International Business Machines Corporation

Manfred Wohnsdorf

Volker Rudolph

Fritz W Hilpert

Erich Kohm

Gottfried Andreas Goldrian

Manfred E Nitschke

A yieldably supported ramp controls the lowering of a print head onto a record carrier. An elastically deformable element having non-linear deformation characteristics is preferred to define the desired force displacement characteristics.

Apparatus for the bounce-free landing of a print head

Print head for an electroerosion printer, with print electrodes arranged in rows and/or columns in a holder, and with at least one slightly shorter sensor electrode at the trailing edge of the print head to control the feeding of the print electrodes compensating their burning-off and/or abrasion, at least the sensor electrode (7) being inclined approximately in the direction of the median normal to the surface of the unprinted lateral surface of the trough-like depression.

Print head for an electroerosion printer

Arrangement for a print head having at least one print electrode and being movable relative to a record carrier transported over a support, and pressed down onto the record carrier by the effect of an actuator, where a first frame piece (4) carrying the print electrode (6) supported in a holder (5) is pivotably fixed, via a spring arrangement (2,3) biasing the print head towards the record carrier, to a second frame piece (1) opposite the first frame piece (4), where furthermore an electromagnetic actuator (9, 10) between the two frame pieces is attached to the second frame piece (1) to which a resilient ferromagnetic armature (14) is also fixed and through its greater bias acting against the bias of the spring arrangement (2, 3) abuts against a non-ferromagnetic stop (15) provided at the first frame piece and facing the end of the armature, which thus lifts the print head against the force of the spring arrangement (2, 3), and where by the operation of the actuator (9, 10), the print electrode ( 6) places itself against the record carrier (7) under the force of the spring arrangement (2, 3).

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