Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Ejector mechanism
Patent
1996-02-23
1998-05-19
Nguyen, Matthew V.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Ejector mechanism
B41J 2045
Patent
active
057542040
ABSTRACT:
An ink jet recording head is used which has: a pressure chamber which is communicated with a nozzle opening of a nozzle plate and with a reservoir through an ink supply port; and a piezoelectric vibrator for, in response to a driving signal, producing volume displacement in the pressure chamber, the inertance Mn of the nozzle opening and the inertance Ms of the ink supply port having the relationship of 0.5<Mn/(Mn+Ms) is used. The meniscus is rapidly returned to the nozzle opening by an inertial energy which is due to the ink suction to the pressure chamber, so that the ink ejection is conducted in the vicinity of the nozzle opening, thereby enabling an ink drop which is substantially spherical to be ejected. The contraction time period of the piezoelectric vibrator for sucking ink into the pressure chamber, and an expansion time period of the piezoelectric vibrator for ejecting an ink drop from the nozzle opening are set to be 1/f (where f is the Helmholtz's resonance frequency) so that the residual vibration of the meniscus is reduced to a level as low as possible, thereby allowing the record head to be driven at a high speed.
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Nguyen Matthew V.
Seiko Epson Corporation
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