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：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：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：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：US06081280A

公开(公告)日：2000-06-27

申请号：US682812

申请日：1996-07-11

申请人： John Philip Bolash ,  Thomas Jon Eade ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Bruce David Gibson

发明人： John Philip Bolash ,  Thomas Jon Eade ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Bruce David Gibson

IPC分类号： B41J2/05

CPC分类号： B41J2/0451 ,  B41J2/04528 ,  B41J2/04541 ,  B41J2/04548 ,  B41J2/0458

摘要： Method and apparatus for inhibiting electrically induced ink build-up on flexible, integrated circuit connecting leads, for thermal ink jet printer heads is disclosed, and relates to a thermal ink jet printer having a print head comprising an integrated circuit chip, a nozzle plate including a plurality of ink ejecting nozzles therein and overlying a heater resistor for each of the nozzles. Each of the associated heater resistors has associated active circuitry on the chip. On the chip there are a plurality of auxiliary functions requiring power, for example a substrate (silicon chip) heater, a shift register containing print head identification, fault detection circuit connections, etc. The machine includes a power supply and printer control logic, and gate means responsive to the logic upon sending a control signal to effect operation of at least one of the auxiliary functions to energize the function by gating the power supply to the integrated circuit chip and the associated auxiliary function only for a duration corresponding to necessary energization of the function. Because electrically induced ink build-up (EIIBU) usually occurs only between adjacent lands or traces of the TAB or flexible printed circuit that have voltage differentials, functions associated with those lands or traces are the functions which are gated to power from the power supply.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于热敏式喷墨打印头的用于抑制柔性集成电路连接引线上的电感应油墨积聚的方法和装置，其涉及具有包括集成电路芯片的打印头的热喷墨打印机， 多个喷墨喷嘴，并且覆盖每个喷嘴的加热电阻器。 每个相关联的加热器电阻器在芯片上具有相关联的有源电路。 在芯片上有多种需要电力的辅助功能，例如衬底（硅芯片）加热器，包含打印头识别的移位寄存器，故障检测电路连接等。该机器包括电源和打印机控制逻辑，以及 门装置响应于逻辑，响应于发送控制信号的逻辑，以实现至少一个辅助功能的操作，以通过选通对集成电路芯片的电源和相关联的辅助功能来激励功能，持续时间对应于必要的通电 功能。 因为电感应油墨积聚（EIIBU）通常仅发生在具有电压差的TAB或柔性印刷电路的相邻焊盘或迹线之间，与这些焊盘或迹线相关联的功能是从电源供电的功能。

公开(公告)号：US20090034997A1

公开(公告)日：2009-02-05

申请号：US11830154

申请日：2007-07-30

申请人： Mark Joseph Edwards ,  John Thomas Writt

发明人： Mark Joseph Edwards ,  John Thomas Writt

IPC分类号： G03G15/00

CPC分类号： G03G15/00 ,  G03G5/02 ,  G03G5/0202 ,  G03G5/0208 ,  G03G5/0214 ,  G03G2215/00447 ,  G03G2215/00476

摘要： A printing system including a substrate and a dual-mode printing device, the dual-mode printing device including a permanent writing source and a transient writing source, wherein the permanent writing source is adapted to deposit an imaging material onto the substrate and the transient writing source is adapted to develop an image on the substrate by applying a stimulus to the substrate.

摘要翻译： 一种包括基板和双模式打印装置的打印系统，所述双模打印装置包括永久写入源和瞬时写入源，其中所述永久写入源适于将成像材料沉积到所述基板上并且所述瞬时写入 源适于通过对衬底施加刺激来在衬底上显影图像。

公开(公告)号：US07066671B2

公开(公告)日：2006-06-27

申请号：US10612771

申请日：2003-07-02

申请人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  Mark Joseph Edwards

发明人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  Mark Joseph Edwards

IPC分类号： B41J11/27

CPC分类号： B26D5/086 ,  B26D5/00 ,  B26D5/08 ,  B26D5/14 ,  B26D5/16 ,  B26D5/32 ,  B26D7/26 ,  B26F1/04 ,  B26F1/24 ,  B26F1/3806 ,  B26F2001/3893 ,  B41J11/663

摘要： A method for forming perforations in a sheet of media with a perforation system includes the steps of generating graphics data; defining a non-printed color to represent perforation locations; embedding the non-printed color in the graphics data for a current perforation job; providing an identifier for identifying the non-printed color in the graphics data; read the graphics data including the non-printed color; using the identifier, identifying a plurality of perforation locations based on the non-printed color; and performing perforation of the sheet of media in accordance with the identifying step.

摘要翻译： 一种在具有穿孔系统的介质片中形成穿孔的方法包括以下步骤：产生图形数据; 定义非印刷颜色以表示穿孔位置; 将未打印的颜色嵌入用于当前穿孔作业的图形数据中; 提供用于识别图形数据中的非印刷色的标识符; 读取包括非打印颜色的图形数据; 使用所述标识符，基于所述非印刷颜色来识别多个穿孔位置; 以及根据所述识别步骤执行所述介质片的穿孔。

公开(公告)号：US06954278B1

公开(公告)日：2005-10-11

申请号：US09023441

申请日：1998-02-13

申请人： Darell Dean Cronch ,  Thomas Jon Eade ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Mark Walter Fagan

发明人： Darell Dean Cronch ,  Thomas Jon Eade ,  Mark Joseph Edwards ,  Mark Walter Fagan

IPC分类号： G06F3/12 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/1296

摘要： A method of printing on a print medium with a printer which is in communication with a host computer includes the steps of providing the host computer with a print job to be printed by the printer, identifying a data format associated with the print job, determining an operating system stored in the printer, comparing the data format with the printer operating system, downloading an operating system which corresponds to the data format from the host computer to the printer if the printer operating system does not correspond to the data format, transmitting print data associated with the print job from the host computer to the printer, and printing on the print medium with the printer using the print data.

摘要翻译： 使用与主计算机通信的打印机在打印介质上进行打印的方法包括以下步骤：向打印机提供要由打印机打印的打印作业，识别与打印作业相关联的数据格式，确定 存储在打印机中的操作系统，将数据格式与打印机操作系统进行比较，如果打印机操作系统不对应于数据格式，则将与数据格式对应的操作系统从主机下载到打印机，发送打印数据 与从主计算机到打印机的打印作业相关联，以及使用打印数据使用打印机在打印介质上进行打印。

公开(公告)号：US06843547B2

公开(公告)日：2005-01-18

申请号：US09907735

申请日：2001-07-18

申请人： Christopher Alan Adkins ,  Adam Jude Ahne ,  Mark Joseph Edwards

发明人： Christopher Alan Adkins ,  Adam Jude Ahne ,  Mark Joseph Edwards

IPC分类号： B41J29/393

CPC分类号： B41J29/393

摘要： A method of detecting malfunctioning ones of a plurality of nozzles of a printhead in an ink jet printer includes providing a sensor having at least two terminals defining at least one gap therebetween. An attempt is made to jet ink from a first of the nozzles into the at least one gap. A resistance between at least two of the terminals is measured to determine whether the ink has been jetted into the at least one gap. The attempting and measuring steps are repeated for each remaining nozzle.

摘要翻译： 一种检测喷墨打印机中的打印头的多个喷嘴的故障的方法包括提供具有至少两个限定了它们之间的至少一个间隙的端子的传感器。 尝试将墨水从第一喷嘴喷射到至少一个间隙中。 测量至少两个端子之间的电阻，以确定墨水是否被喷射到至少一个间隙中。 对于每个剩余的喷嘴重复尝试和测量步骤。

公开(公告)号：US06260942B1

公开(公告)日：2001-07-17

申请号：US09425632

申请日：1999-10-22

申请人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  Mark Joseph Edwards

发明人： Adam Jude Ahne ,  Mark Joseph Edwards

IPC分类号： B41J2175

CPC分类号： B41J2/17546 ,  B41J2/17536 ,  Y10S439/955

摘要： A sensor and method for detecting the presence of a protective tape on a printer cartridge in contact with a printer cartridge interface, preferably a printer carrier cable, in a printer. The sensor includes at least a first contact and a second contact between the printer cartridge and printer carrier cable, and a protective tape on the printer cartridge. The protective tape bridges an electrical connection between the first contact and second contact when the printer cartridge is in contact with the printer carrier cable. The first and second contact are either both on the printer cartridge or on the printer cartridge interface, or one contact is one the printer cartridge while the other is on the printer cartridge interface. The protective tape is an electrically-conductive material, or alternately is non-conductive and can include either a metal strip or a conductive adhesive that bridges an electrical connection between the first contact and second contact. Also disclosed is a sensor circuit that includes a voltage source for applying a test potential between the first contact and the second contact with the protective tape on the printer cartridge bridging an electrical connection between the contacts when the printer cartridge is in contact with the printer cartridge interface, and a voltage sensor in the printer that is responsive to current between the first contact and second contact to thereby detect the presence of the protective tape. There is also shown a method of detecting the presence of a protective tape upon a printer cartridge installed into a printer cartridge interface of a printer including the steps of placing a protective tape on the printer cartridge, and then placing the printer cartridge with the protective tape in contact with the printer cartridge interface such that the protective tape contacts a first contact and a second contact to bridge an electrical connection. The method then includes the step of passing a current from the first contact to the second contact to thereby close a sensing circuit to generate a signal indicating the protective tape is present on the printer cartridge.