Gray scale ink jet printer
    21.
    发明授权
    Gray scale ink jet printer 失效
    灰色喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5745131A

    公开(公告)日:1998-04-28

    申请号:US510936

    申请日:1995-08-03

    IPC分类号: B41J2/21 G06K15/10 B41J2/205

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2125 G06K15/102

    摘要: A printing machine of the type in which liquid ink is deposited on a recording medium for printing gray scale images. The printing machine includes a printhead having ink ejecting nozzles of different sizes. Nozzles of the same size are arranged in groups and groups of nozzles are offset from one another. Ink drops of one group are deposited at locations corresponding to the points of a grid and ink drops of another group are deposited at locations corresponding to points not on the grid. Gray scale printing is achieved by the variation in drop size produced by different groups of nozzles as well as offsetting nozzles of one or more groups of nozzles from a reference group of nozzles printing on the points of a grid.

    摘要翻译: 一种印刷机,其中液体墨水沉积在用于打印灰度图像的记录介质上。 印刷机包括具有不同尺寸的喷墨嘴的打印头。 相同尺寸的喷嘴以组排列,并且喷嘴组彼此偏移。 将一组的墨滴沉积在对应于网格点的位置处,另一组的墨滴沉积在对应于不在网格上的点的位置处。 通过不同组的喷嘴产生的液滴尺寸的变化以及从网格点上打印的参考喷嘴组的一组或多组喷嘴的偏移喷嘴实现灰度级打印。

    Ink level sensing system for an ink jet printer
    22.
    发明授权
    Ink level sensing system for an ink jet printer 失效
    用于喷墨打印机的墨水量检测系统

    公开(公告)号:US5731824A

    公开(公告)日:1998-03-24

    申请号:US574090

    申请日:1995-12-18

    摘要: The invention discloses a system and method for sensing changes in the weight of an ink reservoir which supplies ink to a printhead which ejects ink onto a recording medium during a printer operational mode. The ink reservoir, whether located separately from the printhead, as in a plotter or pagewidth printer embodiment, or mechanically attached to the printhead and moved in a scanning printhead architecture, has its weight supported by a structure. A strain gage or other weight sensor is affixed to the supporting structure and incorporated in a circuit which produces an output signal representative of resistive changes in the weight sensor. Since a resistive change in the weight sensor is caused by a decrease in the supply of ink in the reservoir during continued printer operation, the output signal is proportional to the ink level. The output signal is digitized and sent to a system controller where it is compared to a predetermined reference level and a low level output signal is generated for use as a warning to a operator or user. In one embodiment, the strain gage is a leg of a resistor in a bridge circuit and provides continuous ink level readout. In another embodiment, multiple warning levels are enabled by inserting the resistor in a circuit where comparators compare the resistance of the strain gage to reference resistance levels.

    摘要翻译: 本发明公开了一种用于感测墨水储存器的重量变化的系统和方法,该墨水储存器向在打印机操作模式期间将墨水喷射到记录介质上的打印头提供墨水。 油墨储存器,无论是与打印头分开设置,如在绘图机或页宽打印机实施例中,或机械地附接到打印头并以扫描打印头架构移动,其重量由结构支撑。 应变计或其他重量传感器固定到支撑结构上并且包括在产生表示重量传感器中的电阻变化的输出信号的电路中。 由于重量传感器中的电阻变化是由连续打印机操作期间储存器中墨水供应的减少引起的,所以输出信号与油墨水平成正比。 输出信号被数字化并发送到系统控制器,在那里将其与预定参考电平进行比较,生成低电平输出信号以用作对操作者或用户的警告。 在一个实施例中,应变片是桥接电路中的电阻器的腿,并且提供连续的墨水量读出。 在另一个实施例中,通过将电阻器插入电路中来实现多个警告电平,其中比较器将应变计的电阻与参考电阻电平进行比较。

    Finishing apparatus
    23.
    发明授权
    Finishing apparatus 失效
    整理装置

    公开(公告)号:US5098074A

    公开(公告)日:1992-03-24

    申请号:US647333

    申请日:1991-01-25

    摘要: A finishing apparatus adapted to receive and fasten collated sets of copy sheets is provided. The finishing apparatus includes a stacking tray in which successive sets of fastened copy sheets can be stacked. The copy sheets are compiled on a movable compiling member, a portion of which is positioned selectively over the stacking tray. A paper path is used to transport the copy sheets to both the stacking tray and the movable compiling member so as to position one portion of each copy sheet in the stacking tray with the remaining portion of each copy sheet being located in the movable compiling member. A fastener, such as a stapler is positioned adjacent to the movable compiling member. A retracting mechanism is employed to move the portion of the movable compiling member supporting the copy sheets away from both the copy sheets and the stacking tray after the copy sheets of the set of copy sheets have been fastened to one another so that the entire set of fastened copy sheets is supported in the stacking tray.

    Sorter/stapler with horizontal bin opening
    24.
    发明授权
    Sorter/stapler with horizontal bin opening 失效
    具有水平仓开口的分拣机/订书机

    公开(公告)号:US4925171A

    公开(公告)日:1990-05-15

    申请号:US241999

    申请日:1988-09-08

    IPC分类号: B65H39/11

    CPC分类号: B65H39/11 B65H2408/113

    摘要: In a sorter for sorting sheets fed from a sequential source of sheets, with a closely vertically spaced array of sorter bins, and apparatus to vertically move the array of sorter bins relative to the source of sheets for sequentially loading individual sheets into individual sorter bins, the improvement including partially horizontally displacing one individual sorter bin at a time from the superposed array, in coordination with the vertical movement, towards the source of sheets to provide an enlarged bin entry opening without requiring any change in the vertical spacing between the bins, and subsequently horizontally moving a bin so displaced back into vertically superposed alignment with the other bins of the array. Also disclosed is stapling sheets sorted into the bins, wherein the same system for partially horizontally displacing the sorter bins also functions to move one displaced bin at a time into the stapler for stapling the sheets sorted in that bin without removal therefrom. The system for partially horizontally displacing the sorter bins may utilize individual pins connecting with respective individual sorter bins in a substantially vertically aligned array and an open jaw actuating system through which the array of pins is movable, which open jaw is adapted to engage and horizontally move a selected pin therein. An alternative cam track system with a horizontal displacement transition therein is also disclosed for this function.

    摘要翻译: 在分拣机中,用于分配从连续的片材源供应的片材,具有紧密垂直间隔开的排序箱阵列,以及用于相对于片材源垂直移动分拣机阵列的装置,以将各个片材顺序地装载到单独的分拣机箱中, 该改进包括一次单独的分拣机从与重叠的阵列一起的位置,与垂直运动协调地朝向纸张来源提供一个放大的仓入口,而不需要箱之间的垂直间距的任何改变, 随后水平移动一个垃圾箱,使垃圾箱与阵列的另一个箱体垂直叠放。 还公开了分类到料仓中的装订纸,其中用于部分地水平地移动分拣机箱的相同系统也用于一次移动一个移动的仓槽到订书机中,以便将在该仓中分拣的纸张装订而不从其中取出。 用于部分地水平地移位分拣机的系统可以利用与基本上垂直排列的阵列中的各个分拣机箱连接的单独的销和打开的颚致动系统,销组件可通过该掣子致动系统移动,该开颚适于接合和水平移动 其中选定的引脚。 对于该功能,还公开了其中具有水平位移转换的替代凸轮轨道系统。