Abstract: A distance between the first circuit and the second circuit is a first distance, a distance between the first circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a second distance longer than the first distance, and a distance between the second circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a third distance longer than the first distance.

Abstract: a first compliance portion provided at a position on the first side of a coupling area in the common flow path where the common flow path is coupled to the plurality of individual flow paths; and a second compliance portion, different from the first compliance portion, provided at a position on a second side of the coupling area in the common flow path, the second side being the other side in the second direction and being opposite to the first side, and the first compliance portion and the second compliance portion have an overlapping portion where the first compliance portion and the second compliance portion partially overlap each other as viewed in the second direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle substrate having a nozzle configured to eject liquid; a pressure chamber substrate having a pressure chamber in which a pressure for ejecting liquid through the nozzle is applied to liquid and an absorption chamber adjacent to an upstream portion of the pressure chamber and configured to absorb vibration of liquid that occurs when a pressure is applied to the liquid in the pressure chamber; a first piezoelectric element associated with the pressure chamber and configured to be driven by voltage application; and a second piezoelectric element associated with the absorption chamber and configured to be driven independently of the first piezoelectric element by voltage application.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer, a vibration plate that is deformed when the piezoelectric device is driven, a pressure chamber plate including a pressure chamber whose volume is changed by deformation of the vibration plate, a wiring board, an individual lead electrode through which the wiring board and the first electrode are electrically coupled to each other, a common lead electrode through which the wiring board and the second electrode are electrically coupled to each other, and a resistance wire electrically coupled to the wiring board and used to determine temperature in the pressure chamber.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a first pressure chamber that applies pressure to a liquid; a second pressure chamber that applies pressure to the liquid; a nozzle channel that extends in a first direction and includes a nozzle that ejects the liquid; a first communication channel that extends in a second direction crossing the first direction and enables the first pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other; a second communication channel that extends in the second direction and enables the second pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other; and a first branch channel that has a portion extending in the first direction and enables the first pressure chamber and the nozzle channel to communicate with each other through a path different from a path of the first communication channel.

Abstract: The vibration plate, the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode are stacked in this order from the pressure chamber plate side in an active area facing the pressure chamber. An area located outwardly from the active area in a longitudinal direction of the pressure chamber includes a first area in which the piezoelectric layer, the second electrode, the insulating layer, and the first conductive layer are stacked in this order, and a second area in which the piezoelectric layer and the insulating layer are stacked in this order without the second electrode and the first conductive layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element of the present disclosure includes: a first film forming step of forming a first electrode at a substrate; a second film forming step of forming a first piezoelectric layer at the first electrode; a first processing step of patterning the first electrode and the first piezoelectric layer by etching; and a third film forming step of forming, after the first processing step, a second piezoelectric layer to cover the first electrode, the first piezoelectric layer, and the substrate.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a substrate, and a first piezoelectric device and a second piezoelectric device formed at the substrate. The first piezoelectric device includes a first lower electrode, a first piezoelectric body, and a first upper electrode. The second piezoelectric device includes a second lower electrode, a second piezoelectric body, and a second upper electrode. A side surface of the first lower electrode is not covered with the first piezoelectric body, and a side surface of the second lower electrode is not covered with the second piezoelectric body. The piezoelectric actuator further includes a common electrode formed at the substrate and coupled to the first upper electrode and the second upper electrode, and an insulating layer located between the common electrode and the first lower electrode and between the common electrode and the second lower electrode.

Abstract: A liquid discharge device has a liquid discharge head that includes a pressure chamber substrate provided with a first pressure chamber in which a liquid is accommodated, a first piezoelectric body provided to correspond to the first pressure chamber, and a detection resistor for detecting a temperature in a vicinity of the first pressure chamber, and a decision section that decides a degree of deterioration of the first piezoelectric body based on a detection result of the detection resistor.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a channel substrate having one or more pressure chambers, an absorbing chamber that absorbs vibration of a liquid; a vibration plate that is stacked on the channel substrate; a first piezoelectric element that is provided on a first surface of the vibration plate, which is on a side opposite to a side on which the pressure chamber is present, at a position overlapping the pressure chamber when viewed and that vibrates the vibration plate to apply pressure to the liquid; a second piezoelectric element that is provided on the first surface of the vibration plate at a position overlapping the absorbing chamber and that deforms to absorb the vibration of the liquid propagated from the pressure chamber; and a pressure detecting section that detects, based on an electromotive force of the second piezoelectric element, pressure of the liquid in the absorbing chamber.

Abstract: A piezoelectric body that is driven to apply pressure to a liquid in the plurality of pressure chambers, and contains lead atoms, a first electrode that is provided on a first surface of two surfaces of the piezoelectric body, a second electrode that is provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the two surfaces of the piezoelectric body, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode, and applies a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body, a resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the drive wiring to measure a temperature of the liquid in the plurality of pressure chambers, and a diffusion suppression layer that is provided between the resistor and the piezoelectric body to suppress diffusion of lead atoms contained in the piezoelectric body into the resistor.

Abstract: The controller drives the piezoelectric body such that, when the cumulative number of times of the driving is a second number of times greater than the first number of times, the voltage difference is a second value smaller than the first value.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber substrate that is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric body that is driven to apply pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, an upper electrode that is provided above the piezoelectric body for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, a lower electrode that is provided below the piezoelectric body for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is provided below the piezoelectric body for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a first wiring portion that is electrically coupled to the detection resistor. The first wiring portion includes a first part that is extended above the piezoelectric body, and a second part that is provided in at least a part of a through hole penetrating the piezoelectric body and electrically coupled to the detection resistor.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an individual electrode that is individually provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, a common electrode that is commonly provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric body that is provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode for applying pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the individual electrode and the common electrode, and applies a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a first layer that is provided on a surface opposite to a surface facing the pressure chamber substrate in the detection resistor, and has a lower thermal conductivity than the detection resistor.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes: a diaphragm plate; a first electrode provided on or over the diaphragm plate; a piezoelectric substance layer provided on or over the first electrode; and a second electrode provided on or over the piezoelectric substance layer; wherein the piezoelectric substance layer includes a plurality of active portions sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, either one of the first electrode and the second electrode is an individual electrode provided individually for each of the plurality of active portions, the other of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode that is common to the plurality of active portions, and lead-out wiring is multiple-connected to the individual electrode.

Abstract: A plurality of wall surfaces that constitute inner walls of the pressure compartment includes a surface of the recessed portion and the first wall surface, and an angle formed by the first surface and the first wall surface is greater than 90° and less than 180°.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber substrate that has a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric element that is laminated at the pressure chamber substrate, and has an individual electrode individually provided for each of the plurality of pressure chambers, a common electrode commonly provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, and a piezoelectric body provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode in a lamination direction of the piezoelectric element and provided to apply pressure to a liquid in the pressure chamber, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the individual electrode and the common electrode, and provided to apply a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body to the piezoelectric body, and a heating resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring, and provided to heat the liquid in the pressure chamber.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head unit includes a liquid discharge head that has a first detection resistor that is provided to correspond to a first piezoelectric element group, a second detection resistor that is provided to correspond to a second piezoelectric element group, a power supply circuit that causes a current to flow through the first detection resistor and the second detection resistor, a voltage detection circuit that detects a voltage, and a switching circuit that is configured to switch between a first state in which the voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a voltage generated in the first detection resistor due to the current flowing from the power supply circuit and a second state in which the voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a voltage generated in the second detection resistor due to the current flowing from the power supply circuit.

Abstract: A distance between the first circuit and the second circuit is a first distance, a distance between the first circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a second distance longer than the first distance, and a distance between the second circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a third distance longer than the first distance.

Abstract: when one position where a distance in the second direction to the partition wall located at a nearest position in the second direction is long is assumed as a first position, and the other position where the distance is short is assumed as a second position, both the piezoelectric body and the vibration plate are provided at the first position and the second position, and a thickness of the vibration plate at the second position is smaller than a thickness of the vibration plate at the first position.