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101/96.022
G01D 15/18 (2006.01) B41J 2/02 (2006.01) B41J 2/155 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1129935
INK JET HEAD Abstract of the Disclosure An inner cylindrical tube has its outer cylindrical surface spaced from an inner cylindrical surface of outer means to have an ink cavity therebetween from which ink is supplied through one or more ink jet nozzles. At least the inner tube is a piezoelectric material so that the inner tube vibrates radially when electrically excited to produce vibrations at a desired operating frequency whereby a stream of ink droplets is supplied from each of the ink jet nozzles. The spacing between the inner surface, which has its longitudinal axis coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the inner cylindrical tube, of the outer means and the outer surface of the inner cylindrical tube is selected so that the ink cavity is resonant at the operating frequency of the inner cylindrical tube. To maintain the lowest frequencies of perturbations in the axial direction of the inner cylindrical tube substantially greater than the operating frequency, the inner cylindrical tube can be formed of a plurality of longitudinal segments acoustically isolated from each other in the axial direction. In another form, the outer means is a body formed with a membrane providing acoustical communication from a liquid cavity between the inner tube and the body and each BO978011 ink cavity, which has ink jet nozzles at its end. The liquid cavity preferably has a liquid of substantially the same density as the ink. This enables each of the ink cavities to have a different colored ink if desired. BO978011
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Fillmore Gary L.
Hoffman Arthur R.
Young Thomas
International Business Machines Corporation
Kerr Alexander
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