Patent 7159793 was granted and assigned to Sony on January, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A liquid discharging head includes a plurality of liquid discharging units and a common flow path. The liquid discharging units include ink chambers for containing liquid to be discharged, heating elements disposed in the ink chambers for applying discharge force to the liquid, and a nozzle sheet having nozzles for discharging the liquid in the ink chambers. The common flow path supplies the liquid to the liquid discharging units. The liquid discharging units face the same direction in relation to the common flow path, and the nozzles of the liquid discharging units arc disposed at a predetermined pitch. Adjacent nozzles are separated by a predetermined interval in a direction perpendicular to a direction or arrangement of the nozzles.