Modular ink mounting assembly and ink delivery system
    1.
    发明授权
    Modular ink mounting assembly and ink delivery system 失效
    模块化墨水安装组件和墨水输送系统

    公开(公告)号:US06481836B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-11-19

    申请号:US08661178

    申请日:1996-06-10

    IPC分类号: B41J2175

    CPC分类号: B41J2/175

    摘要: A modular ink delivery system using ink jet heads effectively supplies ink to a multi-level array of ink jet heads, and ensures that the heads remain in position during printing even if there is vibration of the supporting structures. Delivery is provided by a number of ink containing chambers, at least one for each level and stacked one atop the other. A connection extends from each chamber to at least one ink jet, and ink is automatically supplied to all of the chambers for example by pumping ink to the upper of the chambers, the ink then cascading downwardly from each upper chamber to a lower chamber through standpipe connections between them. The heads are positively held in place by a first circular bar and a second non-circular bar, which bars are operatively engaged by a mounting block for each head for guided movement. A tightenable screw and spring plunger may cooperate with an arcuate bushing for engaging the first bar, and a channel on a releasable clip and rollers on a portion of the mounting block may engage the second bar.

    摘要翻译: 使用喷墨头的模块化墨水输送系统有效地将油墨供应到喷墨头的多级阵列,并且确保在打印期间头部保持在适当位置,即使是支撑结构的振动。 输送由多个含有墨水的腔室提供,至少一个用于每个级别并且堆叠在一起。 连接从每个室延伸到至少一个喷墨,并且油墨例如通过将油墨泵送到室的上部而自动地供应到所有室,然后油墨从每个上室向下通过立管 他们之间的联系。 头部通过第一圆形杆和第二非圆形杆被牢固地保持在适当位置,该杆通过用于每个头部的安装块可操作地接合以用于引导运动。 可紧固的螺钉和弹簧柱塞可以与用于接合第一杆的弧形衬套配合,并且可释放夹子上的通道和安装块的一部分上的辊可以接合第二杆。

    Cleaning fluid apparatus and method for continuous printing ink-jet
nozzle
    2.
    发明授权
    Cleaning fluid apparatus and method for continuous printing ink-jet nozzle 失效
    清洁液装置及连续喷墨喷嘴的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5877788A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-02

    申请号:US437926

    申请日:1995-05-09

    IPC分类号: B41J2/165 B41J2/015

    CPC分类号: B41J2/16552 B41J2/185

    摘要: A fluid (liquid or water) wash is used to clean the front surface of an ink jet printer cartridge. In addition, a nozzle plate that overlies the nozzle shields the nozzle array from the splatter of ink. In ink jet printers, ink droplets are propelled from an array of orifices in a nozzle plate in the printer head. During the ink droplet ejection, ink is sprayed or deposited around the orifices. The ink droplets are deposited on a paper web adjacent the nozzle and mist from the droplets drifts back to coat the face of the nozzle plate. Some ink seeps behind the nozzle plate onto the array of nozzle orifices. The ink coating attracts particles that tend to clog the nozzle orifices. The ink coating is washed away by fluid streams that flow over the nozzle surface and in some embodiments flow over the nozzle orifices themselves. The fluid may be water, ink or other liquid that is channelled across the nozzle surface, or the fluid may be an air stream that blows across the nozzle surface.

    摘要翻译: 液体(液体或水)洗涤液用于清洁喷墨打印机墨盒的前表面。 此外,覆盖喷嘴的喷嘴板将喷嘴阵列与油墨喷溅屏蔽。 在喷墨打印机中,墨滴从打印头中的喷嘴板中的孔阵列推出。 在墨滴喷射期间,墨水喷射或沉积在孔口周围。 墨滴沉积在与喷嘴相邻的纸幅上,并且来自液滴的雾沫回流以涂覆喷嘴板的表面。 喷嘴板后面有一些油墨渗透到喷嘴孔阵列上。 油墨涂层吸引容易堵塞喷嘴孔的颗粒。 油墨涂层被流过喷嘴表面的流体流除去,并且在一些实施例中流过喷嘴孔自身。 流体可以是穿过喷嘴表面的水,油墨或其它液体,或者流体可以是吹过喷嘴表面的空气流。

    Imaging drum
    3.
    发明授权
    Imaging drum 失效
    成像鼓

    公开(公告)号:US5788382A

    公开(公告)日:1998-08-04

    申请号:US919521

    申请日:1997-08-28

    IPC分类号: G03G5/10 G03G15/00 B41J2/00

    CPC分类号: G03G15/751 G03G5/10

    摘要: An imaging drum assembly is disclosed and which includes an inner substantially cylindrically shaped sleeve, the inner sleeve having an outwardly facing surface, and an inwardly facing surface, and wherein the inwardly facing surface has a plurality of spaced, inwardly regularly extending projections which define a cavity; and an outer, substantially shaped sleeve, the outer sleeve telescopingly receiving the inner sleeve, and wherein the outer sleeve has an outwardly facing surface, and an inwardly facing surface which is disposed in energy transmitting relation relative to the outwardly facing surface of the inner sleeve, and wherein the outwardly facing surface of the outer sleeve has a given minimum capacitance.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种成像鼓组件,其包括内部基本上圆柱形的套筒,内部套筒具有面向外的表面和面向内的表面,并且其中面向内的表面具有多个间隔开的向内规则延伸的突出部, 腔体 以及外部基本成形的套筒,所述外部套筒可伸缩地容纳所述内部套筒,并且其中所述外部套筒具有面向外的表面和面向内的表面,所述外部套筒相对于所述内部套筒的面向外的表面以能量传递的关系设置 ,并且其中外套筒的面向外的表面具有给定的最小电容。

    Print cartridge cleaning apparatus and method using water and air
    4.
    发明授权
    Print cartridge cleaning apparatus and method using water and air 失效
    打印墨盒清洁装置和使用水和空气的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5751307A

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-12

    申请号:US226685

    申请日:1994-04-12

    CPC分类号: B41J2/45 B41J29/17

    摘要: Print cartridges for ion/electron deposition printing are periodically cleaned to provide preventive maintenance, using a simple cleaning assembly that automatically moves the cartridges first past a water washing nozzle, and then past an air drying nozzle, at slow speed, then being manually withdrawn from the cleaning assembly and replaced in the printer. The drive mechanism typically is a single roller disposed above the print cartridge, driven by a motor connected to the housing. A single water spray nozzle is disposed at an intermediate portion of the housing directed with a fan pattern spray up toward the cartridge, and a single air nozzle supplied with heated air is disposed adjacent the outlet of the cartridge. Sensing of the position of the cartridge is provided by first through fourth in-line microswitches which are disposed above the cartridge and which are cam actuated by the cartridge as it moves through the housing to control the motor driving the roller, the pump supplying water to the water nozzle, and a solenoid valve connecting the air nozzle to a source of compressed air. The cartridges are cleaned every 10,000-30,000 feet of use, and then replaced.

    摘要翻译: 定期清洁用于离子/电子沉积印刷的打印墨盒以提供预防性维护,使用简单的清洁组件,其自动地将墨盒首先移动通过水洗喷嘴,然后以低速通过空气干燥喷嘴,然后手动从 清洁组件并在打印机中更换。 驱动机构通常是设置在打印盒上方的单个辊,由连接到壳体的马达驱动。 单个喷水喷嘴设置在壳体的中间部分处,与风扇图案一起朝向墨盒喷射,并且提供有加热空气的单个空气喷嘴邻近墨盒的出口设置。 盒的位置的感测由设置在盒的上方的第一至第四直列微动开关提供,并且当盒移动通过壳体时由盒驱动凸轮,以控制驱动辊的马达,泵将水供应到 水喷嘴和将空气喷嘴连接到压缩空气源的电磁阀。 墨盒每10,000-30,000英尺使用一次清洁,然后更换。

    Printer
    5.
    发明授权
    Printer 失效
    打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5940669A

    公开(公告)日:1999-08-17

    申请号:US951147

    申请日:1997-10-15

    摘要: A printer is disclosed and which includes a frame; a movable lifting member borne by the frame; a rotatable pressure drum borne by the frame; a rotatable fusing drum borne by the lifting member; a rotatable image drum borne by the frame and positioned in contact with the fusing drum; an articulation assembly pivotally borne by the frame and movable along a course of travel, the lifting arm engaging the articulation assembly, and wherein movement of the articulation assembly imparts movement to the lifting arm, the lifting arm carrying the fusing drum along a course of travel into, and out of, contact with pressure drum; and an image forming assembly borne by the frame oriented adjacent to the image drum.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种打印机,其包括框架; 由框架承载的可移动提升构件; 由框架承载的可旋转的压力鼓; 由提升构件承载的可旋转的熔断鼓; 由框架承载并定位成与定影滚筒接触的可旋转图像鼓; 铰接组件,其枢转地由框架承载并沿着行进路线移动,提升臂接合铰接组件,并且其中关节运动组件的运动将运动提供给提升臂,提升臂沿着行进路线承载定影鼓 进入和离开与压力鼓接触; 以及由靠近图像鼓定向的框架承载的图像形成组件。

    Apparatus and methods for maintaining optimum print quality in an ink
jet printer after periods of inactivity
    6.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and methods for maintaining optimum print quality in an ink jet printer after periods of inactivity 失效
    用于在不活动时间之后在喷墨打印机中保持最佳打印质量的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5847674A

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-08

    申请号:US641743

    申请日:1996-05-02

    IPC分类号: B41J2/165

    CPC分类号: B41J2/1652 B41J2/16535

    摘要: Substantially optimum print quality is maintained for an ink jet printer which includes a nozzle plate having a number of orifice openings from which ink droplets for printing are sprayed. It is electronically determined when a particular orifice opening has been inactive for a predetermined period of time, and then an exercise print command is supplied to the orifice causing an ink droplet to dribble out of the orifice, rather than being sprayed out of the orifice, to keep the orifice clear for printing when a print command is supplied to it. The dribbling drops have a smaller size than the sprayed drops, and may be formed by supplying heater elements associated with the openings with pulses of shorter duration than normal. Dribbling ink droplets are automatically removed from the printer cartridge by one or more strands (e.g. continuous filament rayon thread) moving past the nozzle at a speed of between about 1-3 feet per hour while being positively guided.

    摘要翻译: 对于喷墨打印机来说,维持基本上最佳的打印质量,喷墨打印机包括具有多个孔口的喷嘴板,喷墨用墨滴从喷嘴板喷出。 当特定孔口已经停止预定的时间段时,它是电子地确定的,然后向孔口提供运动打印命令,使得墨滴从孔中运出而不是从孔口喷出, 当打印命令提供给它时​​,保持孔口清洁以进行打印。 滴液滴具有比喷雾液滴更小的尺寸,并且可以通过以比正常持续时间短的脉冲提供与开口相关联的加热器元件形成。 通过一个或多个股线(例如连续细丝人造丝线),通过一个或多个股线(例如连续长丝人造丝线)自动地将墨滴从打印机的速度移动到大约1-3英尺/小时的同时被积极引导。

    Continuous cleaning thread for inkjet printing nozzle
    7.
    发明授权
    Continuous cleaning thread for inkjet printing nozzle 失效
    喷墨打印喷嘴连续清洗线

    公开(公告)号:US5557307A

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-17

    申请号:US277075

    申请日:1994-07-19

    申请人: Paul J. Paroff

    发明人: Paul J. Paroff

    IPC分类号: B41J2/165

    CPC分类号: B41J2/16535 B41J2002/1655

    摘要: An adsorbent material is mounted on a nozzle plate of an ink jet printer to collect extraneous ink and particles that might otherwise clog the nozzle orifices of the printer. In ink jet printers, ink droplets are propelled from an array of orifices in a nozzle plate in the printer head. During the ink droplet ejection, ink is sprayed or deposited around the orifices. The ink droplets are deposited on a paper web adjacent the nozzle and mist from the droplets drifts back to coat the face of the nozzle plate. This ink coating attracts particles that tend to clog the nozzle orifices. By locating an adsorbent material in close proximity to the nozzle orifice array, the material adsorbs and removes ink coating the nozzle plate before the ink clogs the orifices of the nozzle. A thread is an example of an adsorbent material. The thread slides in a groove across the face of the nozzle plate to draw off the ink coating and particles on the nozzle plate. A thread dispenser bobbin on one side of the printer head supplies clean thread to the printer head and a rewind bobbin on the other side of the printer head draws the thread across the nozzle plate and off the dispenser bobbin.

    摘要翻译: 吸附剂材料安装在喷墨打印机的喷嘴板上以收集外来的油墨和颗粒,否则可能堵塞打印机的喷嘴孔。 在喷墨打印机中,墨滴从打印头中的喷嘴板中的孔阵列推出。 在墨滴喷射期间,墨水喷射或沉积在孔口周围。 墨滴沉积在与喷嘴相邻的纸幅上,并且来自液滴的雾沫回流以涂覆喷嘴板的表面。 该油墨涂层吸引容易堵塞喷嘴孔的颗粒。 通过将吸附剂材料放置在靠近喷嘴孔阵列的位置,该材料在油墨阻塞喷嘴的孔口之前吸附和去除涂覆喷嘴板的油墨。 螺纹是吸附剂材料的实例。 螺纹在凹槽中滑过喷嘴板的表面以抽出喷墨板上的油墨涂层和颗粒。 打印机头一侧的螺纹分配器筒管将清洁的螺纹提供给打印头,打印机头的另一侧的倒带筒管将螺纹穿过喷嘴板并从分配器筒管上取下。

    Ion deposition web-fed print engine
    8.
    发明授权
    Ion deposition web-fed print engine 失效
    离子沉积卷筒纸打印引擎

    公开(公告)号:US5132713A

    公开(公告)日:1992-07-21

    申请号:US670013

    申请日:1991-03-15

    IPC分类号: G03G15/32 G03G21/16

    摘要: The ion deposition web-fed engine includes a first fixed frame, a second frame pivotally mounted to the first frame, a third frame carried by the second frame for pivotal movement therewith and for movement in a transverse direction relative to the first and second frames. The third frame carries a print unit including an image cylinder for cooperation with an impression cylinder carried by the first frame. For servicing purposes, the second frame is pivoted relative to the first frame to provide access to the paper web, impression cylinder and image cylinder. Upon closing the second frame onto the first frame, the image cylinder defines an open nip with the impression cylinder. The print unit is movable linearly toward the impression cylinder to close the nip into a print condition.

    摘要翻译: 离子沉积幅材馈送发动机包括第一固定框架,枢转地安装到第一框架的第二框架,由第二框架承载的第三框架,用于与第二框架枢转运动并相对于第一框架和第二框架在横向方向上移动。 第三框架具有包括用于与由第一框架承载的压印滚筒配合的图像滚筒的打印单元。 为了维修目的,第二框架相对于第一框架枢转以提供对纸幅,压印滚筒和图像滚筒的访问。 在将第二框架关闭到第一框架上时,图像柱体与压印滚筒形成打开的压区。 打印单元可以朝向压印滚筒线性移动,以将夹持部闭合成打印状态。