Ink-cooled thermal ink jet printhead
    1.
    发明授权
    Ink-cooled thermal ink jet printhead 失效
    油墨冷热喷墨打印头

    公开(公告)号:US5459498A

    公开(公告)日:1995-10-17

    申请号:US982813

    申请日:1992-11-30

    摘要: An ink-cooled thermal ink jet printhead has an efficient heat exchanger located on the back side of the printhead that eliminates the need for heat sinks. All ink flowing to the firing chamber goes through the heat exchanger. The geometry of the heat exchanger is chosen so that almost all the residual heat absorbed by the printhead substrate is transferred to the ink as it flows to the firing chamber. Additionally, the pressure drop of the ink flowing through the heat exchanger is low enough so that it does not significantly reduce the refill rate of the firing chambers. The heat exchanger can have one or more active heat exchanger sides. The heat exchanger has little thermal mass itself and significantly reduces the thermal mass of printhead by eliminating the need for a heat sink. This reduces the warm-up time of the printhead to a fraction of a second.

    摘要翻译: 一种墨水冷却的热喷墨打印头具有位于打印头后侧的有效的热交换器,其不需要散热片。 所有流入燃烧室的油墨都经过热交换器。 选择热交换器的几何形状,使得打印头基板吸收的几乎所有剩余热量在流到喷射室时被转移到墨水中。 此外,流经热交换器的墨水的压降足够低,使得它不会显着降低燃烧室的再填充速率。 热交换器可以具有一个或多个活性热交换器侧。 热交换器本身具有很少的热量,并且通过消除对散热器的需要而显着地降低了打印头的热质量。 这将打印头的预热时间减少到几分之一秒。

    Ink-cooled thermal ink jet printhead
    2.
    发明授权
    Ink-cooled thermal ink jet printhead 失效
    油墨冷热喷墨打印头

    公开(公告)号:US5657061A

    公开(公告)日:1997-08-12

    申请号:US501219

    申请日:1995-07-11

    摘要: An ink-cooled thermal ink jet printhead has an efficient heat exchanger located on the back side of the printhead that eliminates the need for heat sinks. All ink flowing to the firing chamber goes through the heat exchanger. The geometry of the heat exchanger is chosen so that almost all the residual heat absorbed by the printhead substrate is transferred to the ink as it flows to the firing chamber. Additionally, the pressure drop of the ink flowing through the heat exchanger is low enough so that it does not significantly reduce the refill rate of the firing chambers. The heat exchanger can have one or more active heat exchanger sides. The heat exchanger has little thermal mass itself and significantly reduces the thermal mass of printhead by eliminating the need for a heat sink. This reduces the warm-up time of the printhead to a fraction of a second.

    摘要翻译: 一种墨水冷却的热喷墨打印头具有位于打印头后侧的有效的热交换器,其不需要散热片。 所有流入燃烧室的油墨都经过热交换器。 选择热交换器的几何形状,使得打印头基板吸收的几乎所有剩余热量在流到喷射室时被转移到墨水中。 此外,流经热交换器的墨水的压降足够低,使得它不会显着降低燃烧室的再填充速率。 热交换器可以具有一个或多个活性热交换器侧。 热交换器本身具有很少的热量,并且通过消除对散热器的需要而显着地降低了打印头的热质量。 这将打印头的预热时间减少到几分之一秒。

    Regulator for ink-jet pens
    3.
    发明授权
    Regulator for ink-jet pens 失效
    喷墨笔调节器

    公开(公告)号:US5040002A

    公开(公告)日:1991-08-13

    申请号:US494710

    申请日:1990-03-16

    IPC分类号: B41J2/045 B41J2/055 B41J2/175

    CPC分类号: B41J2/175 Y10T137/7897

    摘要: A regulator (20) for an ink-jet pen (24) that has a print head (30) for expelling ink from a fluid volume includes a seat (36) mounted to a pen body (26) and having a port (42) formed through it. A valve element (38) is mounted adjacent to the seat for movement relative to the port (42). Magnetic attraction is employed for urging the seat (36) and valve element (38) together to thereby close the port (42) and permit underpressure to develop in the reservoir (22). The valve element (38) and seat (36) are configured and arranged so that when the underpressure within the reservoir (22) rises above the level that may cause failure of the ink-jet print head (30) the valve element (38) moves away from the seat (36) to permit air to enter the reservoir (22), thereby reducing the underpressure to an operable level.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于喷墨笔(24)的调节器(20),其具有用于从流体体积排出墨水的打印头(30),包括安装到笔体(26)并具有端口(42)的座(36) 通过它形成。 阀元件(38)邻近座位安装以相对于端口(42)移动。 采用磁吸引力将座(36)和阀元件(38)推到一起,从而关闭端口(42)并允许负压在储存器(22)中形成。 阀元件(38)和阀座(36)被构造和布置成使得当储存器(22)内的负压升高到可能导致喷墨打印头(30)故障的水平时,阀元件(38) 远离座椅(36)移动以允许空气进入储存器(22),从而将负压降低到可操作的水平。

    Ink jet orifice plate having integral separators
    6.
    发明授权
    Ink jet orifice plate having integral separators 失效
    具有整体分离器的喷墨孔板

    公开(公告)号:US4528577A

    公开(公告)日:1985-07-09

    申请号:US443980

    申请日:1982-11-23

    IPC分类号: B41J2/05 B41J2/16 G01D15/18

    CPC分类号: B41J2/162 B41J2/1625 C25D1/08

    摘要: An orifice plate is provided of an electroformed material which incorporates an integral ink distribution manifold and integral hydraulic separators between orifices. The general approach to the method of making the orifice plate is to first construct a two-part mandrel made up of a "hard" mandrel which can be reused many times and a "soft" mandrel which is renewed each time the mandrel is used. Typically, the surface of the "hard" mandrel is configured by mask and etch techniques, or by mask and electroplate techniques to define the ink distribution manifold and the hydraulic separators, while the "soft" mandrel is configured by mask and develop techniques to define the orifices and edges between orifice plates. Upon completion of the mandrel, its surface is electroplated with a relatively uniform thickness of metal, and the newly electroplated surface having the orifice plates patterned therein is separated from the mandrel.

    摘要翻译: 孔板由电铸成型材料提供,其中包括一个整体式油墨分配歧管和在孔之间的一体式液压分离器。 制造孔板的方法的一般方法是首先构造由可以重复使用多次的“硬”心轴构成的两部分心轴和每次使用心轴时更新的“软”心轴。 通常,“硬”心轴的表面通过掩模和蚀刻技术或通过掩模和电镀技术来配置以限定油墨分配歧管和液压分离器,而“软”心轴由掩模构成并开发技术来定义 孔板之间的孔口和边缘。 在心轴完成时,其表面用相对均匀的金属厚度电镀,并且具有图案化的孔板的新电镀表面与心轴分离。

    Determining the operating energy of a thermal ink jet printhead using an
onboard thermal sense resistor
    7.
    发明授权
    Determining the operating energy of a thermal ink jet printhead using an onboard thermal sense resistor 失效
    使用车载热敏电阻确定热喷墨打印头的工作能量

    公开(公告)号:US5418558A

    公开(公告)日:1995-05-23

    申请号:US57943

    申请日:1993-05-03

    IPC分类号: B41J2/05 B41J2/12

    摘要: A method for operating a thermal ink jet printer including a printhead having ink firing heater resistors responsive to pulses provided to the printhead. A sequence of pulse bursts of respective increasing or decreasing pulse energies that span a predetermined pulse energy range is applied to the printhead, each pulse burst comprised of a plurality of pulses having a pulse energy that is associated with such pulse burst and is constant for all pulses in such burst, and each burst having a sufficient number of pulses to allow the printhead to achieve a steady state operating temperature at the pulse energy of the pulse burst. A steady state operating temperature sample is determined for each of the sequence of pulses bursts of different pulse energies to produce a set of temperature samples respectively associated with the increasing pulse energies, and a turn on pulse energy is determined from the temperature samples. The thermal ink jet printhead is then operated with a pulse energy that is greater than the turn on pulse energy and in a range that provides a desired print quality while avoiding premature failure of the heater resistors.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于操作热喷墨打印机的方法,其包括响应于提供给打印头的脉冲的具有喷墨加热器电阻器的打印头。 跨越预定脉冲能量范围的相应增加或减小的脉冲能量的脉冲脉冲序列被施加到打印头,每个脉冲脉冲串包括具有脉冲能量的多个脉冲,该脉冲能量与所述脉冲脉冲串相关联,并且对于所有脉冲 脉冲,并且每个脉冲串具有足够数量的脉冲以允许打印头在脉冲脉冲的脉冲能量下实现稳态工作温度。 确定不同脉冲能量的脉冲脉冲序列中的每一个的稳态工作温度采样,以产生分别与增加的脉冲能量相关联的一组温度采样,并且从温度采样确定导通脉冲能量。 然后,热喷墨打印头以大于导通脉冲能量的脉冲能量和在提供期望打印质量的范围内操作,同时避免加热电阻器的过早故障。

    Ink jet printhead having a preloaded check valve
    8.
    发明授权
    Ink jet printhead having a preloaded check valve 失效
    喷墨打印头具有预加载的止回阀

    公开(公告)号:US4677447A

    公开(公告)日:1987-06-30

    申请号:US842594

    申请日:1986-03-20

    申请人: Niels J. Nielsen

    发明人: Niels J. Nielsen

    摘要: A preloaded check valve disposed in a valve body between an ink reservoir and a printhead has a valve opening pressure or "cracking" pressure at least sufficient to overcome the hydrostatic pressure due to gravity of ink in the reservoir. This prevents depriming or leakage of ink at the orifices of the orifice plate forming part of the ink ejecting mechanism. Ejection of ink during printing creates a pressure differential across the valve sufficient to cause it to open and replenish the ink supply at the ink ejecting mechanism.

    摘要翻译: 设置在墨水储存器和打印头之间的阀体中的预加载的止回阀具有至少足以克服由于储存器中墨水的重力引起的流体静压力的开阀压力或“开裂”压力。 这防止了在形成喷墨机构的一部分的孔板的孔口处的油墨脱落或泄漏。 印刷过程中墨水的喷射会产生跨越阀门的压差,足以使其打开并补充墨水喷射机构上的墨水供应。

    Thermal ink jet pen having a feedtube with improved sizing and
operational with a minimum of depriming
    10.
    发明授权
    Thermal ink jet pen having a feedtube with improved sizing and operational with a minimum of depriming 失效
    热喷墨笔具有具有改进的尺寸并具有最小剥落功能的进料管

    公开(公告)号:US4931811A

    公开(公告)日:1990-06-05

    申请号:US304549

    申请日:1989-01-31

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175 B41J2/05 B41J2/19

    CPC分类号: B41J2/19

    摘要: An ink jet pen having a main ink reservoir therein connected to a thin film printhead by way of a large diameter standpipe, wherein the diameter of an air accumulating section of the standpipe is sufficiently large to enable ink to pass through the standpipe despite the presence of air in the air accumulating section when the printhead is in operation. The large diameter air bubbles which form in the air accumulating section are easily deformed by suction force from the printhead and thus allow ink to pass through the standpipe between the air bubbles and the walls of the standpipe. This action enables the ink jet pen to operated continuously without undue suction on the standpipe which leads to depriming.