portion of a top surface of the common liquid chamber is flexible, the top surface being disposed at a side opposite to the side where the nozzle plate is provided. The common liquid chamber has a shape such that at least a portion of the common liquid chamber is narrowed in a laminated direction of these substrates. A hight of a wall forming the common liquid chamber in the laminated direction of these substrates is constant, the wall being substantially perpendicular to the top surface.


Inventors:
SASAKI TAKAFUMI
TAJIMA YUKITOSHI
Application Number:
JP2013022038A
Publication Date:
May 01, 2014
Filing Date:
February 07, 2013
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
RICOH CO LTD
International Classes:
B41J2/045; B41J2/055
Domestic Patent References:
JP2004351811A2004-12-16
JP2006007629A2006-01-12
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tadashige Ito
Tadahiko Ito