Printer drum removal preparation
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11906918B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US18065884

    申请日:2022-12-14

    CPC classification number: G03G15/50 G03G21/1671

    Abstract: In an example, a printing apparatus may include, a rotatable shaft, a removable drum mounted on the shaft and a fixing element to fixedly couple the removable drum to the shaft, so that the removable drum is to rotate with the shaft. The printing apparatus may also include a heater, a printing apparatus satellite component located adjacent to the removable drum and engageable with the removable drum and a controller. The controller may be to receive a command to prepare the removable drum for removal; and in response, control the shaft to rotate the removable drum; control the heater to heat the removable drum while it rotates; and control the printing apparatus to engage the satellite component of the printing apparatus with the removable drum while it rotates.

    Conditioners including conditioner shutdown

    公开(公告)号:US11904598B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17048027

    申请日:2018-07-25

    Abstract: A conditioner includes a pressure roller assembly, a tension roller assembly, a heating element, a pressure roller drive motor, a tension drive motor, and a controller. The heating element heats the pressure roller assembly. The pressure roller drive motor rotates the pressure roller assembly. The tension drive motor rotates the tension roller assembly. The controller receives a print job complete notification to initiate a conditioner shutdown. In response to the print job complete notification, the controller turns off the tension drive motor. The controller sets the heating element to a predetermined temperature and waits a first predetermined period. In response to the first predetermined period elapsing, the controller turns off the heating element. With the heating element turned off, the controller turns off the pressure roller drive motor.

    IMAGING SYSTEM WITH AIR PASSAGE FOR DEVELOPMENT CHAMBER

    公开(公告)号:US20240045372A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-08

    申请号:US17641979

    申请日:2020-08-27

    CPC classification number: G03G21/206 G03G15/0812

    Abstract: An imaging system includes a housing, a developer roller that transfers developer to an image carrier at a development region, a developer regulator to limit a thickness of the developer carried on the developer roller, and an air passage that extends outside a development chamber. The air passage has an inlet to draw an airflow, and an outlet located between the developer regulator and the development region. The air passage has a cross section orthogonal to a direction of the airflow from the inlet to the outlet. In the cross section taken at the narrowest position where the air passage is the narrowest, a width in a width direction parallel to a rotational axis of the developer roller is greater than a thickness that is perpendicular to the width direction.

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