Holder for a thermal print medium
    2.
    发明授权
    Holder for a thermal print medium 失效
    用于热敏打印介质的支架

    公开(公告)号:US5446477A

    公开(公告)日:1995-08-29

    申请号:US745578

    申请日:1991-08-15

    CPC分类号: B41J13/226 B41J13/10

    摘要: A holder for a thermal print medium is disclosed. The holder is adapted to be used in a thermal printer in which a donor element in a thermal print medium transfers dye to a receiver element upon receipt of a sufficient amount of thermal energy. The printer includes a plurality of diode lasers which can be individually modulated to supply energy to selected dots on the medium in accordance with an information signal. The print head of the printer includes a fiber optic array having a plurality of optical fibers coupled to the diode lasers. The holder for the thermal print medium includes a rotatable vacuum drum, and the fiber optic array is movable relative to the drum. The vacuum drum includes separate vacuum supplies for the donor sheet and for the receiver sheet so that the sheets can be independently handled.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于热敏打印介质的保持器。 保持器适用于热敏打印机,其中热敏打印介质中的供体元件在接收足够量的热能时将染料转移到接收器元件。 打印机包括多个二极管激光器,其可以被单独调制以根据信息信号向介质上的选定点提供能量。 打印机的打印头包括具有耦合到二极管激光器的多个光纤的光纤阵列。 用于热敏打印介质的保持器包括可旋转的真空鼓,并且光纤阵列可相对于滚筒移动。 真空鼓包括用于供体片和接收片的单独的真空供应,使得片可以被独立地处理。

    Thermal dye transfer receiver slide element
    3.
    发明授权
    Thermal dye transfer receiver slide element 失效
    热转印接收器滑动元件

    公开(公告)号:US5234886A

    公开(公告)日:1993-08-10

    申请号:US722810

    申请日:1991-06-28

    摘要: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer suitable for forming a slide for projection viewing comprising a polymeric central dye image-receiving section and an integral polymeric frame section extending around the periphery of the central dye image-receiving section, the frame section being from about 1/2 to about 3 mm thick and the central dye image-receiving section preferably being thinner than the frame section. Such integral receiver-frames do not require post-imaging framing and mounting assembly operations in order to be viewable in slide projectors, and are particularly advantageously used in laser thermal dye transfer systems.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于热染料转移的染料接收元件,其适于形成用于投影观察的载玻片,包括聚合物中心染料影像接收部分和围绕中央染料影像接收部分周围延伸的整体聚合物框架部分,所述框架部分来自 约1/2至约3毫米厚,并且中心染料影像接收部优选地比框架部分薄。 这种整体的接收机框架不需要后成像框架和安装组装操作,以便在幻灯机中可以看到,并且特别有利地用于激光热染料转移系统中。

    Beamsplitter for laser multi-beam printers and recorders
    4.
    发明授权
    Beamsplitter for laser multi-beam printers and recorders 失效
    用于激光多光束打印机和录像机的分束器

    公开(公告)号:US5646786A

    公开(公告)日:1997-07-08

    申请号:US427523

    申请日:1995-03-24

    IPC分类号: G02B27/14

    摘要: An optical system for illuminating a multi-element spatial light modulator from a multi-emitter laser array such that each element of the modulator sees light from all emitters targets the light onto the two or more rows of elements, without putting light into the gap between the rows, and without putting light in the spaces between the elements. The element illumination may match a complex shape of the elements. A beamsplitter/staggerer is adapted to split the line of laser light into plural parallel lines of light, and to split the parallel lines of light into regions such that substantially all of the light from the illumination system falls onto the elements of the rows without impinging between the rows of elements or between the elements in the rows.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于从多发射体激光器阵列照射多元件空间光调制器的光学系统,使得调制器的每个元件看到​​来自所有发射器的光将光靶向到两行或更多行的元件,而不将光引入到 行,并且不将光放在元素之间的空间中。 元件照明可以匹配元件的复杂形状。 分束器/分配器适于将激光线分成多个平行光线,并将平行光线分成若干区域,使得基本上所有来自照明系统的光都落在行的元件上而不会撞击 在行的元素之间或行中的元素之间。

    Apparatus and method for eliminating feedback noise in laser thermal
printing
    5.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and method for eliminating feedback noise in laser thermal printing 失效
    用于消除激光热敏打印中的反馈噪声的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5420611A

    公开(公告)日:1995-05-30

    申请号:US905948

    申请日:1992-06-29

    申请人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    发明人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    摘要: An apparatus and method are provided for forming a laser-induced thermal dye transfer image. A slide for brings a dye donor and dye receiver into dye transferring proximity, and a laser emits a beam of light toward the donor to image-wise transfer dye to the receiver. The slide, along with the donor therein, is tilted to eliminate intensity noise in the laser caused by light reflecting from the slide and donor back to the laser. By tilting the slide, specular reflections from the dye donor do not intercept optical path and do not propagate along the optical path.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于形成激光诱导的热染料转印图像的装置和方法。 用于将染料供体和染料接收器引入染料转移接近的载玻片,并且激光朝向供体发射光束以将成像方式的染料转移到接收器。 滑动件及其中的供体在其中被倾斜以消除由从滑动件和供体反射回激光器的光引起的激光器中的强度噪声。 通过倾斜滑块,来自染料供体的镜面反射不会阻挡光路并且不沿着光路传播。

    Rotary device
    6.
    发明授权
    Rotary device 失效
    旋转装置

    公开(公告)号:US4958098A

    公开(公告)日:1990-09-18

    申请号:US123836

    申请日:1987-11-23

    申请人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    发明人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    摘要: A rotary device is disclosed for use as a precision element such as an optical scanner. The device comprises a rotor which includes a driven element such as a polygon having a plurality of mirror surfaces thereon, an arrangement for supporting the rotor for rotational movement, and a drive motor for the rotor. The rotor supporting arrangement includes a thrust bearing. In order to provide a rotary device having a low profile and a minimum of parts, a planar motor is used as the drive motor, and the permanent magnet of the motor is incorporated in the rotor. The thrust bearing includes an arrangement for directing an axial force against a radial surface of the rotor when the motor is actuated.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用作诸如光学扫描器的精密元件的旋转装置。 该装置包括转子,该转子包括诸如多面镜的多边形的从动元件,用于支撑用于旋转运动的转子的装置和用于转子的驱动电动机。 转子支撑装置包括止推轴承。 为了提供具有低轮廓和最小零件的旋转装置,使用平面马达作为驱动马达,马达的永久磁铁被并入转子中。 推力轴承包括当马达被致动时将轴向力引导到转子的径向表面的装置。

    Digital printers using multiple lasers or laser arrays with different
wavelengths
    7.
    发明授权
    Digital printers using multiple lasers or laser arrays with different wavelengths 失效
    数字打印机使用多个不同波长的激光器或激光器阵列

    公开(公告)号:US5625402A

    公开(公告)日:1997-04-29

    申请号:US54486

    申请日:1993-04-30

    申请人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    发明人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    CPC分类号: B41J2/45 B41J2/48 H04N1/502

    摘要: Laser color printers include multiple laser sources formed of either diode lasers or laser diode arrays emitting light beams of different wavelengths, and an optical arrangement. The optical arrangement independently processes each of the light beams to provide a separate predetermined sized collimated light beam, and then focuses and scans the light beams over a printing media that prints separate colors for each different wavelength of light. Where different sized collimated light beams are required to match a printing media, a separate zoom lens is used is used in the optical arrangement to independently reshape each of two orthogonal cross-sectional directions of a separate one of the light beams before being properly sized at the output thereof. Where only one of the two orthogonal cross-sectional directions of the light beams has to be reshaped, the light beams are collimated and combined and pass through a beam shaper which reshapes that cross-sectional direction of the light beams before the light beams are focused and scanned over the printing media. Where laser diode arrays are used to generate separate wavelength light beams, each of the light beams from the lasers of an array are formed and focused into a linear array of spots on the printing media.

    摘要翻译: 激光彩色打印机包括由发射不同波长的光束的二极管激光器或激光二极管阵列形成的多个激光源以及光学装置。 光学装置独立地处理每个光束以提供单独的预定尺寸的准直光束,然后将光束聚焦并扫描在用于每个不同波长的光的不同颜色的打印介质上。 在需要不同大小的准直光束以匹配打印介质的情况下,使用单独的变焦镜头,以在光学装置中独立地重新形成单独的一个光束的两个正交横截面方向中的每一个,然后再适当地定尺寸 其输出。 在光束的两个正交横截面方向只有一个必须重新成形的情况下,光束被准直并组合,并且通过光束整形器,其在光束聚焦之前重塑光束的横截面方向 并在打印介质上扫描。 在激光二极管阵列用于产生分离的波长光束的地方,来自阵列的激光器的每个光束被形成并聚焦成打印介质上的点阵线性阵列。

    Waveguide scanner
    8.
    发明授权
    Waveguide scanner 失效
    波导扫描仪

    公开(公告)号:US4995689A

    公开(公告)日:1991-02-26

    申请号:US390956

    申请日:1989-08-09

    申请人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    发明人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    IPC分类号: G02F1/295

    CPC分类号: G02F1/295

    摘要: A scanner is disclosed which uses an electro-optic deflector to deflect a light beam onto a receiving medium. The deflector comprises a substrate formed of an optical material and a thin film optical channel waveguide fabricated on a top surface thereof. A light beam is supplied to the waveguide along an optical axis in the waveguide. An array of parallel metallic electrodes are formed adjacent to the waveguide. Each of the electrodes is adapted to receive a voltage independently of the other electrodes. When a voltage is supplied to an electrode, a local variation in the index of refraction of the waveguide occurs across the thickness of the waveguide, and this local variation is used to effect the radiation of the beam into the substrate. In order to use the waveguide to scan a light beam across the receiving medium, the light beam is supplied to the waveguide in a direction normal to the electrodes, and a voltage is sequentially supplied to the electrodes.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种扫描仪,其使用电光偏转器将光束偏转到接收介质上。 偏转器包括由光学材料形成的基板和在其顶表面上制造的薄膜光通道波导。 沿着波导中的光轴将光束提供给波导。 与波导相邻地形成平行的金属电极阵列。 每个电极适于接收独立于其它电极的电压。 当电压被提供给电极时,波导的折射率的局部变化发生在波导的厚度上,并且该局部变化用于实现将光束射入衬底中。 为了使用波导扫描接收介质上的光束,光束在与电极垂直的方向上被提供给波导,并且电压被依次提供给电极。

    Optical head
    9.
    发明授权
    Optical head 失效
    光头

    公开(公告)号:US4993801A

    公开(公告)日:1991-02-19

    申请号:US457594

    申请日:1989-12-27

    申请人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    发明人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    IPC分类号: G02B6/42 H01S5/022

    CPC分类号: G02B6/4226 G02B6/4204

    摘要: An optical head is disclosed which comprises a light source such as a diode laser and an optical element, for example, a collimating lens. The collimating lens and the diode laser are mounted along a common optical axis. A thermoelectric cooling element is provided in the head to control the temperature of the diode laser. In order to precisely locate the collimating lens relative to the diode laser, the housing of the collimating lens is mounted directly onto the barrel of the diode laser.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种光头,其包括诸如二极管激光器和光学元件的光源,例如准直透镜。 准直透镜和二极管激光器沿着公共光轴安装。 头部设有热电冷却元件,以控制二极管激光器的温度。 为了相对于二极管激光器精确地定位准直透镜,准直透镜的外壳直接安装在二极管激光器的镜筒上。

    Printer capable of producing continuous tone prints from multi-bit data
signals
    10.
    发明授权
    Printer capable of producing continuous tone prints from multi-bit data signals 失效
    能够从多位数据信号产生连续色调的打印机

    公开(公告)号:US6065822A

    公开(公告)日:2000-05-23

    申请号:US633277

    申请日:1996-04-16

    申请人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    发明人: Sanwal P. Sarraf

    IPC分类号: B41J2/21 B41J2/205 B41J2/04

    CPC分类号: B41J2/2125

    摘要: An ink-jet printer capable of providing a large number of gray levels delivers ink for each pixel through several nozzles for each color, with each nozzle corresponding to a bit of the pixel's image data word. The nozzle corresponding to the least significant bit of the image data word has a capacity to deliver an amount of ink just sufficient to produce 1/256 of the maximum desired density on the media. The second nozzle, corresponding to the next least significant bit of the image data word, has a capacity to deliver twice as much ink as the first nozzle. The third nozzle delivers twice as much ink as the second nozzle (and four times as much as the first nozzle), and so on. The last nozzle delivers 128 times as much ink as the first nozzle. Control of each nozzle is time-sequenced to print each pixel of the image as the printhead scans over the media. The ink is delivered to the image pixel according to the value of the image data word.

    摘要翻译: 能够提供大量灰度级的喷墨打印机通过用于每种颜色的几个喷嘴为每个像素提供油墨,每个喷嘴对应于像素的图像数据字的位。 对应于图像数据字的最低有效位的喷嘴具有传递足够量的油墨的能力,以产生介质上最大期望密度的+ E,fra 1/256 + EE。 对应于图像数据字的下一最低有效位的第二喷嘴具有能够输送与第一喷嘴相同的墨水量的两倍的能力。 第三喷嘴的喷墨量是第二喷嘴的两倍(和第一喷嘴的四倍),等等。 最后一个喷嘴的墨水量是第一个喷嘴的128倍。 当打印头在介质上扫描时,每个喷嘴的控制是时间顺序的,以打印图像的每个像素。 根据图像数据字的值将墨水输送到图像像素。