Ballistic aerosol making apparatus for marking with a liquid material

US6328409A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Eric Peeters · Fremont, US
• Jaan Noolandi · Mississauga, CA
• Raj B. Apte · Palo Alto, US
• Philip D. Floyd · Redwood City, US
• Jonathan A. Small · Los Altos, US
• Gregory J. Kovacs · Webster, US
• Meng H. Lean · Santa Clara, US
• Armin R. Volkel · Mountain View, US
• Steven B. Bolte · Rochester, US
• An-Chang Shi · Hamilton, CA
• Frederick J. Endicott · Redwood City, US
• Gregory B. Anderson · Woodside, US
• Dan A. Hays · Fairport, US
• Joel A. Kubby · Rochester, US
• Warren B. Jackson · San Francisco, US
• Andrew Berlin · San Jose, US
• G. A. Neville Connell · Cupertino, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J2202/02
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A marking apparatus is disclosed in which a propellant stream is passed through a channel and directed toward a substrate. A liquid marking material, such as ink, is controllably introduced into the propellant stream and imparted with sufficient kinetic energy thereby to be made incident upon a substrate. A multiplicity of channels for directing the propellant and marking material allow for high throughput, high resolution marking. Multiple marking materials may be introduced into the channel and mixed therein prior to being made incident on the substrate, or mixed or superimposed on the substrate without registration. One example is a single-pass, full-color printer.