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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2013
Applicant:
M.g.i Usa, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Inventor:
Edmond Abergel, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
M.G.I. USA, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 2/195 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2013.01); B41J 29/393 (2013.01); B41J 2/195 (2013.01); B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 2/17513 (2013.01);
Abstract
A protective layer is applied to a substrate moving relative to an ink jet nozzle array. Each nozzle responds to a piezoelectric actuator. Shapes of ink droplets deposited by the nozzles on the substrate, to form the protective layer, are controlled by shapes of electric waveforms applied to the actuators. Shapes of the waveforms respond to at least one of: droplet viscosity and temperature, temperature of the substrate, desired thickness of the layer, type of substrate surface to which the droplets are applied, and relative to speed of the substrate and the ink jet nozzle array.