Xerox Corporation

Integrated Technology Work, Inc.

Frank J Liptak

Peter A Crean

David Birnbaum

David B Feldman

David William Sewhuk

Robert D Houston

Arthur J North

Several modular circuits are releasably connected to one another and with the plug which supplies AC power to a computer or the like. A first circuit rectifies the AC voltage and applies a DC voltage to one side of a motion sensing circuit, the opposite side of which is connected to a third circuit containing a portable, DC power supply. The third circuit include an electrically operated alarm, and an electronic valve, which normally maintains the alarm deenergized. The motion sensing circuit contains a capacitor in parallel with a mercury switch which, when subjected to sudden movement, closes and switches the electronic valve to a conducting mode, thereby energizing the alarm, provided the equipment has been unplugged so that the AC power has been removed from the first circuit. The capacitor delays the deenergization of the alarm after the mercury switch recloses; and the DC voltage provided by the AC power supply prolongs the life of the portable DC power supply (battery).

Alarm system for computers and the like

A ink jet printer having a reciprocating printhead with a single jet to print full pages of information on a recording medium by printing contiguous swaths of information. The recording medium is stepped a distance of one swath height after each swath is printed. A height control sensor is located on one side of the recording medium to receive periodically one or more sweeps of test droplets. The height control sensor has upper and lower pairs of photodetectors to detect droplets passing thereby and to produce differential sensing signals which identify the droplet having a trajectory closest to the desired trajectory. By determining the number of droplets between the identified droplets, the interdroplet spacing and drift of the droplet trajectories is monitored. In response to the height control sensor signals, the printer controller with associated circuitry adjusts the operating parameters of the printer to correct and to maintain the desired droplet trajectories and interdroplet spacings.

Ink jet printer droplet height sensing control

In an ink jet printer, improved ink droplet sensing method and apparatus. The disclosed full width ink jet printer includes a number of ink jet nozzles which direct ink droplets to specific regions of a print plane. The present sensing technique insures ink drops from the multiple nozzles 'stitch' together properly across the printing plane. Multiple sensing sites (two for each nozzle) are comprised of a light input optical fiber and two output fibers coupled to circuitry to monitor light intensity at the sensing site. The sensitivity of the site is enhanced by electroformed input and output masks which reduce the effective send and receive area of the optical fibers.

Ink jet sensor method and apparatus

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Webster, NY, United States of America

Frank J Liptak