Apparatus and method for placing fluid droplets onto an object
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDaniel J. Fredrickson, Richard W. Seaver
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of placing fluid droplets onto an object. The method includes moving a fluid ejection device in a first direction, reducing air flow between the fluid ejection device and the object with a member leading the fluid ejection device, and ejecting the fluid droplets onto the object.
Claims40
A method of placing fluid droplets onto an object, comprising:
- moving a fluid ejection device in a first direction;
- reducing air flow between said fluid ejection device and said object with a member leading the fluid ejection device;
- and
- ejecting fluid droplets onto the object.
A method of forming an image on media with an inkjet printing mechanism which includes an inkjet pen carriage, comprising:
- moving an inkjet pen and an airflow deflector positioned proximate said inkjet pen on said carriage in a first direction, said deflector leading said pen to thereby reduce airflow between said relatively moving pen and media;
- and
- ejecting fluid droplets onto said media as said carriage and pen are moved in said first direction.
An inkjet pen carriage for holding an inkjet pen and a first airflow reducing member positioned to at least partially block flow of air between an ink ejection nozzle of a pen on said carriage and an object to be printed during carriage movement in a first direction.
An inkjet printing mechanism comprising a reciprocally moveable pen carriage, an inkjet pen having an inkjet ejection nozzle mounted on said carriage, and a first airflow deflector positioned proximate said nozzle to at least partially block flow of air between said nozzle and media on which printing is to take place during carriage movement in a first direction.
An inkjet carriage for holding an inkjet pen and a first means for reducing airflow positioned to at least partially block flow of air between an ink ejection nozzle of a pen on said carriage and an object to be printed during carriage movement in a first direction.
An inkjet printing mechanism comprising a reciprocally moveable pen carriage, an inkjet pen having an inkjet ejection nozzle mounted on said carriage, and a first means for deflecting and at least partially blocking flow of air between said nozzle and media on which printing is to take place during carriage movement in a first direction.
A fluid ejection device comprising a reciprocally moveable carriage, at least one fluid droplet ejector mounted on said carriage, a support for an object onto which fluid droplets are to be ejected, and a deflector for deflecting airflow away from a trajectory of fluid droplets ejected from said ejector toward an object on said support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.