Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus to regulate temperature of printheads
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Application No.: US16161399Application Date: 2018-10-16
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Publication No.: US10421273B2Publication Date: 2019-09-24
- Inventor: Andrew L. Van Brocklin , Mark Hunter , Peter James Fricke , Adam L. Ghozeil , James Michael Gardner
- Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring
- Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring
- Agency: HP Inc. Patent Department
- Main IPC: B41J2/045
- IPC: B41J2/045 ; B41J2/195

Abstract:
In some examples, a method of regulating a temperature of a printhead includes charging, in a first state of a temperature regulator, an analog memory to a reference voltage that corresponds to a predetermined temperature of the printhead. The temperature regulator monitors, during a second state, the temperature of the printhead, the monitoring including measuring a thermal voltage representing an actual temperature of at least a first local area of a plurality of local areas of the printhead, and comparing, with a comparator, the reference voltage to the thermal voltage to obtain a comparison result for at least the first local area. Based on the comparison result, a series of warming pulses from a warming pulse circuit to at least the first local area is selectively enabled.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190047283A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO REGULATE TEMPERATURE OF PRINTHEADS Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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