Printer carriage bushing
    2.
    发明授权
    Printer carriage bushing 失效
    打印机托架衬套

    公开(公告)号:US06575646B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-06-10

    申请号:US09429436

    申请日:1999-10-28

    Abstract: A printer carriage has a bushing liner arranged to slide on a rod, the liner including a metal body with plastic inserts having, on their inside surfaces, ribs, which constitute the bearings of the bushing liner. The inserts are located in grooves of the metallic body by means of an injection moulding process. The external surface of the bushing liner comprises a plurality of flat and curved sections arranged asymmetrically to permit firm and accurate location in an aperture of the carriage.

    Abstract translation: 打印机托架具有布置成在杆上滑动的衬套衬套,衬套包括具有塑料插入件的金属体,在其内表面上具有构成衬套衬套的轴承的肋。 插入件通过注射成型工艺位于金属体的凹槽中。 衬套衬套的外表面包括多个平坦且弯曲的部分,其非对称布置以允许在滑架的孔中牢固且准确的位置。

    Pin-supported and -aligned linear encoder strip for a scanning incremental printer
    3.
    发明授权
    Pin-supported and -aligned linear encoder strip for a scanning incremental printer 有权
    用于扫描增量打印机的引脚支持和对齐线性编码器条

    公开(公告)号:US06254292B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-03

    申请号:US09253566

    申请日:1999-02-19

    CPC classification number: B41J19/207

    Abstract: Spaced pins support and align the strip. Apertures in the strip engage the pins with no fastening. The strip—best a transparent member and glued strength member—is end-mounted and -tensioned. Ideally the apertures are slots to constrain the strip as to only one dimension, and spaced (ideally about 30 cm on centers) to facilitate cutting various-size strips (e. g. for spans of roughly 91½, 106½, 152½ and 183 cm) from common, preapertured stock. The strip is longer than a meter; the invention is progressively more valuable for 1¼ m or longer strips. At least one pin is placed to keep fundamental oscillation of the strip, due to environmental vibration, from moving the strip out of position. The invention can take the form of the strip only, for use with the pins; or a printer with encoding system having the strip and pins—and a sensor responsive to the encoder to control printing; or a method of preparing a system for use. The pins prevent the strip from leaving the sensor and permit use of very low tension—only that needed to hold up the strip, within its vertical-alignment tolerance, over a short span between pins. The tension, and thereby the vertical-dimension stack from encoder scale to sensor, are thus made virtually independent of encoder-strip length. Such a printer ideally has a printhead carriage that scans parallel to the strip; the sensor (adjacent to the strip and carried on the carriage) develops signals representing position and velocity of the sensor and carriage relative to the strip. Printheads on the carriage form color marks to construct an image on a print medium. A medium-advance mechanism provides relative motion between carriage and medium. A processor responds to the position/velocity signals, and coordinates the printheads and advance mechanism to form the image.

    Abstract translation: 间距针脚支撑并对齐条带。 条带中的孔径与销没有紧固接合。 带状最佳透明构件和胶合强度构件 - 端部安装和张紧。 理想地,孔是用于将条约束为仅一个尺寸的狭槽,并且间隔开(理想地,中心约30cm),以便于切割各种尺寸的条(例如,距离共同的大约91½,106½,152½和183cm的跨度) 预先存货 该条长于一米; 本发明对于1cm或更长的条带逐渐更有价值。 放置至少一个销以保持条带的基本振荡,由于环境振动,将条带移出位置。 本发明可以仅采用条带的形式,与销一起使用; 或具有编码系统的打印机具有条带和针脚以及响应于编码器的传感器来控制打印; 或者制备用于使用的系统的方法。 引脚防止条带离开传感器,并允许在引脚之间的短跨度内,在其垂直对准公差范围内使用非常低的拉伸强度。 因此,张力,从而从编码器尺度到传感器的垂直尺寸堆叠实际上与编码器条长度无关。 这种打印机理想地具有平行于条带扫描的打印头托架; 传感器(与条带相邻并承载在托架上)产生表示传感器和托架相对于条带的位置和速度的信号。 滑架上的打印头形成彩色标记,以在打印介质上构建图像。 中等提前机制提供滑架和介质之间的相对运动。 处理器响应位置/速度信号,并协调打印头和前进机构以形成图像。

    Method and apparatus for actuating a pump in a printer
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for actuating a pump in a printer 有权
    用于致动打印机中的泵的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06220699B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-24

    申请号:US09251706

    申请日:1999-02-17

    CPC classification number: B41J2/17596 B41J2/16552

    Abstract: A printer apparatus and method of actuating a fluid pump in a printer to deliver fluid to an ink jet printhead without removing the printhead from a printhead carriage particularly useful for priming inkjet printheads using an air displacement pump to deliver air under positive pressure to the printheads. The pump is located proximate a service station on the printer and is automatically actuated by movement of the carriage to service station. The pump may be arcuately positionable to align the pump with a selected one of air passageways provided in a printhead holddown cover on the printhead carriage. Algorithms are provided for locating the precise position of the pump outlet along the carriage scan axis relative to its intended design location and for arcuately positioning the pump relative to the carriage to engage the pump outlet with a selected one of conduits in the carriage connected to each printhead.

    Abstract translation: 一种致动打印机中的流体泵以将流体输送到喷墨打印头而不从打印头支架移除打印头的打印机装置和方法,该打印头支架特别适用于使用空气排量泵对喷墨打印头进行灌注,以将正压力下的空气输送到打印头。 泵位于打印机上的维修站附近,并通过滑架运动到维修站而自动启动。 泵可以是弧形定位的,以将泵与设置在打印头滑架上的打印头压盖中的选定的一个空气通道对准。 提供算法用于沿着支架扫描轴线相对于其预期设计位置定位泵出口的精确位置,并且用于相对于托架弧形地定位泵以使泵出口与所选择的一个管道连接, 打印头。

    Latent inkjet printing, to avoid drying and liquid-loading problems, and provide sharper imaging
    8.
    发明申请
    Latent inkjet printing, to avoid drying and liquid-loading problems, and provide sharper imaging 有权
    潜水喷墨打印,避免干燥和液体加载问题,并提供更清晰的成像

    公开(公告)号:US20060164489A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-27

    申请号:US11043772

    申请日:2005-01-26

    CPC classification number: B41J2/01 B41J2002/012

    Abstract: Ejected liquid forms a latent image on a charged transfer surface. In some invention aspects electrostatic charge is first applied to the surface; inkjet devices eject the image-forming liquid; voltage is established between the devices and surface; another, separate substance associated with the latent image actuates it. In other aspects hydrophobic or hydrophilic material in the surface stabilizes the image on it; electrostatic apparatus, associated with the surface, cooperates with the stabilizing material, further controlling image-droplet position and size. In other aspects a desired image forms on a final printing medium, based on an input electronic image-data array; the liquid ejection is onto an intermediate transfer surface, based on detailed incremental control by the data, forming a latent image representing the desired image. An actuating substance, initially discrete from the liquid, is associated with the image, and a reaction initiated to modify that substance—which is transferred from surface to final medium.

    Abstract translation: 喷射液体在带电转印表面上形成潜像。 在一些发明方面,首先将静电电荷施加到表面; 喷墨装置喷射图像形成液体; 设备和表面之间建立电压; 与潜像相关联的另一个独立物质驱动它。 在其他方面,表面上的疏水或亲水材料稳定其上的图像; 与表面相关的静电设备与稳定材料配合,进一步控制图像液滴位置和尺寸。 在其他方面,基于输入的电子图像数据阵列,在最终打印介质上形成期望的图像; 基于数据的详细增量控制,液体喷射到中间转印表面上,形成表示所需图像的潜像。 最初离开液体的致动物质与图像相关联,并且开始反应以改变从表面转移到最终介质的物质的反应。

    Independent servicing of multiple inkjet printheads
    9.
    发明授权
    Independent servicing of multiple inkjet printheads 有权
    独立维修多台喷墨打印头

    公开(公告)号:US06203135B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-03-20

    申请号:US09253381

    申请日:1999-02-19

    CPC classification number: B41J2/16547 B41J2/16508 B41J2/16538

    Abstract: Service station components for interacting with one type of printhead are located to be aligned in operative position only in a first servicing mode, and service station components for interacting with another type of printhead are differently located to be aligned in operative position only in a second servicing mode. This allows for different servicing schemes of two or more modes to be applied based on the individual characteristics of the ink and/or nozzle plates employed in inkjet printheads. In some instances, an individual printhead can be serviced in more than one servicing mode. In a preferred embodiment, replaceable service station units are provided for each different printhead.

    Abstract translation: 用于与一种类型的打印头相互作用的维修站部件仅在第一维修模式下被定位在操作位置,并且用于与另一类型的打印头相互作用的维修站部件被不同地定位成仅在第二维修中被对准在操作位置 模式。 这允许基于喷墨打印头中使用的墨水和/或喷嘴板的单独特性来应用两种或更多种模式的不同维修方案。 在某些情况下,单个打印头可以以多于一种维修模式进行维修。 在优选实施例中,为每个不同的打印头提供可更换的维修站单元。

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