公开(公告)号：US6137502A

公开(公告)日：2000-10-24

申请号：US384803

申请日：1999-08-27

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  John Philip Bolash ,  Robert Wilson Cornell ,  George Keith Parish

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  John Philip Bolash ,  Robert Wilson Cornell ,  George Keith Parish

IPC分类号： B41J2/05 ,  B41J2/14 ,  B41J2/205 ,  B41J2/21

CPC分类号： B41J2/04533 ,  B41J2/04541 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/04593 ,  B41J2/14056 ,  B41J2/14072 ,  B41J2/2125 ,  B41J2002/14387

摘要： An ink jet print head has first nozzles of a first diameter for ejecting droplets of ink having a first mass, and second nozzles of a second diameter for ejecting droplets of ink having a second mass. The first diameter is larger than the second diameter, and the first mass is larger than the second mass. First and second heater-switch pairs are connected in parallel on a substrate of the print head. The first heater-switch pairs include first heaters adjacent corresponding first nozzles, and the second heater-switch pairs include second heaters adjacent corresponding second nozzles. The first and second heaters are composed of electrically resistive material occupying first and second heater areas on the substrate. The first heater-switch pairs also include first switching devices connected in series with the first heaters, with each first switching device developing a first switching device voltage drop as a first electrical current flows through. The second heater-switch pairs include second switching devices connected in series with the second heaters, with each second switching device developing a second switching device voltage drop as a second electrical current flows through. The first heater area is larger than the second heater area, thus matching heater area to nozzle diameter to provide for more efficient transfer of thermal energy to the ink. The voltage drop across each first switching device is substantially equivalent to the voltage drop across each second switching device, thus reducing undesirable nozzle-to-nozzle variations in the amount of energy delivered to the ink.

摘要翻译： 喷墨打印头具有用于喷射具有第一质量的油墨的第一直径的第一喷嘴和用于喷射具有第二质量的油墨的第二直径的第二喷嘴。 第一直径大于第二直径，第一质量大于第二质量。 第一和第二加热器开关对并联在打印头的基板上。 第一加热器开关对包括与相应的第一喷嘴相邻的第一加热器，第二加热器开关对包括与相应的第二喷嘴相邻的第二加热器。 第一和第二加热器由占据基板上的第一和第二加热器区域的电阻材料构成。 第一加热器开关对还包括与第一加热器串联连接的第一开关装置，当第一电流流过时，每个第一开关装置开发第一开关装置电压降。 第二加热器开关对包括与第二加热器串联连接的第二开关装置，随着第二电流流经，每个第二开关装置产生第二开关装置电压降。 第一加热器区域大于第二加热器区域，从而将加热器面积与喷嘴直径相匹配以提供更有效地将热能转移到墨水。 每个第一开关器件上的电压降基本上等于每个第二开关器件上的电压降，从而减少输送到墨水的能量的不期望的喷嘴对喷嘴的变化。

公开(公告)号：US06502920B1

公开(公告)日：2003-01-07

申请号：US09499008

申请日：2000-02-04

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  John Philip Bolash ,  Randall David Mayo ,  George Keith Parish

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  John Philip Bolash ,  Randall David Mayo ,  George Keith Parish

IPC分类号： B41J215

CPC分类号： B41J2/04505 ,  B41J2/04543 ,  B41J2/04573 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/14072 ,  B41J2/15

摘要： An ink jet printing apparatus forms a printed image on a print medium based on image data. The apparatus includes an ink jet print head having ink ejection nozzles in a nozzle array. Ink is ejected from the nozzles and onto the print medium as the print head scans across the print medium in a scan direction, thereby forming the image on the print medium. The nozzle array on the print head includes a first substantially columnar array of nozzles aligned with a print medium advance direction which is perpendicular to the scan direction. The first array has a first upper subarray pair that includes a first upper left and a first upper right subarray of nozzles. The first upper left and a first upper right subarrays each include a substantially linear arrangement of n number of nozzles having equal nozzle-to-nozzle spacings. The nozzle-to-nozzle spacing in the first upper right subarray is equivalent to the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing in the first upper left subarray. The first upper right subarray is offset from the first upper left subarray in the scan direction by a first horizontal spacing, and is offset in the print medium advance direction by one-half of the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing. The nozzle array also includes a second substantially columnar array of nozzles aligned with the print medium advance direction. The second array is offset from the first array in the scan direction by a second horizontal spacing, and is offset in the print medium advance direction by one-fourth of the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing. The second columnar array has a second upper subarray pair that includes a second upper left and a second upper right subarray. The second upper left and second upper right subarrays each include a substantially linear arrangement of n number of nozzles having equal nozzle-to-nozzle spacings. The second upper right subarray is offset from the second upper left subarray in the scan direction by the first horizontal spacing and in the print medium advance direction by one-half of the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing.

公开(公告)号：US06742866B2

公开(公告)日：2004-06-01

申请号：US10217018

申请日：2002-08-12

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  John Philip Bolash ,  Randall David Mayo ,  George Keith Parish

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  John Philip Bolash ,  Randall David Mayo ,  George Keith Parish

IPC分类号： B41J215

CPC分类号： B41J2/04505 ,  B41J2/04543 ,  B41J2/04573 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/14072 ,  B41J2/15

摘要： An ink jet printing apparatus forms a printed image on a print medium based on image data. The apparatus includes an ink jet print head having ink ejection nozzles in a nozzle array. Ink is ejected from the nozzles and onto the print medium as the print head scans across the print medium in a scan direction, thereby forming the image on the print medium. The nozzle array on the print head includes a first substantially columnar array of nozzles aligned with a print medium advance direction which is perpendicular to the scan direction. The first array has a first upper subarray pair that includes a first upper left and a first upper right subarray of nozzles. The first upper left and a first upper right subarrays each include a substantially linear arrangement of n number of nozzles having equal nozzle-to-nozzle spacings. The nozzle-to-nozzle spacing in the first upper right subarray is equivalent to the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing in the first upper left subarray. The first upper right subarray is offset from the first upper left subarray in the scan direction by a first horizontal spacing, and is offset in the print medium advance direction by one-half of the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing. The nozzle array also includes a second substantially columnar array of nozzles aligned with the print medium advance direction. The second array is offset from the first array in the scan direction by a second horizontal spacing, and is offset in the print medium advance direction by one-fourth of the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing. The second columnar array has a second upper subarray pair that includes a second upper left and a second upper right subarray. The second upper left and second upper right subarrays each include a substantially linear arrangement of n number of nozzles having equal nozzle-to-nozzle spacings. The second upper right subarray is offset from the second upper left subarray in the scan direction by the first horizontal spacing and in the print medium advance direction by one-half of the nozzle-to-nozzle spacing.

公开(公告)号：US06299274B1

公开(公告)日：2001-10-09

申请号：US08990608

申请日：1997-12-15

申请人： John Philip Bolash ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Edmund Hulin James, III ,  George Keith Parish

发明人： John Philip Bolash ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Edmund Hulin James, III ,  George Keith Parish

IPC分类号： B41J29393

CPC分类号： B41J2/17546

摘要： The invention described in the specification relates to an apparatus for supplying electrical information to a printer controller in order to identify the one or more cartridges installed in a printer. The apparatus comprises a carriage which is laterally translatable relative to the movement of print media through the printer, carriage translation means, and a replaceable cartridge attached to the carriage. The apparatus further comprises an indicia device which is attached to the replaceable cartridge and which has optically readable indicia thereon containing encoded information which contains information identifying the type of cartridge installed in the printer. The apparatus also includes an optical code reader which reads and transmits the encoded information to a printer controller as the cartridge moves in a lateral direction relative to the code reader. The invention thus uses the linear motion of the carriage in combination with the optically readable indicia device on the cartridge to identify the type of cartridge, or to otherwise control the printer depending on the specific information provided by the indicia device.

摘要翻译： 本说明书中描述的本发明涉及一种用于向打印机控制器提供电信息以便识别安装在打印机中的一个或多个盒的装置。 该装置包括相对于打印介质通过打印机移动的横向平移的托架，托架平移装置和附接到滑架的可更换的盒。 该装置还包括标记装置，其附接到可替换的盒，并且其上具有光学可读标记，其上包含编码信息，其包含识别安装在打印机中的盒的类型的信息。 该装置还包括一个光学代码读取器，当读取器相对于代码阅读器沿横向方向移动时，该读取器将编码的信息读取并发送到打印机控制器。 因此，本发明使用滑架与墨盒上的光学可读标记装置的线性运动来识别墨盒的类型，或者根据由标记装置提供的特定信息来另外控制打印机。

公开(公告)号：US6161915A

公开(公告)日：2000-12-19

申请号：US99814

申请日：1998-06-19

申请人： John Philip Bolash ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Edmund Hulin James, III ,  George Keith Parish ,  David Howard White

发明人： John Philip Bolash ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Edmund Hulin James, III ,  George Keith Parish ,  David Howard White

IPC分类号： B41J2/175 ,  H05K1/02 ,  H05K3/36 ,  B41J29/393

CPC分类号： B41J2/17546 ,  H05K1/0266 ,  H05K3/361 ,  Y10S439/955

摘要： The invention relates to an apparatus for providing information to a printer controller in order to identify the type of printer cartridge installed in a thermal ink jet printer. The apparatus includes a printer cable containing a set of electrically-conductive wires connected to contacts in a printer cable connector. The contacts of the printer cable connector make physical connection to an identification circuit on the printer cartridge. The identification circuit includes an electrical conductor which is at an electrical reference potential. When none, or one or more contacts on the cable connector are in electrical contact with the electrical conductor of the identification circuit, a signal corresponding to the identification of the printer cartridge is produced which is used by the printer controller to determine the type of printer cartridge installed in the printer. Selective contact between the connector contacts and the identification circuit, so as to produce an electrical code, may be obtained using a label having apertures, contact pads, electrical traces, or a combination thereof. Accordingly, various cartridge identification codes can be produced using various methods which allow encoding of the information on a cartridge during or after the manufacture of the cartridge body is substantially complete.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于向打印机控制器提供信息以便识别安装在热喷墨打印机中的打印机盒的类型的装置。 该设备包括一个打印机电缆，该打印机电缆包含连接到打印机电缆连接器中的触点的一组导电线。 打印机电缆连接器的触点与打印机墨盒上的识别电路进行物理连接。 识别电路包括处于电参考电位的电导体。 当电缆连接器上没有一个或多个触点与识别电路的电导体电接触时，产生与打印机盒的识别相对应的信号，由打印机控制器用于确定打印机的类型 墨盒安装在打印机中。 可以使用具有孔，接触垫，电迹线或其组合的标签来获得连接器触点和识别电路之间的选择性接触以产生电码。 因此，可以使用允许在盒体的制造期间或之后对盒的信息进行编码的各种方法来生产各种盒识别码，这些方法基本上完成。

公开(公告)号：US5867183A

公开(公告)日：1999-02-02

申请号：US584033

申请日：1996-01-11

申请人： Robert Wilson Cornell ,  George Keith Parish ,  Lawrence Russell Steward ,  David Steven Waldrop

发明人： Robert Wilson Cornell ,  George Keith Parish ,  Lawrence Russell Steward ,  David Steven Waldrop

IPC分类号： B41J3/54 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/045 ,  B41J2/05 ,  B41J2/055 ,  B41J29/38 ,  G01D15/10

CPC分类号： B41J2/04541 ,  B41J2/04543 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/04581

摘要： An ink jet printing apparatus includes a printhead controller including a printhead driver circuit having a set of ink jet nozzle control outputs and a printhead select circuit having a plurality of printhead select outputs. A plurality of printheads are provided, wherein each printhead includes a plurality of ink jet nozzles, a plurality of individually controllable ink jet nozzle firing circuits, and a printhead enable circuit, wherein the printhead enable circuit is electrically coupled between the plurality of individually controllable ink jet nozzle firing circuits and the set of ink jet nozzle control outputs, and wherein the printhead enable circuit is electrically coupled to one of the plurality of printhead select outputs and enables the electrical conduction of the plurality of controllable ink jet nozzle firing circuits upon receipt of a printhead select signal from one of the printhead select outputs of the printhead select circuits.

摘要翻译： 喷墨打印设备包括打印头控制器，其包括具有一组喷墨喷嘴控制输出的打印头驱动器电路和具有多个打印头选择输出的打印头选择电路。 提供了多个打印头，其中每个打印头包括多个喷墨喷嘴，多个可单独控制的喷墨喷嘴启动电路和打印头使能电路，其中打印头使能电路电耦合在多个独立控制的墨水 喷嘴喷嘴启动电路和一组喷墨喷嘴控制输出，并且其中打印头使能电路电耦合到多个打印头选择输出中的一个，并且能够在接收到多个可喷墨喷嘴喷射点火回路 来自打印头选择电路的打印头选择输出之一的打印头选择信号。

公开(公告)号：US06637866B1

公开(公告)日：2003-10-28

申请号：US10165534

申请日：2002-06-07

申请人： Robert Wilson Cornell ,  George Keith Parish ,  James Harold Powers

发明人： Robert Wilson Cornell ,  George Keith Parish ,  James Harold Powers

IPC分类号： B41J205

CPC分类号： B41J2/14129 ,  B41J2202/03

摘要： The present invention is directed toward an improved heater chip for an ink jet printer. The heater chip has a diamond-like-carbon coating that functions as the cavitation and passivation layers of the heating elements on the heater chip. To improve the efficiency of the heater chip, the diamond-like-carbon coating is surrounded by a material that has a lower thermal conductivity than diamond. This surrounding layer limits thermal diffusion from the heating elements into the heater chip. A smoothing layer of tantalum is deposited over the diamond-like-carbon layer to insure that vaporization of the ink occurs at the ink's superheat limit. The diamond-like-carbon layer is preferably less than 8700 Angstroms in thickness such that less than 1 microjoule of energy is required to expel of ink droplet having a mass between 2-4 nanograms.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于喷墨打印机的改进的加热器芯片。 加热器芯片具有类金刚石碳涂层，其用作加热器芯片上的加热元件的空化和钝化层。 为了提高加热器芯片的效率，类金刚石碳涂层被具有比金刚石更低的热导率的材料包围。 该周围层限制从加热元件到加热器芯片的热扩散。 在金刚石碳层上沉积钽的平滑层，以确保油墨在油墨的过热极限下发生蒸发。 金刚石碳层的厚度优选小于8700埃，使得需要少于1微焦的能量来排出质量在2-4纳克之间的墨滴。

公开(公告)号：US06962399B2

公开(公告)日：2005-11-08

申请号：US10335221

申请日：2002-12-30

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  George Keith Parish ,  Timothy Strunk ,  John Dennis Zbrozek

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  George Keith Parish ,  Timothy Strunk ,  John Dennis Zbrozek

IPC分类号： B41J2/175 ,  B41J29/38

CPC分类号： B41J2/17566 ,  B41J2002/17589

摘要： A method informs a user of an ink jet printer of the end of life of a consumable. The consumable supplies ink to a printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles and an associated plurality of ink jetting actuators, each of the plurality of ink jetting actuators being addressable. The printhead includes a plurality of address lines for facilitating selection of one or more of the plurality of ink jetting actuators. The method includes the steps of defining a notice threshold that is associated with a corresponding amount of ink remaining in the consumable; providing control logic for selectively controlling the plurality of address lines; determining whether the amount of ink remaining in the consumable has reached the notice threshold; and upon reaching the notice threshold, reducing an image density of images formed by the printhead by selectively disabling at least one of the plurality of address lines.

摘要翻译： 一种使消费者寿命终止的喷墨打印机的使用方法。 消耗品向具有多个喷墨嘴的打印头和相关联的多个喷墨致动器供应墨水，多个喷墨致动器中的每一个可寻址。 打印头包括多个地址线，以便于选择多个喷墨致动器中的一个或多个。 该方法包括以下步骤：定义与剩余在消耗品中的相应量的墨水相关联的通知阈值; 提供用于选择性地控制所述多个地址线的控制逻辑; 确定消耗品中剩余的墨水量是否已经达到通知阈值; 并且在达到通知阈值时，通过选择性地禁用所述多个地址线中的至少一个来减少由所述打印头形成的图像的图像浓度。

公开(公告)号：US06588872B2

公开(公告)日：2003-07-08

申请号：US09827805

申请日：2001-04-06

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  William Paul Cook ,  George Keith Parish ,  Susan Marie Zearfoss

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  William Paul Cook ,  George Keith Parish ,  Susan Marie Zearfoss

IPC分类号： B41J207

CPC分类号： B41J2/04505 ,  B41J2/04573 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2202/17

摘要： A system is described for compensating for misalignments in an ink jet printer having an ink jet print head cartridge that includes a heater chip. The system includes determining alignment adjustment information related to the misalignments in the ink jet printer, loading the alignment adjustment information into a volatile memory device on the heater chip, and accessing the alignment adjustment information from the volatile memory device. The system also includes generating nozzle control signals based at least in part on the alignment adjustment information. The nozzle control signals are selectively provided to resistive heating elements in the heater chip, thereby heating ink in ink chambers adjacent the heating elements and ejecting ink droplets toward a print medium. The timing of the nozzle control signals is adjusted based upon the amount of misalignment in the various components of the printer and print head. The timing adjustments are applied to groups of nozzles so that dots printed by one group are substantially vertically aligned with dots printed by another group, thereby reducing the amount of perceptible skew in the printed output.

公开(公告)号：US06565176B2

公开(公告)日：2003-05-20

申请号：US09865881

申请日：2001-05-25

申请人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  Thomas Austin Fields ,  Paul William Graf ,  Yimin Guan ,  George Keith Parish ,  Kent Lee Ubellacker

发明人： Frank Edward Anderson ,  Thomas Austin Fields ,  Paul William Graf ,  Yimin Guan ,  George Keith Parish ,  Kent Lee Ubellacker

IPC分类号： B41J2938

CPC分类号： B41J2/04506 ,  B41J2/04536 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/04591

摘要： A thermal ink jet printing apparatus maintains stable printing output as certain characteristics of the apparatus change over its operational lifetime. The apparatus includes an ink jet print head with resistive heating elements for receiving electrical energy pulses having a voltage level and for transferring heat energy pulses having a desired energy level into adjacent ink based on the electrical energy pulses. The print head includes nozzles associated with the resistive heating elements through which droplets of the ink are ejected when the heat energy pulses are transferred into the ink. The apparatus further includes a printer controller in electrical communication with the print head. The printer controller determines a pulse count indicative of a number of electrical energy pulses, applies the electrical energy pulses having a first pulse width to the resistive heating elements when the pulse count is less than a threshold value, and applies the electrical energy pulses having an adjusted pulse width to the resistive heating elements when the pulse count exceeds the threshold value. The difference in the first and the adjusted pulse widths compensates for changes in the electrical resistance of the resistive heating elements over time.

摘要翻译： 热喷墨打印设备保持稳定的打印输出，因为设备的某些特性在其使用寿命内改变。 该装置包括具有电阻加热元件的喷墨打印头，用于接收具有电压电平的电能脉冲，并且用于基于电能脉冲将具有期望能级的热能脉冲传送到相邻墨中。 打印头包括与电阻加热元件相关联的喷嘴，当热能脉冲被转移到油墨中时，通过该喷嘴喷射墨滴。 该装置还包括与打印头电连通的打印机控制器。 打印机控制器确定指示电能脉冲数的脉冲计数，当脉冲数小于阈值时，将具有第一脉冲宽度的电能脉冲施加到电阻加热元件，并施加具有 当脉冲计数超过阈值时，调整脉冲宽度到电阻加热元件。 第一和调整后的脉冲宽度的差异补偿电阻加热元件的电阻随时间的变化。