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US 2024/0201626 A1Published application
Metal material printing equipment and printing method, and printed metal material obtained therefrom
AssigneePosco
InventorsSun-Hong Park, Jin-Tae Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to printing equipment for printing images such as letters, pictures and the like on the surface of metal such as a steel plate, that may stably print images on the surface of metal at high speed, a printing method using the same, and a printed metal material obtained therefrom.
Claims15
Metal printing equipment comprising:
- a photosensitive drum 300 coming in close contact with metal 100 moving continuously, rotating in one direction, and transferring and fixing a toner T attached to a surface thereof to a surface of the metal 100;
- a developing unit 500 provided on one side of the photosensitive drum 300 and providing the toner (T) to the surface of the photosensitive drum 300;
- a photosensitive drum charging unit 410 charging the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 before the toner (T) is provided;
- an exposure unit 200 applying light energy to the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 according to a required image, between the developing unit 500 and the photosensitive drum charging unit 410;
- metal charging unit 101 charging the surface of the metal 100 such that the toner (T) attached to the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 is transferred to the surface of the metal 100;
- a removal unit 600 removing the toner (T) remaining on the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 after the toner (T) is fixed to the surface of the metal 100;
- a photosensitive drum discharging unit 420 removing a charge from the photosensitive drum 300 after removing the toner (T);
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- a fixing unit 700 located on a rear end of the photosensitive drum 300 and fixing the toner (T) fixed to the surface of the metal 100.
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A metal printing method comprising:
- a charging operation of charging a surface of a photosensitive drum 300 rotating in one direction;
- an exposure operation of applying light energy according to a required image to the surface of the charged photosensitive drum 300;
- a development operation of providing toner (T) to the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 after the exposure operation;
- a transfer operation of continuously moving the toner attached to the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 and moving and fixing the toner to a surface of a charged metal 100;
- a fixing operation of fixing the toner settled on the surface of the metal 100;
- a removal operation of removing toner remaining on the surface of the photosensitive drum 300 after the transfer operation;
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- a discharging operation of discharging the surface of the photosensitive drum 300.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.