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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:
Apr. 15, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rainer Buschulte, Bad Schonborn, DE;
Helmut Kipphan, Schwetzingen, DE;
Assignee:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 73 ; 347 20 ; 347 75 ; 347 82 ;
Abstract
Ink-jet device for producing an image on a recording medium includes a droplet-producing device for ejecting droplets along a trajectory, and a droplet-controlling device for controlling the trajectory of the droplets, the droplet-controlling device being formed as a deflection surface, the deflection surface being disposed so that respective droplets impact thereon and rebound to continue the flight thereof, the respective droplets being splittable into at least two subdroplets as a function of selected parameters, and ink-jet process.