Cleaning fluid apparatus and method for continuous printing ink-jet
nozzle
    1.
    发明授权
    Cleaning fluid apparatus and method for continuous printing ink-jet nozzle 失效
    清洁液装置及连续喷墨喷嘴的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5877788A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-02

    申请号:US437926

    申请日:1995-05-09

    IPC分类号: B41J2/165 B41J2/015

    CPC分类号: B41J2/16552 B41J2/185

    摘要: A fluid (liquid or water) wash is used to clean the front surface of an ink jet printer cartridge. In addition, a nozzle plate that overlies the nozzle shields the nozzle array from the splatter of ink. In ink jet printers, ink droplets are propelled from an array of orifices in a nozzle plate in the printer head. During the ink droplet ejection, ink is sprayed or deposited around the orifices. The ink droplets are deposited on a paper web adjacent the nozzle and mist from the droplets drifts back to coat the face of the nozzle plate. Some ink seeps behind the nozzle plate onto the array of nozzle orifices. The ink coating attracts particles that tend to clog the nozzle orifices. The ink coating is washed away by fluid streams that flow over the nozzle surface and in some embodiments flow over the nozzle orifices themselves. The fluid may be water, ink or other liquid that is channelled across the nozzle surface, or the fluid may be an air stream that blows across the nozzle surface.

    摘要翻译: 液体(液体或水)洗涤液用于清洁喷墨打印机墨盒的前表面。 此外,覆盖喷嘴的喷嘴板将喷嘴阵列与油墨喷溅屏蔽。 在喷墨打印机中,墨滴从打印头中的喷嘴板中的孔阵列推出。 在墨滴喷射期间,墨水喷射或沉积在孔口周围。 墨滴沉积在与喷嘴相邻的纸幅上,并且来自液滴的雾沫回流以涂覆喷嘴板的表面。 喷嘴板后面有一些油墨渗透到喷嘴孔阵列上。 油墨涂层吸引容易堵塞喷嘴孔的颗粒。 油墨涂层被流过喷嘴表面的流体流除去,并且在一些实施例中流过喷嘴孔自身。 流体可以是穿过喷嘴表面的水,油墨或其它液体,或者流体可以是吹过喷嘴表面的空气流。

    Backup print cartridge for bank of ink-jet printing cartridges
    2.
    发明授权
    Backup print cartridge for bank of ink-jet printing cartridges 失效
    喷墨打印墨盒的备份打印墨盒

    公开(公告)号:US5838343A

    公开(公告)日:1998-11-17

    申请号:US440462

    申请日:1995-05-12

    摘要: In a printer assembly having a rack of ink-jet print cartridges, a backup cartridge is moved into alignment with a cartridge to be cleaned and the backup cartridge substitutes for printing of the cartridge being cleaned until the cleaned cartridge is moved back to its printing position. The backup cartridge is then moved into alignment with another cartridge and prints for that cartridge which is then cleaned. Ink-jet print cartridges must be periodically cleaned to wipe excess ink and particles from the nozzle array on the front face of the cartridge. Cartridges are cleaned by moving them to a cleaning station that wipes clean the front face of the cartridge. To avoid interruption of printing while cartridges are being cleaned, a backup cartridge is moved into alignment and substitute prints for a cartridge to be cleaned.

    摘要翻译: 在具有喷墨打印墨盒架的打印机组件中,将备用墨盒移动成与要清洁的墨盒对准,并且备用墨盒代替正在清洁的墨盒的打印,直到清洁的墨盒移回其打印位置 。 然后将备用墨盒移动到与另一个墨盒对齐并打印该墨盒,然后将其清洁。 必须定期清洁喷墨打印墨盒,以从墨盒前表面上的喷嘴阵列中清除多余的墨水和颗粒。 通过将墨盒移动到清洁墨盒的前面的清洁站清洁墨盒。 为了避免在清洁墨盒时打印中断,将备用墨盒移动到对齐位置,并替换要清洁的墨盒的打印件。