Patent ID: 8403462

Claim:
An inkjet head, comprising: a head chip wherein channels and drive walls configured with piezoelectric elements are arranged alternately, apertures of the channels are arranged respectively at a front surface and a rear surface of the head chip, and a drive electrode is formed in each of the channels; and a flow path regulating member arranged at the rear surface of the head chip to regulate ink flow into the channel, wherein shear deformation is caused at each of the drive walls by applying a voltage to the drive electrode so that ink in the channel is emitted; wherein the flow path regulating member is formed to reduce an area of the apertures at the rear surface of the channels in such a manner that the flow path regulating member covers a center area of each of the apertures of each of the channels in a direction in which the channels are arranged so as to form uncovered areas at both sides of the covered center area of each of the apertures in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the channels are arranged.