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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:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1998
Ann M. Kazakos, Webster, NY (US);
Michael J. Duggan, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A thermal ink jet printer including a frame, a printhead mounted to the frame for printing ink images onto a heated and supported substrate, and a wear resistant and efficient substrate heating and supporting assembly mounted to the frame. The wear resistant and efficient substrate heating and supporting assembly includes metallic core having an inner surface and an outer surface, a heating device for heating the inner surface of the metallic core, and a ceramic aluminum nitride or aluminum oxide coating formed over the outer surface of the metallic core for contacting and supporting a substrate, and for durably withstanding scraping contact from a stripper member used for stripping substrates from a surface of said ceramic coating.