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US 6,273,551 B1Granted
Acoustic ink printing integrated pixel oscillator
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsJean-Michel Guerin, Eugene Wilson
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Abstract
An acoustic inkjet print head with a plurality of transducers for generating acoustic waves utilizes an individual control circuit for each transducer. The transducers are responsive to their respective control circuit to oscillate at a resonance frequency, which is defined by the respective transducer, its control circuit and the glass substrate.
Claims3
An acoustic inkjet print head comprising:
- a housing having a plurality of apertures;
- a sheet of glass substrate having a first and a second opposing surfaces;
- said sheet of glass substrate being located within said housing;
- said housing having ink between said first surface of said glass substrate and said plurality of apertures;
- a plurality of transducers for generating acoustic waves;
- said plurality of transducers being located on said second surface of said sheet of glass substrate and each corresponding to one of said plurality of apertures;
- a plurality of fresnel lenses being located on said first surface of said sheet of glass substrate and each corresponding to one of said plurality of apertures and a respective one of said plurality of transducers;
- each one of said plurality of fresnel lenses focusing said acoustic waves of a respective one of said plurality of transducers through ink onto a respective one of said plurality of apertures;
- a plurality of control circuits each of which corresponding to one of said plurality of transducers;
- each one of said plurality of control circuits being electrically connected to a respective one of said plurality of transducers;
- each one of said plurality of transducers being so constructed and arranged to be responsive to a respective one of said plurality of control circuits to oscillate at a resonance frequency defined by said respective transducer, said respective control circuit, said glass substrate, said fresnel lens, and said ink, wherein each of said plurality of control circuits has a feedback circuit to receive the resonance frequency and feed it back to said respective transducer.
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