Piezoelectric ink jet apparatus having nozzles designed for impr

Details Piezoelectric ink jet apparatus having nozzles designed for impr Piezoelectric ink jet apparatus having nozzles designed for impr

1996-10-23

1999-10-26

Le, N.

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

347 71, B41J 2045

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059715286

ABSTRACT:
An ink jet apparatus offers enhanced print quality and is highly conducive to mass-production. The apparatus has a piezoelectric ceramic arrangement including a plurality of ink channels filled with ink. The ink channels are defined by walls and correspond to nozzles. The walls are deformed selectively by a piezoelectric effect to vary the volumes of the selected ink channels to jet out the ink through the corresponding nozzles. The center position of each of the nozzles is allowed to deviate from the middle between one wall of the corresponding ink channel and the other wall opposite thereto by half the distance between the two walls minus half the diameter of the nozzle within the half distance. This arrangement reduces the number of defective ink jet printer heads in the manufacturing phase and allows the ink jet apparatus to offer enhanced print quality. Such an apparatus is also highly conducive to mass-production with no need for specialized adjustments of individual nozzles.

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