Appeal No. 1999-1565
Application No. 08/494,227
(specification, page 6, lines 25-26), and from column to
column are offset such that no nozzle aperture aligns with a
nozzle aperture in a direction orthogonal to the column
direction, and all nozzle apertures are equidistantly arranged
in the column direction (specification, page 6, lines 26
through page 7, line 2). The adapter plate openings and the
nozzle openings are aligned with ink chamber openings
(specification, page 7, lines 3-11).
Independent claim 1, which is the sole independent claim
rejected, is reproduced as follows:
1. An ink printer head comprising:
a plurality of individual edge shooter ink printer
modules successively disposed in side-by-side contact and
forming an assembly having a front face, each of said ink
printer modules comprising a plurality of stacked module
plates with some of said module plates on each module
respectively containing a plurality of ink chambers and each
ink chamber having an associated ink chamber opening disposed
in said front face of said assembly so that said front face of
said assembly has a number of said ink chamber openings, said
assembly including a plurality of plate-shaped piezoelectric
actuators, each ink chamber having one of said piezoelectric
actuators adjacent thereto for ejecting ink from the ink
chamber adjacent to the piezoelectric actuator through the
associated ink chamber opening, each of said ink printer
modules having a first column of said ink chamber openings and
a second column of said ink chamber openings spaced from said
first column of ink chamber openings, each of said ink chamber
openings having a first dimension in a column direction
extending along each of said columns;
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