US 11,981,136 B2
Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus
Takahiro Kanegae, Shiojiri (JP); Katsuhiro Okubo, Azumino (JP); Kentaro Murakami, Matsumoto (JP); Shingo Tomimatsu, Shiojiri (JP); Hiroki Kobayashi, Matsumoto (JP); and Haruhisa Uezawa, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, (JP)
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/701,732.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-049385 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0305788 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/15 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/15 (2013.01) [B41J 2/14233 (2013.01); B41J 2002/14306 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid ejecting head comprising:
a plurality of head chips having a nozzle surface provided with a nozzle configured to eject a liquid;
a thermally conductive holder holding the plurality of head chips;
a thermally conductive flow path structure provided with a flow path of a liquid supplied to the plurality of head chips; and
a planar heater disposed between the holder and the flow path structure, the planar heater includes a first major planar surface that faces the thermally conductive holder, an opposite second major planar surface that faces the thermally conductive flow path structure, and a side surface that connects the first and second major planar surfaces to each other, each of the first and second major planar surfaces being arranged in parallel with the nozzle surface such that the heater overlaps the plurality of head chips in a plan view, the side surface being arranged orthogonal to the nozzle surface and each of the first and second major planar surfaces, and a surface area of the side surface being less than that of each of the first and second major planar surfaces,
wherein the flow path structure overlaps the plurality of head chips in the plan view.