Thermal ink jet heater design
    1.
    发明授权
    Thermal ink jet heater design 失效
    热喷墨加热器设计

    公开(公告)号:US06315398B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-11-13

    申请号:US07963969

    申请日:1992-10-21

    IPC分类号: B41J205

    摘要: The new heater element design has a pit layer which protects the overglaze passivation layer, PSG step region, portions of the Ta layer and dielectric isolation layer and junctions or regions susceptible to the cavitational pressures. Further, the inner walls of the pit layer define the effective heater area and the dopant lines define the actual heater area. In alternative embodiments, the dopant lines define the actual and effective heater areas, and an inner wall and a dopant line define the actual and effective heater areas. Further, when the new heater element designs are incorporated into printheads having full pit channel geometry and open pit channel geometry, the operating lifetime of the printhead is extended because the added protection of the pit layer prevents: 1) passivation damage and cavitational damages of the heater elements; and 2) degradation of heater robustness, hot spot formations and heater failures well into the 109 pulse range. The printhead incorporating the new heater element design can be incorporated into drop-on-demand printing systems of a carriage type or a full width type.

    摘要翻译: 新的加热器元件设计具有凹坑层,其保护釉面钝化层,PSG阶梯区域,Ta层和电介质隔离层的部分以及对空穴压力敏感的结或区域。 此外,凹坑层的内壁限定有效的加热器面积,并且掺杂剂线限定实际的加热器面积。 在替代实施例中,掺杂剂线限定实际和有效的加热器区域,并且内壁和掺杂剂线限定实际和有效的加热器区域。 此外,当新的加热器元件设计结合到具有全坑通道几何形状和露天通道几何形状的打印头中时,打印头的工作寿命延长,因为凹坑层的附加保护防止:1)钝化损伤和空穴损伤 加热元件; 和2)加热器鲁棒性,热点形成和加热器故障的恶化达到109脉冲范围。 包含新的加热器元件设计的打印头可以结合到托架型或全宽型的按需按需打印系统中。

    Hybrid ink jet printer
    3.
    发明授权
    Hybrid ink jet printer 失效
    混合式喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5710582A

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-20

    申请号:US569034

    申请日:1995-12-07

    CPC分类号: B41J3/543 B41J2/15 B41J2/155

    摘要: An ink jet printer is configured in a hybrid architecture wherein a full width printbar is combined with a partial width color scanning assembly to provide the capability of selectively printing in black only or, alternately, of producing color prints by operating the color scan assembly exclusively. The cost of the hybrid system, when compared to a full width color system using four full width printbars, is greatly reduced. Throughput time is reduced by providing the control circuitry for distinguishing between black only and color operation and selectively controlling the printer mode of operation. The hybrid architecture is particularly useful in a LAN system since it provides a mechanism for balancing the relative color versus black page decomposition speed limitations. Also, the hybrid architecture enables a relatively simple implementation of a checkerboarding technique to suppress banding in output prints.

    摘要翻译: 喷墨打印机被配置为混合架构,其中全宽度打印条与部分宽度彩色扫描组合组合,以提供选择性地以黑色打印的能力,或者通过专门操作彩色扫描组件来产生彩色打印。 与使用四个全宽度打印棒的全幅彩色系统相比,混合系统的成本大大降低。 通过提供用于区分黑色和彩色操作的控制电路并选择性地控制打印机操作模式来减少吞吐时间。 混合架构在LAN系统中特别有用,因为它提供了用于平衡相对颜色与黑色页面分解速度限制的机制。 此外,混合架构使得能够相对简单地执行棋盘棋技术来抑制输出打印中的条带。

    Ink jet printer having an efficient substrate heating and supporting
assembly
    4.
    发明授权
    Ink jet printer having an efficient substrate heating and supporting assembly 失效
    具有有效的基板加热和支撑组件的喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US6076921A

    公开(公告)日:2000-06-20

    申请号:US32922

    申请日:1998-03-02

    IPC分类号: B41J2/01 B41J11/04

    CPC分类号: B41J11/04

    摘要: A thermal ink jet printer including a frame, a printhead mounted to the frame for printing ink images onto a heated and supported substrate, and an efficient substrate heating and supporting assembly mounted to the frame. The efficient substrate heating and supporting assembly includes a heating device, and a substrate supporting member having a front surface including a substrate supporting area for supporting substrates of various sizes one at a time and border areas having a polished finish. The efficient substrate heating and supporting assembly also includes a heat absorbing back surface facing the heating device. The heat absorbing back surface includes an increased heat absorbing area located opposite and centered relative to the substrate supporting area on the front surface. The increased heat absorbing area, relative to a rest of the back surface, has a coat of paint thereon for increasing heat absorption thereinto from the heating device, thereby resulting advantageously in relatively nonuniform heat absorption into the back surface, and relatively in more uniform, adequate and efficient substrate heating and drying temperatures on the front surface, when continuously running a most often run size of substrates.

    摘要翻译: 一种热喷墨打印机,包括框架,安装到框架上的用于将油墨图像印刷到加热和被支撑的基板上的打印头以及安装到框架上的有效的基板加热和支撑组件。 有效的基板加热和支撑组件包括加热装置和基板支撑构件,该基板支撑构件具有包括用于一次一个地支撑各种尺寸的基板的基板支撑区域的前表面和具有抛光光洁度的边界区域的前表面。 有效的衬底加热和支撑组件还包括面向加热装置的吸热后表面。 吸热后表面包括相对于前表面上的基板支撑区域相对并居中的增加的吸热区域。 增加的吸热面积相对于后表面的其余部分在其上具有涂层,用于增加从加热装置吸收的热量,从而有利地使相对不均匀的热吸收到背面中,并且相对更均匀, 足够和有效的基板加热和干燥温度在前表面,当连续运行最经常运行大小的基板。

    Modular partial bars and full width array printheads fabricated from
modular partial bars
    5.
    发明授权
    Modular partial bars and full width array printheads fabricated from modular partial bars 失效
    由模块化部分棒制成的模块化部分棒和全宽阵列打印头

    公开(公告)号:US5057854A

    公开(公告)日:1991-10-15

    申请号:US543550

    申请日:1990-06-26

    CPC分类号: B41J2/155 B41J2202/20

    摘要: Modular partial bars include a substrate bar having a length and a plurality of printhead subunits attached to only one side of the substrate bar, each printhead subunit being spaced from an adjacent printhead subunit. These modular partial bars are used as building blocks to form full width staggered array printheads. When the printhead subunits are arranged on each substrate bar so that two substrate bars are capable of forming a full width staggered array printhead, each modular partial bar is referred to as a modular half bar. One modular half bar can be stacked on another modular half bar any number of ways. For example, two half bars can be stacked with their printhead subunit containing sides facing the same direction, away from one another or towards one another. When two half bars are stacked with their printhead subunit containing sides facing in the same direction, an ink manifold for supplying ink to the printhead subunits of the lower half bar can be provided in the substrate of the upper half bar. When half bars are arranged with their printhead subunit containing sides facing each other, a common ink supply manifold can be used to supply ink to all of the printhead subunits in the full width staggered array, thus eliminating the need for two separate ink supply manifolds. By modifying the construction of the channel plates typically used to form the printhead subunits, the need for a separate ink supply manifold can be entirely eliminated.

    摘要翻译: 模块化部分棒包括具有长度的衬底条和仅附接到衬底条的一侧的多个打印头子单元,每个打印头子单元与相邻的打印头子单元间隔开。 这些模块化部分棒用作构建块以形成全宽度交错阵列打印头。 当打印头子单元布置在每个基板上时,使得两个基板条能够形成全宽度交错阵列打印头,每个模块化部分条被称为模块化半条。 一个模块化的半棒可以堆叠在另一个模块化的半棒上任意数量的方式。 例如,两个半棒可以堆叠,其打印头子单元包含侧面朝向相同的方向,彼此远离或彼此朝向彼此。 当两个半棒堆叠而其打印头子单元包含侧面朝向相同方向时,可以在上半杆的基板中提供用于向下半杆的打印头子单元供墨的墨水歧管。 当半棒布置成其打印头子单元包含侧面彼此相对时,可以使用公共的墨水供应歧管来将墨水供应到全宽度交错阵列中的所有打印头子单元,从而消除了对两个单独的墨水供应歧管的需要。 通过改变通常用于形成打印头子单元的通道板的结构,可以完全消除对单独的供墨歧管的需要。

    Liquid ink printer having multiple pass drying
    6.
    发明授权
    Liquid ink printer having multiple pass drying 失效
    具有多次干燥的液体墨水打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5757407A

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-26

    申请号:US753457

    申请日:1996-11-25

    申请人: Ivan Rezanka

    发明人: Ivan Rezanka

    IPC分类号: B41J11/00 B41J13/00 B41J2/01

    摘要: A method and apparatus for drying liquid ink deposited, in response to image data, on a recording medium moving along a path at a predetermined rate. A recording medium having liquid ink deposited thereon is moved past a dryer in multiple passes to dry areas of high ink coverage. Ink characteristics are optimized for minimum print defects by determining the time between printing and drying. In the case of text only images only one pass through the dryer is required. For areas of high ink coverage, however, multiple passes through the dryer are required and completed either by reciprocation or recirculation at the same predetermined rate.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于干燥液体墨水的方法和装置,其响应于图像数据在沿着路径以预定速率移动的记录介质上。 具有沉积在其上的液体油墨的记录介质在多次通过干燥器之后被移到高油墨覆盖的干燥区域。 油墨特性通过确定打印和干燥之间的时间来优化最小打印缺陷。 在仅文本的情况下,仅需要一个通过烘干机的图像。 然而,对于高油墨覆盖的区域,需要多次通过干燥器并且以相同的预定速率往复运动或再循环完成。

    Thermal ink jet printhead with droplet volume control
    7.
    发明授权
    Thermal ink jet printhead with droplet volume control 失效
    具有液滴体积控制的热喷墨打印头

    公开(公告)号:US5036337A

    公开(公告)日:1991-07-30

    申请号:US542490

    申请日:1990-06-22

    申请人: Ivan Rezanka

    发明人: Ivan Rezanka

    IPC分类号: B41J2/05 B41J2/21

    摘要: A method and apparatus for controlling the volume of ink droplets ejected from thermal ink jet printheads is disclosed. The electrical signals applied to heating elements for generating droplet ejecting bubbles thereon are composed of packets of electrical pulses. Each pulse and spacing therebetween are varied in accordance with one or more whole, clock or timing units. The number of pulses per packet and width of pulses and spacing therebetween are controlled in accordance with the manufacturing tolerance variations, the location of the addressed heating element in the printhead, the number of parallel heating elements concurrently energized, and optionally the temperature of the printhead in the vicinity of the heating elements to maintain the desired volume of the ejected droplets.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于控制从热喷墨打印头喷射的墨滴体积的方法和装置。 施加到用于在其上产生液滴喷射气泡的加热元件的电信号由电脉冲的分组组成。 每个脉冲和它们之间的间隔根据一个或多个整体,时钟或定时单元而变化。 根据制造公差变化,打印头中寻址的加热元件的位置,并联加热元件的数量以及可选的打印头的温度,可以控制每个分组的脉冲数量和脉冲宽度以及间距的间隔 在加热元件附近以保持喷射液滴的所需体积。

    Methods and apparatus for full width printing using a sparsely populated printhead
    8.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for full width printing using a sparsely populated printhead 有权
    使用人口稀少的打印头进行全幅打印的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US06435652B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-08-20

    申请号:US09732727

    申请日:2000-12-11

    申请人: Ivan Rezanka

    发明人: Ivan Rezanka

    IPC分类号: B41J2155

    摘要: A multi-pass printbar for providing full width printing on a recording medium is provided. The full width printing may be achieved by stepping the printbar in increments corresponding to the combination of the array width of a printhead die and the gap spacing between the printhead dies until full width print coverage on the recording medium occurs. Ink is ejected from an array of orifices on the printbar as the recording medium passes under the printbar. Alternatively, the full width printing may be achieved by fixing the printbar, and its array of orifices, but stepping the document handler, for example a recirculating drum document handler, the recording medium is mounted upon as it passes under the fixed printbar. Yet another alternative provides full width printing by providing a combination of motions of the printbar and a recirculating drum document handler simultaneously such that the printbar moves continuously and at a constant rate in a linear fashion while the recirculating drum document handler rotates the recording medium under the linearly moving printbar. The result is a “barber pole” style placement of printing information ink droplets on the recording medium which occurs repeatedly due to the rotational recirculation of the recording medium on the drum under the linearly moving printbar until full width print coverage is achieved.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于在记录介质上提供全宽打印的多遍打印条。 可以通过以与打印头芯片的阵列宽度的组合和打印头芯片之间的间隙的组合相对应的增量来对打印机进行步进来实现全宽打印,直到出现记录介质上的全宽打印覆盖。 当记录介质通过打印条下方时,墨水从打印条上的孔阵列中排出。 或者,全宽度打印可以通过固定打印条及其孔阵列而实现,但是步进文件处理器,例如循环滚筒文件处理器,记录介质在其经过固定打印条下方时被安装。 另一种替代方案通过同时提供打印条和再循环鼓文档处理器的运动的组合来提供全宽打印,使得打印条以线性方式连续地以恒定速率移动,同时循环鼓文档处理器将记录介质旋转在 线性移动的打印条。 结果是在记录介质上打印信息墨滴的“理发杆”样式,由于在线性移动的打印条上的滚筒上的记录介质的旋转再循环而重复出现,直到达到全宽打印覆盖。

    Document dependent maintenance procedure for ink jet printer
    9.
    发明授权
    Document dependent maintenance procedure for ink jet printer 有权
    喷墨打印机文档依赖维护程序

    公开(公告)号:US06179403B2

    公开(公告)日:2001-01-30

    申请号:US09350127

    申请日:1999-07-09

    IPC分类号: B41J2165

    CPC分类号: B41J2/16517

    摘要: A method for controlling a maintenance unit in a printer includes determining an image type of an image to be printed, the image type being selected from at least a first image type and a second image type different from the first image type, setting a maintenance interval for the maintenance unit in accordance with the image type, wherein a maintenance interval for the first image type is different from a maintenance interval for the second image type. A printer embodying such a method, and in particular a printer for printing an image an a substrate, includes a printhead, a maintenance unit for performing periodic maintenance on the printhead, and a controller for controlling said maintenance unit according to the described method.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于控制打印机中的维护单元的方法,包括确定要打印的图像的图像类型,所述图像类型是从至少第一图像类型和不同于第一图像类型的第二图像类型中选择的,设置维护间隔 用于所述维护单元,其中所述第一图像类型的维护间隔与所述第二图像类型的维护间隔不同。 具体实施方式的打印机,特别是用于将基板打印图像的打印机包括打印头,用于对打印头进行定期维护的维护单元,以及根据所述方法控制所述维护单元的控制器。

    Ink jet printer with integral electrohydrodynamic electrodes and nozzle
plate
    10.
    发明授权
    Ink jet printer with integral electrohydrodynamic electrodes and nozzle plate 失效
    具有整体电动电极和喷嘴板的喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US4658269A

    公开(公告)日:1987-04-14

    申请号:US869647

    申请日:1986-06-02

    申请人: Ivan Rezanka

    发明人: Ivan Rezanka

    摘要: An electrohydrodynamic stimulated ink jet printing device and method of manufacture which eliminates the prior art problem of ink wetting the dielectric spacer between the stimulating electrode and the ink jet nozzles. The nozzles are electroformed on one side of a sheet of dielectric material and the EHD electrodes are electroformed on the other side of the dielectric material in registration with the nozzles. The dielectric material is removed from the nozzles by using the nozzles or the electrodes as masks. The internal surface of the dielectric material is coated with a one of a number of coatings non-wettable by the ink such as a mixture of paraffin and ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer dissolved in a light aliphatic hydrocarbon, such as VMP naphtha.

    摘要翻译: 一种电动液体动力学刺激的喷墨印刷装置及其制造方法,其消除了在刺激电极和喷墨喷嘴之间油墨润湿介电垫片的现有技术问题。 喷嘴在电介质材料片的一面上电铸,并且EHD电极在与喷嘴对准的电介质材料的另一侧上电铸。 通过使用喷嘴或电极作为掩模,从喷嘴去除电介质材料。 介电材料的内表面涂覆有不能被油墨润湿的许多涂层之一,例如溶解在轻质脂族烃如VMP石脑油中的石蜡和乙烯 - 乙酸乙烯酯共聚物的混合物。