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Ink-jet printing method and device therefor

US4231047A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 30, 1979
Grant dateOct 28, 1980
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Expiry dateMay 30, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J2/025
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A first ultrasonic transducer is normally energized so that the ink jet normally emerging through a nozzle of an ink manifold containing the pressurized ink may break into an ink drop within a charge electrode and the charged ink drop may be deflected by a pair of deflection electrodes so as to travel toward a gutter. In response to the ink-placement signal a second ultrasonic transducer is de-energized when it has been energized in phase or in opposite phase with the first ultrasonic transducer when the second ultrasonic transducer has been de-energized so that the formation of each ink drop may occur outside of the charge electrode and the uncharged ink drop may travel to strike against a recording medium.

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