Thermische Tintenstrahldruckköpfe.

摘要

A plurality of thermal ink jet printheads, each with nozzles (20) in a pre-cut nozzle face (21A), obtained from sectioning of an etched channel wafer (12) aligned and mated with a heater element (34) containing wafer (14) that have a patterned thick film layer (22) sandwiched therebetween. The printhead nozzles and nozzle face are produced in the channel wafer prior to the alignment and mating of the wafers by the combination of cutting a notch in the channel wafer through one end of a plurality of sets of etched channel grooves, forming the nozzles and the nozzle face in the channel wafer, and photodelineating the thick film layer on the heater element wafer, so that when the wafers are mated, the delineated edge of the thick film layer becomes part of the nozzles without requiring the cutting of the thick film layer by a dicing blade. In one embodiment, the heating element wafer has a similar notch (37) cut therein adjacent the delineated edge of the thick film layer prior to mating with the channel wafer. The two notches are confrontingly aligned, and the mated wafers are sectioned into separate printheads by cutting through the aligned notches, so that the blade remains spaced from the printhead nozzle face.