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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2000
Laura E Simmons, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jonathan N Andrews, St McMinnville, OR (US);
Stephen Vance Cooper, Amity, OR (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A thermal inkjet printer with firing nozzles perpendicular to the carriage motion has two motors: paper and carriage. These motors, alone or in concert, provide the power to the service station. The service station has separate wiping and pen cleaning functions. The wipers need to move across the pens in a direction that is perpendicular the carriage direction. Through the use of gears, the wipers can be made to clean the pens at the same time that the paper is being advanced and using the same motor source. For capping, the caps are moved into place as the pens come to rest. The motion of the pens themselves could easily push a lever that pushes the caps into place.