摘要:
A fuser for fixing particulate imaging material to a receiver sheet, including a fuser roller and a pressure roller in contact with the fuser roller which engage each other at a fixing nip, wherein pressure is used in fixing the particulate imaging material to the receiver sheet; a supply of offset preventing oil with such offset preventing oil being adapted to react with the zirconia ceramic or its composites to prevent offset of the particulate imaging material; a metering roller in contact with the supply of offset preventing oil for wicking such offset preventing oil onto the surface of the metering roller. The method further includes a donor roller in contact with the metering roller and the fuser roller for receiving offset preventing oil from the metering roller and applying it to the surface of the fuser roller; and one of the rollers forming the fixing nip having a surface formed from zirconia ceramic or its composites which has a hardness greater than 12 GPa and toughness greater than 6 MPa.sqroot.mm.
摘要:
Apparatus for drying receiver sheets prior to such receiver sheets receiving electrophotographic images, including at least one set of preconditioning rotatable rollers with each preconditioning rotatable roller in the set touching an opposing preconditioning rotatable roller to form a nip, wherein at least one of the preconditioning rotatable rollers in the set is formed from zirconia ceramic or zirconia composite; and the apparatus heating at least one of the surfaces of the preconditioning rollers of the set to dry receiver sheets as each passes through the nip.
摘要:
Methods are described to make strong, tough, and lightweight whisker-reinforced glass-ceramic composites through a self-toughening structure generated by viscous reaction sintering of a complex mixture of oxides. The present invention further relates to strong, tough, and lightweight glass-ceramic composites that can be used as proppants and for other uses.
摘要:
A method of making an injection molded article having a marbled appearance, including the steps of: mixing at a temperature of at least 100 degrees ° C. polymeric materials having a thermal conductivity in the range of 0.001 to 0.01 cal/cm-sec-° C. wherein the polymeric materials are selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polystyrene, polyester, and polycarbonate or combinations thereof, and one or more materials selected from the group consisting of ceramics, ceramic composites, metals and metal alloys in a blended relationship to form a viscous phase mixture, the materials in the viscous phase mixture being selected so that when in a solid phase it has a density greater than 4 grams/cc and a thermal conductivity greater than 0.101 cal/cm-sec-° C. to form a feedstock; cooling the blended viscous phase mixture to form the feedstock; and using the feedstock in an injection molding machine having a zero compression screw to form the article.
摘要:
An image producing material which when deposited on a receiver produces an image comprised of nanoparticles selected to have an average diameter of less than 500 nm and arranged so as to be effective in two states, in a first state it aggregates and will not flow through an ink jet printer nozzle and in a second state when subject to a force is flowable so as to be deposited on the receiver, such nanoparticles being bound to each other by Van der Waals forces in the first state and after deposition on the reciever.
摘要:
Ink jet cartridge for an ink jet printer including an orifice plate having a plurality of orifices for ink ejection; a cartridge for receiving a reservoir having ink which is adapted to be ejected through the orifices, the cartridge including a cleaning manifold having a plurality of inlet and outlet passages through which cleaning fluid can be applied so that such fluid is directed across the surface of the orifice plate; and a plurality of actuable ultrasonic transducers disposed in operative relationship with respect to the orifice plate and which when actuated produce ultrasonic sound waves which impinge upon the orifice plate to loosen debris whereby the cleaning fluid directed across the surface of the orifice plate carries away such loosened debris.
摘要:
An ink jet head has body having a plurality of independent ink compartments each having an inlet orifice, an outlet orifice and a piezoelectric ink actuating element structurally associated with each of said independent ink compartments, said piezoelectric ink actuating element enabling said ink jet head to receive ink from an ink reservoir in fluid communications with said inlet orifice of each one of said plurality of independent ink compartments and then eject droplets of the ink onto a receiver to form an image. The piezoelectric actuating element includes a substantially planar piezoelectric transducer comprising a slab of piezoelectric material having a functionally gradient d-coefficient selected so that the slab changes geometry in response to an applied voltage which produces an electric field in the slab.
摘要:
A method for injection molding fine particulate ceramic ferroelectric materials to form an article such as ink jet printhead includes the steps of spray drying fine particulate ceramic ferroelectric material to form agglomerate material; mixing the spray dried fine particulate ceramic ferroelectric agglomerate material with a binder system including materials selected from the group consisting of wax having wax components of different molecular weight, magnesium-X silicate, agaroid gel forming material, and agaroid gel forming material mixed with magnesium-X silicate to form a compounded material; injecting the compounded material at a selected pressure into a mold to form a green article; debinding or drying the green article; sintering the debinded or dried green article to form the final molded article; poling the final molded article to align the electrical dipoles within the piezoelectric material; forming a coating of conductive material over the top and bottom surfaces of the final molded article and then cutting grooves through conductive coating into the top surface in the valleys of the final molded article to form a channel member; and providing an orifice plate over top surface of the channel member and a substrate over the bottom surface of the channel member.
摘要:
A web transport apparatus (10) useful for transporting web (16), such as photosensitive strips or sheets, in a corrosive materials environment has first and second rollers (12, 14) each having a sleeve portion (26, 36) with bushings (28, 38) and intermeshing gears (30, 40) arranged thereon. The sleeve portions (26, 36), gears (30, 40) and bushings (28, 38) each comprise a ceramic material that resist wear, abrasion and corrosion when exposed to the corrosive materials.
摘要:
A method of making a printhead includes forming a channel member by providing a mold having a top portion having peaks and valleys and by tape casting a slurry of piezoelectric material into the mold and onto the peaks and valleys of the top portion of the mold to form a tape cast member having a bottom surface with peaks and valleys and a flat top surface and removing the tape cast member. After removing the tape cast member, the top surface of the tape cast member is embossed so as to provide peaks and valleys in opposite sides of the tape cast member wherein the valleys in the top surface are disposed in an offset relationship to the peaks in the bottom surface. Thereafter, the embossed tape cast member is poled to align the electrical dipoles within the piezoelectric material; and a coating of conductive material is formed over the top and bottom surfaces of the tape cast member and then cutting grooves through conductive coating into the top surface in the valleys of the tape cast member to form a channel member. Finally, an orifice plate is provided over top surface of the channel member and a substrate over the bottom surface of the channel member.