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：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：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：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：US07083266B2

公开(公告)日：2006-08-01

申请号：US10284066

申请日：2002-10-30

申请人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  John Douglas Anderson ,  Stephen Andrew Budelsky ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Randall David Mayo ,  George Keith Parish ,  Kristi Maggard Rowe ,  David Craig Stevenson

发明人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  John Douglas Anderson ,  Stephen Andrew Budelsky ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Randall David Mayo ,  George Keith Parish ,  Kristi Maggard Rowe ,  David Craig Stevenson

IPC分类号： B41J2/005

CPC分类号： B41J2/211

摘要： A micro-miniature fluid ejecting device. The fluid ejecting device includes a semiconductor substrate having fluid ejectors formed on a surface of the substrate. A flexible circuit is fixedly attached to the semiconductor substrate. The flexible circuit has power contacts for providing power to the fluid ejectors. At least one drive circuit is connected to the fluid ejectors. The drive circuit is disposed on one of the semiconductor substrate and the flexible circuit. A fluid sequencer is connected to the drive circuit for selectively activating the fluid ejectors. The fluid sequencer is also disposed on one of the semiconductor substrate and the flexible circuit. The semiconductor substrate is attached to a housing. A fluid source is provided for supplying fluid to the semiconductor substrate for ejection by the fluid ejectors. The fluid ejecting device provides low cost construction for application specific miniature fluid jetting devices.

摘要翻译： 微型流体喷射装置。 流体喷射装置包括在基板的表面上形成有流体喷射器的半导体基板。 柔性电路固定在半导体衬底上。 柔性电路具有用于向流体喷射器供电的电源触头。 至少一个驱动电路连接到流体喷射器。 驱动电路设置在半导体衬底和柔性电路之一上。 流体定序器连接到驱动电路以选择性地启动流体喷射器。 液体定序器也设置在半导体衬底和柔性电路之一上。 半导体衬底附接到壳体。 提供流体源，用于将流体供应到半导体衬底以由流体喷射器喷射。 流体喷射装置为特定应用的微型流体喷射装置提供低成本的结构。

公开(公告)号：US6102515A

公开(公告)日：2000-08-15

申请号：US827404

申请日：1997-03-27

申请人： Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Bruce David Gibson ,  George Keith Parish

发明人： Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Bruce David Gibson ,  George Keith Parish

IPC分类号： B41J2/05 ,  B41J29/38

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

摘要： The invention is directed to an ink jet printer including a printhead and a printhead driver. The printhead includes a substrate, a nozzle plate having a plurality of ink emitting orifices, a plurality of jetting heaters on the substrate and respectively associated with the plurality of ink emitting orifices, and at least one substrate heater associated with the substrate. Each of the jetting heaters and the substrate heaters include first and second terminals. The printhead driver has a plurality of energizable outputs including at least one power line output and at least two enable line outputs. One power line output is electrically connected to a first terminal of each of a jetting heater and a substrate heater. Two of the enable line outputs are coupled to a second terminal of the jetting heater and a second terminal of the substrate heater. During energizing of the one power line output, the jetting heater and the substrate heater may be selectively actuated by selectively energizing the two enable line outputs.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种包括打印头和打印头驱动器的喷墨打印机。 打印头包括基板，具有多个喷墨孔的喷嘴板，在基板上的多个喷射加热器，并分别与多个喷墨孔相关联，以及至少一个与该基板相关的基板加热器。 每个喷射加热器和基板加热器包括第一和第二端子。 打印头驱动器具有多个可激励输出，包括至少一个电力线输出和至少两个使能线输出。 一个电力线输出电连接到每个喷射加热器和基板加热器的第一端子。 两个使能线路输出耦合到喷射加热器的第二端子和基板加热器的第二端子。 在激励一条电力线输出时，可以通过选择性地激励两个使能线路输出来选择性地致动喷射加热器和基板加热器。

公开(公告)号：US20090040257A1

公开(公告)日：2009-02-12

申请号：US11834177

申请日：2007-08-06

申请人： Steven Wayne Bergstedt ,  Prabuddha Jyotindra Mehta ,  George Keith Parish

发明人： Steven Wayne Bergstedt ,  Prabuddha Jyotindra Mehta ,  George Keith Parish

IPC分类号： B41J29/38

CPC分类号： B41J2/1408 ,  B41J2/04528 ,  B41J2/04531 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/04596

摘要： A thermal inkjet apparatus includes a printhead body, nozzles, ink cavities and ink supply lines. Heater resistors are in the cavities and a firing circuit is connected to provide firing pulses to the heater resistor and nucleate the ink so that it fires ink out of the nozzles. Each heater resistor is also connected to a warming circuit that supplies warming pulses, one warming pulse during each firing cycle, to warm the heater resistors but not nucleate the ink. The warming circuit includes current limiting ballast resistors to limit the current through the healer resistors and thereby prevent the warming pulse from nucleating the ink. Warming pulses and firing pulses are not generated during the same firing cycle for a particular heater resistor. One or more thermal sensors are disposed on the printhead body to sense the temperature and a control circuit responds to the sensors to generate warming pulses having desired widths to provide a desired level of warming. By wide range pulse width modulation of the warming pulse, the warming effect of the warming pulse may be increased or decreased as desired. Also the warming pulse may be completely eliminated, such as by pulse width modulating the pulse to have a zero duration.

摘要翻译： 热喷墨设备包括打印头主体，喷嘴，墨腔和供墨管线。 加热电阻器位于空腔中，并且连接点火电路以向加热器电阻器提供点火脉冲并使墨水成核，从而使墨水从喷嘴中点燃。 每个加热电阻器还连接到加热电路，其提供加热脉冲，每个点火周期中的加温脉冲，以加热加热器电阻器，但不使墨水成核。 升温回路包括电流限制镇流电阻器，以限制通过愈合电阻器的电流，从而防止加温脉冲使墨水成核。 对于特定的加热电阻器，在相同的点火周期内不会产生变温脉冲和点火脉冲。 一个或多个热传感器设置在打印头主体上以感测温度，并且控制电路响应于传感器以产生具有期望宽度的加温脉冲以提供期望的升温水平。 通过加温脉冲的宽范围脉宽调制，可根据需要增加或减少加温脉冲的加温效果。 此外，可以完全消除升温脉冲，例如通过脉冲宽度调制脉冲以具有零持续时间。

公开(公告)号：US07014299B2

公开(公告)日：2006-03-21

申请号：US10946680

申请日：2004-09-22

申请人： George Keith Parish ,  Kristi Maggard Rowe

发明人： George Keith Parish ,  Kristi Maggard Rowe

IPC分类号： B41J2/05 ,  B41J2/175

CPC分类号： B41J2/145 ,  B41J2/1404 ,  B41J2/14145

摘要： An inkjet printhead heater chip has an ink via asymmetrically arranged in a reciprocating direction of inkjet printhead movement. The ink via has two sides and a longitudinal extent substantially parallel to a print medium advance direction. A column of fluid firing elements exists exclusively along a single side of the two sides. The heater chip and ink via each have a centroid and neither resides coincidentally with one another. Preferably, the heater chip centroid resides externally to a boundary of the ink via. In other aspects, the column of fluid firing elements can be a sole column or plural and may be centered in the reciprocating direction. The ink via can be a sole via or plural. The heater chip can be rectangular and the ink vias can be closer to either the long or short ends thereof. Inkjet printers for housing the printheads are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US06976752B2

公开(公告)日：2005-12-20

申请号：US10694697

申请日：2003-10-28

申请人： George Keith Parish ,  Kristi Maggard Rowe ,  John Glenn Edelen

发明人： George Keith Parish ,  Kristi Maggard Rowe ,  John Glenn Edelen

IPC分类号： B41J2/05

CPC分类号： B41J2/04538 ,  B41J2/0457 ,  B41J2/0458

摘要： An ink jet printer includes a printhead control circuit that produces printhead command signals based on data signals provided by the printer. A power circuit actuates ink ejectors in response to the printhead command signals and includes a plurality of compensation circuits. Each ink ejector is associated with a single compensation circuit and each compensation circuit includes a number of switches connected in parallel with each other. Each switch in a single compensation circuit is connected to actuate a single ink ejector when the switch is turned on. The compensation circuits adjust their internal resistance by turning on more or less switches and thereby compensate for changing effective parasitic resistance of the power lines.

摘要翻译： 喷墨打印机包括基于由打印机提供的数据信号产生打印头命令信号的打印头控制电路。 电源电路响应于打印头命令信号来致动墨水喷射器并且包括多个补偿电路。 每个喷墨器与单个补偿电路相关联，并且每个补偿电路包括彼此并联连接的多个开关。 当开关打开时，单个补偿电路中的每个开关连接以致动单个墨水喷射器。 补偿电路通过打开或多或少的开关来调整其内部电阻，从而补偿电源线的有效寄生电阻的变化。