Droplet ejection device
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May 3, 2005
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Apr 1, 2004
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Sep 30, 2002
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Sep 30, 2002
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A fluid droplet ejection device including a body defining a plurality of fluid paths that each include an inlet including a flow restriction, a pumping chamber, and a nozzle opening communicating with the pumping chamber for discharging fluid droplets. An actuator is associated with each pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a largest dimension that is sufficiently short and the flow restriction provides sufficient flow resistance so as to provide a fluid droplet velocity and/or volume versus frequency response that varies by less than plus or minus 25% over a droplet frequency range of 0 to 40 kHz. Also disclosed are fluid droplet ejection devices in which the ratio of the inlet flow resistance to the pumping chamber flow impedance is between 0.05 and 0.9, the pumping chamber has a time constant for decay of a pressure wave in the pumping chamber that is less than 25 microseconds.
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