Laser assembly for a laser printer
AssigneeCapital One Servies, LLC
InventorDavid Kelly Wurmfeld
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Abstract
An example laser assembly for a laser printer may include a plurality of lasers to emit respective photons; a prism to redirect the respective laser beams emitted from the plurality of lasers toward a collimator lens of the laser printer to generate a photon beam; and one or more processors to: determine a timing schedule for individually activating the plurality of lasers based on a resolution setting of the laser printer, and when printing at a resolution corresponding to the resolution setting, control activation of each of the plurality of lasers to emit the respective photons according to the timing schedule to form the photon beam.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining, by a device, an amount of time needed for a laser, of a set of lasers, to reach a particular threshold;
- determining, by the device and based on the amount of time, a timing schedule for activating each laser of the set of lasers to print at a particular resolution;
- identifying, by the device, a threshold amount of power that is based on an amount of power needed to energize a junction of a laser, of the set of lasers, to emit photons;
- and
- activating, by the device and based on determining the timing schedule, the set of lasers by applying the threshold amount of power to the set of lasers.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by a device, cause the device to:
- determine an amount of time needed for a laser, of a set of lasers, to reach a particular threshold;
- determine, based on the amount of time, a timing schedule for activating each laser of the set of lasers to print at a particular resolution;
- identify a threshold amount of power that is based on an amount of power needed to energize a junction of a laser, of the set of lasers, to emit photons;
- and
- activate, based on determining the timing schedule, the set of lasers by applying the threshold amount of power to the set of lasers.
A laser printer comprising:
- a laser assembly that includes a plurality of lasers;
- and
- a controller to:
- determine an amount of time needed for a laser, of a set of lasers, to reach a particular threshold;
- and
- activate, based on the amount of time, the set of lasers by applying a threshold amount of power to the set of lasers,
- the threshold amount of power being based on an amount of power needed to energize a junction of a laser, of the set of lasers, to emit photons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.