Ballistic aerosol marking apparatus for treating a substrate

US6340216B1 · kind B1 · 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
• Karen A. Moffat · Brantford, CA
• T. Brian McAneney · Burlington, CA
• Richard P. N. Veregin · Mississauga, CA
• Maria N. V. McDougall · Oakville, CA
• Danielle C. Boils · Mississauga, CA
• Paul D. Szabo · Heart's Delight-Islington, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 22, 2002
• 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

An apparatus for treating a substrate is disclosed in which a propellant stream is passed through a channel and directed toward a substrate. Substrate pre-marking or post-marking treatment material 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 treatment material allow for high throughput, high resolution in-situ treatment. Marking materials and treatment 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.