Card personalization system with split plasma nozzle
AssigneeEntrust Corporation
InventorsBrett McDONOUGH, Michael LIND, Cory WOOLDRIDGE, Jon WAWRA, Ivan LOPEZ ESPINOSA, Brendan HINNENKAMP
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Abstract
A split plasma nozzle of a plasma treatment station that is used to plasma treat a surface of a personalized card or other personalized identification document prior to printing. The split plasma nozzle includes a plurality of plasma outlet passages each of which separately outputs plasma stream during plasma treatment of the surface prior to printing. The plasma outlet passages are integrally formed with or in the plasma nozzle whereby the plasma outlet passages and the plasma nozzle are a single-piece, integral, unitary construction with one another.
Claims17
A card personalization system, comprising:
- a card input that inputs a card to be printed on;
- a card output that receives the card after printing;
- a print station downstream from the card input, the print station is configured to print on a surface of the card;
- a plasma treatment station downstream from the card input, the plasma treatment station includes a plasma nozzle;
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- the plasma nozzle includes a nozzle body, an ignition chamber formed in the nozzle body, and at least two plasma outlet passages formed in the nozzle body and extending from the ignition chamber.
An identification document personalization system, comprising:
- an identification document input that is configured to input an identification document to be printed on;
- a print station downstream from the identification document input, the print station is configured to print on a surface of the identification document;
- a plasma treatment station downstream from the identification document input, the plasma treatment station includes a plasma nozzle;
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- the plasma nozzle includes a nozzle body, an ignition chamber formed in the nozzle body, and at least two plasma outlet passages formed in the nozzle body and extending from the ignition chamber.
A plasma treatment station of a card personalization system, comprising:
- a transport mechanism that is configured to transport a card through the plasma treatment station;
- a plasma nozzle that includes a nozzle body, an ignition chamber formed in the nozzle body, and at least two plasma outlet passages formed in the nozzle body and extending from the ignition chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.