INSULATING SUBSTRATE ELECTROSTATIC INK JET PRINT HEAD

• Main Author: DAVID L KNIERIM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 23.10.2014
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS, e.g. MICROMECHANICALDEVICES; MICROSTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTUREOR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrostatic ink jet print head which can be produced at a low cost by combining the lower cost of chip-on-glass with the high efficiency of MEMS technologies.SOLUTION: An insulating substrate print head 70 has: an insulating substrate 72; a conductive layer 74 on the insulating substrate 72, the conductive layer 74 including interconnect patterns and actuation pads corresponding to each of an array of jets; an insulating layer 76 on the conductive layer 74; a membrane 78 attached to the insulating layer 76, and a jet stack attached to the membrane 78. 【課題】より費用が低いチップ・オン・グラスを効率の高いＭＥＭＳ技術と組み合わせて、低い費用で製造することが可能な静電インクジェットプリントヘッドの提供。【解決手段】絶縁基板プリントヘッド７０は、絶縁基板７２と、絶縁基板７２上の導電層７４であって、導電層７４はジェットのアレイの各々に対応する相互接続パターンおよびアクチュエーションパッドを含む、導電層７４と、導電層７４上の絶縁層７６と、絶縁層７６に取り付けられている膜７８と、膜７８に取り付けられているジェットスタックとを有する。【選択図】図２