EP1119458A2 - Matrix printer and interchangeable container for color ink supply - Google Patents
Matrix printer and interchangeable container for color ink supplyInfo
- Publication number
- EP1119458A2 EP1119458A2 EP99948691A EP99948691A EP1119458A2 EP 1119458 A2 EP1119458 A2 EP 1119458A2 EP 99948691 A EP99948691 A EP 99948691A EP 99948691 A EP99948691 A EP 99948691A EP 1119458 A2 EP1119458 A2 EP 1119458A2
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- signal
- matrix printer
- swap body
- interchangeable container
- holder
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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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
- B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
- B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
- B41J2/01—Ink jet
- B41J2/17—Ink jet characterised by ink handling
- B41J2/175—Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
- B41J2/17503—Ink cartridges
- B41J2/17543—Cartridge presence detection or type identification
- B41J2/17546—Cartridge presence detection or type identification electronically
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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
- B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
- B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
- B41J2/01—Ink jet
- B41J2/17—Ink jet characterised by ink handling
- B41J2/175—Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
- B41J2/17503—Ink cartridges
- B41J2/17513—Inner structure
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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
- B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
- B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
- B41J2/01—Ink jet
- B41J2/17—Ink jet characterised by ink handling
- B41J2/175—Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
- B41J2/17503—Ink cartridges
- B41J2/1752—Mounting within the printer
- B41J2/17523—Ink connection
Definitions
- the invention relates to a matrix printer of the type mentioned in the preamble of claim 1.
- Such a matrix printer designed as an inkjet printer is known from the document EP 0 606 047 A2.
- Its printhead has a relatively small ink supply volume, which is connected via a flexible connecting line to a swap body that contains a larger ink supply.
- the printing ink is fed from the swap body through the connecting line into the supply volume of the print head. This allows the inkjet printer to print jobs with very high ink consumption without interrupting the printing process for replenishing the supply volume or replacing the print head.
- the known inkjet printer starts a printing process even when no swap body is connected to the storage volume in the print head. In this case, there is a risk that particularly long print jobs will only be executed incompletely and / or incorrectly and therefore have to be repeated.
- a further disadvantage is that an interchangeable container with ink which is unsuitable for the operation of the inkjet printer can also be inserted into the holder, which can render the print head inoperative or permanently damaged.
- the matrix printer according to the invention has a switching device with a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, which are formed on the holder, and a signal transmission device, which is arranged on the swap body, for locking and releasing the printing process.
- the reception of a release signal sent by the signal transmitter by the signal receiver is interrupted as long as the swap body with the signal transmission device is not inserted into the holder.
- the printing process remains blocked and is only released when the signal transmission device of the swap body completely inserted into the holder forwards the release signal to the signal receiver.
- the invention thus ensures, on the one hand, that the printing process is only released when an interchangeable container with the one described is in the holder Equipment is inserted. On the other hand, it is achieved that an interchangeable container cannot be operated with the matrix printer without the signal transmission device. In this way, the matrix printer is simultaneously protected against the use of an interchangeable container with an unsuitable printing ink that does not have the signal transmission device.
- a signal input, a signal transmission element and a signal output work together.
- the arrangement of the signal input and signal output is such that the release signal can be transmitted from the signal generator to the signal receiver on the holder.
- This arrangement makes the signal transmission device particularly robust against external influences.
- the ink jet printer and the swap body have additional features that protect against the use of unsuitable swap bodies.
- the signal transmission device is stored separately from the ink supply in the interchangeable container. This protects it from possible harmful effects of the printing ink and eliminates the need for other devices for sealing the interchangeable container at the signal input and at the signal output.
- a mechanical signal is a symbol transmitted by the transport of kinetic energy or potential energy in a system of mechanical components coupled with a agreed meaning understood.
- the signal transmitter protrudes from a side of the holder facing the interchangeable container, engages in its signal input when the interchangeable container is inserted, and comes into contact with a transmission element that is movable against spring force.
- the signaling element is forced by the signal transmitter against the spring force to move, by means of which it is pressed onto the signal receiver, which is a switching element connected to the switching device and which is pretensioned into an open position.
- the switching element When the swap body is fully inserted into the holder, the switching element is set by the transmission element in a closed position in which the printing process is released. In this embodiment, it is therefore not possible to completely insert a swap body with unsuitable printing ink into the holder, which on the one hand protects the printer and on the other hand clearly tells the operator of the printer that he is trying to use a swap body with unsuitable printing ink insert.
- the signal transmitter can be designed as a pin and the transmission element as a pivot lever, the axis of rotation of which extends transversely to the direction of insertion and on one arm of which the pin engages.
- the pin simultaneously fulfills the function of a signal transmitter and that of a guide element when the interchangeable container is inserted into the holder.
- another type of matrix printer which only works with a certain other type of printing ink, can be manufactured in a particularly simple manner by a slight change in the position of the pen on the holder and a corresponding change in the arrangement of the signal input and the pivoting lever in the swap body be protected against the use of unsuitable swap bodies.
- the matrix printer can be both an inkjet printer and a dot matrix printer. In the first case the swap body is designed as an ink tank and in the second case as an ink ribbon cassette. Both types of printer can be damaged by improper ink or ribbon soaking.
- the invention offers reliable protection for both.
- FIG. 1 shows a longitudinally sectioned view of part of a holder with an interchangeable container in its released position according to a first exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 shows a longitudinally sectioned view of the part of the holder with the swap body in its inserted position according to the first exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3 shows a longitudinally sectioned view of part of a holder with an interchangeable container in its released position according to a second exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 4 shows a longitudinally sectioned view of the part of the holder with the swap body in its inserted position according to the second exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a holder 10 for use in an ink jet printer according to a first embodiment of the invention.
- the holder 10 has a frame 12, seen in longitudinal section, with a first opening 14 on its upper side, which serves to insert and remove an interchangeable container 16.
- a first opening 14 on its upper side, which serves to insert and remove an interchangeable container 16.
- a side wall 22 of the frame 12, which is arranged on the left in the illustration in FIG. 1, has a pin 24 on its inner surface, which points in the direction opposite to the direction of insertion 20, and protrudes from the latter in the direction of the compartment 18 at a right angle to the inner surface.
- An opening 26 is also formed on the left side wall 22 below the pin 24. It accommodates an electrical switching element 28 with a switching pin 30 which is elastically biased into an open position and which is movable in the direction 20 against a spring force and which has approximately the length of the pin 24.
- An upper opening 34 and 38 is formed on a left side wall 32 of the movable compartment 18 and a left side wall 36 of the swap body 16.
- the upper openings 34 and 38 When viewed in cross section, have a shape corresponding to the cross sectional shape of the pin 24 and align with it when the swap body is inserted into the compartment 18.
- a two-armed pivot lever 40 is rotatably mounted about its axis of rotation 42, the upper and lower arms 40a and 40b of which are approximately the same length from the axis of rotation 42.
- the axis of rotation 42 runs horizontally and at the same time transversely to the direction of insertion 20 and is mounted on the interchangeable container 16 near the side wall 36 and seen approximately in the vertical direction in the middle.
- a compression spring 44 is fastened on the one hand to the lower arm 40b of the swivel lever and on the other hand to the left side wall 36 of the swap body 16.
- the pivot lever 40 is biased into a position in which the upper arm 40a rests with its upper end on the left side wall 36 of the swap body 16 above the opening 38.
- an opening 46 and 48 is formed in each case opposite the lower end of the lower arm 40b of the pivoting lever 40.
- the pin 24 reaches through the openings 34 and 38 and the switching pin 30 through the openings 46 and 48 into the swap body 16 at about the same time.
- the pin 24 hits the upper arm 40a of the pivoting lever 40 and deflects it against the force of the compression spring 44.
- Its lower arm 40b is pivoted in the direction of the side wall 36 of the interchangeable container, which actuates the switching pin 30 of the switching element 28 as soon as the compartment 18 lies against the inner surface of the side wall 22 of the frame 12 (FIG. 2).
- an electrical circuit (not shown) is closed, which controls the release of the ink jet printer for printing processes.
- the inkjet printer is only released when the circuit is closed.
- the maximum possible actuation path of the switching pin 30 is determined such that it must in any case pass through the openings 46, 48 before the left side wall 32 of the compartment 18 rests on the frame 12.
- FIG. 3 shows a holder 50 for use in an inkjet printer according to a second exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- the holder 50 has a rectangular frame 52, seen in longitudinal section, with a guide opening 54 on its upper side for inserting and removing an interchangeable container 56.
- an interchangeable container 56 When inserting the interchangeable container 56 is first loosely inserted from above into a compartment 58 which is arranged within the frame 52 and can be displaced in this along a horizontal insertion direction 60.
- a closing lever 62 is arranged, which is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation 64 fastened to the frame.
- the closing lever 64 can be part of a closure flap for the insertion opening 54, which is not shown.
- the axis of rotation 64 of the locking lever 62 runs horizontally and at the same time transversely to the insertion direction 60.
- FIG. 3 shows the locking lever 62 in an open position, in which it extends vertically upwards.
- a guide slot 72 is formed, which runs essentially parallel to the arcuate edge 70.
- the guide slot 72 has an end close to the axis of rotation and an end remote from the axis of rotation.
- the guide slot 72 continuously approaches the rotary axis 64 in a section 72 ', starting from its end remote from the axis of rotation 64 and, at a point corresponding to a pivoting angle ⁇ of the locking lever 62, goes into a second section 72 which runs circularly around the axis of rotation 64
- the near end of the guide tion slot 72 above the axis of rotation 64 and with it, seen in the insertion direction 60, at the same height.
- the end of the guide slot 72 remote from the axis of rotation 64 lies to the right of the axis of rotation 64 and with it at the same vertical height.
- a guide pin 74 engages in the guide slot 72, in the open position of the locking lever 62 at the end of the guide slot 72 remote from the axis of rotation 64.
- the guide pin 74 is formed on the side surface of the compartment 58 which is not shown in FIG. 3 and faces the viewer .
- the guide pin 74 can also be arranged on the swap body 56.
- the guide slot 72 is open at its end remote from the axis of rotation 64, so that it can be brought out of engagement with the guide pin 74 for inserting and removing the interchangeable container 56 from the compartment 58. This is particularly advantageous if, in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the holder 50, the compartment 58 is dispensed with and the interchangeable container 56 is inserted directly into the frame 52.
- the locking lever 62 has a pin 76 on the inner surface of its long side 67 pointing to the right in the illustration in FIG. 3, which pin projects approximately perpendicularly from it. Its vertical position on the locking lever 62 is determined by the fact that, when the locking lever 62 pivots in the direction 66, it engages in an opening 78 arranged on the upper side of the interchangeable container 56. This is discussed in more detail below.
- a web 82 with an opening comprising the cross section of the pin 80 is fastened to an inner wall of the interchangeable container 56.
- the pencil 80 is held in a position with the aid of a helical tension spring fastened to its lower end on the one hand and to the underside of the web 82 on the other hand, in which its upper end is arranged somewhat below the opening 78 and its lower end somewhat above an extension of the pin Opening 86 is arranged in the underside of the interchangeable container 56.
- An opening 88 on the underside of the compartment 58 is aligned with an opening 94 in the bottom of the frame 52 when the compartment 58 is in the position shown in FIG.
- An actuating element in the form of a switching pin 90 of a switching element 92 arranged below the frame 52 projects from below into the opening 94 without protruding into the interior of the frame 52.
- the switching element 92 corresponds in structure and mode of operation to the switching element 28 described on the basis of the first exemplary embodiment.
- the locking lever 62 is pivoted in the direction 66.
- a force acting in the insertion direction 60 is exerted on the compartment 58 or the swap body 56 via the guide pin 74, so that the swap body 56 and the compartment 58 together in the insertion direction 60 can be moved.
- the swap body 56 is in its working position shown in FIG.
- a further switching element 98 is inserted into the left side wall 92 of the frame 52 in FIGS. 3 and 4 so that its actuating pin 100 projects into the interior of the frame 52.
- the further switching element 98 is actuated by the left side wall of the compartment 58 or, if this is dispensed with, by the left side wall of the interchangeable container 56.
- a safety concept is implemented as follows: If an interchangeable container 56 is to be inserted into the compartment 58, the switching elements 92 and 98 must be inactive. After inserting the interchangeable container 56 and pivoting the locking lever 62 into the closed position, the switching element 92 is actuated first and the further switching element 98 only later. The printer is only released for this time sequence of switching edges. This prevents manipulation in such a way that one of the switching elements 92, 98 is blocked in its actuated position, thus simulating an intended swap body.
- the above-described security concept can also be used in the holder 10 in the first exemplary embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
- the prerequisite is that a further switching element 98 corresponding switching element is provided in the arrangement and function.
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
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DE19839225 | 1998-08-28 | ||
DE19839225A DE19839225A1 (en) | 1998-08-28 | 1998-08-28 | Inkjet printer and swap body for printing ink |
PCT/DE1999/002289 WO2000012310A2 (en) | 1998-08-28 | 1999-07-26 | Matrix printer and interchangeable container for color ink supply |
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EP1119458A2 true EP1119458A2 (en) | 2001-08-01 |
EP1119458B1 EP1119458B1 (en) | 2002-10-16 |
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US (1) | US6474800B1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1119458B1 (en) |
DE (2) | DE19839225A1 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2186410T3 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2000012310A2 (en) |
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