公开(公告)号：US06705702B2

公开(公告)日：2004-03-16

申请号：US10016319

申请日：2001-10-30

申请人： Max S Gunther ,  George M. Sarkisian ,  Yinan Xu

发明人： Max S Gunther ,  George M. Sarkisian ,  Yinan Xu

IPC分类号： B41J2205

CPC分类号： B41J2/2107

摘要： An inkjet printing system and method for printing using both pigmented inks and dye-based inks. A supply of pigmented ink of a certain color is provided, along with another supply of dye-based ink of the same color. A pigmented nozzle array controllably deposits drops of the pigmented ink of the certain color, while a dye-based nozzle array controllably deposits drops of the dye-based ink of the same color. A region of a media is printed with the color by depositing, as governed by a controller, drops from the pigmented supply and drops from the dye-based supply on different subregions of the region.

摘要翻译： 一种使用着色油墨和染料基油墨印刷的喷墨打印系统和方法。 提供一定颜色的着色油墨的供应，以及另一种相同颜色的染料基油墨供应。 着色喷嘴阵列可控制地沉积特定颜色的着色油墨的液滴，而基于染料的喷嘴阵列可控制地沉积相同颜色的染料基油墨的液滴。 通过由控制器控制的沉积物，通过沉积来印刷介质的区域，从着色的供应滴下，并从该区域的不同子区域上的染料供应滴下。

公开(公告)号：US5929883A

公开(公告)日：1999-07-27

申请号：US810840

申请日：1997-03-03

申请人： Max S. Gunther ,  Ignacio Olazabal ,  Mark E. Young ,  Elizabeth Zapata ,  Joseph E. Scheffelin ,  David S. Hunt ,  Alfred U. Zepeda

发明人： Max S. Gunther ,  Ignacio Olazabal ,  Mark E. Young ,  Elizabeth Zapata ,  Joseph E. Scheffelin ,  David S. Hunt ,  Alfred U. Zepeda

IPC分类号： B41J2/175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17553 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/17523

摘要： An inkjet printing system provides an on/off valve adapted for periodic engagement with an inlet port on a print cartridge mounted in a carriage. The valve is connected to an ink supply which is located off the carriage. As the ink reservoir in the print cartridge is slowly depleted during operation of the printing system, a mechanism periodically moves the valve from a first passive position separated from the print cartridge to a second active position engaged with the inlet port of the print cartridge in order to allow replenishment of the ink reservoir in the print cartridge without removing the print cartridge from the carriage.

摘要翻译： 喷墨打印系统提供适于与安装在托架中的打印墨盒上的入口周期性接合的开/关阀。 阀门连接到位于托架上的墨水供应器。 由于在打印系统操作期间打印墨盒中的墨水储存器被缓慢耗尽，所以机构周期性地将阀从与打印墨盒分离的第一被动位置顺序地移动到与打印墨盒的入口接合的第二活动位置 以允许补充打印墨盒中的墨水容器而不从墨盒中取出打印墨盒。

公开(公告)号：US07168798B2

公开(公告)日：2007-01-30

申请号：US10832069

申请日：2004-04-26

申请人： Mohammad M Samii ,  Daniel L Briley ,  Victor T. Escobedo ,  Max S Gunther

发明人： Mohammad M Samii ,  Daniel L Briley ,  Victor T. Escobedo ,  Max S Gunther

IPC分类号： B41J2/17 ,  B41J2/175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17506

摘要： Embodiments of the present invention include hybrid ink delivery systems which allow a flexible arrangement of free ink supplies to be connected to multiple printhead assemblies, while preventing printhead deprime or drooling during setup, and provide control and verification of ink supply replacement through the use of integral memory components on the in supplies.

摘要翻译： 本发明的实施例包括混合墨水输送系统，其允许将自由墨水供应的柔性布置连接到多个打印头组件，同时防止打印头在安装过程中流失，并且通过使用积分来提供墨水替换的控制和验证 内存组件上的墨水供应。

公开(公告)号：US5852460A

公开(公告)日：1998-12-22

申请号：US655796

申请日：1996-05-31

申请人： Sara E. Schaeffer ,  Max S. Gunther

发明人： Sara E. Schaeffer ,  Max S. Gunther

IPC分类号： B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/05 ,  B41J2/14 ,  B41J2/16

CPC分类号： B41J2/1625 ,  B41J2/14024 ,  B41J2/1603 ,  B41J2/1623 ,  B41J2/1628 ,  B41J2/1631 ,  B41J2/1634 ,  B41J2002/14362

摘要： This disclosure describes a headland design for adhesively attaching a printhead to a print cartridge which reduces dimple in the nozzle member and the attendant nozzle trajectory errors. In a preferred embodiment, a nozzle member containing an array of orifices has a substrate having heater elements formed thereon, affixed to a back surface of the nozzle member. Each orifice in the nozzle member is associated with a single ink ejection chamber and heating element formed on the substrate. The nozzle member is adhesively sealed with respect to the ink reservoir body by forming an ink seal circumscribing the substrate, between the back surface of the nozzle member and the headland area of the print cartridge. This method and design for a print cartridge headland which provides a seal directly between a nozzle member and an ink reservoir body. The above design provides reduced yield losses, and thus lower manufacturing costs, when manufacturing print cartridges.

摘要翻译： 本公开描述了一种用于将打印头粘合地附接到打印墨盒的岬角设计，其减少了喷嘴构件中的凹坑和伴随的喷嘴轨迹误差。 在优选实施例中，包含孔阵列的喷嘴构件具有形成在其上的加热元件的基板，固定到喷嘴构件的后表面。 喷嘴构件中的每个孔口与形成在基板上的单个喷墨室和加热元件相关联。 喷嘴构件通过在喷嘴构件的后表面和打印碳粉盒的岬角区域之间形成限定衬底的油墨密封而相对于储墨体粘合地密封。 用于打印墨盒岬角的方法和设计，其直接在喷嘴构件和墨水储存器本体之间提供密封。 当制造打印墨盒时，上述设计提供了降低的产量损失，并因此降低了制造成本。

公开(公告)号：US6120132A

公开(公告)日：2000-09-19

申请号：US45148

申请日：1998-03-19

申请人： Erich E. Coiner ,  Paul S. Wu ,  Max S. Gunther ,  Ronald D. Stephens, Jr.

发明人： Erich E. Coiner ,  Paul S. Wu ,  Max S. Gunther ,  Ronald D. Stephens, Jr.

IPC分类号： B41J2/175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17546 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/17523

摘要： An ink replenishment kit and method for an inkjet printer includes a replaceable ink supply module providing replenishment of an inkjet printhead, The module includes a collapsible bag, an enclosure box, a connective tube, and an on/off valve. These four components are incorporated into a composite sealed system which remains intact during shipment, storage, installation and operation. A coupler is provided to securely attach a print cartridge inlet with the on/off valve to hold them together in an open position allowing ink to be replenished into the print cartridge from the collapsible bag.

摘要翻译： 一种用于喷墨打印机的墨水补充套件和方法，包括提供喷墨打印头补充的可更换墨水供应模块。该模块包括可折叠袋，封闭盒，连接管和开/关阀。 这四个组件被并入复合密封系统，在运输，储存，安装和操作期间保持完整。 提供了一个耦合器，用于将打印墨盒入口与开关阀牢固地连接在一起，使打印位置处于打开位置，从而允许墨水从可折叠的袋子中补充到打印墨盒中。

公开(公告)号：USD426850S

公开(公告)日：2000-06-20

申请号：US75538

申请日：1997-09-02

申请人： Erich Coiner ,  Max S. Gunther ,  Rosa Calatayud ,  Ronald D. Stephens, Jr.

设计人： Erich Coiner ,  Max S. Gunther ,  Rosa Calatayud ,  Ronald D. Stephens, Jr.

公开(公告)号：US06698870B2

公开(公告)日：2004-03-02

申请号：US10206554

申请日：2002-07-25

申请人： Max S Gunther

发明人： Max S Gunther

IPC分类号： B41J2175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17596

摘要： A ball check valve for use in a bulk ink supply system of an inkjet printing system, for disposal in an ink flow path between an ink reservoir and a printhead, so as to control back pressure at the printhead thereby reducing the occurrence of de-priming of the printhead, including a valve body defining a chamber with an inlet and an outlet; a ball disposed in the chamber, the ball having a diameter; a ball retainer disposed in the inlet, the ball retainer having an aperture with a diameter which is less than the diameter of the ball, wherein backflow of ink in the chamber causes the ball to seat against the ball retainer, placing the ball check valve in a closed position such that ink flow through the aperture is restricted.

摘要翻译： 一种用于喷墨打印系统的散装墨水供应系统中的球止回阀，用于在墨水储存器和打印头之间的油墨流动路径中进行处理，以便控制打印头的背压，从而减少脱泡的发生 包括限定具有入口和出口的室的阀体; 设置在所述室中的球，所述球具有直径; 设置在入口中的球保持器，球保持器具有直径小于球直径的孔，其中墨中的墨回流使球抵靠球保持器抵靠，将球止回阀置于 关闭位置，使得墨水流过孔径受到限制。

公开(公告)号：US6106109A

公开(公告)日：2000-08-22

申请号：US805861

申请日：1997-03-03

申请人： Ignacio Olazabal ,  Robert Giles ,  Mark E. Young ,  Elizabeth Zapata ,  Felix Ruiz ,  Max S. Gunther

发明人： Ignacio Olazabal ,  Robert Giles ,  Mark E. Young ,  Elizabeth Zapata ,  Felix Ruiz ,  Max S. Gunther

IPC分类号： B41J2/175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17523 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17596

摘要： An inkjet printing system provides an automated mechanism for the connection/disconnection of an ink supply valve to inkjet printheads without having to remove the printheads from a carriage. The automated mechanism includes a bracket for holding a plurality of ink supply valves in a passive first position displaced from a corresponding number of inlet ports on inkjet printheads mounted in the carriage which moves back and forth across a print zone. During normal printing operations there is no connection between the ink supply valves and the inkjet printheads. When it becomes necessary to replenish ink in the printheads from a supplemental ink container connected to the ink supply valve, the carriage comes to a rest position away from the print zone, and a motor causes the bracket to move toward the carriage so that an ink supply valve can directly engage an inlet port on the inkjet printhead. In an exemplary embodiment, an ink cartridge having a reservoir capacity of about 40 cc. can receive about 15 cc. of ink from the supplemental ink container through the ink supply valve during a relatively short time period of approximately two minutes. Since the bracket moves all the ink supply valves as a group, all of the printheads are replenished at the same time, even through only one printhead may have reached a threshold level which triggered the replenishment procedure.

摘要翻译： 喷墨打印系统提供用于将墨水供应阀连接/断开到喷墨打印头的自动机构，而不必从托架移除打印头。 自动机构包括用于将多个供墨阀保持在被动的第一位置的支架，该被动第一位置从安装在托架中的喷墨打印头上的相应数量的入口端口移位，该喷墨打印头在打印区域中来回移动。 在正常打印操作期间，供墨阀和喷墨打印头之间没有连接。 当需要从连接到供墨阀的辅助墨水容器补充打印头中的墨水时，滑架进入离开打印区域的静止位置，并且马达使托架朝向滑架移动，使得墨水 供应阀可以直接接合喷墨打印头上的入口。 在示例性实施例中，具有约40cc的储存容量的墨盒。 可以收到约15 cc。 在相当短的时间内大约两分钟内从补充墨水容器通过墨水供应阀的墨水。 由于支架将所有的供墨阀作为一组移动，因此即使只有一个打印头可能达到触发补货程序的阈值水平，所有打印头都将同时补充。

公开(公告)号：US06239822B1

公开(公告)日：2001-05-29

申请号：US09539559

申请日：2000-03-31

申请人： Elizabeth Zapata ,  Mark E. Young ,  Robert Giles ,  Felix Ruiz ,  Rosa Calatayud ,  Ronald D. Stephens, Jr. ,  Erich Coiner ,  Max S. Gunther

发明人： Elizabeth Zapata ,  Mark E. Young ,  Robert Giles ,  Felix Ruiz ,  Rosa Calatayud ,  Ronald D. Stephens, Jr. ,  Erich Coiner ,  Max S. Gunther

IPC分类号： B41J2175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17546 ,  B41J2/17506 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17523 ,  B41J2/17566

摘要： A replaceable ink supply module which provides replenishment of an inkjet printhead includes a collapsible bag, an enclosure box, a connective tube, and an on/off valve. These four components are incorporated into a composite sealed system which remains intact during shipment, storage, installation and operation. The collapsible bag is placed inside of the protective enclosure box and has an end-connect outlet permanently attached to one end of the connective tube. The other end of the connective tube carries a permanently attached on/off valve designed for periodic engagement with an inlet valve of an inkjet printhead.

摘要翻译： 提供喷墨打印头补充的可更换墨水供应模块包括可折叠袋，外壳盒，连接管和开/关阀。 这四个组件被并入复合密封系统，在运输，储存，安装和操作期间保持完整。 可折叠袋放置在保护外壳的内部，并且具有永久连接到连接管的一端的端部连接出口。 连接管的另一端承载设计成与喷墨打印头的入口阀周期性接合的永久附接的开关阀。

公开(公告)号：US5874976A

公开(公告)日：1999-02-23

申请号：US726587

申请日：1996-10-07

申请人： Robert Joseph Katon ,  Max S. Gunther ,  Joseph E. Scheffelin ,  David S. Hunt ,  Mark E. Young ,  Elizabeth Zapata ,  Alfred Zepeda ,  Christopher J. Shultz

发明人： Robert Joseph Katon ,  Max S. Gunther ,  Joseph E. Scheffelin ,  David S. Hunt ,  Mark E. Young ,  Elizabeth Zapata ,  Alfred Zepeda ,  Christopher J. Shultz

IPC分类号： B41J2/175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17546 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17523

摘要： An inkjet cartridge is adapted to receive ink from an external ink supply reservoir. The inkjet cartridge includes an internal reservoir, printhead, housing, and fluid interface. The housing includes a first cylindrical port, a first connector and a second connector. The fluid interface provides fluid communication between the port and reservoir. An adapter secures a tube/needle valve from the supply reservoir to the port. The adapter includes a first member, a first protrusion and a second protrusion integrally formed as one structure. The first member defines an opening within which the needle valve is positioned. The first protrusion and second protrusion extend from the first member adjacent to the opening. The first protrusion engages the housing's first connector and the second protrusion engages the housing's second connector to attach the adapter to the housing. The valve mates to the port and a valve needle mates to the fluid interface.

摘要翻译： 喷墨墨盒适于从外部墨水供应储存器接收墨水。 喷墨墨盒包括内部储存器，打印头，外壳和流体接口。 壳体包括第一圆柱形端口，第一连接器和第二连接器。 流体接口提供端口和储液器之间的流体连通。 适配器将管/针阀从供应容器固定到端口。 适配器包括作为一个结构整体形成的第一构件，第一突起和第二突起。 第一构件限定了针阀定位在其中的开口。 第一突起和第二突起从邻近开口的第一构件延伸。 第一突起接合壳体的第一连接器，并且第二突起接合壳体的第二连接器以将适配器附接到壳体。 阀与端口配合，阀针与流体接口配合。