公开(公告)号：US08262187B2

公开(公告)日：2012-09-11

申请号：US11945556

申请日：2007-11-27

申请人： Kristine A. German ,  Elliott A. Eklund

发明人： Kristine A. German ,  Elliott A. Eklund

IPC分类号： B41J2/165

CPC分类号： B41J29/393 ,  B41J2/16579 ,  B41J2/2142

摘要： A method and apparatus for printhead inspection and recovery in an ink jet printing system includes a modular printhead assembly disposed within the printing system for on-line printing operation. An off-line printhead inspection and recovery unit including a printhead dock for receiving the printhead assembly is locally disposed for ready diagnostic inspection of printhead operation and includes a user interface for reporting diagnostic results. A modular printhead assembly is disposed within the off-line printhead inspection and recovery unit for identifying the head failure to an operator. The inspection and recovery unit may execute a printhead purge and maintenance cycle to repair the failing on-line printing assembly. The inspection and recovery unit maintains a spare head assembly in a heated print-ready state for minimal downtime in production operation upon the replacement of the failing printhead with the spare head from the inspection and recovery unit.

摘要翻译： 用于喷墨打印系统中的打印头检查和恢复的方法和装置包括设置在打印系统内用于在线打印操作的模块化打印头组件。 包括用于接收打印头组件的打印头基座的离线打印头检查和恢复单元被局部设置，用于打印头操作的准备诊断检查，并且包括用于报告诊断结果的用户界面。 模块化打印头组件设置在离线打印头检查和恢复单元内，用于识别操作员的头部故障。 检查和恢复单元可以执行打印头清洁和维护周期以修复故障的在线打印组件。 检查和恢复单元将备用头组件保持在加热的打印就绪状态，以便在使用备用头从检查和恢复单元更换故障打印头时，在生产操作中最小化停机时间。

公开(公告)号：US07628466B2

公开(公告)日：2009-12-08

申请号：US11820612

申请日：2007-06-20

申请人： Mark A. Cellura ,  Elliott A. Eklund

发明人： Mark A. Cellura ,  Elliott A. Eklund

IPC分类号： B41J29/393

CPC分类号： B41J2/16526 ,  B41J2/0057

摘要： A maintenance method for an ink jet imaging device comprises ejecting drops from a plurality of ink jets to successively form a plurality of images on the image receiver. Inter-image intervals between the ejection of drops to form one image in the plurality of images and the ejection of drops to form a successive image in the plurality of images are detected. A plurality of drops is ejected from at least a portion of the ink jets in the plurality of ink jets during at least one detected inter-image interval. The plurality of ejected drops having at least one drop ejecting characteristic selected from: a drop mass for the plurality of drops being greater than a standard drop mass; a drop ejecting frequency for the plurality of drops being lower than a standard drop ejecting frequency; and a substantially sequential drop ejecting pattern for the plurality of drops.

摘要翻译： 用于喷墨成像装置的维护方法包括：从多个喷墨喷射液滴，以在图像接收器上连续地形成多个图像。 检测喷射液滴以在多个图像中形成一个图像并喷射液滴以在多个图像中形成连续图像的图像间间隔。 在至少一个检测到的图像间间隔期间，多个液滴从多个喷墨中的喷墨头的至少一部分喷出。 多个喷射液滴具有选自以下的至少一个液滴喷射特性：多个液滴的液滴质量大于标准液滴质量; 所述多个液滴的液滴喷射频率低于标准液滴喷射频率; 以及用于多个液滴的基本上顺序的液滴喷射模式。

公开(公告)号：US20090135220A1

公开(公告)日：2009-05-28

申请号：US11945556

申请日：2007-11-27

申请人： Kristine A. German ,  Elliott A. Eklund

发明人： Kristine A. German ,  Elliott A. Eklund

IPC分类号： B41J29/393

CPC分类号： B41J29/393 ,  B41J2/16579 ,  B41J2/2142

摘要： A method and apparatus for printhead inspection and recovery in an ink jet printing system includes a modular printhead assembly disposed within the printing system for on-line printing operation. An off-line printhead inspection and recovery unit including a printhead dock for receiving the printhead assembly is locally disposed for ready diagnostic inspection of printhead operation and includes a user interface for reporting diagnostic results. A modular printhead assembly is disposed within the off-line printhead inspection and recovery unit for identifying the head failure to an operator. The inspection and recovery unit may execute a printhead purge and maintenance cycle to repair the failing on-line printing assembly. The inspection and recovery unit maintains a spare head assembly in a heated print-ready state for minimal downtime in production operation upon the replacement of the failing printhead with the spare head from the inspection and recovery unit.

摘要翻译： 用于喷墨打印系统中的打印头检查和恢复的方法和装置包括设置在打印系统内用于在线打印操作的模块化打印头组件。 包括用于接收打印头组件的打印头基座的离线打印头检查和恢复单元被局部设置，用于打印头操作的准备诊断检查，并且包括用于报告诊断结果的用户界面。 模块化打印头组件设置在离线打印头检查和恢复单元内，用于识别操作者的头部故障。 检查和恢复单元可以执行打印头清洁和维护周期以修复故障的在线打印组件。 检查和恢复单元将备用头组件保持在加热的打印就绪状态，以便在使用备用头从检查和恢复单元更换故障打印头时，在生产操作中最小化停机时间。

公开(公告)号：US06572218B2

公开(公告)日：2003-06-03

申请号：US09768676

申请日：2001-01-24

申请人： Peter M. Gulvin ,  Elliott A. Eklund

发明人： Peter M. Gulvin ,  Elliott A. Eklund

IPC分类号： B41J204

CPC分类号： H02N1/006 ,  B41J2/14314 ,  F04B43/043

摘要： A micro-electromechanical fluid ejector including a substrate having an insulating layer thereon; a conductor formed on said insulating layer; a membrane adjacent to said conductor, said membrane having a corrugated, multi-layer structure for added rigidity; and an actuator chamber formed between said membrane and said conductor, said membrane flexing toward said conductor when a voltage bias is applied thereto.

公开(公告)号：US06223013B1

公开(公告)日：2001-04-24

申请号：US09211264

申请日：1998-12-14

申请人： Elliott A. Eklund ,  Yelena Shapiro ,  Dan A. Hays ,  John F. Knapp

发明人： Elliott A. Eklund ,  Yelena Shapiro ,  Dan A. Hays ,  John F. Knapp

IPC分类号： G03G1508

CPC分类号： G03G15/0803 ,  G03G2215/0621 ,  G03G2215/0634

摘要： An apparatus for developing a latent image recorded on an imaging surface, including a housing defining a reservoir storing a supply of developer material including toner. A donor member is spaced from the imaging surface, for transporting toner on an outer surface of the donor member to a region opposed from the imaging surface. A mag roll loads toner onto a region of the outer surface of the donor member. A charging device ion charges the toner loaded on the region of the donor member. An AC/DC voltage supply for biasing the donor member positioned in close proximity to the imaging member to detach toner from the donor member as to form a toner cloud for developing the latent image. A second charging device discharges and removes residual toner on the region of the donor and returning the toner to the reservoir.

摘要翻译： 一种用于显影记录在成像表面上的潜像的装置，包括限定存储包含调色剂的显影剂材料供应的储存器的壳体。 供体构件与成像表面间隔开，用于将供体构件的外表面上的调色剂输送到与成像表面相对的区域。 磁辊将调色剂负载到供体构件的外表面的区域上。 充电装置离子对装载在供体构件的区域上的调色剂进行充电。 一种AC / DC电压源，用于偏置定位在成像构件附近的施主构件，以从供体构件上分离调色剂，以形成用于显影潜像的调色剂云。 第二充电装置排出并去除供体区域上的残留调色剂并将调色剂返回到储存器。

公开(公告)号：US6023600A

公开(公告)日：2000-02-08

申请号：US144488

申请日：1998-08-31

申请人： Paul C. Julien ,  Elliott A. Eklund

发明人： Paul C. Julien ,  Elliott A. Eklund

IPC分类号： G03G15/08

CPC分类号： G03G15/081 ,  G03G15/0803 ,  G03G2215/0621 ,  G03G2215/0643

摘要： An apparatus for developing a latent image recorded on an imaging surface, including: a housing defining a reservoir storing a supply of developer material wherein the developer material having predefined triboelectric charge about 20 to 30 microCoulombs/gram. A donor member is mounted partially in the housing and spaced from the imaging surface, for transporting toner on an outer surface of the donor member to a region opposed from the imaging surface. An electrode member is disposed in between the donor member and the imaging surface. A system is provided for loading a region of the doner member with developer material. A charging device ion charges the toner loaded on the region of the donor member to a predefined charge level. A power supply electrically biases the electrode member positioned in close proximity to the imaging member to detach toner from the region of the donor member as to form a toner cloud for developing the latent image.

摘要翻译： 一种用于显影记录在成像表面上的潜像的装置，包括：壳体，其限定存储显影剂材料供应的储存器，其中所述显影剂材料具有约20至30微欧/克的预定义摩擦电荷。 施主构件部分地安装在壳体中并与成像表面间隔开，用于将施主构件的外表面上的调色剂输送到与成像表面相对的区域。 电极构件设置在供体构件和成像表面之间。 提供了一种系统，用于将二体构件的区域用显影剂材料加载。 充电装置离子将负载在供体构件的区域上的调色剂充电到预定的充电水平。 电源电极偏置位于成像构件附近的电极构件，以从供体构件的区域分离调色剂以形成用于显影潜像的调色剂云。

公开(公告)号：US07623254B2

公开(公告)日：2009-11-24

申请号：US10974768

申请日：2004-10-28

申请人： Elliott A. Eklund ,  Jeffrey J. Folkins ,  David L. Knierim

发明人： Elliott A. Eklund ,  Jeffrey J. Folkins ,  David L. Knierim

IPC分类号： G06K15/00 ,  B41J29/393

CPC分类号： B41J2/16579 ,  Y10S707/99953

摘要： A method for testing inkjets for defects in an inkjet device includes determining, based on the likelihood that one or more inkjets are defective, whether to perform an inkjet defect test, The method may also include, identifying, if it is determined to perform an inkjet defect test, which inkjets to test based on properties of the inkjets, the number of identified inkjets being less than a total number of inkjets in the inkjet device; and testing the identified inkjets for defects using an image sensor.

摘要翻译： 一种用于测试喷墨设备中的缺陷的喷墨打印机的方法包括基于一个或多个喷墨缺陷的可能性来确定是否执行喷墨缺陷测试。该方法还可以包括，识别是否确定执行喷墨 缺陷测试，基于喷墨打印机的性质测试的喷墨头，所识别的喷墨喷嘴的数量小于喷墨设备中的喷墨喷嘴总数; 并使用图像传感器测试识别出的缺陷。

公开(公告)号：US07060522B2

公开(公告)日：2006-06-13

申请号：US09986107

申请日：2001-11-07

申请人： Peter M. Gulvin ,  Elliott A. Eklund ,  Joel A. Kubby

发明人： Peter M. Gulvin ,  Elliott A. Eklund ,  Joel A. Kubby

IPC分类号： H01L21/00

CPC分类号： B81C1/00476 ,  B81B2203/0127 ,  B81C2201/053

摘要： A structure for a micro-device is fabricated by forming: a first layer of sacrificial material, a layer of structural material over the first sacrificial material layer, a second layer of sacrificial material over the structural material layer and a protective layer over the second sacrificial material layer. A release etch is used to remove the first and second sacrificial material layers at approximately the same rate. A structural feature may also be fabricated by forming: a first layer of a first material; a layer of structural material over the first layer of the first material; at least one cut in the structural material layer; and, a first layer of a sacrificial material, different from the first material, over the structural material layer such that an interface is created between the first layer of the sacrificial material and the first layer of the first material at the at least one cut.

公开(公告)号：US06695435B1

公开(公告)日：2004-02-24

申请号：US10448135

申请日：2003-05-30

申请人： Hui Cheng ,  Beilei Xu ,  Elliott A. Eklund

发明人： Hui Cheng ,  Beilei Xu ,  Elliott A. Eklund

IPC分类号： B41J221

CPC分类号： B41J2/2139 ,  B41J2/0451 ,  B41J2/04586 ,  H04N1/58

摘要： Selective replacement methods and systems based on a stochastic process use a redundancy inherent, for example, in a four-plus color printing system that has full-width colors. Since the absorption spectra of the four or more colors usually overlap to some extent, there is a redundancy that can be used to reduce artifacts, such as streaks. Since the human visual system is much less sensitive to chrominance changes, than to luminance changes, matching the luminance of a pixel where a color is missing, to the luminance of the original color or to the luminance of the pixels that neighbor that pixel can adequately to reduce the severity of the artifact caused by the missing color while reducing the chance that the replacing process itself introduces any additional artifacts.

摘要翻译： 基于随机过程的选择性替换方法和系统使用固有的冗余，例如在具有全宽颜色的四色彩色打印系统中。 由于四种或更多种颜色的吸收光谱通常在一定程度上重叠，所以存在可用于减少伪像（例如条纹）的冗余。 由于人类视觉系统对于色度变化的敏感程度要比亮度变化（匹配缺失颜色的像素的亮度）与原始颜色的亮度或邻近该像素的像素的亮度相匹配 以减少由缺失颜色引起的伪像的严重性，同时减少替换过程本身引入任何其他工件的机会。

公开(公告)号：US6066422A

公开(公告)日：2000-05-23

申请号：US178172

申请日：1998-10-23

申请人： Sue E. Blaszak ,  Edul N. Dalal ,  Kristen M. Natale-Hoffman ,  Elliott A. Eklund ,  Paul C. Julien

发明人： Sue E. Blaszak ,  Edul N. Dalal ,  Kristen M. Natale-Hoffman ,  Elliott A. Eklund ,  Paul C. Julien

IPC分类号： G03G9/09 ,  G03G13/01

CPC分类号： G03G9/09 ,  G03G13/013

摘要： A process including:blending toners from a set of primary toners to form a set of secondary toners; anddeveloping the secondary color toners to form spot color images, wherein the color gamut of all said images embody substantially the entire PANTONE.RTM. spot color space.

摘要翻译： 一个过程包括：从一组主要调色剂中混合调色剂以形成一组次级调色剂; 并且显影次级调色剂以形成专色图像，其中所有所述图像的色域基本上体现在整个PANTONE TM专色空间中。