Environmental factor detection system for inkjet printing

    公开(公告)号:US06568780B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-05-27

    申请号:US09845130

    申请日:2001-04-30

    IPC分类号: B41J2938

    CPC分类号: B41J29/393 B41J2/125

    摘要: An environmental condition detection system for a hardcopy device, such as an inkjet printing mechanism, includes an environmental condition sensor having an optical property which changes in response to a change in an environmental condition, for instance humidity or temperature. The system also has an optical sensor which detects changes in the optical property and generates a signal for a controller that responds by changing an operating parameter of the hardcopy device. A hard copy device having such a environmental condition detection system is also provided, along with a method of determining an environmental condition within which a hardcopy device is operating.

    System and method for recycling hydrocarbon-based carrier liquid
    3.
    发明授权
    System and method for recycling hydrocarbon-based carrier liquid 有权
    烃类载液回收系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US06856778B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-15

    申请号:US10219100

    申请日:2002-08-15

    IPC分类号: G03G15/10 G03G21/10

    CPC分类号: G03G15/107 G03G21/10

    摘要: A system and method for recycling used hydrocarbon-based carrier liquid removes contaminants from the used carrier liquid and monitors an electrical property of the output carrier liquid so that the carrier liquid can be reused in a predefined application, such as an electrostatic imaging process. The system and method may be integrated into an electrostatic imaging machine.

    摘要翻译: 用于再循环使用的烃基载体液体的系统和方法从所使用的载体液体中除去污染物并监测输出载体液体的电性质,使得载体液体可以在诸如静电成像过程的预定应用中重复使用。 该系统和方法可以集成到静电成像机中。

    Ink drop detector
    4.
    发明授权
    Ink drop detector 失效
    墨滴检测器

    公开(公告)号:US06550887B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-22

    申请号:US09915461

    申请日:2001-07-25

    IPC分类号: B41J2165

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting ink droplets ejected from ink drop generators has a target holder and a conductive absorbent target supported by the target holder. The apparatus for detecting ink droplets also has standoffs extending from the target holder. The apparatus for detecting ink droplets further has an actuator for moving the target holder towards the ink drop generators such that the standoffs space the target from the ink drop generators.

    摘要翻译: 用于检测从墨滴发生器喷出的墨滴的装置具有由目标支架支撑的目标支架和导电性吸收体。 用于检测墨滴的装置还具有从目标支架延伸的支座。 用于检测墨滴的装置还具有用于将目标保持器朝向墨滴发生器移动的致动器,使得支架将墨水发生器的目标物放置在空间中。

    Excimer laser-ablated components for inkjet printhead
    6.
    发明授权
    Excimer laser-ablated components for inkjet printhead 失效
    用于喷墨打印头的准分子激光烧蚀组件

    公开(公告)号:US5305018A

    公开(公告)日:1994-04-19

    申请号:US849650

    申请日:1992-03-09

    摘要: An inkjet printhead includes a nozzle plate formed of a polymer material that has been photoablated or photo-etched to form inkjet nozzles. The polymer material preferably is a plastic such as teflon, polyimide, polymethylmethacrylate, polyethyleneterephthalate or mixtures thereof. The nozzle plate also has formed in it a plurality of vaporization chambers. The inkjet nozzles are preferably formed in a flexible strip of polymer film by masked laser radiation, where the mask is physically spaced from the polymer film. Heater resistors may be formed on the nozzle plate within each of the vaporization chambers.

    摘要翻译: 喷墨打印头包括由聚合物材料形成的喷嘴板,所述聚合物材料已经被光刻或光蚀刻以形成喷墨喷嘴。 聚合物材料优选为塑料,例如聚四氟乙烯,聚酰亚胺,聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯,聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯或其混合物。 喷嘴板也在其中形成有多个蒸发室。 喷墨喷嘴优选通过掩模激光辐射形成在柔性带状聚合物膜中,其中掩模与聚合物膜物理隔开。 可以在每个蒸发室内的喷嘴板上形成加热电阻器。

    Fault-tolerant dot-matrix printing
    8.
    发明授权
    Fault-tolerant dot-matrix printing 失效
    容错点阵打印

    公开(公告)号:US5124720A

    公开(公告)日:1992-06-23

    申请号:US561556

    申请日:1990-08-01

    摘要: The invention is fault-tolerant dot-matrix printing that substitutes a tested functioning printing element for a malfunctioning printing element. A detector, such as a piezoelectric membrane drop detector, tests the printing elements for malfunctioning printing elements. Once a malfunctioning printing element is detected, either a detector or a substitution algorithm identifies which section of the printing elements the malfunctioning printing element resides in. The printer controller chooses a defect-free section to substitute for the defective section containing the malfunctioning printing element, disconnects the section containing the malfunctioning printing element, reroutes print signals from the defective section containing the malfunctioning printing element to the substitute section, and alters the scan path of the printhead so that the substitute section prints for itself as well as for the defective section.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是容错点阵打印,其替代测试功能的打印元件用于故障打印元件。 诸如压电膜滴检测器的检测器测试印刷元件以使印刷元件发生故障。 一旦检测到故障的打印元件,则检测器或替代算法识别故障打印元件所在的打印元件的哪一部分。打印机控制器选择无缺陷部分来代替包含故障打印元件的缺陷部分, 断开包含故障打印元件的部分,将包含故障打印元件的故障部分的打印信号重新路由到替代部分,并改变打印头的扫描路径,以便替代部分打印自身以及缺陷部分。

    Low cost ink drop detector
    10.
    发明授权
    Low cost ink drop detector 失效
    低成本墨滴检测器

    公开(公告)号:US6086190A

    公开(公告)日:2000-07-11

    申请号:US946190

    申请日:1997-10-07

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175 B41J2/125

    CPC分类号: B41J2/125

    摘要: An ink drop detector that minimizes costs of a printer by employing preexisting digital signal processing elements in a printer and low cost analog sensing elements. The analog sensing elements are tuned to ink drop bursts, which include a plurality of ink drops, and the preexisting digital signal processing elements extract ink drop characterization information from sensed analog signals.

    摘要翻译: 一种墨滴检测器,其通过在打印机中采用预先存在的数字信号处理元件和低成本模拟感测元件来最小化打印机的成本。 模拟感测元件被调整到包括多个墨滴的墨滴突发,并且预先存在的数字信号处理元件从感测的模拟信号中提取墨滴特性信息。