公开(公告)号：US06286924B1

公开(公告)日：2001-09-11

申请号：US09395668

申请日：1999-09-14

申请人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  Frank Edward Anderson

发明人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  Frank Edward Anderson

IPC分类号： B41J2938

CPC分类号： B41J2/04528 ,  B41J2/04541 ,  B41J2/04563 ,  B41J2/0458

摘要： An apparatus and method for heating an ink jet printhead by using pass transistors to generate heat and warm the substrate of the printhead. The ink jet printhead has a plurality of ink jet printhead nozzle. Each nozzle is controlled by a circuit. The circuit includes a drive transistor that is electrically coupled to a heating resistor, an enable transistor and a plurality of pass transistors. When the circuit receives a control signal having at least a first component and a second component, the first component being input to the gate of at least one pass transistor causing it to be active and generate a first output signal sufficient to activate the drive transistor, and the second component being input to the gate of the enable transistor causing the enable transistor to be active, a first current passes the heating resistor sufficient to cause a nozzle to fire, and a second current flows through both the at least one pass transistor and the enable transistor sufficient to generate heat and warm the substrate.

摘要翻译： 一种通过使用传输晶体管来加热喷墨打印头以产生热量并使打印头的基板温暖的装置和方法。 喷墨打印头具有多个喷墨打印头喷嘴。 每个喷嘴由电路控制。 电路包括电耦合到加热电阻器，使能晶体管和多个通过晶体管的驱动晶体管。 当电路接收到具有至少第一分量和第二分量的控制信号时，第一分量被输入到至少一个传输晶体管的栅极，使其成为有效的并产生足以激活驱动晶体管的第一输出信号， 并且所述第二分量被输入到所述使能晶体管的栅极，使得所述使能晶体管处于活动状态，所述第一电流使所述加热电阻器通过所述加热电阻器足以引起喷嘴引发，并且第二电流流过所述至少一个传输晶体管和 使能晶体管足以产生热量并使衬底温暖。

公开(公告)号：US06170931B2

公开(公告)日：2001-01-09

申请号：US09100218

申请日：1998-06-19

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  Ashok Murthy

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  Ashok Murthy

IPC分类号： B41J2938

CPC分类号： B41J2/1603 ,  B41J2/14072 ,  B41J2/1623 ,  B41J2/1635 ,  B41J2202/20

摘要： A heater chip module is provided comprising a rigid carrier, a nozzle plate and a heater chip. The carrier is adapted to be secured to a container for receiving ink. The carrier includes an opening extending completely through the carrier. The opening has an outer periphery. A nozzle plate is coupled to the carrier and extends out beyond the outer periphery of the opening so as to substantially cover the opening. A heater chip is positioned within the opening and is coupled directly to the nozzle plate. The heater chip is coupled to the carrier only by way of the nozzle plate. Thus, the heater chip does not directly contact the carrier.

摘要翻译： 提供一种加热器芯片模块，其包括刚性载体，喷嘴板和加热器芯片。 载体适于固定到用于接收墨水的容器。 载体包括完全延伸穿过载体的开口。 开口具有外周。 喷嘴板联接到载体并延伸出开口的外周边，以便基本上覆盖开口。 加热器芯片位于开口内并且直接连接到喷嘴板。 加热器芯片仅通过喷嘴板联接到载体。 因此，加热器芯片不直接接触载体。

公开(公告)号：US6076910A

公开(公告)日：2000-06-20

申请号：US964362

申请日：1997-11-04

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson

IPC分类号： B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/05 ,  B41J2/125 ,  B41J2/165 ,  B41J2/21 ,  B41J29/38

CPC分类号： B41J2/2139

摘要： An ink jet printing apparatus is provided comprising a print cartridge including a heater chip and a nozzle plate coupled to the heater chip. The heater chip has first, second, third and fourth heating elements, and the nozzle plate has a plurality of primary and secondary nozzles. The primary nozzles include first and second nozzles positioned in first and second nozzle plate columns and the secondary nozzles include third and fourth nozzles positioned in third and fourth nozzle plate columns. Each of the nozzles has one of the heating elements associated therewith for generating energy to discharge ink therefrom. The apparatus further includes a driver circuit, electrically coupled to the print cartridge, for applying firing pulses to the heating elements. The apparatus further includes a nozzle testing station. There, each nozzle is tested to determine if it is operable.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种喷墨打印设备，其包括一个包括加热器芯片和连接到加热器芯片的喷嘴板的打印盒。 加热器芯片具有第一，第二，第三和第四加热元件，并且喷嘴板具有多个初级和次级喷嘴。 主喷嘴包括位于第一和第二喷嘴板列中的第一和第二喷嘴，次要喷嘴包括位于第三和第四喷嘴板列中的第三和第四喷嘴。 每个喷嘴具有与其相关联的一个加热元件，用于产生从其中排出油墨的能量。 该装置还包括驱动电路，其电耦合到打印盒，用于向加热元件施加点火脉冲。 该设备还包括喷嘴测试站。 在那里，测试每个喷嘴以确定其是否可操作。

公开(公告)号：US5719605A

公开(公告)日：1998-02-17

申请号：US752091

申请日：1996-11-20

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  Paul Albert Cook ,  Anna Catherine Cramer

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  Paul Albert Cook ,  Anna Catherine Cramer

IPC分类号： B41J2/16 ,  G03F7/20 ,  B41J2/05 ,  H01L21/00

CPC分类号： G03F7/70425 ,  B41J2/1603 ,  B41J2/1623 ,  B41J2/1631 ,  B41J2/1635 ,  G03F7/70433 ,  B41J2202/20

摘要： An increased resolution thermal ink jet printhead construction and method for forming large array heater chips for thermal ink jet printheads is achieved by fabricating a unitary "megachip" in which multiple cells of electrical components are defined in a plurality of columnar patterns in a plane of a silicon wafer. Cells of a first column are vertically offset from cells of an adjacent column so as to overlap the gap between cells in the first column. The megachip is then formed by grouping at least one cell from each of two adjacent columns and dicing the wafer to remove the megachip.

摘要翻译： 用于形成用于热喷墨打印头的大型阵列加热器芯片的增加的分辨率热喷墨打印头结构和方法通过制造整体的“巨型喷墨”来实现，其中多个单元的电气部件被定义在多个圆柱形图案的平面中 硅晶片。 第一列的单元与相邻列的单元垂直偏移，以便与第一列中的单元之间的间隙重叠。 然后通过对来自两个相邻列中的每一个的至少一个单元进行分组并切割晶片以除去该超音速波形而形成该超音速波形。