摘要 |
A heating device for heating of ink in a print head of an ink print device comprises several ink channels ending in exit openings (10). The ink channels (8) are connected to a joint ink volume space (9), with individually controllable electrothermal converter elements (3) coordinated to each separate ink channel (8), where under the effect of the converter elements (3) a droplet-wise ejection of ink occurs from the exit openings (10). The print head is constructed in a layer structure. A further cover layer (14) is applied onto the uppermost cover layer (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) of a substrate (1), delimiting the ink volume space (9) and the ink channels (8) and containing the electrothermal converter elements (3) where the further cover layer (14) serves both as a heating layer for heating the ink and as a temperature sensor layer for determinating the temperature of the ink. The cover layer (14) is contactable from the outside and is covered by a further protective layer (13). The cover layer (14) is extending over a large area of the region of the ink volume space (9).
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