EP0027734A1 - Imprimante à matrice de points - Google Patents

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EP0027734A1
EP0027734A1 EP80303686A EP80303686A EP0027734A1 EP 0027734 A1 EP0027734 A1 EP 0027734A1 EP 80303686 A EP80303686 A EP 80303686A EP 80303686 A EP80303686 A EP 80303686A EP 0027734 A1 EP0027734 A1 EP 0027734A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/001—Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/22—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of impact or pressure on a printing material or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/23—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of impact or pressure on a printing material or impression-transfer material using print wires
    • B41J2/235—Print head assemblies
    • B41J2/24—Print head assemblies serial printer type

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  • the present invention relates to a dot matrix printing device for accounting, data terminal, telewriting and similar office machines, comprising a row of dot printing elements, the row extending transverse to a direction of relative movement between the printing elements and the medium on which they print.
  • a dot matrix printing device for accounting, data terminal, telewriting and similar office machines, comprising a row of dot printing elements, the row extending transverse to a direction of relative movement between the printing elements and the medium on which they print.
  • the invention will be described mainly in terms of wire printers in which the printing elements are wires activated for impact printing of the dots by electromagnets it is not restricted to a particlar type of printing element.
  • thermal dot matrix printers are known using resistive printing elements heated by current pulses.
  • a dot matrix printing device in which, to increase the printing speed, the printing ends of the wires are disposed side by side along two rows, parallel relative to each other and perpendicular to the direction of forward movement of the printing head carrying the wires, referred to as the printing direction.
  • the wires are selectively actuated to write at high speed the characters of a line according to a dot matrix which is very readable but with rather low definition.
  • the drawback of such a device is that the speed of the movement of the head-carrying carriage is very high, as a result of which the mechanical parts are subjected to considerable wear, and the control circuit is necessarily complex and therefore costly.
  • a dot matrix printing device is also known in which, to improve the printing quality, the printing ends of the wires are aligned on a single row which is slanted relative to the printing direction. In this manner the characters are written with high dot definition since the dot spacing in the vertical direction is less than the dot spacing along the row and the printed dots can even overlap in a vertical column of dots.
  • This printing device suffers from the drawback of being rather slow, and thus little suited to being used in those machines such a data terminals, where a high writing speed is required.
  • a first object of the present invention is that of providing a printing device able to write symbols and characters both at high speed, according to low definition dot matrices, and at low speed according to high definition dot matrices.
  • a second object of the present invention is that of providing a device which, though capable of writing at high speed, is very reliable and inexpensive.
  • the printing device comprises a base 10 (Fig. 1) provided with four vertical sides 11, 12, 13 and 14 all parallel to each other. Between the sides 12 and 13 a platen 16 is mounted to support a recording medium 17 which, for example, may consist in a sheet of paper, a continuous form, a cheque, a small book or a bank card.
  • a printing head 20 with wires which will be described in detail hereinbelow, is mounted on a carriage 21 which is slidable along a front guide 22, fixed to the sides 12 and 13 and parallel with the platen 16.
  • An inked ribbon 23 is arranged in between the head 16 and the bar 16.
  • the carriage 21 For movement in front of the platen 16, the carriage 21 is in engagement with a lead screw 25, rotatably mounted in the sides 12 and 13 and coupled directly to an electric motor 26, for example of stepping type, which controls its rotation.
  • a synchronisation disc 28 is keyed on the screw 25 and has a series of radial notches, angularly equidistant one from the other.
  • a photo-transistor 29 is disposed facing the notches and co-operates with a corresponding light source 30.
  • the photo-transistor 29 generates a synchronisation pulse FP at each elementary displacement of P of the head 20 along the direction of movement of the carriage 21, which we shall also call the printing direction.
  • the displacement P is 0.0529 mm, and has been selected according to criteria which will be described below.
  • the printing head 20 (Fig. 2) comprises a frame 33, on the front part of which eighteen control electromagnets 32 are mounted, which are individually joined to an equal number of writing wires 31.
  • the wires 31 have a diameter of 0.3 mm and are guided at their front end by a guide 36 which holds them aligned in a single row Z-Z ( F ig. 4).
  • the distance between the axes of the wires 31 is 0.423 mm and the total length 1 of the row is 7.491 mm. This is equal to twice the height of h of a line of characters of standard type, plus the space b between two lines. These values have been chosen so as to yield a line pitch of 4.23 mm, which is a standard spacing widely used in printers.
  • the head 20 (Fig. 2) is mounted on the carriage 21 in such a manner as to be variably oriented relative to the direction of writing.
  • the front or guide 36 of the head 20 is rotatable in a support 37 of the carriage 21.
  • a helical gear 39 is fixed to the head 20 and engages with a screw 40, rotatably mounted in the support 37.
  • a disc 41, solid with the head 20, is provided with a series of radial notches 42 facing which, on the carriage 21, a photo-transistor 44 is arranged, co-operating with a corresponding light source 43 to generate a synchronisation pulse FT ( F ig. 3) when the head 20 is oriented according to one of the predetermined angles.
  • F ig. 3 synchronisation pulse
  • a member 46 On the end of the screw 40 (Fig. 2) is one member 46 with front teeth of a dog coupling. When the carriage 21 is at rest at its extreme left position, the member 46 engages with a corresponding member 47 which also has front teeth and is mounted on a shaft 48 rotatable between the sides 11 and 12 of the base 10.
  • a toothed gear 50 On the shaft 48, between the sides 11 and 12, a toothed gear 50, is keyed. This gear engages with a toothed gear 51 mounted on the shaft 52 of an electric motor 54, of stepping type.
  • the shaft 48 is axially slidable, and a helical spring 55 urges the gear 50 constantly towards the side 12.
  • the electro-magnets 32 are of known type, for example as described in our Italian Patent No. 1011721 and have an actuation cycle T of about 1000 psec.
  • the circuit used to control the excitation of the electromagnets 32 and the electric motors 26 and 52 is illustrated in Fig. 3 and comprises a central unit 60 into which the data of the alphanumerical characters and other symbols to be printed are fed along a first channel 61 from an output device 62. Along a second channel 64, from an operational console 65, the data relating to the type of printing to be effected arrive at the central unit.
  • the central unit 60 is connected to two random access memories RAM 66 and 67, by means of two channels 69 and 70 respectively.
  • the central unit 60 is also connected, through a channel 71 to a circuit 72 which controls the motor 26 and, through a channel 73, to a circuit 74 which controls the motor 54.
  • the control circuits 72 and 74 are of known type, for example of the type described in our Italian Patent No. 1,009,48.
  • the signal FT generated by the photo-transistor 44 is sent to the central unit 60, after having been squared by a monostable circuit 75.
  • the signal FP issuing from the photo-transistor 29 is fed to a monostable squaring circuit 76 which generates a corresponding square signal FQ, which is fed to a binary counter 77 which generates a print enabling signal FS.
  • the signal FQ is also despatched, as a feedback signal, to the control circuit 72 of the motor 26.
  • the binary counter 77 is connected to the central unit 60 by means of a channel 80 and can be set to overflow on a variable number, in such a manner that the time interval between two successive pulses of the signal FS may be suitably selected, as will be described hereinbelow.
  • the central unit 60 is connected to a multiple switching circuit 81 through two channels 82 and 83.
  • the circuit 81 is connected to a plurality of decoding ROM's 83a, 83b, Vietnamese83n, by means of a corresponding plurality of channels 84a, 84b, whil 84n.
  • Each ROM 83a, 83b, Vietnamese83n has 18 output lines 85a, 85b,... 85n respectively, connected to 18 NAND gates 86 which generate control signals EL 1 to EL 18 and each have an input connected to the output of the binary counter 77.
  • Each control signal EL 1 to EL 18 issuing from the gates 86 is fed to a corresponding monovibrator 87 which, in response, generates a pulse PZ which remains at the logical level 1 for the time actually necessary for controlling the electro-magnets 32 (approximately 500 psec); this pulse PZ is then fed through a driver circuit 88n, to the corresponding electro-magnet 32.
  • the carriage 21 (Fig. 1) and the head 20 are stopped at the left end 12, and the toothed members 46 and 47 are coupled together.
  • the motor 54 can rotate the head 20 relative to the support 37 of the carriage 21 through the gears 50 and 51, the coupling 46, 47, the screw 40 and the gear 39 disposing it in one of its possible positicns,suitably inclining the row of writing ends of the wires 31 relative to the horizontal direction of movement of the carriage 21.
  • three different inclinations of the head 20 relative to the horizontal direction have been assumed for the sake of example.
  • a first operating condition (Figs. 4 and 5) the head 20 is positioned in such a manner that the row Z-Z of the printing ends of the wires 31 is vertical.
  • the printing device can write either simultaneously two lines of characters of standard height. according to a matrix of 7 x 7 dots (Fig. 4) , or a single line of characters of double height 1 according to a matrix of 18 x 12 dots (Fig. 5), thus effecting, for example, letter heads and titles.
  • the head 20 again with the head 20 thus disposed, it is possible to write alpha-numerical characters, graphic symbols, non-Latin characters and ideograms, according to dot matrices with variable definition.
  • the definition and sizes of characters in the vertical direction are determined by the number of wires 31 chosen , while the corresponding values, in the horizontal direction, are determined by the pitch between two dots, with a consequent correction of the speed of movement of the carriage 21.
  • the speed of movement of the carriage 21 is indeed a determining factor to obtain a predetermined type of writing, account being taken of the time T taken by each electro-magnet 32 to effect a complete printing cycle.
  • the distance g between two successive dots in the horizontal direction of writing is equal to ten elementary pitches p and is 0.529 mm; this distance g is moved by the carriage 21 in a time T which is 1000 psec. Therefore, for this type of writing, the speed of travel of the carriage 21 is 529 mm/sec., the head 20 can write 200 characters per second, for each line, and thus have a productivity of 400 characters per second.
  • the console 65 is set up in such a manner that the data transmitted by the input device 62 (Fig. 3) to the central unit 60 are first memorised on alternate lines of the two RAM memories 66 and 67, and then despatched in parallel, two lines at a time, to the circuit 81 through the channel 82.
  • the central unit 60 through channel 83, conditions the circuit 81 so that the data from channel 82 go to the ROM 83a, through channel 84a, ruling out the other ROM's 83b across83n.
  • the central unit 60 in addition, through channel 80, sets the binary counter 77 in such a manner that every five pulses FQ a pulse FS is generated, enabling printing.
  • the central unit 60 controls the circuit 72 controlling the motor 26 in such a manner that the speed of travel of the carriage 21 be as predetermined.
  • the console 65 is set in such a manner that the data transmitted from the input device 62 (Fig. 3) to the central unit are memorised line by line in one of the RAM memories (66 or 67) and are then despatched serially to the circuit 81, through the channel 82.
  • the central unit 60 through channel 83, conditions the circuit 81 in such a manner that the data from channel 82 go to the ROM 83b, through the channel 84b, ruling out the other ROM's 83a,....83n.
  • the central unit 60 in addition, through channel 80, sets the binary counter 77 in such a manner that a pulse FS is generated every six pulses FQ, enabling printing.
  • the central unit 60 conditions the circuit 72 controlling the motor 26 in such a manner that the speed of travel of the carriage 21 be as predetermined.
  • the console 65 (Fig. 3) is set according to the type of character, ideogram or other symbol to be printed.
  • the central unit 60 controls the circuit 74 controlling the motor 54, in such a manner that the head 20 (Fig. 2) rotates, relative to the support 37 of the carriage 21 by an angle r (Fig. 6) predetermined relative to the vertical axis.
  • the photo-transistor 44 When the rotation has taken place, the photo-transistor 44 generates a feedback pulse FT which is fed to the central unit 60 to stop the motor 54 and the head 20.
  • the distance r between two successive dots in the horizontal direction of writing is equal to 5 elementary pitches p, and is 0.2645 mm.
  • the speed of travel of the carriage 21 is 264.5 mm/sec.
  • the head 20 can write 35 Kanji characters per second.
  • the data transmitted to the central unit 60 are memorised line by line in one of the RAM memories (66 or 67) and are then despatched serially, through channel 82, to the circuit 81 which despatches them to another of the n ROM's 83, not shown in order to simplify the drawing.
  • the central unit 60 through channel 80, sets the binary counter 77 in such a manner that every five FQ pulses a FS pulse, enabling printing, is generated.
  • the head 20 is inclined to a greater extent relative to the vertical axis, changing its setting and bringing it to a third operating condition.
  • the central unit 60 controls the circuit 74 controlling the motor 54 in such a manner that the head 20 (Fig. 2) rotates relative to the support 37 of the carriage 21 until it forms a predetermined angle ⁇ (Fig. 7) relative to the vertical axis.
  • the photo-transistor 44 When rotation has taken place, the photo-transistor 44 generates a feedback pulse FT which stops the motor 54 and therefore the head 20.
  • the angle ⁇ is 61 0 7'.
  • This angle ⁇ also is selected in such a manner that the projection d on to the horizontal axis of the distance between the centres of two adjacent wires 31 should be an exact multiple of the elementary pitch p. In particular, when 61°7', the distance d is equal to 7p and is 0.3703mm.
  • the distance s between two successive dots along the horizontal direction of writing is equal to four elementary pitches & and is 0.2116 mm.
  • the speed of travel of the carriage 21 is 211.6 mm/sec.
  • the head 20 can print about 83 characters per second.
  • the data transmitted to the central unit 60 are first memorised one line at a time on one of the RAM memories (66 or 67) and then despatched serially to the ROM 83n, through the circuit 81.
  • the central unit 60 sets the binary counter 77 in such a manner that at each FQ pulse a pulse FS enabling printing is generated.
  • the spacing of a character with 1/10" spacing is divided into 48 parts, and the spaces of the characters of 1/12" and 1/15" and proportional ones are subdivided respectively into 40 parts, 32 parts and exact multiples of 8 parts.
  • the slanting of the row of printing ends of the wires 31 relative to the direction of writing is selectively variable from a first position in which the wires 31 can write simultaneously a plurality of lines of printing to a plurality of other indications in which the wires 31 can write on a single line symbols and characters with dot matrices with variable definition.

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FR2540043A1 (fr) * 1983-01-27 1984-08-03 Hoffmann Cyklop Dispositif pour le marquage des objets
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