WO2007116699A1 - 液体吐出装置 - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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- the present invention relates to a liquid ejection apparatus.
- a plurality of pressure chambers filled with a liquid are formed on one side of the substrate, arranged in the surface direction, and the liquid is applied to the opposite surface of the substrate for each pressure chamber.
- each pressure chamber and nozzle are individually connected by a communication path filled with liquid, and further, on one side of the substrate where the pressure chamber is formed.
- Liquid ejecting apparatuses provided with piezoelectric actuators including piezoelectric elements are widely used as piezoelectric inkjet heads in recording apparatuses using an inkjet recording system, such as inkjet printers and inkjet plotters.
- the liquid ejection device in a state where the pressure chamber and the communication path are filled with liquid, a predetermined driving voltage pulse is applied to the piezoelectric element, and the piezoelectric actuator is squeezed and deformed in the thickness direction; When it is vibrated so as to repeat the state in which the stagnation deformation is released, the volume of the pressure chamber is increased or decreased accordingly, the liquid in the pressure chamber vibrates, and the vibration passes through the liquid in the communication path, and the nozzle Thus, the liquid meniscus formed in the nozzle vibrates, and along with this vibration, a part of the liquid forming the meniscus is separated as droplets and discharged from the nozzle.
- the communication passage is conventionally formed with a substantially constant opening area in consideration of transmitting the vibration of the liquid in the pressure chamber as smoothly as possible to the meniscus in the nozzle.
- the communication path is formed with a constant opening area from the opening on the pressure chamber side to the connection position with the nozzle, and the opening area is increased from the connection position with the Nozure force communication path toward the tip.
- a liquid discharge device formed in a tapered shape so as to gradually become smaller is described.
- the piezoelectric actuator is driven.
- the inventor has found that the vibration area transmitted to the liquid in the communication path is partially as described above because the opening area of the communication path is larger than the opening area of the nozzle. Although it is transmitted to the liquid meniscus in the nozzle, it is thought that the remainder is reflected near the nozzle inlet in the direction of the pressure chamber. In other words, the remaining portion of the vibration reflected near the inlet of the nozzle is repeatedly reflected between the inner wall surface of the pressure chamber and the surface facing the inlet of the communication path, thereby generating a standing wave, This liquid is vibrated minutely.
- the period of micro vibration is mainly defined by the distance between opposing surfaces that repeatedly reflect vibration, and is several tens of times compared to the period of liquid vibration generated by driving a piezoelectric actuator. It is a small value from a fraction to a fraction.
- the minute vibration is superimposed on the vibration of the liquid generated by the drive of the piezoelectric actuator, the pressure for discharge applied to the liquid meniscus in the nozzle according to the phase shift amount of both vibrations.
- the volume of the formed droplets and the flying speed vary.
- the pressure for discharge applied to the meniscus of the liquid in the nozzle is excessive than the normal value.
- the piezoelectric actuator is driven to eject a droplet from the nozzle, a so-called leading high-speed small droplet that is smaller than a predetermined droplet and has a high flying speed is likely to be ejected at the beginning.
- the amount of phase shift between the vibration of the liquid generated by driving the piezoelectric actuator and the minute vibration is mainly determined by the length of the communication path, the volume of the droplet discharged from one nozzle, The flying speed does not fluctuate rapidly during use of the liquid ejection device .
- the volume and flying speed of liquid droplets ejected from a plurality of nozzles formed on a single substrate of the liquid ejection device are likely to vary for each nozzle.
- the image quality of the formed image deteriorates due to the generation of the leading high-speed droplets or the variation in the volume and flying speed of the droplets ejected from a plurality of nozzles. This causes a problem.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2005-144917 (paragraph [0029], FIG. 1, FIG. 2)
- An object of the present invention is to attenuate a minute vibration generated in a liquid in a communication path, and to discharge droplets having a previously designed volume and flying speed from all nozzles on a substrate.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid ejection device capable of performing
- the present invention provides:
- (D) includes a piezoelectric element, and vibrates due to deformation of the piezoelectric element to increase or decrease the volume of the pressure chamber, thereby vibrating the liquid in the pressure chamber, and passing the vibration through the liquid in the communication path.
- the present invention is a liquid discharge apparatus characterized in that the narrow opening portion has a small opening area.
- the vibration of the liquid is allowed to pass through the narrow portion having a small opening area and a large flow path resistance, which is provided at a boundary position between the communication passage and the pressure chamber.
- the narrow portion having a small opening area and a large flow path resistance, which is provided at a boundary position between the communication passage and the pressure chamber.
- the pressure chamber does not need to be provided with a resistance portion that becomes a flow path resistance, an opening that becomes a pressure chamber or the like is formed in the substrate constituting the liquid ejection device, for example.
- the formed plate material, the plate material in which the opening serving as the communication path is formed, and the plate material in which the nozzle is formed are stacked, each plate material is processed with conventional processing accuracy, aligned, and stacked. Even so, sufficient dimensional accuracy can be ensured, and in particular, it is possible to prevent the opening area at the connection portion between the pressure chamber and the communication path from fluctuating.
- the variation in the opening area causes a difference in the effect of attenuating micro vibrations, and the volume and flying speed of liquid droplets ejected from a plurality of nozzles formed on one substrate of the liquid ejection device are increased. It is also possible to prevent the nozzles from varying from one to another.
- the vibration of the liquid in the pressure chamber generated by driving the piezoelectric actuator is as efficient as possible through the narrow portion while maintaining the effect of attenuating minute vibrations by the narrow portion at a good level.
- the opening area of the narrow portion is preferably 20 to 60% of the opening area of the region on the side of the nose from the narrow portion.
- the length of the narrow portion in the length direction of the communication path is preferably 10 to 20% of the total length of the communication path.
- a liquid ejecting apparatus can be provided.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing an enlarged part of an example of an embodiment of a liquid ejection apparatus of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view in which a portion of a communication path that is a main part of the liquid ejection apparatus of the above example is further enlarged.
- FIG. 3 is a plan view further enlarging a portion of the communication path.
- FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the overall shape of Nozunore.
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a communication portion formed in Comparative Example 1.
- FIG. 6 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a communication portion formed in Comparative Example 2.
- FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a communication portion formed in Comparative Example 3.
- FIG. 8 is a circuit diagram showing an analysis model used for analyzing the piezoelectric ink jet heads of Examples and Comparative Examples.
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing changes in liquid pressure and flow velocity at the boundary position between the communication path and the nozzle when the piezoelectric inkjet head of Example 1 is driven.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing an enlarged part of an example of an embodiment of a liquid ejection apparatus of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a portion of the communication path, which is a main part of the liquid ejection apparatus of the above example.
- the liquid ejection apparatus 1 of this example forms a pressure chamber 3 on the upper surface of the substrate 2 in the figure and a nozzle 4 on the lower surface corresponding to the pressure chamber 3.
- the pressure chamber 3 and the nozzle 4 are connected by a communication path 5 formed so as to penetrate the substrate 2, and a thin plate-like piezoelectric material in a transverse vibration mode is formed on the upper surface of the substrate 2 where the pressure chamber 3 is formed.
- the piezoelectric actuator 7 including the element 6 is laminated.
- the pressure chamber 3, the nozzle 4 and the communication path 5 are formed on the single substrate 2 by being arranged in a plurality in the plane direction, although not shown.
- the minute vibrations of the liquid generated in the communication path 5 can be attenuated, and droplets having a pre-designed volume and flying speed excluding the minute vibrations are ejected from the nozzle 4. Is possible.
- the boundary position 8 between the pressure chamber 3 and the communication path 5 usually corresponds to a vibration waveform node of the vibration of the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 and the vibration of the liquid in the communication path 5.
- the boundary position 8 In the case where the narrow portion 9 having a constant length in the length direction of the passage 5 and having a small opening area is provided, the inner wall surface of the narrow portion 9 particularly acts to suppress the antinodes of the waveform of micro vibrations. Therefore, the minute vibration can be attenuated.
- the opening area S of the narrowed portion 9 is 20 to 60 of the opening area S of the communication path 5 in the region on the nozzle side of the narrowed portion 9. / o, especially 30-50. / o is preferred. Opening area S is not within the above range
- micro vibrations can be damped more effectively, but it is generated by the drive of the piezoelectric actuator 7 and is transferred from the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 to the liquid in the communication path 5 for the discharge of liquid droplets.
- the amount of vibration attenuation increases and the volume of droplets ejected from the nozzle 4 may decrease, or the flying speed may decrease.
- the effect of attenuating the minute vibration of the liquid by the narrowed portion 9 may be insufficient.
- the length L of the narrow passage 9 in the length direction of the communication path 5 is 10 to 20% of the total length L of the communication path 5,
- the effect of attenuating minute vibrations of the body may be insufficient.
- micro vibrations can be damped more effectively, but are generated by driving of the piezoelectric actuator 7 and transmitted from the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 to the liquid in the communication path 5.
- the amount of vibration attenuation for droplet ejection increases, and on the contrary, the volume of droplets ejected from the nozzle 4 may decrease, or the flying speed may decrease.
- the total length of passage 5 is 400 to 1400 111, especially in the range of 500 to 1200 ⁇ m.
- the opening area S is within the above range, and the narrow portion 9 is opened.
- reference numeral 10 denotes a supply (not shown) to the plurality of pressure chambers 3 arranged on the substrate 2.
- This is a supply path for supplying liquid from a source (such as a tank).
- the supply passage 10 and the pressure chamber 3 are formed by a very thin throttle portion to prevent the vibration of the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 from being transmitted to the liquid in the other pressure chamber 3 through the supply passage 10. 11 is connected through.
- the end of the communication path 5 on the nozzle 4 side transmits vibration transmitted from the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 from the liquid in the communication path 5 having a large opening area.
- the opening area is smaller than the communication path 5 and the nozzle It is said that connection part 12 is larger than 4.
- the substrate 2 having the above-described parts includes a first plate member 13 in which a through-hole to be the pressure chamber 3 is formed, a through-hole to be the narrow portion 9 in the communication path 5, the pressure chamber 3 and the throttle portion 11 is formed with a second plate 15 formed with a through hole serving as a connecting portion 14, a through hole serving as an upper end portion of the communication path 5 following the narrowed portion 9, and a through hole serving as the throttle portion 11.
- the sixth plate member 20 and the seventh plate member 21 on which the nozzle 4 is formed are sequentially laminated while being aligned and integrated.
- Each plate material is formed into a flat plate shape having a constant thickness using metal, ceramic, resin, or the like, and becomes the above-described portions by, for example, etching using a photolithographic method.
- etching using a photolithographic method.
- the total length L of the communication path 5 and the length L of the narrow portion 9 are
- the total length L of the communication path 5 and the length L of the narrowed portion 9 are set so that all the connections on one piezoelectric actuator 7
- the passage 5 can be made uniform with high accuracy.
- the opening area S of the narrow portion 9 can be adjusted within the above-described range by changing the opening area of the through holes formed in the plate material by etching or the like.
- the plate material is formed of metal
- examples of the metal include Fe_Cr alloys, Fe_Ni alloys, WC_TiC alloys, and the like.
- Fe—Ni alloys and Fe—Cr alloys e.g., SUS430, SUS316, SUS-316L, etc. are preferable.
- each plate material may be formed by laminating a plurality of plates each having a predetermined through hole formed on a thinner plate material.
- the piezoelectric actuator 7 is laminated on the substrate 2 in order, each having a size covering the plurality of pressure chambers 3 on the substrate 2, and a thin plate-like diaphragm 22 and a layer-like common electrode 23. And a thin plate-like piezoelectric element 6 in a transverse vibration mode, and a layered individual electrode 24 that is individually patterned in a predetermined planar shape corresponding to each pressure chamber 3 on the piezoelectric element 6. ing.
- the piezoelectric element 6 is, for example, lead zirconate titanate (PZT), or one or more oxides of lanthanum, barium, niobium, zinc, nickeloret, manganese, etc. in the PZT.
- PZT-based piezoelectric ceramic such as PLZT
- Piezoelectric element 6 mainly consists of lead magnesium niobate (PMN), lead nickel niobate (PNN), lead zinc niobate, lead manganate niobate, lead antimony stannate, lead titanate, and sodium titanate. It can also be formed by a piezoelectric ceramic as a component
- the diaphragm 22 is formed in a plate shape having a predetermined thickness using, for example, a metal such as molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, titanium, platinum, iron, or nickel, an alloy of the metal, stainless steel, or the like. In addition, it can be formed of the same piezoelectric ceramic as the piezoelectric element 6. Alternatively, the diaphragm 22 may be formed of a metal having excellent conductivity such as gold, silver, platinum, copper, or aluminum, and the common electrode 23 may be omitted.
- Each of the common electrode 23 and the individual electrode 24 is formed of a foil, a plating film, a vacuum deposition film, or the like made of a metal having excellent conductivity, such as gold, silver, platinum, copper, or aluminum.
- the conductive paste containing fine particles of each metal may be applied and dried, and then fired as necessary.
- the pattern of the individual electrode 24 for example, in the case of a plating film or a vacuum deposition film, only the region of the surface of the piezoelectric element 6 where the individual electrode 24 is to be formed is selectively exposed.
- the conductive paste is directly applied to the surface of the piezoelectric element by a printing method such as a screen printing method.
- a pattern may be formed.
- the piezoelectric element 6 and the diaphragm 22 made of piezoelectric ceramic are formed by firing and then firing the green sheet containing the compound that becomes the piezoelectric ceramic described above into a predetermined planar shape. it can.
- the conductive material that becomes the common electrode 23 by firing between the green sheets that form the respective layers. It is possible to obtain a laminated body in which the piezoelectric element 6, the common electrode 23, and the diaphragm 22 are laminated by producing a laminated body sandwiching the paste layers and firing the laminated body at a time. .
- the piezoelectric actuator 7 is formed. Then, by fixing the piezoelectric actuator 7 on the surface of the substrate 2 described above on the side on which the pressure chamber 3 is formed by adhering using an adhesive or the like, the liquid ejection device 1 is configured.
- the adhesive considering the heat resistance required for the liquid ejection device 1 and the resistance to liquids such as ink, an epoxy resin system, a phenol resin system, a polyurethane resin having a thermosetting temperature of 100 to 250 ° C. Thermosetting resin-based adhesives such as diene-tertel resin are preferred.
- the polarization direction of the piezoelectric ceramic is oriented in the thickness direction of the piezoelectric element 6, for example, in the direction of the force from the individual electrode 24 to the common electrode 23.
- high temperature polarization method room temperature polarization method
- AC electric field superposition method A polarization method such as an electric field cooling method is employed.
- the transverse vibration mode piezoelectric element 6 in which the polarization direction of the piezoelectric ceramic is oriented in the above-described direction is obtained when, for example, a positive drive voltage is applied to any individual electrode 24 with the common electrode 23 grounded.
- the region sandwiched between the electrodes 23 and 24 contracts in a plane perpendicular to the polarization direction.
- the piezoelectric element 6 is fixed to the diaphragm 22 via the common electrode 23, as a result, the region corresponding to the drive region of the piezoelectric actuator 7 protrudes in the direction of the pressure chamber 3.
- the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 is put into a state where pressure is applied.
- a predetermined drive voltage pulse is applied to the drive region of both electrodes 23, 24 force, etc., and the piezoelectric element 6 is not deformed, and the piezoelectric actuator 7 is stagnate and deformed.
- the piezoelectric actuator 7 is vibrated by repeating the released state at a predetermined timing, the volume of the pressure chamber 3 is increased or decreased accordingly, and the liquid in the pressure chamber 3 vibrates, The vibration is transmitted to the nozzle 4 through the liquid in the communication path 5, and the liquid meniscus formed in the nozzle 4 vibrates. Along with this vibration, a part of the liquid forming the meniscus is a droplet. And discharged from the nozzle 4.
- a plurality of parts each having the cross-sectional shape shown in FIG. 1 are provided, and the substrate 2 whose dimensions are the values shown below is laminated on a plurality of plate materials made of SUS316 in order as described above. It was formed by integrating.
- Thickness depth 100 x m
- the Nozzle 4 includes a conical taper portion 25 whose inner diameter gradually decreases from the pressure chamber 3 side (upper side in the figure) to the discharge side (lower side), and the conical taper portion 25.
- Opening diameter of straight part 26 d 20 ⁇ (Opening area: 0.00031mm 2 )
- the cross-sectional shape of each was circular.
- the dimensions of each part were as follows.
- connection 12 150 zm (Opening area: 0.01767mm 2 )
- Length of narrow part 9 L 100 / im
- the constriction unit 11 has a liquid flow direction length of 302 / im from the supply path 10 to the pressure chamber 3 and a width in the surface direction of the substrate orthogonal to the flow direction of 35.5 ⁇ .
- the height in the thickness direction was 20 / im.
- a piezoelectric actuator 7 having the following layers including the thin plate-like piezoelectric elements 6 in the transverse vibration mode, laminated in the order shown in FIG. 1, and having an overall thickness of 41.5 zm was prepared.
- the characteristics of the piezoelectric actuator 7 are as follows, and the thickness of the region corresponding to the drive region of the piezoelectric element 6 when a drive voltage of 20 V is applied between the common electrode 23 and the individual electrode 24: The displacement in the direction was 84.3 nm.
- the diaphragm 22 was formed in a thin plate shape having a size covering the plurality of pressure chambers 3 on the substrate 2 by PZT.
- the common electrode 23 was formed in a film shape having substantially the same size as the diaphragm 22 by Ag_Pd as a conductive material.
- the piezoelectric element 6 was formed into a thin plate having substantially the same size as the diaphragm 22 and the common electrode 23 by PZT as a piezoelectric ceramic.
- the individual electrode 24 was patterned into a film shape having a shape corresponding to the planar shape of each pressure chamber 3 individually for each pressure chamber 3 with Au as a conductive material.
- a liquid ejection device is formed by laminating the piezoelectric actuator 7 on the surface of the substrate 2 described above, on which the pressure chamber 3 is formed, via an epoxy resin adhesive, and curing the epoxy resin by heating under pressure.
- a piezoelectric inkjet head as 1 was manufactured.
- Length L of collar 9 is 40 ⁇ (Example 8), 80 / im (Example 9), 90 / im (Example 10), 110 / m (Example 11), 130 / im (Example 12) ), 150 / im (Example 13), 170 ⁇ (Example 14), and 190 xm (Example 15). Manufactured.
- a piezoelectric inkjet head as a liquid ejection device 1 was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the narrowed portion 9 was not provided in the communication path 5.
- the dimensions of each part were as follows.
- connection 12 150 zm (opening area: 0.0177 mm 2 )
- a piezoelectric ink jet head as a liquid discharge apparatus 1 was manufactured.
- connecting part 12 150 / im (opening area: 0 ⁇ 0177mm 2 )
- connection 12 150 zm (opening area: 0.0177 mm 2 )
- the piezoelectric ink jet heads of Example 1 and Comparative Examples 1 to 3 are continuously applied with a drive voltage to the drive region of the piezoelectric element 6 during standby, and the region corresponding to the drive region of the piezoelectric actuator 7 is moved to the pressure chamber. Maintaining the state of bending so that it protrudes in the direction of 3, once the droplet is discharged, the drive voltage is once reduced to zero to release the deflection, and then the drive voltage is applied again to return to the standby state.
- pseudo compression is used to determine the changes in the pressure and flow velocity of the liquid at the boundary between the communication path 5 and the nozzle 4 when driven by the so-called pulling drive method. The fluid was analyzed by the method.
- the calculation grid width of the analytical model was set to 0.7 ⁇ m x 0.7 ⁇ m for the Noznore 4 part, and 2 xmX2 xm for the communication path 5 part including the narrow part 9 and the connection part 12.
- the waveform of the drive voltage pulse used in the pulling-type drive method was set to 15V for the standby voltage value and 6.2 ⁇ sec for the pulse width to make the drive voltage zero.
- FIG. 9 shows the results of Example 1
- FIG. 10 shows the results of Comparative Example 1
- FIG. 11 shows the results of Comparative Example 2
- FIG. 12 shows the results of Comparative Example 3. From each figure, it was confirmed that the minute vibration generated in the communication path 5 can be effectively damped only when the narrow portion 9 is formed at the boundary position 8 of the communication path 5 with the pressure chamber 3.
- Comparative Example 4 in which an enlarged portion having an inner diameter larger than that of the communication path 5 is provided at the position of the narrow portion 9, the nozzle 4 causes a predetermined droplet from the nozzle 4 due to the influence of minute vibration. It was semi-IJ that a large number of droplets, which are small and have a low flying speed, cause image defects.
- the opening area of the narrow portion 9 is 20 to 60% of the opening area of the region on the nozzle 4 side from the narrow portion 9.
- the longitudinal force of the narrow portion 9 in the length direction of the communication path 5 is preferably 10 to 20% of the total length of the communication path 5. That was confirmed.
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