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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Applicant:
Xaar Technology Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
XAAR TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04541 (2013.01); B41J 2/04543 (2013.01); B41J 2/04546 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01); B41J 2/04588 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed a controller for controlling two or more groups of nozzles in an array, the controller configured to: encode data blocks into a data stream, wherein each data block denotes how a respective group of nozzles is to be controlled for a droplet period; encode fire codes into the data stream, wherein each fire code is a reserved code that denotes when a respective group of nozzles is to be controlled in accordance with the data block for the droplet period; and wherein the data block precedes the fire code for the respective group of nozzles in the data stream and wherein the fire codes are generated independently of the data blocks.