Printhead assembly for typewriters or the like
    1.
    发明授权
    Printhead assembly for typewriters or the like 失效
    用于打字机的打印头组件等

    公开(公告)号:US4329075A

    公开(公告)日:1982-05-11

    申请号:US163674

    申请日:1980-06-27

    CPC分类号: B41J35/06

    摘要: A printhead assembly for a typewriter of the kind that swipes a printhead along a ribbon in producing marks on a receiving medium, is mounted to pivot and includes a ribbon guide that serves to wrap the ribbon around the trailing side (for a forward printing direction) of the printhead. The assembly is positioned to permit the printhead to be rotated to a normal printing position at a printing line. By so arranging the ribbon path that the ribbon directions for arrival and departure of the assembly intersect the pivot axis, essentially zero resultant torque may be applied to the assembly by ribbon tension forces and the printing pressure at the receiving medium is, accordingly, unaffected by ribbon tension variations.

    摘要翻译: 一种打印机组件,用于打印机沿着色带在接收介质上产生标记的打印头的打印机安装以枢转并且包括用于将色带包围在后侧(用于正向打印方向)的色带引导件, 的打印头。 该组件被定位成允许打印头在打印线处旋转到正常打印位置。 通过这样布置色带路径,使得组件的到达和离开的带状方向与枢转轴线相交,基本上零的合成扭矩可以通过色带张力施加到组件,因此接收介质上的印刷压力不受 丝带张力变化。

    Ribbon loading system for printers
    3.
    发明授权
    Ribbon loading system for printers 失效
    打印机色带装载系统

    公开(公告)号:US4413919A

    公开(公告)日:1983-11-08

    申请号:US315591

    申请日:1981-10-30

    摘要: A ribbon loading system for a printer utilizes a ribbon cartridge that includes a container enclosing two coaxially arranged ribbon reels. By providing flexible blades in the floor of the container, the reels are urged toward a top cover where relative movement is restrained. Upon loading of the cartridge, camming arms enter apertures in the container and are moveable to a clamping position to draw the blades from the ribbon reels and allow free rotational movement.For a presently preferred implementation, the structure including the camming arms is coupled through linkages to clear the ribbon threading path and thereby facilitate ribbon insertion.

    摘要翻译: 用于打印机的色带装载系统利用包括容纳两个同轴布置的色带卷轴的容器的色带盒。 通过在容器的地板中提供柔性叶片,卷轴被推向顶盖,在相对运动被限制的顶盖上。 在装载盒时,凸轮臂进入容器中的孔,并且可移动到夹紧位置以从带状卷轴上拉出叶片并允许自由旋转运动。 对于目前优选的实施方案,包括凸轮臂的结构通过连接件联接以清除带状穿线路径,从而便于带状物的插入。

    Ribbon feed system for a matrix printer
    4.
    发明授权
    Ribbon feed system for a matrix printer 失效
    矩阵打印机的送丝系统

    公开(公告)号:US4408908A

    公开(公告)日:1983-10-11

    申请号:US218228

    申请日:1980-12-19

    CPC分类号: B41J35/08 B41J33/38

    摘要: A ribbon feed system for a matrix printer utilizes metering rollers located on the printhead carrier to maintain a substantially zero ribbon velocity relative to the receiving medium with an on-carrier ribbon feed. By coordinating roller rotation with carrier motion, relative motion that would tend to cause smearing during mark formation is avoided. For printers that inject current into the ribbon to cause printing, friction drag is reduced and tension control is simplified by collecting current at the metering rollers for return to the printhead energizing circuitry. Such dual use of the metering rollers takes advantage of the firm intimate contact that exists for metering to establish a high quality electrical connection. A tension controlled brake at the ribbon supply serves to assure tensions are held within a narrow range at the printhead with such a ribbon metering system.

    摘要翻译: 用于矩阵式打印机的色带供给系统使用位于打印头托架上的计量辊,以相对于接收介质保持基本上为零的色带速度,带有载带上色带进纸。 通过协调滚子旋转与载体运动,避免了在标记形成期间倾向于引起拖尾的相对运动。 对于将电流注入色带进行打印的打印机,通过收集计量辊上的电流以便返回到打印头通电电路,可以减少摩擦阻力并简化张力控制。 计量辊的这种双重使用利用了存在用于计量以建立高质量电连接的牢固的紧密接触。 色带供应器处的张力控制制动器用于通过这种色带计量系统确保在打印头处的紧张度保持在窄范围内。

    Thermal printhead actuator responsive to carriage drive and including a
four bar linkage and spring
    6.
    发明授权
    Thermal printhead actuator responsive to carriage drive and including a four bar linkage and spring 失效
    热打印头致动器响应于托架驱动并且包括四杆连杆和弹簧

    公开(公告)号:US4775252A

    公开(公告)日:1988-10-04

    申请号:US114176

    申请日:1987-10-28

    IPC分类号: B41J2/325 B41J25/316 B41J3/20

    CPC分类号: B41J25/316

    摘要: A thermal printhead, which is pivotally mounted on a carrier, is moved into and out of its printing position by a four bar linkage, which is responsive to the direction in which the carrier is being advanced, rendering a spring, which urges the thermal printhead into its printing position, effective and ineffective. When the carrier is advanced from left to right to print, the linkage responds to a drive mechanism for the carrier to enable movement of the printhead into its printing position by the spring prior to the carrier drive mechanism moving the carrier. When the carrier is to be moved from right to left in the non-printing direction, the linkage responds to the initial motion of the carrier drive mechanism in this direction to render the spring ineffective and to move the printhead out of its printing position prior to the carrier drive mechanism moving the carrier.

    Feed rates and two-mode embodiments for thermal transfer medium
conservation
    7.
    发明授权
    Feed rates and two-mode embodiments for thermal transfer medium conservation 失效
    进料速率和热转印介质保存的双模式实施方案

    公开(公告)号:US4558963A

    公开(公告)日:1985-12-17

    申请号:US640208

    申请日:1984-08-10

    IPC分类号: B41J2/325 B41J33/36 B41J3/20

    CPC分类号: B41J33/36 B41J2/325

    摘要: Conservation of ribbon 40 is achieved by underfeeding ribbon 40 relative to movement of thermal printhead 16. Pressure of printhead 16 may be low enough that smearing from a typical ribbon 40 does not occur. Gears 208, 210, 212, 214 and 216 may be positioned in one of two settings by action of bellcrank 230. One position provides a 1.04 to 1 underfeed ratio and the other provides a 5 to 1 underfeed ratio. Control 232 lowers print current for the 5 to 1 ratio. A printer having a single ratio of 1.04 to 1 provides printing of unimpaired quality with significant saving of ribbon.

    摘要翻译: 色带40的保持通过相对于热打印头16的运动而不足的色带40来实现。打印头16的压力可能足够低,从而不会发生从典型色带40的污迹。 齿轮208,210,212,214和216可以通过曲拐230的动作来定位在两个设置中的一个中。一个位置提供1.04比1的欠进给比,而另一个提供5比1的进给比。 控制232降低5比1的打印电流。 具有1.04比1的单一比例的打印机提供打印质量不受影响的显着节省丝带。

    Ribbon feed tension mechanism
    9.
    发明授权
    Ribbon feed tension mechanism 失效
    丝带进给张力机制

    公开(公告)号:US4661004A

    公开(公告)日:1987-04-28

    申请号:US728980

    申请日:1985-04-30

    IPC分类号: B41J32/00 B41J33/52 B41J35/08

    CPC分类号: B41J33/52

    摘要: Member (9) has a tension arm (13) over which ribbon (3) feeds. Biasing arm (17) presses member (9) toward brake surface (7), with slot (21) moved until it encounters stud (23). At low tension of ribbon (3), brake surfaces (11) and (7) press and hold ribbon (3). As feed tension increases tension arm (13) forces member (9) back until stud (23) encounters the opposite end of slot (21), after which slightly higher force further opens the brake and arm (13) continues to provide feed tension. The mechanism is small, efficient, smooth functioning, and suited to incorporation as part of a ribbon cartridge.

    摘要翻译: 构件(9)具有张紧臂(13),丝带(3)进给。 偏压臂(17)将构件(9)压向制动器表面(7),槽(21)移动直到遇到螺栓(23)。 在薄带(3)的低张力下,制动器表面(11)和(7)压住色带(3)。 随着进给张力增加张力臂(13),迫使构件(9)向后延伸直到螺柱(23)遇到狭槽(21)的相对端,之后稍微较高的力进一步打开制动器和臂(13)继续提供进给张力。 该机构小巧,高效,平滑的功能,并且适合作为色带盒的一部分。

    Current collector for resistive ribbon printers
    10.
    发明授权
    Current collector for resistive ribbon printers 失效
    电阻丝带打印机的集电器

    公开(公告)号:US4329071A

    公开(公告)日:1982-05-11

    申请号:US164658

    申请日:1980-06-30

    CPC分类号: B41M5/3825 B41J2/35

    摘要: For an electro-thermal printer of the kind that uses a ribbon having a central conducting layer that is covered on one surface by a resistive layer that receives electrical printing currents and on the other surface by a thermally transferrable ink layer, printing current is collected from the conducting layer by an electrically conducting contactor at the ink layer surface of the ribbon. Such contact through the ink layer occurs on the takeup side of a printhead where the integrity of the ink layer is not of concern and voids in the ink layer occur as a result of ink transfers for printing. To increase the quality of the electrical connection, projecting points or barbs may be included on said contactor to penetrate to the conducting layer through intact portions of ink layer.

    摘要翻译: 对于使用具有中央导电层的带状电热印刷机,该中心导电层在一个表面上被接受电印刷电流的电阻层覆盖,并且在另一表面上由可热转印的油墨层覆盖,则印刷电流从 导电层通过导电接触器在色带的油墨层表面上。 这种通过油墨层的接触发生在打印头的卷绕侧,其中不需要油墨层的完整性,并且由于印刷油墨转印而导致油墨层中的空隙。 为了提高电连接的质量,可以在所述接触器上包括投影点或倒钩以通过油墨层的完整部分穿透导电层。