US 12,118,415 B2Granted

Apparatus and method for printing on an article based on product data of the article

AssigneePhoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

InventorsSebastian Faltinski, Timo Weber, Mattes Reitz, Matthias Tieben, Marvin Kurde, Sandro Limberg, Jorg Schmidt, Jens Frenser, Marcus Mathes

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Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for printing an article. The apparatus includes a data providing device adapted to provide article-specific printing data for the article from product data of the article, and to provide machine-specific printing data for the article in dependence on a printing machine to be used for the printing process. The apparatus also includes a control device adapted to merge the article-specific printing data and the machine-specific printing data, and to control the printing machine for printing the article based thereon.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An apparatus for printing on an article, the apparatus comprising:

a data providing device, which is designed to provide article-specific printing data for the article from product data of the article and to provide machine-specific printing data for the article in dependence on a printing machine to be used for the printing process, wherein the data providing device is designed to provide the article-specific printing data for the article from the product data of the article present in a neutral data format, which define and classify the article according to customer-specific configuration and which describe parameters, properties and design options of the article;
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a control device which is designed to combine the article-specific printing data and the machine-specific printing data and, based thereon, to control the printing machine for printing on the article.

A method for printing on an article, the method including steps comprising:

providing article-specific printing data in a neutral data format for the article from product data of the article by means of a data providing device, wherein the article-specific printing data for the article are provided from the product data of the article present in a neutral data format, which define and classify the article according to customer-specific configuration and which describe parameters, properties and design options of the article;
providing machine-specific printing data as a function of a printing machine to be used for the printing process by means of a data providing device;
combining the article-specific printing data and the machine-specific printing data by means of a control device;
based thereon, driving the printing machine for printing on the article by means of the control device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/292,396Filed 8 Nov 2019
Priority: EP 182054799 Nov 2018
Published: US 2022/0009256 A113 Jan 2022
Granted: 15 Oct 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06K 15/1852
Generation of the printable image: involving combining data of different types
B41F 33/0009
Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices: central control units
G06K 15/1815
Receiving print data characterized by its formatting, e.g. particular page description languages: receiving print data in mixed format
G06K 15/1831
Accessing generic data, e.g. fonts: characterized by the format of the data