EX-Z55
ƒ/2.6
5.8 mm
1/13
Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
16 responses to “What’s That? (41)”
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Not being much of an EE guy, I’ll start the guessing off with the obvious: The orange pathways look like flexible circuts. The rectangle bit above these circuts appear to be an amount of sillicon soldered all the way around and covered by rubber insulation gel?
I’m not sure about the large grey chunk at the bottom. Some sort of cooling sink maybe?
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Even though this could be part of just about any electronic componentry, I’ll guess that this is part of a dismantled digi-cam.
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I agree for the most part with Billy, but I think the circuit paths are leading to an LCD display. The channeled parts at the bottom definitely look like they’re intended to work as a heat sink.
Are you looking for us to identify what the device is?
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Thanks Steve. OK… if it isn’t disassembled and the bottom part isn’t a heat sink, then it must be a display on a device with the bezel removed. It’s small, you were less than 2.5" from the object when you took the photo. There’s something familiar about the shape of the bottom part…
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I’m not sure the precise nature of the object, but it looks to me like it might be the interior of a cell phone, with the bottom part a speaker? (or the inside of an mp3 player or other audio device). The relative crudeness of the top of the image would leave me to guess a low-cost object, perhaps also somewhat old (cheap walkman type device?)
Shannon
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I’m starting to think that the bottom part has depth. Now it looks to me like a speaker grill. Is this a portable radio with an LCD readout and the bezel is removed?
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Used to create an image, but not one that is displayed to an LCD. The image could be going to RAM, but I’ll think outside the box and guess that it’s part of an image producing inkjet.
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I’m going to guess that the part that I thought was an LCD is a flourescent display. I’m sticking with the bezel being removed… but now I think it was a tinted bezel that hid the part you see now above what I think is a speaker.
Is it a TV?
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I think the key is in that bezel the Rocketeer makes mention of. The bezel looks to be die-cast and painted aluminum. Such deep channels, if not for cooling are probably for structuraly rigidity. Whatever the bezel supports is _heavy_.
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Bingo Billy da Kid! I was at dinner and missed your prior guess. It is an inkjet, a Lexmark 17G0050 disposable plastic cartridge that contains the print head and contact electrodes.
It has excimer laser-cut printhead nozzles, 192 in all. Ink drops are ejected from the nozzles by the growth and collapse of a water vapor bubble on the top surface of a small heater located near the nozzle.
The bottom part is black plastic, part of the structural housing. Here is a similar design, with different plastic sides:
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It looks like I was wrong about the weight and die-cast aluminium, but right about the inkjet part. I knew I’d seen that clear rubber insulation somewhere. That was a good one!
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