Positive pressure drop-on-demand printing

Details Positive pressure drop-on-demand printing Positive pressure drop-on-demand printing

2006-07-18

2006-07-18

Hwu, Davis (Department: 3752)

Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing

Processes

Of discharge modification of flow varying

C239S007000, C239S390000, C239S397000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07077334

ABSTRACT:
A drop on demand printer has a nozzle with an orifice and a surrounding annular land. Surrounding the land is an edge, which is surrounded by a perimetrical surface that is inclined to the land at an angle α. A pressure controller maintains a positive overpressure on liquid to be printed such that a cap of liquid is substantially always present covering the orifice and the land. The edge between the land and the perimetrical surface prevents liquid from overflowing, and maintains the cap, if the pressure is maintained between lower and upper limits disclosed. The liquid to be printed preferably wets the orifice land, which may be alumina, glass, ceramic, and others. Liquids with very small, even zero, wetting angles relative to the land may be used, such as water and organic solvents, including, isopropyl and ethyl alcohol and chloroform. The liquid can be loaded with dissolved polymers, or particles, such as of polymer or ceramic. Very small drops can be printed, by using an orifice of about 40 microns effective diameter, with a land of about 90 microns effective diameter. The printer can be used for any drop dispensing application, such as ink jet, Three Dimensional printing, and also for depositing small amounts of pharmaceutical materials into a receptacle, or drug delivery vehicle. A means for establishing a temperature differential, with a higher upstream and lower downstream temperature, eliminates any gas bubbles at the orifice.

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