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公开(公告)号:US09943886B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-17
申请号:US14560426
申请日:2014-12-04
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Mark A. Atwood , James J. Spence
CPC classification number: B08B1/008 , B08B1/005 , B29C64/112 , B29C64/35 , B33Y30/00
Abstract: A cleaning cart for a three-dimensional object printing system wipes an ejector head to remove debris from the ejector head. The cleaning cart includes a platform having a plurality of bearings configured to move the platform on rails of the printing system. A cleaning mechanism is movably mounted to the platform, and an actuator is mounted to the platform. The actuator is configured to move the cleaning mechanism relative to the platform to enable the cleaning mechanism to clean an ejector head that is positioned opposite the rails of the printing system.
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公开(公告)号:US20170341295A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-30
申请号:US15164542
申请日:2016-05-25
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Erwin Ruiz , Paul M. Fromm , Jeffrey N. Swing , James J. Spence , Mark A. Atwood
IPC: B29C64/112 , B29C64/393 , B29C64/30 , B29C64/386 , B29C64/20 , B41J29/393 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B33Y50/02 , B41J2/01
CPC classification number: B29C64/112 , B29C64/20 , B29C64/30 , B29C64/386 , B29C64/393 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B33Y50/02 , B41J2/16517 , B41J2/16579 , B41J29/393
Abstract: A printhead maintenance module is configured as a replaceable unit. The module includes a frame, at least two rollers detachably mounted within the frame, at least two electric motors, a platen, an optical sensor, and a controller. Each electric motor is operatively connected to one of the rollers in a one-to-one correspondence. The controller is configured to operate one of the electric motors to rotate one of the rollers to move media from a position opposite a printhead where a test pattern is printed on the media to a position opposite the optical sensor, receive image data of the printed test pattern generated by the optical sensor, and identify inoperative ejectors with reference to the image data of the test pattern.
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公开(公告)号:US09630407B1
公开(公告)日:2017-04-25
申请号:US15058114
申请日:2016-03-01
Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
Inventor: James J. Spence , Mark A. Atwood , Jack Gaynor Elliot , Marc D. Daniels
IPC: B41J2/14
CPC classification number: B41J2/14233 , B41J2/1433 , B41J2002/14419 , B41J2202/11
Abstract: A print head includes a backup plate and a nozzle plate. The backup plate has a non-planar lower surface. The nozzle plate also has a non-planar lower surface. The nozzle plate is coupled to the lower surface of the backup plate.
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公开(公告)号:US11214000B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-04
申请号:US16373761
申请日:2019-04-03
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Marc D. Daniels , Jeffrey W. Drawe , James J. Spence , Paul M. Fromm , Paul N. Richards
IPC: B29C64/147 , G03G15/22 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B29C64/205
Abstract: An additive manufacturing system for fabricating multi-sided printed composite sheet structures includes a roll fed duplex architecture that prints polymer images on both sides of a substrate sheet to form two-sided 3D composite layers. A substrate web is fed into the machine, and a top side is printed with a wetting agent, powdered, and the excess powder is removed. The image may be pinned to the substrate in a fusing step so that the web can be inverted to print a second image on the other side. The inversion architecture could include inverting rollers, tubes or a Mobius strip that may flip the substrate for backside printing using a single imaging station. The resulting two-side powdered and pinned substrate would then be cut, stacked, heated and compressed to create a 3-D object with more polymer in the stack, resulting in better adhesive binding characteristics at a much higher production speed.
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公开(公告)号:US10987952B1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-27
申请号:US16691042
申请日:2019-11-21
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Carlos M. Terrero , Brian J. Dunham , James J. Spence
Abstract: Disclosed is a media transport system utilizing a chambered honeycomb core platen for transporting and maintaining the flatness of a sheet of media in an associated printing system. According to one exemplary embodiment, the chambered honeycomb platen includes a plurality of rows of cross-drilled hollow columnar cells configured to independently communicate vacuum through the platen.
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公开(公告)号:US10328632B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US15164542
申请日:2016-05-25
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Erwin Ruiz , Paul M. Fromm , Jeffrey N. Swing , James J. Spence , Mark A. Atwood
IPC: B29C64/20 , B29C64/112 , B41J29/393 , B29C64/30 , B29C64/393 , B29C64/386 , B41J2/165 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B33Y50/02
Abstract: A printhead maintenance module is configured as a replaceable unit. The module includes a frame, at least two rollers detachably mounted within the frame, at least two electric motors, a platen, an optical sensor, and a controller. Each electric motor is operatively connected to one of the rollers in a one-to-one correspondence. The controller is configured to operate one of the electric motors to rotate one of the rollers to move media from a position opposite a printhead where a test pattern is printed on the media to a position opposite the optical sensor, receive image data of the printed test pattern generated by the optical sensor, and identify inoperative ejectors with reference to the image data of the test pattern.
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公开(公告)号:US20190111614A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-18
申请号:US16217502
申请日:2018-12-12
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Barry P. Mandel , James L. Giacobbi , Paul J. McConville , David A. Mantell , James J. Spence , James P. Calamita
IPC: B29C64/112 , B29C64/209 , B41J2/51 , B33Y50/02 , B29C64/20 , B33Y30/00 , B41J2/145 , B29C64/386 , B33Y10/00
CPC classification number: B29C64/112 , B29C64/20 , B29C64/209 , B29C64/386 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B41J2/145 , B41J2/51
Abstract: A printer is configured with at least two printheads that are separated from one another in a cross-process direction by an integral multiple of printhead widths. This configuration enables parallel swaths of material to be ejected and then movement of the printheads in the cross-process direction by a distance corresponding to one or more integral numbers of the printhead width enables the area between the swaths to be completed and the area outside of the original swaths printed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170368741A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-28
申请号:US15195475
申请日:2016-06-28
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Barry P. Mandel , James L. Giacobbi , Paul J. McConville , David A. Mantell , James J. Spence , James P. Calamita
IPC: B29C64/112 , B29C64/386 , B41J2/145 , B33Y50/02 , B33Y30/00 , B29C64/20 , B33Y10/00
CPC classification number: B29C64/112 , B29C64/20 , B29C64/209 , B29C64/386 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B41J2/145 , B41J2/51
Abstract: A printer is configured with at least two printheads that are separated from one another in a cross-process direction by an integral multiple of printhead widths. This configuration enables parallel swaths of material to be ejected and then movement of the printheads in the cross-process direction by a distance corresponding to one or more integral numbers of the printhead width enables the area between the swaths to be completed and the area outside of the original swaths printed.
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公开(公告)号:US09827784B1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-28
申请号:US15163880
申请日:2016-05-25
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: Wayne A. Buchar , James J. Spence , Jack G. Elliot , Michael F. Leo
CPC classification number: B41J3/4073 , A63B45/02 , B41J2/04501 , B41J3/4078 , B41J3/543 , B41J11/06
Abstract: A printing system facilitates the printing of articles of manufacture. The system includes an array of printheads, a support member positioned to be parallel to a plane formed by the array of printheads, a member movably mounted to the support member, an actuator operatively connected to the movably mounted member, an object holder configured to mount to the movably mounted member, and a controller operatively connected to the plurality of printheads and the actuator. The controller is configured to operate the actuator to move the object holder past the array of printheads and to operate the plurality of printheads to eject marking material onto objects held by the object holder as the object holder passes the array of printheads. The support member and printhead array are oriented vertically to enable the printing system to be installed in a vertical cabinet that provides a small footprint in a non-production environment.
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公开(公告)号:US20130169711A1
公开(公告)日:2013-07-04
申请号:US13775623
申请日:2013-02-25
Applicant: Xerox Corporation
Inventor: James J. Spence , Mattheew Ryan McLaughlin
IPC: B41J11/00
CPC classification number: B41J11/007 , B41J15/06 , B41J15/16 , B65H23/0204 , B65H23/1888 , B65H23/26 , B65H23/32 , B65H2301/5143 , B65H2301/5144 , B65H2402/10 , B65H2404/1361 , B65H2404/1364 , B65H2404/1541 , B65H2515/30 , B65H2515/40 , B65H2801/12 , B65H2801/15 , B65H2220/03
Abstract: A modular roll bar assembly for use in a continuous web imaging device includes a plurality of roll bars, a support frame configured to operatively support the plurality of roll bars such that the plurality of roll bars define a web path having a non-linear shape with an entrance end and an exit end, the entrance end being configured to receive a substantially continuous web of substrate material, the plurality of roll bars being configured to guide the continuous web past the exit end, and a temperature control system having a source of thermally controlled air that is configured to supply air at a predetermined temperature and velocity, and a plenum positioned in the support frame that is configured to guide the thermally controlled air from the source to the plurality of roll bars to heat or cool the plurality of roll bars to a predetermined temperature.
Abstract translation: 用于连续幅材成像装置中的模块化滚动条组件包括多个滚动条,支撑框架,其构造成可操作地支撑多个滚动条,使得多个滚子条限定具有非线性形状的幅材路径, 入口端和出口端,所述入口端被构造成接收基本上连续的基底材料幅材,所述多个辊条被配置为引导所述连续幅材通过所述出口端,以及温度控制系统,其具有热源 被配置为以预定的温度和速度供应空气的受控空气以及定位在所述支撑框架中的增压室,其被构造成将所述热控制的空气从所述源引导到所述多个辊杆,以加热或冷却所述多个辊条 达到预定温度。
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