Printhead indexer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEric COLLINS, Kurt F. OLSEN
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to printhead indexing. An example method can include rotating a crank arm connected to a coupling bar. The method can include moving a print sled translationally by the coupling bar, where the print sled may be located in X, Z, and Y orthogonal dimensions. In this example, the print sled may be translationally moved to one of a number of index positions by the coupling bar in response to rotation of the crank arm, where the number of index positions are separately located in a Y dimension with the same Z dimension.
Claims15
A method for printhead indexing comprising:
- rotating a crank arm connected to a coupling bar;
- moving a print sled translationally by the coupling bar, where the print sled is translationally moved to one of a plurality of index positions by the coupling bar in response to rotation of the crank arm, where the plurality of index positions are separately located in a Y dimension with the same Z dimension.
A printhead indexer device comprising:
- a gearbox to provide rotation motion;
- a coupling bar to convert the rotational motion of the gearbox to a translational motion;
- and
- a pen sled connected to the coupling bar, where the pen sled is moved translationally to index positions by the translational motion of the coupling bar, where the index positions are separately located in a Y dimension that hold the Z dimension constant.
A printhead indexer system comprising:
- a processor;
- a storage comprising instructions that when executed by the processor instruct a low jerk force applier to apply force;
- a coupling bar connecting the low jerk index force applier to a print sled, the coupling bar to convert force applied to the coupling bar into a low jerk movement of the print sled;
- and
- an indexer to index the low jerk force applier at preset locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.