Electrostatic color printing systems and methods using modulated ion
streams
    1.
    发明授权
    Electrostatic color printing systems and methods using modulated ion streams 失效
    静电彩色印刷系统和使用调制离子流的方法

    公开(公告)号:US4181423A

    公开(公告)日:1980-01-01

    申请号:US739403

    申请日:1976-11-08

    IPC分类号: G03G15/01 G03G15/05 G03G15/00

    摘要: The invention basically comprises systems and methods relating to the field of electrostatics and is concerned with multicolor electrostatic reproduction, printing or constituting on coated and uncoated print receiving media with multilayer apertured elements or screens carrying charge distributions in accordance with selected color separation patterns. Ions accelerated through the apertures of the multilayer element pass therethrough under modulation control dictated by the color separation pattern, thereby forming a modulated ion stream having a cross-sectional density pattern corresponding to the color separation pattern. Electrostatic latent images are formed with modulated ion streams and are developed in various ways.

    摘要翻译: 本发明基本上包括与静电领域相关的系统和方法,涉及多色静电复制,印刷或构成具有多层有孔元件的涂覆和未涂覆的印刷接收介质,或者根据所选择的颜色分离图案携带电荷分布的屏幕。 通过多色元件的孔加速的离子通过由颜色分离图案决定的调制控制,从而形成具有对应于颜色分离图案的横截面密度图案的调制离子流。 静电潜像用调制的离子流形成,并以各种方式开发。

    Electrostatic color printing systems using modulated ion streams
    2.
    发明授权
    Electrostatic color printing systems using modulated ion streams 失效
    使用调制离子流的静电彩色印刷系统

    公开(公告)号:US4006983A

    公开(公告)日:1977-02-08

    申请号:US410743

    申请日:1973-10-29

    IPC分类号: G03G5/00 G03G15/01 G03G15/05

    摘要: The invention basically comprises systems and methods relating to the field of electrostatics and is concerned with multicolor electrostatic reproduction, printing or constituting on coated and uncoated print receiving media with multilayer apertured elements or screens carrying charge distributions in accordance with selected color separation patterns. Ions accelerated through the apertures of the multilayer element pass therethrough under modulation control dictated by the color separation pattern, thereby forming a modulated ion stream having a cross-sectional density pattern corresponding to the color separation pattern. Electrostatic latent images are formed with modulated ion streams and are developed in various ways.

    摘要翻译: 本发明基本上包括与静电领域相关的系统和方法,涉及多色静电复制,印刷或构成具有多层有孔元件的涂覆和未涂覆的印刷接收介质,或者根据所选择的颜色分离图案携带电荷分布的屏幕。 通过多色元件的孔加速的离子通过由颜色分离图案决定的调制控制,从而形成具有对应于颜色分离图案的横截面密度图案的调制离子流。 静电潜像用调制的离子流形成,并以各种方式开发。

    Method and apparatus for controlling the gray scale response of a
multilayer image forming screen
    3.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for controlling the gray scale response of a multilayer image forming screen 失效
    用于控制多层图像形成屏幕的灰度响应的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4158564A

    公开(公告)日:1979-06-19

    申请号:US868098

    申请日:1978-01-03

    IPC分类号: G03G15/05 G03G13/048

    CPC分类号: G03G15/051

    摘要: An electrostatic latent image is impressed on a multilayer apertured screen to establish within the apertures electric fields that modulate the passage of charged particles through the screens so that the charged particles are distributed in correspondence with the image. After imaging the screen is operated to control the gray scale response thereof in order to optimize copy quality. The gray scale screen response is expanded by applying a bias voltage of at least two different values to the screen during the duplication interval. The response is limited by altering the latent image charge to provide a high density cutoff and by applying a bias voltage to establish a low density cutoff during the duplication interval. Copy quality is further improved by adjusting the integrated charged particle current to establish the desired degree of density in regions of the copy image corresponding to high density regions of the original image.

    摘要翻译: 将静电潜像施加在多层开孔屏幕上,以在孔内建立电场,该电场调节带电粒子通过筛网的通过,使得带电粒子与图像对应地分布。 在成像之后,操作屏幕以控制其灰度响应,以便优化复印质量。 通过在重复间隔期间向屏幕施加至少两个不同值的偏置电压来扩展灰度屏幕响应。 通过改变潜像电荷以提供高密度截止并通过施加偏置电压以在重复间隔期间建立低密度截止来限制响应。 通过调整积分的带电粒子电流以在与原始图像的高密度区域对应的复制图像的区域中建立期望的密度程度,进一步提高了复印质量。

    Method of charging a multilayered apertured element in an electrostatic
imaging process
    4.
    发明授权
    Method of charging a multilayered apertured element in an electrostatic imaging process 失效
    在静电成像过程中对多层有孔元件进行充电的方法

    公开(公告)号:US4318002A

    公开(公告)日:1982-03-02

    申请号:US70075

    申请日:1979-08-27

    摘要: The invention basically comprises systems and methods relating to the field of electrostatics and is concerned with multicolor electrostatic reproduction, printing or constituting on coated and uncoated print receiving media with multilayer apertured elements or screens carrying charge distributions in accordance with selected color separation patterns. Ions accelerated through the apertures of the multilayer element pass therethrough under modulation control dictated by the color separation pattern, thereby forming a modulated ion stream having a cross-sectional density pattern corresponding to the color separation pattern. Electrostatic latent images are formed with modulated ion streams and are developed in various ways. In one embodiment, a modulated ion stream is accelerated by an electrostatic field through a mist of uncharged liquid toner particles which are charged by collision with the ions and then accelerated by the ion accelerated field toward and onto the print receiving medium, which may be ordinary uncoated paper. In another embodiment, the modulated ion pattern is projected onto a dielectric surface in the electrostatic accelerating field to form an undeveloped latent electrostatic color separation image thereupon. The dielectric surface may be a dielectric coating on the print receiving medium itself. In another embodiment, the dielectric surface may be formed on an intermediate transfer drum and the print receiving medium laid over the image on the drum and the image transferred and fixed to the print receiving medium with heat and pressure.

    摘要翻译: 本发明基本上包括与静电领域相关的系统和方法,涉及多色静电复制,印刷或构成具有多层有孔元件的涂覆和未涂覆的印刷接收介质,或者根据所选择的颜色分离图案携带电荷分布的屏幕。 通过多色元件的孔加速的离子通过由颜色分离图案决定的调制控制,从而形成具有对应于颜色分离图案的横截面密度图案的调制离子流。 静电潜像用调制的离子流形成,并以各种方式开发。 在一个实施例中,调制的离子流被静电场加速,通过与离子碰撞而被充电的不带电的液体调色剂颗粒的雾,然后通过离子加速磁场加速到打印接收介质上并可能是平常的 未涂布纸。 在另一个实施例中,将调制离子图案投影到静电加速场中的电介质表面上,以形成未显影的潜静电分色图像。 电介质表面可以是印刷接收介质本身上的电介质涂层。 在另一个实施例中,电介质表面可以形成在中间转印鼓上,并且打印接收介质放置在滚筒上的图像上,并且图像在热和压力下转印并固定到打印接收介质上。

    Electrostatic line printer
    5.
    发明授权
    Electrostatic line printer 失效
    静电线打印机

    公开(公告)号:US4016813A

    公开(公告)日:1977-04-12

    申请号:US542756

    申请日:1975-01-21

    摘要: An electrostatic line printing process employing multilayered particle modulator comprising a layer of insulating material on one side of the insulating layer and a segmented layer of conducting material on the other side of the insulating layer. At least one row of apertures is formed through the multilayered particle modulator. Each segment of the segmented layer of conductive material is formed around a portion of an aperture and is insulatively isolated from every other segment of the segmented conductive layer. Selected potentials are applied to each of the segments of the segmented conductive layer while a fixed potential is applied to the continuous conductive layer. An overall applied field projects charged particles through the row of apertures of the particle modulator and the density of the particle stream is modulated according to the pattern of potentials applied to the segments of the segmented conductive layer. The modulated stream of charged particles impinge upon a print-receiving medium interposed in the modulated particle stream and transplated relative to the particle modulator to provide line-by-line scan printing.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用多层粒子调制器的静电线印刷方法,其包括在绝缘层的一侧上的绝缘材料层和在绝缘层的另一侧上的分层的导电材料层。 通过多层粒子调制器形成至少一排孔。 导电材料的分段层的每个段围绕一个孔的一部分形成,并且与分段的导电层的每隔一个段绝缘隔离。 选择的电势被施加到分段导电层的每个段,而固定电位施加到连续导电层。 总体应用领域通过颗粒调制器的一排孔径投射带电粒子,并根据施加到分段导电层的段的电势图来调制颗粒物流的密度。 调制的带电粒子流撞击介于调制粒子流中的印刷接收介质,并相对于粒子调制器进行转移以提供逐行扫描印刷。

    Electrostatic print head
    8.
    发明授权
    Electrostatic print head 失效
    静电打印头

    公开(公告)号:US4338614A

    公开(公告)日:1982-07-06

    申请号:US87152

    申请日:1979-10-22

    IPC分类号: G03G15/32 G01D15/10

    CPC分类号: G03G15/323

    摘要: An improved electrostatic print head is disclosed comprising a corona source, an aperture mask, a slotted focus plane, and a back plane electrode for supporting a moving dielectric print medium. The aperture mask includes two rows of staggered circular apertures which are surrounded by individual aperture electrodes on the side of the mask facing away from the corona source. The side of the aperture mask facing the corona source has a continuous conductive layer thereon which is biased at a fixed potential. The aperture electrodes are selectively pulsed with a control potential to control the flow of ions from the corona source through the two staggered rows of apertures and the slotted focus plane to form any desired dot-matrix latent image on the moving dielectric print medium. The center line of the slotted focus plane is parallel to the center line between the two staggered rows of apertures to focus the ion beams defined by the individual apertures toward the center line of the slot while intensifying the electric field in the imaging region. The slotted focus plane also compresses the cross section of the ion beams defined by the individual apertures into ellipses having their minor axes parallel to the direction of motion of the dielectric print medium, permitting higher ion densities to be deposited on a moving dielectric print medium for a given final dot size and an improved resolution of the final dot-matrix image.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种改进的静电打印头,其包括电晕源,孔径掩模,开槽的聚焦平面和用于支撑移动的电介质印刷介质的背面电极。 孔径掩模包括两排交错的圆形孔,其由掩蔽物背离电晕源的一侧上的单个孔电极包围。 孔径掩模面对电晕源的一侧在其上具有被固定电位偏置的连续导电层。 孔径电极被选择性地以控制电位脉冲,以控制来自电晕源的离子通过两个交错排的行和开槽的聚焦平面的流动,以在移动介质打印介质上形成任何所需的点阵潜像。 开槽聚焦平面的中心线平行于两个交错排列之间的中心线,以将由各个孔限定的离子束朝向槽的中心线聚焦,同时增强成像区域中的电场。 开槽的聚焦平面还将由各个孔限定的离子束的横截面压缩成其短轴平行于电介质印刷介质的运动方向的椭圆形,允许较高的离子密度沉积在移动的电介质印刷介质上, 给定的最终点大小和最终点阵图像的改进的分辨率。

    Electrostatic modulator for control of flow of charged particles
    9.
    发明授权
    Electrostatic modulator for control of flow of charged particles 失效
    用于控制充电颗粒流动的静电调制器

    公开(公告)号:US4082448A

    公开(公告)日:1978-04-04

    申请号:US527101

    申请日:1974-11-25

    IPC分类号: G03G15/34 G03G15/052

    CPC分类号: G03G15/346

    摘要: A system for controlling the flow of charged particles and for modulated aperture electrostatic printing. An apertured screen having substantially the entire surfaces formed of a dielectric material is charged with like charges over substantially all of its surfaces to develop fringing fields in the apertures. The charge distributed across one side of the screen is selectively dissipated in accordance with the pattern to be reproduced, thereby modifying the fringing fields to form an electrostatic latent image for controlling a flow of charged particles directed to the screen. The screen is initially pre-image charged to carry a higher potential V.sub.A on one face than on the other V.sub.B to provide a potential difference V.sub.A - V.sub.B through the screen apertures. This is accomplished by constructing the screen to have a lower insulator capacitance on side A than on side B; or, to have a greater insulator resistance on side A than on side B; or by selecting the insulator material on side B to have a non-linear resistance characteristic at all voltage levels above the desired value for V.sub.B ; or, to have combinations of two or more of such characteristics. The pre-image charge is modified in accordance with an image to be reproduced, and, in some regions of the screen V.sub.A is reduced to less than V.sub.B. Full modulation control of particle flow is thereby possible with a single selective charge dissipation.

    Concealed pattern detection game
    10.
    发明授权
    Concealed pattern detection game 失效
    隐藏模式检测游戏

    公开(公告)号:US4103895A

    公开(公告)日:1978-08-01

    申请号:US668376

    申请日:1976-03-19

    IPC分类号: A63F3/00 A63F9/00 A63F9/06

    摘要: A game or test of skill which is comprised of three principal components: a playing surface that either conceals or suggests a secret pattern of paths, a probe for selecting points on the playing surface, and an indicator that reveals whether a selected point belongs on the pattern of paths. In a preferred form of the game the playing surface is a small card on which is marked a grid that indicates the possible positions and orientations of the concealed paths in the pattern. A start point is indicated on the grid; the player places a hand-held pencil-like probe at the start point and tries to find a continuous path from the start point to the end point. The probe leaves no mark on the card, but the player is aided by the indicator which provides a signal when the probe is on-path--the signal ceases abruptly if the probe is moved off-path. The end-point is reached when the probe arrives at a designated end-point line of the grid without an off-path indication, or a separate end-point signal (for example, a bell) can sound when the end-point is reached. The object of the game is to traverse the grid from start to end without once leaving a pattern path, and to do this in the fewest possible attempts.

    摘要翻译: 由三个主要部分组成的游戏或技能测试:隐藏或暗示路径的秘密模式的游戏表面,用于选择玩家表面上的点的探针以及显示所选点是否属于的指示符 路径图案。 在游戏的优选形式中,游戏表面是小卡,其上标有网格,指示图案中隐藏路径的可能位置和方位。 起始点在网格上指示; 玩家在起始点放置手持铅笔的探头,并试图找到从起点到终点的连续路径。 探头在卡上没有标记,但是当探头在路径上提供信号时,该指示器将辅助播放器 - 如果探头离开路径,信号会突然停止。 当探头到达网格的指定终点线时,终点到达,而没有偏离指示,或者当达到终点时,可以发出单独的终点信号(例如铃声) 。 游戏的目标是从头到尾遍历网格,而不用一次离开模式路径,并尽可能少地尝试这样做。