LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND ASSEMBLY METHOD OF LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD

• US 20110310161A1
• Filed: 05/20/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Satoshi, Oikawa, Satoshi, Kitabatake, Kenji, Yamaguchi, Yukuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,616,688 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 347/20
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/1753 Details of contacts on the cartridge, e.g. protection of contacts
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17553 Outer structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49401 Fluid pattern dispersing device making, e.g., ink jet

Abstract

An assembly method of a liquid discharge head is provided. The liquid discharge head includes an element substrate, an electrode portion, a flexible wiring member which has the element substrate at one end and the electrode portion at another end, and includes a plurality of bent portions, wherein, each edge line of at least two bent portions are not parallel and a housing. The assembly method includes a step for providing the flexible wiring member and the housing in which the element substrate is fixed on a first surface of the housing, a step for fixing the flexible wiring member on a second surface of the housing while holding the electrode portion at a position on a third surface of the housing where the electrode portion to be fixed, and a step for fixing the electrode portion to the position.

Claims

1. An assembly method of a liquid discharge head for discharging liquid:

wherein

the liquid discharge head includes;

an element substrate provided with an energy generating element for generating energy to discharge liquid;

an electrode portion configured to electrically connect the element substrate and an outside;

a flexible wiring member which has the element substrate at one end and the electrode portion at another end, is configured to electrically connect the element substrate and the electrode portion, and further includes a plurality of bent portions which are bent, wherein, in the plurality of the bent portions, each edge line of at least two bent portions are not parallel; and

a housing including a first surface on which the element substrate is fixed, a second surface on which the flexible wiring member is fixed, and a third surface on which the electrode portion is fixed, and

the assembly method comprises;

a step for providing the flexible wiring member provided with the element substrate and the electrode portion and the housing in which the element substrate is fixed on the first surface;

a step for fixing the flexible wiring member on the second surface while holding the electrode portion at a position on the third surface where the electrode portion to be fixed; and

a step for fixing the electrode portion to the position,

wherein the step for providing, the step for fixing the flexible wiring member, and the step for fixing the electrode portion are performed in this order.

2. The assembly method of the liquid discharge head according to claim 1, wherein if the electrode portion is held at the position, the electrode portion can move in a direction crossing to the third surface.

3. The assembly method of the liquid discharge head according to claim 1,

wherein the electrode portion includes an opening,

the housing includes a protrusion portion which protrudes with respect to the third surface and is fitted into the opening, and an elastic member which contacts to the electrode portion and makes an elastic force thereof act in a direction crossing to the third surface, and

the electrode portion is held at the position by hooking the protrusion portion to the opening by the elastic force of the elastic member.

4. The assembly method of the liquid discharge head according to claim 1,

wherein the electrode portion includes an opening,

the housing includes a protrusion portion which protrudes with respect to the third surface and is fitted into the opening, and

the electrode portion is held at the position by pressing the protrusion portion with a pressing member in a state that the protrusion portion is fitted into the opening.

5. The assembly method of the liquid discharge head according to claim 1, wherein, in the step for fixing the flexible wiring member, the flexible wiring member is fixed in order from a position further from at least two bent portions.

6. The assembly method of the liquid discharge head according to claim 1,

wherein the flexible wiring member includes a wiring for electrically connecting the element substrate and the electrode and a two-dimensionally-bent portion that the wiring is bent in a plane of the flexible wiring member, and

in the step for fixing the flexible wiring member, the flexible wiring is fixed in order from a position nearer to the two-dimensionally-bent portion.

7. A liquid discharge head assembled by an assembly method of the liquid discharge head according to claim 1,

wherein the flexible wiring member includes a wiring for electrically connecting the element substrate and the electrode portion and an elongate opening extending in an extending direction of the wiring provided near the elongate opening,

the housing includes a protrusion portion which protrudes with respect to the second surface and is fitted into the elongate opening, and

the flexible wiring member is fixed to the housing by welding the protrusion portion fitted into the elongate opening.