Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Patent
1997-07-03
2000-07-25
Barlow, John
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
347 11, 347 12, B41J 2045
Patent
active
060928867
ABSTRACT:
An ink jet print head operates so as to prevent the undesired production of an ink droplet that otherwise would result from a vibration of one piezoelectric vibrator propagating to an adjacent piezoelectric vibrator to which a drive signal is not presently applied. In particular, a first signal expands a pressure producing chamber, a second signal keeps the chamber expanded, and a third signal is contracts the chamber and jets the an ink droplet. A duration Pwh of the second signal is 0.7.times.Ta(n+1/2).ltoreq.Pwh.ltoreq.1.3.times.Ta(n+1/2) when the Helmholtz resonance frequency ranges from 70 to 100 kHz, and is 0.8.times.Ta(n+1/2).ltoreq.Pwh.ltoreq.1.2.times.Ta(n+1/2) when the Helmholtz resonance frequency is 100 kHz or more. An ink droplet is jetted out by applying the third signal and thereby contracting the pressure producing chamber during the aforementioned time periods. Therefore, even if the first signal has been applied, and a vibration caused by the expansion has thereafter propagated to an adjacent piezoelectric vibrator, an ink droplet can be jetted out by contracting the pressure producing chamber at a timing that induces a vibration whose phase is opposite to that of the vibration caused by the expansion. Hence, the vibration of the adjacent piezoelectric vibrator can effectively be cancelled.
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patent: 4593291 (1986-06-01), Howkins
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Barlow John
Hallacher Craig A.
Seiko Epson Corporation
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