Devices, systems, and methods for supplying makeup air through openings in carrier plates of printing system

US11697296B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Douglas K. Herrmann · Webster, US
• Linn C. Hoover · Webster, US
• Patrick J. Howe · Fairport, US
• Joseph C. Sheflin · Macedon, US
• Robert Jian Zhang · Brighton, US
• John Baker · Kitchener, CA
• Brian M. Balthasar · Tonawanda, US
• Glenn D. Batchelor · Fairport, US
• Anthony S. Condello · Webster, US
• Ali R. Dergham · Fairport, US
• Timothy P. Foley · Marion, US
• Richard A. Kalb · Rochester, US
• Peter J. Knausdorf · Henrietta, US
• Jason M. LeFevre · Penfield, US
• Jack T. LeStrange · Macedon, US
• Chu-heng Liu · Penfield, US
• Paul J. McConville · Webster, US
• Seemit Praharaj · Webster, US
• Palghat S. Ramesh · Pittsford, US
• Erwin Ruiz · Rochester, US
• Emmett James Spence · Honeoye Falls, US
• Rachel Lynn Tanchak · Rochester, US
• Kareem Tawil · Pittsford, US
• Carlos M. Terrero · Ontario, US
• Megan Zielenski · Holland Patent, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2021
• Grant date: Jul 11, 2023
• Expiry date: Mar 29, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J11/0085
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing system comprises a print fluid deposition assembly, a media transport device, and an air flow control system. The print fluid deposition assembly comprises a carrier plate and a printhead arranged to eject a print fluid through an opening of the carrier plate to a deposition region. The media transport device comprises a movable support surface to transport a print medium along a process direction through the deposition region, the media transport device holding the print medium against the movable support surface by vacuum suction. The air flow control system is arranged to selectively flow air through the opening of the carrier plate between the carrier plate and the printhead based on a location of a print medium transported by the media transport device relative to the printhead.