Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Print head frame structure and control
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Application No.: US17729399Application Date: 2022-04-26
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Publication No.: US12053991B2Publication Date: 2024-08-06
- Inventor: Mark Rietbergen , Johan P. Smits , Sjirk H. Koekebakker
- Applicant: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Venlo
- Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
- Current Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Venlo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: EP 173166 2021.05.10
- Main IPC: B41J2/21
- IPC: B41J2/21 ; B41J2/045 ; B41J11/00

Abstract:
The invention relates to a print system comprising at least two page-wide arrays of ink jet print heads, positioned in a frame over a conveyor belt for transporting a substrate underneath the arrays, three sensors for reading markers on the conveyor belt and a control unit that is configured to derive control signals from encoder signals of the three sensors. Two sensors are directly connected to the frame and a third sensor is connected to one of the said two sensors by an element with virtually no thermal expansion, extending in transport direction. The control signals, comprising signals for controlling a transport speed of the conveyor belt and line pulses for the at least two print heads, are derived in such a way that an amount of thermal expansion of the frame is determined and an absolute print resolution is maintained.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220355595A1 PRINT HEAD FRAME STRUCTURE AND CONTROL Public/Granted day:2022-11-10
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