Raised fluid pass-through structure in print heads

US9931843B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jonathan Robert Brick · Tualatin, US
• Chad David Freitag · Portland, US
• Garry Adam Jones · Sherwood, US
• Jon G. Judge · Tigard, US
• David R. Koehler · Bernalillo, US
• Chad J. Slenes · Sherwood, US
• Peter J. Nystrom · Webster, US
• Gary D. Redding · Victor, US
• Mark A. Cellura · Webster, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 4, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 4, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J2202/16
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A print head includes a substrate having a hole, a circuit on the substrate, the circuit having traces and a hole corresponding to the hole in the substrate, the hole forming a fluid path, and a raised structure on the substrate around the fluid path, the raised structure positioned to seal the circuit from the fluid path.