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Printer head for serial dot printer

US4377348A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 16, 1981
Grant dateMar 22, 1983
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Expiry dateMar 16, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01F7/08
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A serial printer head is provided which comprises a sandwich structure (1,3,5) of a first circular yoke plate (1), a cylindrical magnet (3) and a ring shaped second yoke plate (5); a plurality of electromagnets (2,4) positioned on the first yoke plate (1) at predetermined angle intervals; an armature-print-needle assembly (7,8,9,10) having a circular resilient spring (7), a plurality of armatures (8) and a plurality of print needles (9) placed on the sandwich structure (1,3,5) so that the sandwich structure (1,3,5), electromagnets (2,4) and the armatures (8) provide first a substantially closed magnetic path; and an adjusting yoke (12) attached to the sandwich structure (1,3,5). The adjusting yoke (12) has the magnetic characteristics that the magnetic reluctance increases as the temperature increases. Although the flux generated by the permanent magnet (3) is changed due to the change of the temperature, that flux change is compensated for by the presence of the adjusting yoke (12).

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