Controlling acoustic ink printing print uniformity by adjusting row electrode area and shape
    65.
    发明公开
    Controlling acoustic ink printing print uniformity by adjusting row electrode area and shape 有权
    通过调整行电极面积和形状来控制声学墨水印刷打印的均匀性

    公开(公告)号:EP0972641A3

    公开(公告)日:2000-02-09

    申请号:EP99111678.1

    申请日:1999-06-16

    申请人: Xerox Corporation

    IPC分类号: B41J2/14

    摘要: An acoustic ink print head includes an array of individual emitters. Each of the emitters have a corresponding transducer with a lower electrode (18), a separate layer of a piezo-electric material (16) located on the lower electrode, and a separate upper (14) electrode provided on the upper surface of the piezo-electric layer. The upper and lower electrodes are connected to a source of conventionally modulated RF power. A dielectric layer is deposited on top of this structure and lenses (22) are etched into the top of the dielectric layer. The lenses focus energy generated by the transducer to a region of the upper surface (28) of a body of liquid located above the transducer. The lenses concentrate sound waves from the transducers thereby disturbing the surface and causing droplets (32) to be emitted. The print head is formed as an array of individual emitters. The upper electrodes (14) of the individual emitter array have varying surface areas dependent upon their location within a row of electrodes and their output efficiencies. The upper electrodes are altered in order to provide a uniform end-to-end print output.

    摘要翻译: 声学墨水打印头包括一排单独的发射器。 每个发射器具有带有下电极(18)的相应换能器,位于下电极上的压电材料(16)的单独层以及设置在压电元件上表面上的单独上电极(14) 电层。 上部和下部电极连接到传统调制RF功率源。 电介质层被沉积在该结构的顶部上,并且透镜(22)被蚀刻到电介质层的顶部。 透镜将由换能器产生的能量聚焦到位于换能器上方的液体主体的上表面(28)的区域。 透镜集中来自换能器的声波,从而干扰表面并引起液滴(32)被发射。 打印头形成为单个发射器阵列。 单个发射器阵列的上电极(14)具有不同的表面积,这取决于它们在一行电极内的位置及其输出效率。 上电极被改变以提供统一的端到端打印输出。

    Controlling acoustic ink printing print uniformity by adjusting row electrode area and shape

    公开(公告)号:EP0972641A2

    公开(公告)日:2000-01-19

    申请号:EP99111678.1

    申请日:1999-06-16

    申请人: Xerox Corporation

    IPC分类号: B41J2/14

    摘要: An acoustic ink print head includes an array of individual emitters. Each of the emitters have a corresponding transducer with a lower electrode (18), a separate layer of a piezo-electric material (16) located on the lower electrode, and a separate upper (14) electrode provided on the upper surface of the piezo-electric layer. The upper and lower electrodes are connected to a source of conventionally modulated RF power. A dielectric layer is deposited on top of this structure and lenses (22) are etched into the top of the dielectric layer. The lenses focus energy generated by the transducer to a region of the upper surface (28) of a body of liquid located above the transducer. The lenses concentrate sound waves from the transducers thereby disturbing the surface and causing droplets (32) to be emitted. The print head is formed as an array of individual emitters. The upper electrodes (14) of the individual emitter array have varying surface areas dependent upon their location within a row of electrodes and their output efficiencies. The upper electrodes are altered in order to provide a uniform end-to-end print output.

    Ink-jet printer
    70.
    发明公开
    Ink-jet printer 失效
    喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:EP0728584A3

    公开(公告)日:1997-05-14

    申请号:EP96301166.3

    申请日:1996-02-21

    IPC分类号: B41J2/045 B41J2/205

    摘要: A driving circuit (106) controls a time for applying a drive signal to a piezoelectric element (101) so as to bring a change in the number of ink droplets squirted from a liquid surface of liquid ink (109) according to a gray scale level of an image to be printed on a printed object. According to application of the drive signal, ultrasonic beams emitted from a piezoelectric element array (101) are converged in an array direction, made incident to an acoustic lens (107) via an acoustic matching layer (105), further converged in a direction orthogonal to the array direction and converged in a vicinity of the liquid surface in a point form. In the vicinity of the liquid surface, an ink meniscus (111) is formed by means of pressure (discharging pressure) generated by the converged ultrasonic beams and then from a tip of the ink meniscus (111) an ink droplet according to the application time is squirted. The squirted ink droplet is flown and stuck to the printed object. By performing main and subscanning to the printed object, a two-dimensional image is printed thereon.

    摘要翻译: 驱动电路(106)控制向压电元件(101)施加驱动信号的时间,以便根据灰度等级水平改变从液体墨水(109)的液面喷射的墨滴的数量 要打印在打印对象上的图像。 根据驱动信号的施加,从压电元件阵列(101)发射的超声波束沿阵列方向会聚,经由声匹配层(105)入射到声透镜(107),进一步沿正交方向会聚 到阵列方向并以点形式会聚在液面附近。 在液面附近,由会聚的超声波束产生的压力(排出压力)形成墨弯月面(111),然后从墨弯月面(111)的尖端根据施加时间形成墨滴 被喷射。 喷出的墨滴飞溅并粘附到打印物体上。 通过对打印物体执行主扫描和副扫描,在其上打印二维图像。