Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a liquid discharge head comprising a discharge port for discharging liquid, a liquid flow path provided with a bubble generation means for generating bubbles in liquid and communicated with the discharge port, and a movable member provided facing said bubble generation means in said liquid flow path and having a free end on a downstream side toward the discharge port, a first surface provided with the bubble generation means being continued to at least one second surface of the side wall surface of said liquid flow path and the front end surface having the opening of the discharge port with a curved surface, the first surface being one of surfaces forming the liquid flow path.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head, which is provided with a movable film supporting member for supporting a movable film separating a first liquid flow path and a bubble creation region completely, and that is displaceable by the bubble created on the heat generating element. The method comprises the steps of forming the movable film supporting member, forming on the surface of the substrate becoming the movable film supporting member the recessed portion corresponding to the movable region of the movable film, providing a material becoming the movable film on the entire surface of the substrate having the recessed portion provided therefor, removing the portion including the movable region on the substrate from the reverse side of the substrate having the movable film provided therefor and forming a slacked configuration on the portion of the movable region of the movable film.

Abstract: To provide an ink jet recording head substrate, an ink jet recording head, an ink jet recording unit, and an ink jet recording apparatus which allow scorch deposits on a heating section to be prevented by exerting on the section effect of providing super-hydrophilicity. The ink jet recording head substrate includes heating resistors formed through an insulating layer on a substrate which produce thermal energy used to eject ink, and the ink jet recording head includes an ejection orifice through which ink is ejected, and ink path which communicates with the ejection orifice and has a section exerting on the liquid thermal energy used to eject the liquid and heating resistors which produce thermal energy and an area corresponding to a heating section in which heat produced by the heating resistors acts on ink is given super-hydrophilicity treatment, and a contact angle between the area and water is 5° or less.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing liquid discharge heads is provided with discharge ports for discharging liquid, liquid flow paths communicated with the discharge ports for supplying liquid to the discharge ports, a substrate having heat generating members for creating bubbles in liquid, and movable members facing the heat generating members, each being arranged in each liquid flow path, having the free end on the discharge port side with a specific gap with the heat generating member. This method comprises the steps of forming the boundary layer used for providing a gap between the movable member and the substrate above the heat generating member on the substrate, of laminating the movable member on the boundary layer so as to position the free end above the heat generating member, at the same time fixing the movable member on the substrate, and of forming the gap between the movable member and the heat generating member by use of the boundary layer.

Abstract: A method of preserving a recording head which includes an ink flow path by which the ink is supplied and a discharge port in communication with the ink flow path to discharge the ink supplied into the ink flow path; is connected to an ink tank in the recording apparatus in such a way to be removably attached to or detached from the ink tank, to allow the ink to be discharged from the discharge port; and uses a reactive ink as the recording ink containing a colorant and reactive component reactive with another ink, comprises a step of examining discharging conditions of the recording head using an ink for examination of a composition free of the reactive component, which is supplied into the ink flow path, and a step of step of preserving the recording head for preservation by replacing the ink for examination remaining in the ink flow path in the recording head by an ink for preservation containing neither the colorant nor reactive component, after the step of examining discharging conditions is over.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including a substrate, a ceiling plate connected to the substrate, a liquid flow path formed between the substrate and the ceiling plate, and a cantilever-like movable member having a fixed end fixed to the substrate and a free end extending into the liquid flow path, wherein the movable member is formed of a lower protective layer, a heat generating resistive layer, a lower electrode layer, an insulating layer, an upper electrode layer, and an upper protective layer stacked from the side of the substrate in the mentioned order, and wherein application of a voltage to a heat generating portion of the heat generating resistive layer causes bubbling of a liquid in the liquid flow path between the movable member and the substrate to discharge the liquid.

Abstract: A printing head is intended to achieve high reliability and a production method of the printing head is intended to achieve high yield at low cost. A liquid ejecting printing head employs a base body, in which an electrothermal transducer element, a driving functional element for driving the electrothermal transducer element, a wiring electrode connecting between the electrothermal transducer element and the driving functional element, and an insulation layer provided on the wiring electrode are formed on a substrate. The electrothermal transducer element has a heat generating resistor formed of a material selected from the group consisting TaN, HfB2, Poly-Si, Ta—Al, Ta—Ir, Au and Ag. A protective layer above the heat generating body is formed of an insulative compound deposited to be low density to high density in order.

Abstract: A recording unit is provided which comprises an ink housing part for housing an ink containing a coloring material and an aqueous medium, and an ink jet head part for discharging an ink droplet of the ink, wherein at least one color of the ink is a polyvalent metal salt containing ink further containing a polyvalent metal salt; the ink Jet head part for discharging at least the polyvalent metal salt containing ink has a configuration comprised of a substrate having on a base body, a heat-generating resistor member forming a heat-generating part, an electrode wire electrically connected to the heat-generating resistor member, and a cavitation resistant film provided on the heat-generating resistor member and the electrode wire via an insulating protection layer, and a liquid flow path communicating with a discharge port for discharging an ink droplet provided corresponding to the heat-generating part; and the cavitation resistant film comprises a layer comprised of an amorphous alloy containing Ta and a layer

Abstract: A method of producing a micro structure on a substrate which has a support portion and a plate-like portion supported thereby at a distance from the substrate, comprising the steps of forming a spacer layer consisting of an insulating material on a substrate having an electrically conductive layer formed on its surface, forming a latent image layer consisting of an electrically conductive material on the spacer layer at a site where the plate-like portion of an intended structure is to be formed, producing an aperture, where a part of the electrically conductive layer is exposed, on the spacer layer at a site where the supporting portion of an intended structure is to be formed, forming a structure layer consisting of plating film inside of the aperture and on the latent image layer by electroplating the electrically conductive layer as a cathode, and removing the spacer layer.

Abstract: A printing head is intended to achieve high reliability and a production method of the printing head is intended to achieve high yield at low cost. A liquid ejecting printing head employs a base body, in which an electrothermal transducer element, a driving functional element for driving the electrothermal transducer element, a wiring electrode connecting between the electrothermal transducer element and the driving functional element, and an insulation layer provided on the wiring electrode are formed on a substrate. The electrothermal transducer element has a heat generating resistor formed of a material selected from the group consisting TaN, HfB2, Poly-Si, Ta—Al, Ta—Ir, Au and Ag. A protective layer above the heat generating body is formed of an insulative compound deposited to be low density to high density in order.

Abstract: A printhead with a comparatively simple construction, which contributes to reducing the cost of the entire system and development work, effectively utilizes essential constituent devices of a logic circuit of the printhead such as a shift register, while omitting control on the printing apparatus side, and individually performs stable print operation, while suppressing variation of energy inputted to heat generators due to voltage drop by parasitic resistance. A printing apparatus incorporates the printhead. The printhead has a counter which counts the number of simultaneously-driven heat generators, which always changes in accordance with image data, based on externally-inputted image data and block selection signal, and a modulator which modulates the pulse width of a drive signal applied to the simultaneously-driven heat generators based on a value obtained from counting by the counter.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head provided with an element substrate and a ceiling plate fixed in a mutually opposed state, plural liquid path lateral walls provided between the ceiling plate and the element substrate and defining plural light flow paths, plural discharge energy generating elements arranged in parallel on the surface of the element substrate so as to be respectively positioned in the plural liquid paths, plural movable members in the form of a beam supported at an end, provided on the element substrate so as to be respectively opposed to the plural discharge energy generating elements and provided with fixed ends at the upstream side in the liquid flowing direction in the liquid paths and free ends at the downstream ends, and plural projections provided on the ceiling plate for respectively limiting the amount of displacement of the plural movable members, the element substrate and the ceiling plate being composed of similar materials, wherein the liquid path lateral walls are formed

Abstract: A method for manufacturing liquid discharge heads is provided with discharge ports for discharging liquid, liquid flow paths communicated with the discharge ports for supplying liquid to the discharge ports, a substrate having heat generating members for creating bubbles in liquid, and movable members facing the heat generating members, each being arranged in each liquid flow path, having the free end on the discharge port side with a specific gap with the heat generating member. This method comprises the steps of forming the boundary layer used for providing a gap between the movable member and the substrate above the heat generating member on the substrate, of laminating the movable member on the boundary layer so as to position the free end above the heat generating member, at the same time fixing the movable member on the substrate, and of forming the gap between the movable member and the heat generating member by use of the boundary layer.

Abstract: The substrate for use of an ink jet recording head is provided with a plurality of heat generating resistive members and the electrode wiring pattern electrically connected with the heat generating resistive members formed on the substrate, and a protection film formed on the heat generating resistive members and the electrode wiring pattern to protect them from ink. For this substrate, each of the heat generating resistive members comprises a first heat generating resistive member arranged on the lower layer of the electrode wiring pattern connected with the heat generating resistive member, and a second heat generating resistive member arranged between the protection film and the electrode wiring pattern. With the structure thus arranged, it becomes possible to make the protection film on the upper layer thinner, and attempt the power saving.

Abstract: In a liquid discharge head having a movable member displaced by generation of a bubble, endurance of stepped portions of the movable member and of root portions of movable parts of the movable member is enhanced and flexure deformation of the movable member is prevented to enhance endurance of the member.

Abstract: To provide an ink-jet head substrate enabling both highly koge. characteristic ink and corrosive ink to be used, an ink-jet head using the same basis and an inkjet recording apparatus equipped with the same head. The ink-jet head substrate includes: heat generating resistors forming heat generating sections on a base; electrode wires electrically connected to the heat generating resistors; and anti-cavitation films installed via an insulator protective layer on the heat generating resistors and the electrode wires, in which the anti-cavitation film is formed of materials varying with individual given areas on the base.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet head substrate comprising a heat generating resistance member forming a heat generating portion, an electrode wiring electrically connected to the heat generating resistance member, and an anti-cavitation film provided on the heat generating resistance member and the electrode wiring via an insulation protection layer, and wherein the anti-cavitation film is formed from different materials with more than two layers.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head includes a plurality of recording elements arranged in an array on a substrate, the recording elements having electric resistances with a variance not less than 4% from a resistance value of at least one of the recording elements, wherein the recording elements generate ink ejection energy to effect printing; a plurality of measuring elements, disposed adjacent at least each of the opposite ends of the array of the recording elements, for detesting characteristic values of the recording elements; and storing means for storing an average, a median or a reference value corresponding thereto.

Abstract: A liquid discharging head comprises a discharging port for discharging liquid, a liquid flow path communicated with said discharging port, a bubble generating region for causing the liquid to generate a bubble and a movable member having provided thereon a free end disposed facing to said bubble generating region, and on the downstream of said liquid flow path directed toward said discharging port. At least when said movable member is in stationary state, a side of said liquid flow path corresponding to said bubble generating region is substantially composed of all with a wall face and common communicating space for commonly communicating said liquid flow path with a neighboring liquid flow path is provided in the upward of a movable section of said movable member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head comprising a top plate including a plurality of ink discharge ports for discharging ink droplet, a plurality of first liquid passages for supplying ink in correspondence to the plurality of ink discharge ports and a common liquid chamber for supplying the ink to the first liquid passages, a liquid discharge head substrate obtained by forming second liquid passages arranged adjacent to the first liquid passages and including bubble generating areas on a substrate on which a plurality of heat generating elements for causing the ink discharge port to discharge the ink droplets and including drivers for driving the heat generating elements, and a movable diaphragm for completely isolating the first liquid passages and the second liquid passages from each other and displaceable by a bubble generated on the heat generating element, wherein the method comprises a movable diaphragm forming step for providing the movable diaphragm in suc