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公开(公告)号:US20210187988A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-24
申请号:US17190498
申请日:2021-03-03
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Linn C. Hoover , Erwin Ruiz , David A. VanKouwenberg , Paul M. Fromm , Jeffrey J. Bradway
Abstract: A method includes printing, by one or more printer heads of the printing system, a reactive layer onto print media. The method also includes printing, by the one or more printer heads, a determined number of transmission layers and a determined number of barrier layers in alternation with one another. At least a portion of the reactive layer is configured to migrate through the transmission layers. The method further includes printing, by the one or more printer heads, a reactant layer that is configured to change color responsive to a reaction that occurs between the reactant layer and the reactive layer upon migration of the reactive layer through the determined number of transmission layers. The reaction is configured to occur on a received expiration date.
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公开(公告)号:US20210187968A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-24
申请号:US16724437
申请日:2019-12-23
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Linn C. Hoover , Douglas K. Herrmann , Paul J. McConville , Jason M. LeFevre , Seemit Praharaj , David A. VanKouwenberg , Michael J. Levy , Chu-heng Liu , Santokh S. Badesha , Christopher Mieney , David S. Derleth
IPC: B41J11/00
Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a dryer configured to attenuate the effects of temperature differentials arising in substrates that are caused by holes in a media transport belt and a platen covering a vacuum plenum. The dryer includes a heater, a media transport belt cooler, and a media transport belt. The media transport belt is configured to move substrates past the heater after ink images have been formed on the substrates and the media transport belt cooler is positioned to remove heat energy from the media transport belt after the media transport belt has passed the heater and the substrates have separated from the media transport belt. The substrate cooler is configured to reduce a temperature of the media transport belt to a temperature that attenuates image defects arising from temperature differentials in the media transport belt when the media transport belt is opposite the heater.
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公开(公告)号:US20210170766A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-10
申请号:US16703656
申请日:2019-12-04
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: David A. VanKouwenberg , Seemit Praharaj , Michael J. Levy , Douglas K. Herrmann , Paul McConville , Chu-Heng Liu , Linn C. Hoover , Jason M. Lefevre
Abstract: A marker transport system and a method of operating the marker transport system can include one or more print heads and a marker transport platen upon which a sheet of media moves. The transport platen can include airflow sections comprising process-direction slots. The plates can move in a cross-process direction, and can control airflow in an area under the print heads. The one or more plates in a first position can allow for airflow when the sheet of media is located at the first position and in a second position can block the airflow at the second position. A vacuum can be provided under the sheet of media as the sheet of media traverses a print path across the marker transport platen. A no-vacuum inter-document zone can be provided, which moves along with the sheet of media under the one or more print heads.
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公开(公告)号:US20210078814A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-18
申请号:US16570577
申请日:2019-09-13
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Douglas K. Herrmann , Seemit Praharaj , Michael J. Levy , Jason M. Lefevre , Paul McConville , Chu-heng Liu , Linn C. Hoover , David A. VanKouwenberg
Abstract: A vacuum roller system and a method of operation the vacuum roller system can include an assembly of interdigitated rollers, and a vacuum system, wherein the assembly of interdigitated rollers is operably connected to the vacuum system to move sheets of media through a downstream dryer in a printer, wherein a vacuum is drawn between individual rollers among the assembly of interdigitated rollers so that the vacuum is distributed across a sheet of media and is split around the individual rollers. The spacing between the individual rollers among the assembly of interdigitated rollers is variable to vary the vacuum.
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公开(公告)号:US10894411B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-19
申请号:US16272048
申请日:2019-02-11
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Michael J. Levy , Seemit Praharaj , Paul J. McConville , Jason M. LeFevre , Linn C. Hoover , Chu-heng Liu , David A. VanKouwenberg , Douglas K. Herrmann , John T. Newell , Richard A. Campbell , Ali R. Dergham , Glenn D. Batchelor , Robert A. Clark , Senthil Sivaraman
Abstract: A cap is positioned to contact a printhead when the printhead is not ejecting liquid ink. The cap and the printhead create a sealed space adjacent printhead nozzles when contacting each other. A flexible blade is positioned to contact the printhead when the printhead is not in contact with the cap. The flexible blade is adapted to fold over to spread a liquid solution on the nozzles in a first direction, and the flexible blade is adapted to remove excess amounts of the liquid solution from the nozzles in a second direction. A humidifier is connected to the cap and adapted to supply a moisture form of the liquid solution to the sealed space. A moisture sensor is connected to the cap. The humidifier is adapted to vary supply of the moisture to the sealed space based on the amount of moisture detected by the moisture sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20200079074A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-12
申请号:US16127798
申请日:2018-09-11
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Paul M. Fromm , Erwin Ruiz , David A. VanKouwenberg , Linn C. Hoover
Abstract: An imaging system includes a substrate cooler that reduces the temperature of substrates bearing dried ink images. The substrate cooler has a plurality of rollers, at least one actuator operatively connected to the plurality of rollers, and a controller operatively connected to the least one actuator. The controller is configured to operate the at least one actuator to move the rollers relative to one another to vary the length of the path along which the substrates move through the substrate cooler.
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公开(公告)号:US10518537B1
公开(公告)日:2019-12-31
申请号:US16204411
申请日:2018-11-29
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Seemit Praharaj , Jason M. LeFevre , Paul J. McConville , Michael J. Levy , Douglas K. Herrmann , Chu-heng Liu , David A. VanKouwenberg , Linn C. Hoover
IPC: B41J2/165
Abstract: An inkjet printer is configured with capping stations for storing printheads in the printer during periods of printer inactivity so the viscosity of the ink in the nozzles of the inkjets of the printheads does not increase significantly. Each capping station has a printhead receptacle with an opening corresponding to a perimeter of a printhead, a pair of members pivotably mounted to the printhead receptacle so the members can move between a first position where the members expose the opening of the printhead receptacle and a second position where the members cover the opening of the printhead receptacle, and an actuator operatively connected to the pair of members to move the members between the first position and the second position. A controller is operatively connected to the actuator to operate the first actuator to move the members between the first position and the second position.
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公开(公告)号:US20190283477A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-19
申请号:US15924714
申请日:2018-03-19
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Linn C. Hoover , Erwin Ruiz , David A. VanKouwenberg , Paul M. Fromm , Jeffrey J. Bradway
Abstract: A printer system includes a memory, a processor, and one or more printer heads. The processor determines a number of transmission layers and a number of barrier layers to use in a color changing expiration indicator based at least in part on a time period between a print date of the indicator and a received expiration date. The printer heads print a reactive layer onto print media, where at least a portion of the reactive layer is configured to migrate through the transmission layers. The printer heads also print the determined number of transmission layers and the determined number of barrier layers in alternation. The printer heads print a reactant layer that is configured to change color responsive to a reaction between the reactant layer and the reactive layer upon migration of the reactive layer through the transmission layers. The reaction is configured to occur on the received expiration date.
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公开(公告)号:US09690247B1
公开(公告)日:2017-06-27
申请号:US15066036
申请日:2016-03-10
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Jason M. LeFevre , Santokh S. Badesha , David A. VanKouwenberg
CPC classification number: G03G15/6576 , B41J11/0005 , B41J13/076 , G03G2215/00683
Abstract: Printers include (among other components) a sheet path transporting printable media and a printing engine positioned within the sheet path. The printing engine prints markings on the printable media. A first roller is positioned within the sheet path, and the first roller has a harder outer surface. A second roller is positioned parallel to the first roller within the sheet path. The second roller has a softer outer surface relative to the harder outer surface. The first roller and the second roller form a decurling nip decurling sheets that have exited the printing engine. The harder outer surface comprises stainless steel having a metal plasma coating.
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公开(公告)号:US20170129247A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-11
申请号:US14934245
申请日:2015-11-06
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Jason M. LeFevre , Steven M. Russel , David A. VanKouwenberg , Timothy P. Foley , Frank B. Tamarez Gomez
IPC: B41J2/175
CPC classification number: B41J2/17513 , B41J2/175 , B41J29/38 , B41J2002/17516
Abstract: Printer structures include a controller, a marking engine operatively (meaning directly or indirectly) connected to the controller, and a container connected to the marking engine. The marking engine applies marking material to print media, and the container stores that marking material. The container can include a flexible bladder storing the marking material, and an actuator structure operatively connected to the controller. The actuator structure contacts the flexible bladder and periodically moves portions of the bladder to periodically mix the marking material as controlled by the controller (based on the marking engine being idle for a previously established amount of time). Alternatively, the actuator structure contacts the container can periodically rotate the container to periodically mix the marking material as controlled by the controller.
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