Multi-tabbed orifice plates

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EP 1 013 433 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	23.08.2000 Bulletin 2000/34

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	28.06.2000 Bulletin 2000/26

(21)	Application number: 99309503.3

(22)	Date of filing: 29.11.1999

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: B41J 2/16

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

14.12.1998 US 211205

(71)	Applicant: Scitex Digital Printing, Inc.
	Dayton, Ohio 45420-4099 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	Morris, Brian G. Dayton, Ohio 45419 (US) Sexton, Richard W. Huber Heights, Ohio 45424 (US) McWilliams, Kenneth R. Miamisburg, Ohio 45342 (US)

(74)	Representative: Freed, Arthur Woolf et al
	Reginald W. Barker & Co., Cliffords Inn Fetter Lane London EC4A 1BY London EC4A 1BY (GB)

(54)	Multi-tabbed orifice plates

(57) An orifice plate for an ink jet printing system has improved fabrication. The orifice plates (10) are formed as part of a larger panel (12). They are mechanically attached to the larger panel and electrically connected to it by means a large number of uniformly space narrow bridge members (18). These bridge members each converge to a narrow point at the edge of the orifice plate to cause the bridge to detach from the edge of the orifice plate when the orifice plate is to be removed from the larger panel at the time of orifice plate bonding.

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