Patent ID: 7744022

Claim:
A dispense tip comprising: an elongated neck having a longitudinal axis; an elongated hole in the neck, the hole extending from an input end region of the neck to an output end region of the neck, a portion of the elongated hole having an inner surface of a first inner diameter, and the output end region including an outlet having an inner surface of a second inner diameter, the first inner diameter being greater than the second inner diameter, wherein the outlet having the inner surface of the second inner diameter has a first length in a direction along the longitudinal axis; an inner taper that transitions the inner surface of the hole from the first inner diameter to the second inner diameter, the hole being unobstructed within the first inner diameter and the second inner diameter between the input end region of the neck and the outlet in the output end region of the neck, wherein a portion of the inner taper is in the output end region; a body at the input end region of the neck, the body including a funnel that delivers fluid to the input end region of the neck, the dispense tip constructed and arranged to receive a flow of the fluid from a material pump during a dispensing operation, the funnel having a funnel inlet at an input end of the funnel that is constructed and arranged to receive the flow of the fluid from the material pump and a funnel outlet at an output end of the funnel, wherein the input end region of the neck communicates with the funnel outlet such that the dispense tip includes a single, unidirectional fluid path between the funnel inlet and the output end region of the neck, wherein at least one of the neck and the body of the dispense tip comprises ceramics; and a bevel about a outermost end of the output end region of the neck, wherein the outlet extends from the inner taper to the outermost end, the bevel having an outer surface of a second length in a direction along the longitudinal axis, wherein the second length of the bevel surface is greater than the first length of the outlet, and wherein the bevel surface lies at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis at the outermost end of the output end region of the neck.