Nozzle plate for a liquid jet print head

US5818479A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MicroParts GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Holger Reinecke · Emmendingen, DE
• Nezih Unal · Dortmund, DE
• Ralf-Peter Peters · Bensberg, DE
• Frank Bartels · Hattingen, DE
• Friedolin Franz Noker · Karlsruhe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 1996
• Grant date: Oct 6, 1998
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J2002/14403
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A nozzle plate contains nozzles, liquid chambers and connection channels between liquid chambers and supply containers for the liquid. All the function regions are produced integrally as a microstructure body by casting from one or more microstructured mold inserts. The smallest implementable spacing of the nozzles from one another can be considerably smaller than in the previously known plates, which allows increased printing density.