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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Océ Holding B.v., Venlo, NL;
Daniel-Samuil Voina, Timisoara, RO;
Violeta Iacob, Timisoara, RO;
OCÉ HOLDING B.V., Venlo, NL;
Abstract
A flat bed printer includes a flat bed, a print head assembly, a drive system arranged to move the print head assembly over the bed, a controller arranged to control operations of the print head assembly and the drive system, and an obstacle detection system arranged to detect obstacles in a region of movement of the print head assembly. The controller has a split-bed mode of operation in which the movements of the print head assembly are confined to only a part of the bed while another part of the bed is left idle, and the controller is arranged to calculate, when an obstacle is detected in the split-bed mode of operation, an expected time to collision after which the print head assembly will collide with the obstacle.