Inkjet printers with elongate chambers, nozzles and heaters

Details Inkjet printers with elongate chambers, nozzles and heaters Inkjet printers with elongate chambers, nozzles and heaters

2007-07-30

2010-12-07

Feggins, K. (Department: 2861)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

Reexamination Certificate

active

07845765

ABSTRACT:
An inkjet printhead with an array of nozzles arranged in a series of rows, each nozzle having an ejection aperture, a chamber for holding printing fluid and a heater element for generating a vapor bubble in the printing fluid contained by the chamber to eject a drop of the printing fluid through the ejection aperture. The nozzle, the heater element and the chamber are all elongate structures that have a long dimension that exceeds their other dimensions respectively. The respective long dimensions of the nozzle, the heater element and the chambers are parallel and extend normal to the row direction. To increase the nozzle density of the array, each of the nozzle components—the chamber, the ejection aperture and the heater element are configured as elongate structures that are all aligned transverse to the direction of the row. This raises the nozzle pitch, or nozzle per inch (npi), of the row while allowing the chamber volume and therefore drop volume to stay large enough for a suitable color density. It also avoids the need to spread the over a large distance in the paper feed direction (in the case of pagewidth printers) or in the scanning direction (in the case of scanning printheads).

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