CN1324301A - Droplet deposition apparatus - Google Patents

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CN1324301A
CN1324301A CN99812540A CN99812540A CN1324301A CN 1324301 A CN1324301 A CN 1324301A CN 99812540 A CN99812540 A CN 99812540A CN 99812540 A CN99812540 A CN 99812540A CN 1324301 A CN1324301 A CN 1324301A
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P·R·德鲁里
S·坦普尔
R·A·哈维
J·M·扎巴
S·奥默
H·J·曼宁
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Abstract

This invention relates to a droplet deposition apparatus comprises a fluid chamber comprising an actuator actuable by electrical signals to effect ejection of droplets from the fluid chamber, a drive circuit for supplying the electrical signals; and a conduit for supplying droplet fluid to said fluid chamber, the drive circuit being in substantial thermal contact in greater area with the conduit so as to transfer a substantial part of the heat generated in the drive circuit to the droplet fluid.

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Droplet deposition apparatus
The present invention relates to a kind of droplet deposition apparatus, such as ink jet-print head.
At present, higher resolution ratio is arranged, need to improve the density of nozzle and associated driver circuitry for drop on demand ink jet is printed.But the density that improves drive circuit may be brought and overheated relevant problem.Similarly, the density that improves drive circuit may increase the printhead width, thereby control proposes higher requirement to the heat in the printhead.In this, the advantage of heat (" bubble jet ") printhead is that their drive circuit contacts with the tight of printing ink, and this has a kind of effect of cooling.But this need be by providing special control method to keep the electric integrality of described circuit under ink environment, and therefore therefore such advantage is also offseted.
At least the preferred embodiments of the present invention purpose is, utilizes a kind of simple mode can prevent that under the situation of the electric integrality that does not influence a printhead drive circuit of this printhead is overheated.
First aspect the invention provides a kind of droplet deposition apparatus, and described droplet deposition apparatus comprises:
A fluid chamber, described fluid chamber has drive unit, and described drive unit can be driven so that drop is discharged from described fluid chamber by the signal of telecommunication;
Be used for the described signal of telecommunication is offered the driving circuit device of described drive unit; And
Be used for described fluids in drops is transported to described fluid chamber or transfers out the pipe guide of described fluids in drops from described fluid chamber,
Described driving circuit device and the thermo-contact of described pipe guide large tracts of land will be so that will be created in the described fluids in drops of most of heat transferred in the described drive circuit.
In this a kind of mode described driving circuit device being set can make printing ink in the described printhead as the heat abstractor that the heat that produced in described drive circuit is scattered and disappeared easily.This can reduce the overheated possibility of appearance widely, can also avoid the problem about electric integrality that may occur under the situation that the integrated circuit that comprises described drive circuit encapsulates with printing ink directly contacts simultaneously.
Described device can comprise first pipe guide and second pipe guide that is used for described fluids in drops is derived from described fluid chamber that is used for fluids in drops is supplied to described fluid chamber.If like this, described driving circuit device is linked to each other with described second pipe guide in the mode of heat.This can provide the most direct route of the heat discharge that will be produced for described printhead in described drive circuit chip, and can make the ink temperature variation in described fluid chamber itself reach minimum when being changed tempestuously in operating process by the heat that described chip produced.For example, know from WO97/35167 that the speed that such variations in temperature may make drop spray changes, thereby may in the image that needs are printed, form the error of some position.
Being installed in a shape at described drive circuit is essentially under the situation in the encapsulation of cuboidal integrated circuit, in described integrated circuit encapsulation, at least some surfaces are rectangles, the surface of each described rectangle all has a surface area, surface except that the surface with Minimum Surface Area is to be provided with like this, be that the flow direction in the part on close described surface is parallel in described conduit with fluid basically on described surface, and described surface and the thermo-contact of described fluid large tracts of land.A kind of like this set-up mode can be guaranteed a large amount of heat is passed to described fluids in drops.Surface with maximum surface area preferably is provided with like this, and is promptly should the surface parallel with the mobile direction of fluid.Under the situation that circuit structure allows, a kind of like this set-up mode can make from the heat of described circuit transmission and reach maximum.
A second aspect of the present invention provides a kind of droplet deposition apparatus, and described droplet deposition apparatus comprises:
At least one drop ejection unit, described drop ejection unit comprises a plurality of fluid chamber, drive unit and a plurality of nozzle of being arranged to a row, described drive unit can be driven in case can be from a fluid chamber with a drop of fluid by a respective nozzles ejection; And
A support unit that is used for described at least one drop ejection unit, described support unit comprises the fluids in drops passage that at least one communicates with described a plurality of fluid chamber, described fluids in drops passage is to be provided with like this, promptly can be on parallel with a described nozzle row basically direction fluids in drops be supplied to described fluid chamber or fluids in drops is transferred out from described fluid chamber and can be with the described fluids in drops that is transferred of most of heat transferred that is produced drop ejection process.
This can make heat distribute equably along the length direction of described support unit, thereby can reduce to cause the thermoinduction strain of printhead distortion.For example work as the printhead width and increase to a pagewidth (for the U.S. " Foolscap " standard, be generally 12.6 inches (32 centimetres)) time, it is more and more obvious that this distortion will become, and be that a plurality of narrow injection units or an independent wide injection unit are used in combination all with described support unit and described distortion may occur.
When seeing past tense from cross section, best described fluids in drops passage has occupied most of cross-sectional area of described support unit.Described fluids in drops passage comprises and is used for fluids in drops is directed to the appropriate section of each fluid chamber or/and the appropriate section that is used for fluids in drops is derived from each fluid chamber.The mobile heat that helps like this is delivered to the remainder of described support unit from described fluid chamber (the main source of heat, promptly described drive unit present position), thereby has reduced temperature difference.
In order to provide effective twelve Earthly Branches to hold to described at least one drop ejection unit, described support unit is preferably in printing ink and is wider than cross section on nozzle row direction from the cross section on the direction of nozzle ejection.
In one embodiment, described device comprises a plurality of drop ejections unit, described support unit supports described drop ejection unit abreast on nozzle row's direction, described support unit comprises the fluids in drops passage that at least one communicates with at least two described drop ejection unit, described fluids in drops passage is to be provided with like this, promptly can be on parallel with a described nozzle row basically direction fluids in drops be supplied to described drop ejection unit or fluids in drops is transferred out from described drop ejection unit and can be with the described fluids in drops that is transferred of most of heat transferred that is produced drop ejection process.
Utilizing the higher material of a kind of heat conductivility (such as aluminium) to make described support unit helps heat to distribute.Other advantage applies of a kind of like this material is aspect manufacturing and cost.But, be under the situation about making in described ejection unit by the very big material of thermal coefficient of expansion and the difference of thermal expansion coefficients of making described support unit material therefor, can go wrong.As hereinafter described, ejection unit comprises being formed on by piezoelectric and (is generally lead zirconate titanate, during passage in the main body of PZT) making, above-mentioned situation will occurs.Should be realized that differential expansion (particularly on the nozzle row direction in a kind of " page width (pagewide) formula " device) may make deformed element such as printing ink seal, drive unit, arrangements of electric connection and/or they are caused damage.
Therefore, preferably being provided for the device that described at least one drop ejection unit and described support unit are bonded together sprays on unit so that can avoid thermal deformation with described support unit to be delivered to described at least one drop basically.
A third aspect of the present invention provides a kind of droplet deposition apparatus, and described droplet deposition apparatus comprises:
A fluid chamber, at least a portion of described fluid chamber is to be made by first kind of material with first thermal coefficient of expansion, described chamber links to each other with drive unit, described drive unit can be driven so that from drop of described chamber ejection, and described chamber has one and is used for fluids in drops introducing input port wherein;
A support unit that is used for described fluid chamber, described support unit comprises a passage that is used for fluids in drops is supplied to described input port, and at least a portion of described support unit is to be made by the second kind of material that has greater than second thermal coefficient of expansion of described first thermal coefficient of expansion; And
Be used for device that described fluid chamber and described support unit are bonded together, the thermal deformation of described support unit be delivered in the described fluid chamber so that can avoid basically.
Best described engagement device comprises and is used for described or each fluid chamber are bonded to elastic bonding device on the described support unit.Among the described in the back embodiment, use a kind of binding agent rubber blanket being bonded on fluid chamber's structural member by aluminium being carried out a made support unit of extrusion modling, described fluid chamber structural member comprises a passage that is formed in the main body of being made by PZT, and described passage can be sealed with the lid that the hot matched materials of PZT (such as molybdenum) is made by a kind of by one.Forming the inking input port and form the printing ink nozzle in described lid in the described parts that are provided with passage to make whole apparatus structure compact and can reduce the quantity of required element.
Other preferred embodiment of the present invention can be found out from specification, accompanying drawing and following claim book.
Now present invention is described in conjunction with example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is the resulting perspective view of representing first embodiment of the invention of seeing over from positive and top;
Fig. 2 is the resulting perspective view of seeing over from the back of printhead shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is the sectional view of described printhead on a direction vertical with described nozzle row bearing of trend;
Fig. 4 is the resulting perspective view of seeing over from the top of an end of printhead shown in Fig. 1 and top;
Fig. 5 is a resulting sectional view in fluid passage along a printing ink ejection module of printhead shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 6 shows one second embodiment of droplet deposition apparatus, and this figure is along the resulting sectional view of bearing of trend perpendicular to nozzle row.
Fig. 1 shows a printhead 10, and described printhead 10 is as one first embodiment of droplet deposition apparatus.Illustrated embodiment is a kind of " page width (pagewide) formula " printing equipment, it has on the whole width of a piece of paper the two row's nozzles 20 that extend (extending along direction shown in the arrow 100), 30, these nozzles can make printing ink obtain deposition on the whole width at a page in a unidirectional process of passing through.For example at EP-A-0 277 703, disclose among the EP-A-0 278 590, by a signal of telecommunication being offered the drive unit relevant printing ink is sprayed from a nozzle with fluid chamber, wherein said fluid chamber communicates with described nozzle, particularly application number be the application of Britain of 9710530 and 9721555 here as a reference.In order to simplify manufacture process and to boost productivity, the nozzle that " page width " formula is arranged is made of a plurality of modules, and one of them module is by Reference numeral 40 expressions.Each module has a relevant fluid chamber and drive unit, and described module is for example continuous with relevant drive circuit (integrated circuit " chip " (50)) by a kind of flexible circuit 60.Printing ink is fed into described printhead neutralization by the respective aperture (not shown) in end cap 90 and discharges from described printhead.
Fig. 2 is the resulting perspective view of seeing over from the back of printhead shown in Fig. 1, wherein end cap 90 is removed the supporting structure spare 200 to represent this printhead, the supporting structure spare of described printhead 200 is included in the ink flow passage 210 that extends on the whole width of described printhead, 220,230.Shown in the Reference numeral among Fig. 2 215, printing ink enters into described printhead and inking passage 220 by the hole (being omitted) in one of them end cap 90 in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.As shown in Figure 3, when printing ink when described inking passage 220 flows, printing ink is discharged in each ink chamber, to be described printhead arrange sectional view on the vertical direction of bearing of trend at one with described nozzle to Fig. 3.Printing ink flow into (respectively by 300 and 310 expressions) among the row of first ink chamber and the row of second ink chamber who is parallel to each other from described passage 220 through the hole 320 that is formed on the structural member 200 (drawing the part of top shadow line).Shown in Reference numeral 235, after printing ink flows through row of described first ink chamber and the row of second ink chamber, by hole 330 and 340 discharge with converge along the mobile printing ink stream of the first printing ink output channel 210 and the second printing ink output channel 230 respectively.The public ink export (not shown) place of these printing ink in being formed at an end cap converges, and described end cap is arranged in a printhead end place relative with that end that wherein is formed with input hole.
Each row of ink chamber 300 and 310 is continuous with drive circuit 360,370 separately respectively.With with structural member 200 in be used as the part large tracts of land thermo-contact of a conduit mode described drive circuit is installed, what be used as a conduit in the described structural member 200 defines the ink flow passage, thereby will be by most of heat transferred printing ink that described drive circuit produced by described guide-tube structure in operating process.Therefore, the structural member among the embodiment 200 shown in Fig. 1-Fig. 3 should be made by a kind of heat conductivility excellent material.For such material, aluminium is particularly suitable, and this is owing to utilize the method for extrusion modling to produce promptly cheap again easily.Then circuit 360,370 is placed on the outer surface of structural member 200 so that its can with described structural member thermo-contact, can select to use heat conduction pad or adhesive to reduce the resistance of heat exchange between described drive circuit and the structural member.
In the embodiment shown, cuboidal drive circuit small pieces 360, the 370th, be provided with like this, the surface (rectangle or foursquare) that is a maximum in each circuit small pieces is all parallel with the flow direction (by Reference numeral 235 expressions) of fluid in the most close these surperficial appropriate sections in the described conduit 210,230 basically.This helps to make heat exchange between circuit and the printing ink to reach best, minimizes and utilize the good material of heat conductivility to make described structural member all to help to make the heat exchange between circuit and the printing ink to reach best by being used in thickness with oil ink passage and the separated structural member of circuit in addition.
Now referring to Fig. 4, Fig. 4 is the resulting perspective view of seeing over from the top of an end of described printhead and top, and one of them module 40 has been removed so that clearly show that the outside and the inner details of described structural member 200.Described structural member comprises and is used to the lip 510,520 the groove 500 of drive circuit 370 being installed and being used for other circuit board 530 of clamping, and described circuit board 530 is equipped with some and is unsuitable for being installed to element in the described drive circuit 370.As shown in Figure 4, independently form back lip 520 on the parts 540 at one, these circuit boards are held put in place, for example utilize pass hole shown in Fig. 2 240 and with a screw rod that the bar (not shown) engages that is arranged in passage 550.Described bar is preferably made by a kind of high-strength material (such as steel), so that screw thread can be provided and strengthen aluminum structural member 200, particularly can resist the active force that is produced when being connected printhead installing.
In the present embodiment, described other circuit board also is formed with and is used for electric energy and data are supplied to the pin of printhead (in Fig. 3, represent with Reference numeral 420) and terminal 560, described terminal 560 can supply to electric energy and data (special instruction be that described data refer to the data after the processing) in the described drive circuit 370 by flexible connector 570.Such method of attachment is being known in the art, and therefore no longer it is described in detail here.
As mentioned above, the heat that is produced in described drive circuit is delivered to printing ink, therefore utilize above-mentioned ink flow passage can make described heat be distributed in described structural member 200 around.The heat that is produced in ink chamber by relevant drive unit also distributes by this way.Thereby the temperature difference that occurs in structural member 200 is very little and can not produces very big internal force and/or distortion.
But, if structural member 200 and these two parts of main body of wherein being formed with fluid chamber 300,310 are by thermal coefficient of expansion (C TE) two kinds of materials differing greatly make, the integral body of printhead heats up and may cause between described structural member 200 and the described main body non-homogeneous expansion even in operating process so.In the present embodiment, a described main body that wherein is formed with fluid chamber is to be that related piezoelectric is made in the application of Britain of 9721555 by above-mentioned application number.
As shown in Figure 5, Fig. 5 is a resulting sectional view along the fluid passage of a module 40, passage 11 be formed on by in the made substrate parts 860 of piezoelectric between them, to limit piezoelectric channel walls.Then for these wall electrode platings forming for example at the conduit wall drive unit disclosed in the above-mentioned EP-A-0 277 703, be interrupted part by represented in described electrode one of Reference numeral 810 the conduit wall utilization in the described passage of either half is operated independently by the signal of telecommunication that electronic input apparatus (flexible circuit 60) is provided.
Utilize the appropriate section 820 of a lid 620,830 along length 600, per half passage of 610 sealings, known as people, described lid 620 also is formed with the printing ink import and export 630,640 that can make printing ink be fed into per half passage and supply from per half passage, 650, the purpose that these printing ink import and export 630,640,650 are set is for described per half passage is cleaned and heat extraction.People it is also known that described lid 620 preferably can be made with the described hot matched materials of the used piezoelectric of passage component that is provided with of making by a kind of.Printing ink is to discharge from per half passage by opening 840,850, and described opening 840,850 is connected together with the surperficial facing surfaces that wherein is formed with described passage with described passage with on described piezoelectric substrate parts.Then, the nozzle 870,880 that is used for ink-jet be formed on one with nozzle plate 890 that described piezoelectric part links to each other on.
For fear of owing to make the piezoelectric of described fluid chamber and make different and the problem that printhead that may cause is out of shape of the aluminothermy expansion character of described structural member 200, connecting rod can be inserted in the hole 580 in the described structural member and make its tension so that described structural member 200 is in compressive state.Although the material of described connecting rod can adopt any C TEValue is less than described structural member C TEThe material of value (under described structural member is situation by aluminum, selecting the material of steel) as described connecting rod, but what should be familiar with is preferably to select C for use TEBe worth low material.
In addition, can utilize a kind of elastic bonding body (in Fig. 3, utilizing the rubber that is coated with binding agent shown in the Reference numeral 430) that described lid 620 is bonded together with structural member 200, although thereby used connecting rod but still the relative expansion that may occur occurs in this less critical surface place rather than generation stress and distortion in printhead module 40 itself, being 12.6 for a length wherein, " printhead of (32 centimetres), the amount of described relative expansion are approximately 0.3 millimeter.As shown in Figure 4, lid 620 also can be arranged in the sunk part 590 that is formed in the structural member 200 and the both sides that extend to described printhead to be provided for the installation surface of described printhead.Have been found that and have high strength and good heat conductive performance and can be particularly suitable for material with the molybdenum of PZT heat coupling as described lid.
Fig. 6 shows one second embodiment of droplet deposition apparatus, and this figure is along the resulting sectional view of bearing of trend perpendicular to nozzle row.Similar with first embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the supporting structure spare of described printhead 900 is included in the ink flow passage 910,920 that extends on the whole width of described printhead.Shown in the Reference numeral among Fig. 6 915, printing ink enters into described printhead and inking passage 920.When printing ink when described inking passage 220 flows, printing ink is discharged in each ink chamber 925 by the hole 930 that is formed in the described structural member 900.Shown in Reference numeral 935, after printing ink flow through described ink chamber, printing ink was discharged to converge with the printing ink stream that flows along printing ink output channel 910 by hole 930 and 940.
Utilize aluminium oxide insert layer 970 that a flat aluminium oxide basic unit 960 is installed on the described structural member 900.Preferably utilize the binding agent of heat conduction that described insert layer 970 is bonded on the described structural member 900, the thickness of described insert layer 970 is approximately 100 microns, then utilizes the binding agent of heat conduction that described basic unit 960 is bonded on the described insert layer 970.
The chip 980 of drive circuit is installed on the soft circuit board 985 of low-density.For the ease of making described printhead and reduce cost, the part that has described chip 980 in the described circuit board directly is installed on the surface of described aluminium oxide basic unit 960.Overheated for fear of described drive circuit, with with structural member 900 in be used as the part large tracts of land thermo-contact of a conduit mode other thermogenesis element (such as resistor 990) in the described drive circuit is installed, thereby most of heat transferred printing ink that in operating process, will be produced by these elements 990 by described guide-tube structure.
Except described aluminium oxide basic unit and insert layer, the downside that an alumina plate 995 is installed to described structural member 900 to be limiting the expansion of described aluminum design part 900 in this location, thereby can prevent the bending that described structural member causes owing to thermal expansion effectively.
That (to comprise claims) in this application file disclosed and/or in the accompanying drawings shown in each feature all can comprise in the present invention, do not rely on other disclosed and/or shown in feature.

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1. droplet deposition apparatus comprises:
A fluid chamber, described fluid chamber has drive unit, and described drive unit can be driven so that drop is discharged from described fluid chamber by the signal of telecommunication;
Be used for the described signal of telecommunication is offered the driving circuit device of described drive unit; And
Be used for described fluids in drops is transported to described fluid chamber or transfers out the pipe guide of described fluids in drops from described fluid chamber, described driving circuit device and the thermo-contact of described pipe guide large tracts of land will be so that will be created in the described fluids in drops of most of heat transferred in the described drive circuit.
2. a device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described device comprises first pipe guide and second pipe guide that is used for described fluids in drops is derived from described fluid chamber that is used for fluids in drops is supplied to described fluid chamber.
3. a device as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, described driving circuit device links to each other with described second pipe guide in the mode of heat.
4. one kind as the described device of above-mentioned any one claim, it is characterized in that, described drive circuit is installed in a shape and is essentially in the cuboidal integrated circuit encapsulation, in described integrated circuit encapsulation, at least some surfaces are rectangles, the surface of each described rectangle all has a surface area, surface except the surface with Minimum Surface Area is to be provided with like this, be that the flow direction in the part on close described surface is parallel in described conduit with fluid basically on described surface, and described surface and the thermo-contact of described fluid large tracts of land.
5. a device as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, the surface with maximum surface area is to be provided with like this, and is promptly should the surface parallel with the mobile direction of fluid.
6. droplet deposition apparatus comprises:
At least one drop ejection unit, described drop ejection unit comprises a plurality of fluid chamber, drive unit and a plurality of nozzle of being arranged to a row, described drive unit can be driven in case can be from a fluid chamber with a drop of fluid by a respective nozzles ejection; And
A support unit that is used for described at least one drop ejection unit, described support unit comprises the fluids in drops passage that at least one communicates with described a plurality of fluid chamber, described fluids in drops passage is to be provided with like this, promptly can be on parallel with a described nozzle row basically direction fluids in drops be supplied to described fluid chamber or fluids in drops is transferred out from described fluid chamber and can be with the described fluids in drops that is transferred of most of heat transferred that is produced drop ejection process.
7. a device as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, described fluids in drops passage has occupied most of cross-sectional area of described support unit.
8. one kind as claim 6 or 7 described devices, it is characterized in that described fluids in drops passage comprises and is used for appropriate section that fluids in drops is directed to the appropriate section of each fluid chamber and is used for fluids in drops is derived from each fluid chamber.
9. one kind as any one described device in the claim 6 to 8, it is characterized in that, described support unit is wider than cross section on nozzle row direction at printing ink from the cross section on the direction of nozzle ejection.
10. one kind as any one described device in the claim 6 to 9, it is characterized in that, described support unit comprises that heat conductivility is higher than the material of the heat conductivility of described at least one drop ejection unit.
11. device as claimed in claim 10, it is characterized in that, described device comprises and is used for device that described at least one drop ejection unit and described support unit are bonded together, sprays on unit so that can avoid thermal deformation with described support unit to be delivered to described at least one drop basically.
12. one kind as any one described device in the claim 6 to 11, it is characterized in that, described device comprises a plurality of drop ejections unit, described support unit supports described drop ejection unit abreast on nozzle row's direction, described support unit comprises the fluids in drops passage that at least one communicates with at least two described drop ejection unit, described fluids in drops passage is to be provided with like this, promptly can be on parallel with a described nozzle row basically direction fluids in drops be supplied to described drop ejection unit or fluids in drops is transferred out from described drop ejection unit and can be with the described fluids in drops that is transferred of most of heat transferred that is produced drop ejection process.
13. a droplet deposition apparatus comprises:
A fluid chamber, at least a portion of described fluid chamber is to be made by first kind of material with first thermal coefficient of expansion, described chamber links to each other with drive unit, described drive unit can be driven so that from drop of described chamber ejection, and described chamber has one and is used for fluids in drops introducing input port wherein;
A support unit that is used for described fluid chamber, described support unit comprises a passage that is used for fluids in drops is supplied to described input port, and at least a portion of described support unit is to be made by the second kind of material that has greater than second thermal coefficient of expansion of described first thermal coefficient of expansion; And
Be used for device that described fluid chamber and described support unit are bonded together, the thermal deformation of described support unit be delivered in the described fluid chamber so that can avoid basically.
14. one kind as claim 11 or 13 described devices, it is characterized in that, described engagement device comprises and is used for described fluid chamber is bonded to elastic bonding device on the described support unit.
15. one kind as claim 13 or 14 described devices, it is characterized in that, described fluid chamber or each fluid chamber comprise a passage that is formed in the main body of being made by piezoelectric, and described passage can be sealed with the lid of described piezoelectric large tracts of land heat coupling by one.
16. a device as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, described printing ink input port is formed in the described lid.
17. one kind as claim 15 or 16 described devices, it is characterized in that at least one printing ink nozzle is formed in the main body of being made by described piezoelectric.
18. at this with reference to the described droplet deposition apparatus of accompanying drawing.
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