Recorders – Markers and/or driving means therefor – With ink supply to marker
Patent
1985-09-30
1987-01-27
Hartary, Joseph W.
Recorders
Markers and/or driving means therefor
With ink supply to marker
156647, 156657, 156662, G01D 1518
Patent
active
046397485
ABSTRACT:
An ink jet printhead having an internal, integrated filtering system and fabricating process therefor is disclosed. Each printhead is composed of two parts aligned and bonded together. One part is a substantially flat substrate which contains on a surface thereof a linear array of heating elements and addressing electrodes. The other part is a flat substrate having a set of concurrently etched recesses in one surface. The set of recesses include a parallel array of elongated recesses for use as capillary filled, ink channels having ink droplet emitting nozzles at one end and having interconnection with a common ink supplying manifold recess at the other ends. The manifold recess contains an internal, closed wall defining a chamber with an ink fill hole. Small passageways are formed in the internal chamber walls to permit passage of ink therefrom into the manifold. Each of the passageways have smaller cross-sectional flow areas than the nozzles to filter the ink, while the total cross-sectional flow area of the passageways is larger than the total cross-sectional flow area of the nozzles. Many printheads can be made simultaneously by producing a plurality of sets of heating element arrays with their addressing electrodes on a silicon wafer and by placing alignment marks thereon at predetermined locations. A corresponding plurality of sets of channels and associated manifolds with internal filters are produced in a second silicon wafer and, in one embodiment, alignment openings are etched thereon at predetermined locations. The two wafers are aligned via the alignment openings and alignment marks, then bonded together and diced into many separate printheads.
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Campanelli Michael R.
Drake Donald J.
Hawkins William G.
Chittum Robert A.
Hartary Joseph W.
Xerox Corporation
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