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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Steven Michael Krause, San Diego, CA (US);
James Feinn, San Diego, CA (US);
Hector Jose Lebron, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04508 (2013.01); B41J 2/04516 (2013.01); B41J 2/04561 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an example implementation, a method of reducing inkjet aerosol in a fluid drop ejection system includes imaging fluid drops from an ejection event as the drops travel from an ejection nozzle toward a substrate, determining the momentum of each fluid drop from the imaging, comparing the momentum of each fluid drop with a threshold momentum, and determining that a fluid drop will become aerosol when its momentum does not exceed the threshold momentum.