Patent ID: 11938728
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A liquid ejecting head comprising:
a plurality of head chips respectively each having a nozzle plate including a nozzle surface provided with a nozzle configured to eject a liquid;
a thermally conductive holder holding the plurality of head chips; and
a planar heater disposed at a position where the holder is interposed between the plurality of head chips and the heater and along a direction parallel to the nozzle surface, wherein
each of the plurality of head chips is elongated along a first direction when the first direction and a second direction are two directions intersecting with each other along the nozzle surface,
the plurality of head chips include a first head chip and a second head chip,
the first head chip and the second head chip are disposed to be offset from each other in both the first direction and the second direction,
the first head chip is in contact with a first side and a third side in a plan view and the second head chip is in contact with a second side in the plan view when the first side is one of four sides of a virtual rectangle circumscribing an aggregate of the plurality of head chips in the plan view, the second side is coupled to one end of the first side, and the third side is coupled to the other end of the first side,
the heater overlaps the plurality of head chips in the plan view, and
a first region surrounded by the first side, the second side, the first head chip, and the second head chip in the plan view includes a first outside part positioned outside an outer edge of the heater.