摘要:
A thermal ink jet printer is disclosed in which ink droplets are ejected from an orifice by the explosive formation of a vapor bubble within the ink supply due to the application of a two part electrical pulse to a resistor within the ink supply. The electrical pulse comprises a precurser pulse and a nucleation pulse; the precurser pulse preheats the ink in the vicinity of the resistor to a temperature below the boiling temperature of the ink so as to preheat the ink while avoiding vapor bubble nucleation within the ink supply and the subsequently occuring nucleation pulse very quickly heats the resistor to near the superheat limit of the ink.
摘要:
A thermal inkjet printer is operated in a spray-mode by deliberately firing ink droplets from a printhead while the meniscus of the remaining ink in the printhead is settling down. Generally, the drops will not travel in a direction perpendicular to the printing surface. By calibrating the printhead, one can determine how many drops are needed to be fired within the boundaries of a pixel to achieve any given optical density. Drops may be fired at rates above 50 kHz, and, depending on the ink, above 70 kHz. Ink with a viscosity of 10 centi-Poise or less, and even 2 centi-Poise or less, may be used. When one is printing both text and non-text images on the same surface, a digital representation of an image to be printed is analyzed and divided into non-text image fields and text fields. Each non-text image field is printed on the printing surface by projecting the corresponding ink droplets in the spray-mode. Each text field is printed on the printing surface in a text-mode, in which the firing rate is typically reduced to 5-10 kHz and the corresponding ink droplets are projected substantially perpendicular to the printing surface.
摘要:
A circuit and method are provided to compensate for the non-linear delay characteristics of a digital audio system introduced by the systems anti-aliasing filter. The circuit and method provide for introducing time delay to the digital system at the low and mid range frequencies, and adding decreasing amounts of time delay at the high frequency ranges to produce an overall composite time delay for the digital system which is relatively constant over its operating frequency range. The delay equalizer used to achieve such delay compensation is made up of active delay equalizer sections which are non-interactive, and which are independently tunable in terms of each sections center frequency and Q. An active delay equalizer section with a second order bandpass transfer functions has been devised to achieve this capability. It is comprised of an operational amplifier having input resistance and feedback resistance connected to its inverting input and a twin-T network connected in its non-inverting input. The twin-T is a driven twin-T for variable Q, and provides a delay equalizer wherein the time delay of each section can readily be tailored to the designers requirements.
摘要:
An acoustical horn speaker for producing low distortion sound comprised of a casing assembly having a voice coil gap and a magnetic source and return circuit for providing a constant magnetic field across the gap, a current-carrying voice coil disposed in said gap, and a voice diaphragm in rigid attachment with the voice coil, said voice diaphragm being suspended from the casing assembly by a relatively flexible, high compliance suspension member. An acoustical horn having a throat resistance sufficiently high to substantially dominate the radiation resistance of the diaphragm is air coupled at its throat end to the voice diaphragm suspended from said casing, while the compliance of the voice diaphragm suspension is relatively high such that in the presence of the dominating throat resistance of the horn the diaphragm vibratory movement is characterized by substantially force determinative excursions as opposed to substantially linear constant displacement excursions.A method of producing low distortion sound in a horn type speaker comprising the step of driving the speaker's diaphragm in a vibratory movement characterized by substantially force determinative excursions as opposed to substantially linear constant displacement excursions.
摘要:
An acoustically absorptive panel comprises a porous acoustical absorber having a planar configuration mounted on a support frame, an acoustically transparent front fabric stretch-mounted on the support frame and spaced from and in parallel alignment with the front face of the porous acoustical absorber and forming an airspace, the porous absorber, front fabric and forward air space acting as acoustical absorbing chamber capable of absorbing a greater range of sound frequencies than the porous acoustical absorber alone, the range of frequencies absorbed depending on the depth of the air space.
摘要:
An acoustically absorptive panel comprises a porous acoustical absorber having a planar configuration mounted on a support frame, an acoustically transparent front fabric stretch-mounted on the support frame and spaced from and in parallel alignment with the front face of the porous acoustical absorber and forming an airspace, the porous absorber, front fabric and forward air space acting as acoustical absorbing chamber capable of absorbing a greater range of sound frequencies than the porous acoustical absorber alone, the range of frequencies absorbed depending on the depth of the air space.