US 7,600,857 B2
Liquid discharge head
Hiroki Kihara, Kawasaki (Japan); Akihiko Shimomura, Yokohama (Japan); and Tadayoshi Inamoto, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/610,809.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-368138 (JP), filed on Dec. 21, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0139467 A1, Jun. 21, 2007
Int. Cl. B41J 2/05 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—56  [347/63; 347/65] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid discharge head comprising:
a discharge element substrate including an energy generating element that generates energy for discharging liquid, a discharge port provided so as to correspond to the energy generating element, and a supply path for supplying the liquid to the discharge port,
wherein the discharge element substrate has an open face to which the discharge port is open, a back face of the open face, and a side face formed between the open face and the back face, and at least a part of the side face is sealed by a sealing agent,
wherein the sealing agent contains a filler made of fluororesin, and
wherein the filler is segregated in the sealing agent in the direction toward the open face from the back face.