B - Operations – Transporting – 41 – J
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
41
J
26/200, 101/96.0
B41J 2/045 (2006.01) H01L 41/08 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1292909
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A pulsed droplet ink jet printer has relatively long thin ink channels extending in parallel between an ink manifold 13, and a nozzle plate 5 providing a nozzle 6 for each channel. Side walls 11 may be formed substantially entirely of piezo-electric material so as to be displaceable transversely into a selected channel on the application of an electric field. This transverse displacement produces an acoustic wave in the channel which results in the ejection of an ink droplet. The side walls may deflect in shear mode to a cross-section of chevron formation. Usefully, it is arranged that both side walls adjoining the selected channel are displaced inwardly of the channel to cooperate in droplet ejection. Under this arrangement, the channels are assigned alternately to first and second groups of channels, only one group of channels being capable of actuation at any one instant. The nozzles associated with the respective groups of channels may be offset so as to compensate for the time delay in actuation of channels in the first and second groups.
556138
Bartky W. Scott
Michaelis Alan John
Paton Anthony David
Temple Stephen
Goudreau Gage Dubuc
Xaar Limited
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