US3562761A - Drop phasing in ink drop writing apparatus - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to apparatus for writing with ink drops which are charged by a video signal and directed through an electric field to be deflected in accordance with the charge, and more particularly to improvements therein.
- An ink drop writing apparatus has been developed wherein ink is applied under pressure to a nozzle.
- the nozzle is vibrated in response to a synchronizing signal which is also used for synchronizing video singals.
- the vibrated nozzle causes an ink jet, which is emitted therefrom to break up into uniform drops at a distance away from the tip of the nozzle. The rate of such drop formation is determined by the vibration rate.
- a means for charging each drop is provided at the location at which the ink stream begins to break into drops. This means usually is a conductive tube or cylinder.
- Video signals are applied between the nozzle and the cylinder in response to which a drop assumes a charge determined by the amplitude of the video signal at the time that the drop breaks away from the jet stream.
- the drop thereafter passes through a fixed electric field, as a result of which it is deflected by an amount determined by the amplitude of the charge on the drop.
- a writing medium upon which the drop falls. Since the deflection of the drop is determined by the charge on the drop, the arrangement enables one to write information with the ink which is carried by the video signal.
- the drops are charged by electrostatic induction. If the field established by the video signal is maintained while the drop separates, the drop will carry a charge determined by this video signal. Obviously, if the video signal is in the process of rising or falling or is not present at the time the drops separate, the charge on the drop will not be that of the video signal. In order to place specific charges on given drops, one must know when drop separation is occurring or the phasing of the drop formation relative to the video signal. In the absence of control over drop separation time, because of unpredictable phase changes in the ink drop formation, the uniformity and the fidelity of the printing are affected adversely.
- An object of this invention is the provision of an improved system for enabling detection and correction of incorrect ink drop phasing. This is achieved by providing test video signals for charging ink drops which operate to charge two adjacent ink drops and then do not charge the succeeding two ink drops. As a result the two adjacent charged ink drops are positively driven in opposite directions due to the repelling effects of their charges whereby they clump with the adjacent uncharged drops. As a result, if the phasing of the drops is proper, they generate a a strong fixed frequency signal at the detector. If the phasing of the drops is improper the fixed frequency is no longer present. The phasing of the drop formation may then be changed to provide the proper phasing.
- FIG. 1 is a block schematic drawing of a prior art ink drop writing system.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing of a mechanical arrangement for an ink drop printing system in which this invention may be employed.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a series of wave shapes to assist in an understanding of this invention.
- FIG. 4 is a block schematic diagram illustrating the electrical arrangement required for this invention.
- FIG. is a block schematic diagram of the details of the detector and video test signal circuits which are referred to in FIG. 4, and
- FIG. 6 illustrates the circuit details of the video logic required with this invention.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of the presently known arrangement which is shown to afford a better understanding of the invention.
- An ink reservoir 10 provides ink under pressure to tubing 12 which is flexible.
- An electromechanical transducer 14 is usually placed adjacent to or around the tubing. The transducer is driven in response to signals from a source 16. The transducer serves to vibrate and/ or compress the tubing 12 in the region of the nozzle 18. This results in an ink jet being emitted which at a short distance downstream breaks up into drops 22 which are formed at a rate determined by the frequency of the vibration.
- a charging tunnel 24 is provided in the region Where the stream 20 breaks down into drops.
- This comprises a conductive cylinder to which video signals from a video signal source 26 are applied.
- the video signals establish a field within the charging tunnel so that the. ink drops which are formed therein assume a charge determined by the amplitude of the video signal present at the time the drop separates from the ink jet 20.
- the ink drop writer 40 is attached to a traveling nut 42 which is free to move on a journally supported lead screw 44.
- a nut 46 which is free to slide along a rod 48. Accordingly, as the lead screw 44 is rotated in one direction or the other, the ink drop writer will move in a direction dictated by this rotation along a path parallel to the lead screw.
- ink drop writer By ink drop writer is meant a housing which supports the ink reservoir 10, tubing 12, transducer 14, nozzle 20, and charging tunnel 24.
- the video and sync signal sources are placed elsewhere and are connected to the ink drop writer by wires.
- the function of the deflection electrodes 28 is performed by a pair of spaced plates 41 which extend the path of travel of the ink drop writer and are placed so that the stream of drops pass therethrough on their way to the paper.
- a trough (not shown) identical to the tube 34 is provided which extends adjacent the bottom plate.
- the paper 50 upon which writing is to occur moves in a direction vertical to the direction of the path of motion of the ink drop writer.
- a motor 52 has a first shaft 54 extending therefrom to a /2 sector gear 56.
- the motor has a second shaft 58 extending therefrom to a gear box 60, which functions to reverse the direction of rotation of the shaft 58. This reverse motion is communicated through a shaft 62 to another /2 sector gear 64 in which it terminates.
- the sector gears are cut so that as the motor rotates the sector gear 56 engages a gear 66 attached to one end of the lead screw to rotate the lead screw 44 so that the ink drop writer is moved from left to right.
- Motor control apparatus 70 serves the function of energizing the motor to rotate over the interval required for the ink drop writer to make one round trip path along the lead screw. The motor control then waits until it receives a signal from a gate, shown in FIG. 4, which enables the motor to again function to cause the ink drop writer to make a round trip path.
- a sensing switch circuit 72 has a feeler 74 which trips the sensing switch circuit when the ink drop writer returns to the home position.
- the sensing switch circuit may be any well known arrangement for generating a signal when the feeler 74 is actuated. This can be, for example, an arrangement for connecting a battery to the terminal 71 until the feeler 74 is out of contact with the ink drop writer.
- a video signal having the wave form 80 is required. This wave form is achieved by generating a 33 kHz. rectangular pulse train and inhibiting each succeeded two pulses, as indicated by the dotted lines 82 in the wave train.
- Drops 84 which are generated in phase with the video signal, will assume a charge-uncharge pattern as represented by the drops bearing pulses, indicative of the charged drops and the ones without any sign indicative of no charge.
- two adjacent drops have charges. Accordingly, they will repel each other with a rather strong force, one of the drops being pushed back toward the preceding uncharged drop while the other drop is pushed forward toward the succeeding uncharged drop. Since there are no shielding drops between the charged drops, the operation occurs rather quickly and within a short distance from the charging tunnel.
- the drop pattern obtained from the combined drops is shown by the drop representations 86.
- the wave form 88 illustrates the signal which is generated by a transducer receiving these drops. This represents a wave train having a 16.5 kHz. frequency.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing illustrative of the circuitry required in conjunction with the ink drop forming and charging apparatus. Those structures which are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 and which perform the same functions as are described in connection with the description of these figures have the same reference numerals applied thereto.
- the 66 kHz. sync signals are applied from the generator 16 to the phase change network 92, and to the video test signal circuit 94.
- the phase change network under control of a phase control network 96, applies 66 kHz. signals in one or the other of two phases to the transducer 14, which vibrates the nozzle.
- the ink stream which is emitted from the nozzle 18 breaks down into drops within the charging tunnel 24 and receives the video signals, which by induction apply charges to the drops which are formed. These drops fol low a trajectory (without being passed through a pair of electrodes 28, as shown in FIG. 1) which causes them to strike a rod 98.
- This may be a conductive rod, or a rod of piezo-electric material, or some other transducing material. If the rod is conductive, it collects the charges from the charged drops and produces a signal wave train 88, as shown in FIG. 3. If the rod is made of piezo-electric material, a signal wave train 88 is generated. In either case, the signal wave train is established across a resistor 100 which is then amplified by the amplifier 102. The out- .put of the amplifier is applied to a detecting network 104.
- the detecting network determines whether or not a 16.5 kHz. signal is present. If it is, then the phase control network 96 is operated to cause the phase change network 92 to switch the phase of the 66 kHz. signal by 180. This causes the drops to be formed by the vibrating nozzle 18 with the 180 shift in phase. As a result, the drops are properly charged, in the manner illustrated in FIG. 3.
- the output of the sensing switch 72 is applied to a delay circuit 106. This delays the enabling of the phase control network 96 to respond to the output of the detector 104 until such time as the required number of ink drops for making a good sample has been collected.
- the detector 98 is supported over a container 99 into which the spent ink drops fall.
- FIG. shows details of the video test signals circuitry as well as of the detector, phase control network, and phase change network.
- the drop transducer 98 applies the output which it generates in response to receiving drops, to the amplifier 102.
- the output of the amplifier is applied to a 16.5 kHz. filter 105. This is a narrow-band filter, passing signals centered at 16.5 kHz. to integrator 107.
- the integrator is used to insure that the signal amplitude being generated is more than that received from an occasional group of drops.
- the output of the integrator is shaped by a Schmitt trigger circuit 108.
- the output of the Schmitt trigger 108 is applied to an inverter 109.
- the output of the inverter is applied to an AND gate 110.
- the AND gate also receives a train of pulses from a multivibrator 112. Another input to the AND gate is that received from the delay circuit 106. It
- the sensing switch 72 which detected when the delay circuit was in its home position delayed the resulting signal to enable a suitable sample of the drops to be collected by the drop transducer 98.
- the inverter 109 In the presence of an output from the Schmitt trigger 108, the inverter 109 inhibits the AND gate 110 with its output. In the absence of an input to the integrator 107, the inverter 109 output together with an output from the delay circuit 106 enable a pulse from the multivibrator 112 to pass through the AND gate 110.
- the AND gate output drives a flip-flop 114 causing it to go from one state to the other. If it is in a state with its Q gutput high then it will be driven to the state where its Q output is high. If it is in the state where its Q output is high,'then its state will be reversed.
- the respective Q and 6 outputs of the flip-flop 114 are connected to two AND gates respectively 116, 118.
- the output of the 66 kHz. signal generator 16 is directly applied to the AND gate 118 and through a phase inverter 120 is applied as another input to the AND gate 116.
- the operation of the circuit arrangement of FIG. 5 should be clear.
- the output of the Schmitt trigger 108 when present, indicates that the drops are being formed in phase and therefore inhibits AND gate 110 so that the flip-flop 114 is not driven.
- a pulse from the multivibrator 112 appears at the AND gate output and drives flip-flop 114 to its opposite stable state. This causes one or the other of the phase select gates 116, 118 to become enabled whereby the phase of a 66 kc. signal which is applied to a succeeding OR gate 122, is reversed.
- the output of the OR gate 122 is applied to the transducer 14 to be used to vibrate the nozzle and thus determine the phase of drop formation.
- the output of the delay circuit 106 can also be used to instruct the motor control 70 (shown in FIG. 2) that the end of a sampling period has occurred, and that it is time to initiate another writing line.
- the output of the integrator 106 and the output of the AND gate are applied to an OR gate 124, the output of which is applied to an AND gate 126.
- the other input to the AND gate is the output delay circuit 106. Accordingly, in the presence of a delay circuit output together with an output from either the Schmitt trigger or the AND gate indicative of the fact that the phase detecting network is operated, the signal is applied to the motor control circuit 70 to instruct it to cause the motor to proceed to another cycle of operation.
- the test video signal is generated by applying the output of the 66 kc, signal generator 16 to a divider circuit 130, which may comprise a flip-flop, which divides the signal by one-half.
- the output of thee divider circuit is applied to an AND gate 132.
- This AND gate is enabled in the presence of a signal from the sensing switch. Its output, consisting of a 33 kHz. signal is applied to video logic circuits 134.
- the output of the video logic circuits constitutes the video signal having a requisite waveform.
- FIG. 6 is a block schematic diagram of the video logic 134.
- the 33 kHz. pulse is applied to a delay circuit 134 which provides a short delay to enable the circuits to attain steady state after the sensing switch has operated.
- the output of the delay circuit is applied to a dividing flip-flop 136, which in response to the 33 kHz. input provides a 16.5 kHz. output. This is applied to a 15 microsecond one shot circuit 138, and to a 7.5 microsecond one shot circuit 140.
- the output of the 15 microsecond one shot circuit is also applied to a second 7.5 microsecond one shot circuit 142.
- the outputs of the two 7.5 microsecond one shot circuits are applied to an OR gate 144.
- the output of the OR gate comprises the desired video signal.
- the 7.5 microsecond one shot circuit is a multivibrator circuit which in response to receiving an input pulse provides an output signal pulse which is 7.5 microseconds wide.
- the 15 microsecond one shot circuit also is a multivibrator which, in response to its input provides an output which is delayed 15 microseconds from its input. This output triggers the second 7.5 microsecond one shot circuit 142 which provides a second 7.5 microsecond pulse 15 microseconds after the commencement of the first 7.5 microsecond pulse.
- the operation of the circuit just described is to provide two 7.5 microsecond pulses whose leading edges are spaced apart 15 microseconds for every 16.5 kHz. pulse which is received. This results in the wave train which is shown in FIG. 3.
- this invention by charging two adjacent drops and then not charging the following two drops provides a mechanisms whereby the adjacent charge drops positively repel each other to join with the uncharged drops on either side of these charge drops.
- This serves to make the detection of whether or not the drops have been generated with the proper phase to receive the charges, a simple, and binary operation. That is, if the drops are generated in phase with the video signal and thus are charged properly, the phasing of the generation of the drops is left unaifected. If the detection shows the improper drop phasing by the absence of a 16.5 kHz. signal, then the phasing of the drop generation is shifted to correct for this. This test is made upon the completion of every round trip of the ink drop writer and thus proper operation of the ink drop writer is maintained.
- an electromotive transducer vibrates the nozzle, synchronizing signals from a source drive the transducer, the nozzle emits an ink jet which breaks into drops in synchronism with the vibration of the nozzle, a charging tunnel is positioned in the region at which the ink jet breaks down into drops, a video signal source synchronized by sync signals applies its signals to the charging tunnel for charging each drop formed therein, said charged ink drops passing out from the charging tunnel,
- the improvement for establishing correct phase of formation of said ink drops relative to the application of a video signal in said charging tunnel comprising: video signal means for inhibiting every other two drop charging signals applied to said charging tunnel from said video signal source for charging the first two of each four drops and not charging the last two of each four drops, detecting means positioned adjacent said charging tunnel for intercepting all of the ink drops passing therethrough, said detecting means including transducer means for generating a signal in response to each drop received by said detecting means,
- a filter in said means for detecting having a pass frequency equal to the frequency of the occurrence of said two adjacent pulses in said video signal wave train.
- said means for generating a video signal includes divider means connected to said sync signal source providing a pulse train at one-fourth the frequency of said sync signals, and means responsive to said dividing means for producing a pulse train comprising two adjacent pulses for each pulse in a wave train output of said dividing means which are spaced from the succeeding two pulses by the interval required for two adjacent pulses.
- said video signal means includes means connected to said source of sync signals for producing video signals having a frequency which is one-fourth of said sync signals, and
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| US3631511A (en) * | 1970-05-08 | 1971-12-28 | Dick Co Ab | Drop charge compensated ink drop video printer |
| US3681778A (en) * | 1971-05-03 | 1972-08-01 | Dick Co Ab | Phasing of ink drop charging |
| US3761941A (en) * | 1972-10-13 | 1973-09-25 | Mead Corp | Phase control for a drop generating and charging system |
| JPS4971813A (de) * | 1972-09-25 | 1974-07-11 | ||
| US3831728A (en) * | 1972-12-11 | 1974-08-27 | Ibm | Ink jet printing apparatus with overrun of printhead to insure better visibility |
| US3834505A (en) * | 1972-12-11 | 1974-09-10 | Ibm | Ink jet printing apparatus with line sweep and incremental printing facilities |
| US3846800A (en) * | 1973-10-03 | 1974-11-05 | Ibm | Ink jet recording method and apparatus |
| US3972052A (en) * | 1972-10-24 | 1976-07-27 | Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd. | Compensation apparatus for high speed dot printer |
| US4046961A (en) * | 1976-03-04 | 1977-09-06 | Burroughs Corporation | Conditioning system for transducer signals |
| US4050076A (en) * | 1975-08-18 | 1977-09-20 | Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Public Corporation | Deflection means including a deflection electrode mounted on a travelling carriage in an ink jet system printer |
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| US4150384A (en) * | 1977-10-17 | 1979-04-17 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method and apparatus for synchronizing charging of droplets of a pressurized conductive liquid stream |
| US4217594A (en) * | 1977-10-17 | 1980-08-12 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method and apparatus for determining the velocity of a liquid stream of droplets |
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| US4417256A (en) * | 1980-05-09 | 1983-11-22 | International Business Machines Corporation | Break-off uniformity maintenance |
| US4484199A (en) * | 1982-03-30 | 1984-11-20 | Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd. | Method and apparatus for detecting failure of an ink jet printing device |
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| US3631511A (en) * | 1970-05-08 | 1971-12-28 | Dick Co Ab | Drop charge compensated ink drop video printer |
| US3681778A (en) * | 1971-05-03 | 1972-08-01 | Dick Co Ab | Phasing of ink drop charging |
| JPS5431689B1 (de) * | 1971-05-03 | 1979-10-09 | ||
| JPS4971813A (de) * | 1972-09-25 | 1974-07-11 | ||
| US3761941A (en) * | 1972-10-13 | 1973-09-25 | Mead Corp | Phase control for a drop generating and charging system |
| US3972052A (en) * | 1972-10-24 | 1976-07-27 | Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd. | Compensation apparatus for high speed dot printer |
| US3831728A (en) * | 1972-12-11 | 1974-08-27 | Ibm | Ink jet printing apparatus with overrun of printhead to insure better visibility |
| US3834505A (en) * | 1972-12-11 | 1974-09-10 | Ibm | Ink jet printing apparatus with line sweep and incremental printing facilities |
| US3846800A (en) * | 1973-10-03 | 1974-11-05 | Ibm | Ink jet recording method and apparatus |
| US4050076A (en) * | 1975-08-18 | 1977-09-20 | Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Public Corporation | Deflection means including a deflection electrode mounted on a travelling carriage in an ink jet system printer |
| US4046961A (en) * | 1976-03-04 | 1977-09-06 | Burroughs Corporation | Conditioning system for transducer signals |
| US4128841A (en) * | 1977-09-28 | 1978-12-05 | Burroughs Corporation | Droplet microphone |
| US4150384A (en) * | 1977-10-17 | 1979-04-17 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method and apparatus for synchronizing charging of droplets of a pressurized conductive liquid stream |
| US4217594A (en) * | 1977-10-17 | 1980-08-12 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method and apparatus for determining the velocity of a liquid stream of droplets |
| US4417256A (en) * | 1980-05-09 | 1983-11-22 | International Business Machines Corporation | Break-off uniformity maintenance |
| WO1982001768A1 (en) * | 1980-11-21 | 1982-05-27 | Ncr Co | Ink droplet sensing apparatus |
| US4484199A (en) * | 1982-03-30 | 1984-11-20 | Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd. | Method and apparatus for detecting failure of an ink jet printing device |
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