摘要:
A first ink tank (17) is attached to a movable ink jet printing head (12) for supplying ink thereto. A second ink tank (28) which is larger than the first ink tank (17) is fixedly mounted at an end of a carriage (19) which supports the printing head (12). After the printing head (12) prints a line, a print end signal causes a sensor (33) to sense the amount of ink in the first ink tank (17). If the amount is low the printing head (12) is moved so that a connector (31) of the first ink tank (17) mates with a connector (29) of the second ink tank (28) and ink is urged to flow from the second ink tank (28) to fill up the first ink tank (17). The amount of ink in the first ink tank (17) is again sensed and if it is still low, indicating that the amount of ink in the second ink tank (28) is also low, an annunciator (41) is energized to urge the apparatus operator to fill the second ink tank (28) with ink.
摘要:
First and second optical systems each comprise identical converging lenses which focus light images of an object onto identical photosensor arrays, the lenses being parallel. First and second mirrors reflect the light images from the respective lenses onto the respective arrays. The first mirror is fixed whereas the second mirror is rotatable. Where the second mirror is rotated to a position where the light images on the arrays are identical, the distance to the object is a function of the position of the second mirror which is predetermined by triangulation. As the second mirror is rotated through a predetermined range the arrays are strobed a predetermined number of times to produce analog signals having magnitudes corresponding to incident light. The respective analog signals are subtracted and the resulting difference signals compared with a previously minimum value. Each time the arrays are strobed a counter is incremented. However, when a difference signal has a value lower than the minimum value (a previous difference signal), it becomes the new minimum value and the counter is reset. The count in the counter after the arrays are strobed the predetermined number of times corresponds to the position of the second mirror when the minimum value was sensed and thereby the distance to the object. A servo system may be provided to position a camera lens in accordance with the count in the counter and thereby automatically focus a camera.
摘要:
A disclosed developing device includes a toner carrying member having electrodes, a toner supply unit supplying the toner to the toner carrying member, and a hopping electric field generator unit generating electric field to cause the toner hopping on the toner carrying member by applying a pulse voltage to the electrodes. The hopping electric field generator unit includes a pulse voltage generator circuit generating the pulse voltage, a first direct-current power source supplying bias to the pulse voltage generator circuit for regulating a peak value of the pulse voltage, and a second direct-current power source having a same polarity with a toner charging polarity, and outputting a variable voltage level. The hopping electric field generator unit controls the peak value of the pulse voltage by changing an output of the first power source and a mean thereof by changing an output of the second power source.
摘要:
A classifier having a simple constitution for classifying powder with a high accuracy is provided. The classifier is provided with a transfer board having a plurality of electrodes for generating electric fields for transferring and hopping the powder by an electrostatic force. The classifier is further provided with an opposite roller generating an electric field for transporting and attaching the powder (toner) transferred and hopped on the transfer board to the opposite roller, which is opposite to the transfer board.
摘要:
A center beam which is formed out of a thin film constituted to be combined with a light reflection film provided on one surface of the center beam, which has both ends fixed and which is deformed by an electronic force; a substrate electrode which is opposed to the center beam through a gap formed on the other surface of the center beam; an opposed surface which is a surface of the substrate electrode opposed to the center beam modulating the incident light on the light reflection film, the opposed surface restricting deformation of the center beam due to application of a driving voltage to the substrate electrode by abutting on the center beam; and a substrate which has the substrate electrode having the opposed surface, formed in a concave section, and which holds a to-be-held section of the center beam, are provided. As a result, the structure of modulating light by changing the reflection direction of the incident light is simple, response is fast, the wavelength of the incident light to be used is not limited, operation is stable, reliability is high, the number of manufacturing steps is small and cost reduction can be achieved.
摘要:
A liquid jet recording head includes a base member, a liquid layer maintained on the base member and a plurality of heater elements, arranged in a line on the base member, for supplying energy to liquid adjacent thereto, the energy operation portions being put under the liquid layer. A method for making a liquid drop fly from the liquid jet recording head onto a recording sheet so that a dot image is formed on the recording sheet includes steps of (a) generating a bubble in the liquid to which the energy is supplied by each of energy operation portions in accordance with image data; (b) making the bubble grow up until a predetermined size of the bubble is obtained; (c) contracting the bubble under a condition where each of the energy portions supplies no energy to the liquid in which the bubble is formed; and (d) making the bubble disappear into the liquid.
摘要:
A pump furnished with an electrostrictive vibrator which pressurizes ink to be supplied to a head of an ink jet printer. The electrostrictive vibrator is adhered at one end to a diaphragm which closes an ink pressurization chamber, so that the vibrator vibrates integrally with the diaphragm perpendicularly to a plane in which it is adhered to the diaphragm, thereby varying the volume of the pressurization chamber. A vibrator drive signal supply circuit is installed in the pump which includes a time constant generation circuit adapted to apply a time constant to the waveform of a drive signal applied to the vibrator at the time of buildups and falls of the drive signal.
摘要:
An apparatus for removing air from ink which is fed under pressure to a nozzle of an ink ejection head is disclosed. A first solenoid-operated valve is disposed between an ink pressurizing source and the nozzle. Located between the valve and the nozzle is a deaerating unit which has therein a bore for causing air entrained by the ink to surface. An air outlet is formed in an upper portion of the bore and opened and closed by a second solenoid-operated valve. Upon a stop of ink ejection, the first valve is closed (ink supply blocked) while the second valve is opened. Heaters are installed in the bore of the deaerating unit to heat ink inside the bore to a predetermined temperature, so that air in the ink is expanded to become readily separable from the ink.
摘要:
In an ink jet printing apparatus wherein an ink ejection head is loaded on a carriage and, while the carriage moves relative to a sheet of paper, ink droplets are ejected from the head to be charged and deflected to impinge on the sheet of paper, a shape or a position of a conductive member carried on the carriage is varied to develop an electric field which is asymmetrical with respect to a predetermined plane in which charged ink droplets coming out from a charging electrode are to be deflected. The conductive member is constituted by a cover of the carriage, a shield plate, a gutter, a compensating electrode plate, a deflection electrode or the like.
摘要:
In an ink jet printing device wherein when a number of n nozzles are sequentially arranged in the direction of transport of recording paper and spaced apart from each other by a distance corresponding to m characters or ink dots so that when ink dots discharged from each nozzle are arranged in one column on the recording paper in the direction of transport thereof, the adjacent ink dots have a very small spacing, but they are nearly in contact with each other, a modulo-m address counter is stepped so as to store data in a memory while a modulo-n address counter is stepped to read out data. Thus positional deviations between nozzles may be compensated.