CN101468549B - Maintenance device for ink jet head - Google Patents
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The invention relates to an ink gun maintenance device which can collect an ink waste solution jetted by an ink gun, has cleaning and maintenance functions and can maintain the humidity of the ink gun. The ink gun maintenance device comprises a base, a slide seat, a bearing seat, a driving gear set, a transmission gear set, a transmission connecting rod set and a jet collector. Therefore, the jet collector which is otherwise arranged in the prior art can be integrally accommodated into the ink gun maintenance device, so that the ink gun maintenance device not only has a simple structure but also can effectively collect the ink waste solution jetted by the ink gun and exhaust the ink waste solution when the ink gun of an ink gun seat executes jetting procedure. The ink gun maintenance device can precisely and completely coat and seal the ink gun, so as to provide the moisture preserving function and prevent ink droplets from drying.
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Technical field
The invention relates to a kind of ink jet maintener, refer to that especially a kind of ink gun of collecting shoots out the ink waste liquid that, has the cleaning function and can keep the ink jet maintener of the humidity of ink gun.
Background technology
Along with the ever-growing use of computer and world-wide web, the demand of printing off file with printer increases day by day.Ink-jet printer is a printer at present commonly used, and it mainly utilizes an ink gun that is arranged on the ink-jet headstock that ink is injected into assigned address on the paper (or other carrier) exactly, to show literal or image on paper or carrier.Yet in the process of inkjet printing, the ink droplet of very easily accumulation remnants is perhaps piled up powder or paper dirt from paper surface around the nozzle of ink gun.So, the nozzle of ink gun is easy to thereby stops up, and causes the deterioration of print quality.As for so-called print quality deterioration, comprise that ink-jet density unevenness, mass colour are forbidden or short ink gun service life.Therefore, guarantee the cleaning of the nozzle of ink gun, for the service life of improving print quality and prolonging ink gun be very important.
For this reason, the nozzle of ink gun can be carried out one earlier and shoot out program before inkjet printing, removes with on every side the ink droplet or the paper dirt that will accumulate on nozzle by ink.In present ink-jet printer, generally all specially be provided with one and shoot out gathering-device, to collect the ink waste liquid that nozzle was shootd out of ink gun, and this shoots out gathering-device and often is independent of its ink jet maintener setting and needs extra collocation that ink waste collection pipeline is set, and causes existing ink jet maintener structure comparatively complicated.
On the other hand, when the ink gun of ink-jet headstock was in the wait print state, the ink droplet of the nozzle periphery of ink gun was easy to dry and forms residual China ink, causes nozzle blockage.Therefore, ink gun need be preserved moisture and be safeguarded, to avoid the dry and stopped nozzles of ink droplet or to be infected with dust.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of ink jet maintener, so that the gathering-device that shoots out that originally in addition is provided with can be integrated and included in wherein, make ink jet maintener of the present invention not only simple in structure, and can carry out when shooing out program at the ink gun of ink-jet headstock, the ink waste liquid of collecting ink gun effectively and being sprayed is also discharged these ink waste liquids.In addition, when ink-jet headstock shift-in and when shifting out ink jet maintener of the present invention, maintenance all can be cleaned.At last, when the ink gun of ink-jet headstock was in the wait print state, ink jet maintener of the present invention can be accurately and is fully coated the jet of sealed head, moisture preserving function to be provided and to prevent that ink droplet is dry, prolongs the service life of ink gun.
For reaching above-mentioned purpose, ink jet maintener of the present invention comprises: a pedestal, a slide, a load bearing seat, driving tooth wheels, a driving gear set, a kinematic link group and are shootd out gathering-device.Wherein, this pedestal has at least one line style guide rail.This slide be placed in this pedestal and have at least one tooth bar, a plurality of paths guide rail, strikes off unit and a plurality of slide pilot unit, and this tooth bar is the root edge that is positioned at this slide, these slide pilot units then correspondence are arranged at this line style guide rail.This load bearing seat is placed in this slide and has a plurality of trays and a plurality of route guidances unit, and these route guidance unit correspondences are arranged at these path guide rails.These driving tooth wheels are sides that are positioned at this pedestal, so that a power to be provided.This driving gear set is to be positioned at a side of this pedestal and to be engaged in this tooth bar, when connecting these driving tooth wheels in this driving gear set, moves this slide.This kinematic link group can be controlled this driving tooth wheels, with when this kinematic link group and an ink gun seated connection touch, makes this this driving gear set of driving gear set of bond.This shoots out gathering-device and is placed in this pedestal and comprises an ink collection dish and a plurality of support bar, and an end of these support bars is connected to this ink collection dish, and the other end of these support bars then is individually fixed in this pedestal.In addition, this slide moves along this line style guide rail by these slide pilot units, this load bearing seat moves along these path guide rails by these route guidance unit, this shoots out gathering-device then makes this ink collection dish topple over towards an end of this pedestal by the promotion of this slide, this and shoots out the collected ink waste liquid of gathering-device to topple over.
The ink collection dish that shoots out gathering-device of ink jet maintener of the present invention can have the recessed filling chamber of any number, and its number is preferably two.In addition, a side cocoa of these recessed filling chamber is respectively arranged with a discharging opening for permitting discharging of the toner, so that the ink waste liquid is discharged.On the other hand, the inboard of these recessed filling chamber can also have an any type of blotting unit, and it is preferably a sponge.
The ink collection dish that shoots out gathering-device of ink jet maintener of the present invention can have a plurality of guide rails in any position, the preferable lateral margin that is arranged at this ink collection dish respectively of these guide rails.On the other hand, the slide that shoots out gathering-device of ink jet maintener of the present invention can be provided with a plurality of ink collection dish pilot units in any position, it is preferable to be provided with a plurality of ink collection dish pilot units in a contiguous end that strikes off the unit, and these ink collection dish pilot units are that correspondence is arranged at aforesaid a plurality of guide rail.
The pedestal that shoots out gathering-device of ink jet maintener of the present invention can be provided with an ink waste collection unit in any position, and its preferable correspondence is arranged at this and shoots out gathering-device.In addition, this ink waste collection unit is preferable to have at least one ink suction pipe, and this ink suction pipe penetrates this pedestal and be connected with an aspirator, extracts out with the ink waste liquid that will accumulate on aforesaid ink waste collection unit.
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For can clearer understanding purpose of the present invention, characteristics and advantage, below in conjunction with accompanying drawing preferred embodiment of the present invention is elaborated, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the assembly three-dimensional exploded view of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the stereogram of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the another stereogram of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 A is another stereogram of part assembly of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 B is the another stereogram of part assembly of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 A is the side view of part assembly of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 B is the opposite side view of part assembly of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is the stereogram of the state that shows that the ink collection dish that shoots out gathering-device of the ink jet maintener of a preferred embodiment of the present invention is toppled over towards an end of pedestal.
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In the present embodiment, ink jet maintener of the present invention, please refer to Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, include a pedestal 100, a slide 200, a load bearing seat 300, driving tooth wheels 400, a driving gear set 500, a kinematic link group 600 and and shoot out gathering-device 700.Wherein, in the present embodiment, pedestal 100 is made of four first cell walls 110, and these four first cell walls 110 have first chute 112 of square-section around formation one.In addition, first cell wall 110 of two configurations parallel to each other is respectively arranged with a line style guide rail 120.
In the present embodiment, the length of aforesaid line style guide rail 120 distance that just in pedestal 100, can slide for slide 200.On the other hand, pedestal 100 can also be provided with one or more first block unit 130, to limit the distance that load bearing seat 300 moves.In the present embodiment, the first block unit 130 is the lug that is arranged at the apical margin of first cell wall 110.At last, pedestal 100 can also be provided with one first positioning unit 140, in order to moving of fixing slide carriage 200 or restriction slide 200.In the present embodiment, first positioning unit 140 is the projection that is arranged at the bottom of first chute 112.In addition, first positioning unit 140 has a spring (not shown), makes aforesaid projection to eject.In the present embodiment, the slide 200 of ink jet maintener of the present invention is provided with two tooth bars 210, four slide pilot units 220, four second cell walls 230, four path guide rails 240 and strike off unit 250.Wherein, slide 200 is made of four second cell walls 230, and these second cell walls 230 around and form second chute 232 with square-section.In addition, the root edge of two second cell walls 230 of configuration parallel to each other is respectively arranged with a tooth bar 210, and this two second cell wall 230 and be respectively arranged with two path guide rails 240 on its wall.In the present embodiment, aforesaid tooth bar 210 is a linear gear rack.
In addition, in order to guide the moving direction of slide 200 in pedestal 100, the position of aforesaid slide pilot unit 220 is the line style guide rails 120 corresponding to pedestal 100.In the present embodiment, aforesaid slide pilot unit 220 is four ejector pins that protrude from slide 200, and these ejector pins lay respectively at four end points of slide 200.When slide 200 made up with pedestal 100, these ejector pins stretched into respectively in the line style guide rail 120 that is engaged in pedestal 100, and slide 200 is to be placed in first chute 112 of pedestal 100.After this, slide 200 just can the direction along line style guide rail 120 move in first chute 112 of pedestal 100.
On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the width of the slide 200 just insied width with first chute 112 of pedestal 100 is identical, and the length of slide 200 is then less than first chute, the 112 interior length in the pedestal 100.In addition, slide 200 also is provided with second positioning unit 260 corresponding to first positioning unit 140 of pedestal 100, and in the present embodiment, second positioning unit 260 is a slotted eye.So, when first positioning unit 140 was embedded in this second positioning unit 260, slide 200 just can be fixed on an ad-hoc location.At last, in the present embodiment, striking off unit 250 is sides that are positioned at slide 200, and the height that strikes off unit 250 be about can the cleaning ink gun height, the height that promptly strikes off unit 250 is greater than the vertical range between slide 200 and ink-jet headstock 800 root edges, as shown in Figure 2.So, the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800 is struck off the downside that unit 250 reciprocally passes through ink-jet headstock 800, is struck off the nozzle dust and the residual China ink on every side of the ink gun that is positioned at ink-jet headstock 800.Except that this, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, pedestal 100 also has a blotting bar 150, with when striking off unit 250 and contact with each other with blotting bar 150, adsorb to fall with striking off the residual China ink or the dust that are struck off around the nozzle of ink gun unit 250, make that striking off unit 250 can be applied to strike off residual China ink or dust around the nozzle that is positioned at ink gun once more.
In the present embodiment, the load bearing seat 300 of ink jet maintener of the present invention is provided with two trays 310 and four route guidance unit 320.Wherein, tray 310 is to be arranged at load bearing seat 300, is in when waiting for print state with the ink gun in the ink-jet headstock, coats the jet of sealed head and keeps the humidity of ink gun, and then avoid the ink droplet of ink gun dry.In addition, have an adapting pipe (not shown) and a carrying elastic parts (not shown) between tray 310 and the load bearing seat 300, and carrying elastic parts (not shown) is placed within the adapting pipe (not shown).So, tray 310 on can being placed in the adapting pipe (not shown), tray 310 also can be when accepting the ink gun (not shown) of ink-jet headstock 800, the elastic force that is provided by carrying elastic parts (not shown) and with the driving fit of ink gun (not shown).
In addition, in the present embodiment, aforesaid four route guidance unit 320 are respectively an ejector pin that protrudes from load bearing seat 300, and they lay respectively at the both sides of load bearing seat 300, the position of the path guide rail 240 of their position and corresponding slide 200.So, when slide 200 makes up with load bearing seat 300, load bearing seat 300 can move by the direction of aforesaid four route guidance unit 320 along the path guide rail 240 of slide 200 in second chute 232 of slide 200, makes the height of load bearing seat 300 to change along with moving of its position.On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the load bearing seat 300 of ink jet maintener of the present invention can also be provided with second a block unit 330 that is placed in first cell wall, 110 apical margins of pedestal 100, and it is subjected to the first block unit, 130 blocks to be limited the distance that load bearing seat 300 moves.In the present embodiment, this second block unit 330 is the lug that is arranged at the top periphery of load bearing seat 300.And as shown in Figure 1, also be provided with an assistant spring unit 270 between the slide 200 of ink jet maintener of the present invention and the load bearing seat 300, return back to its original position so that the auxiliary load bearing seat 300 of elastic force to be provided.In the present embodiment, assistant spring assembly 270 is a spring.
Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and shown in Figure 3 for another example, the driving tooth wheels 400 of ink jet maintener of the present invention are sides that is positioned at this pedestal 100, so that a driving force to be provided.In the present embodiment, driving tooth wheels 400 include first master gear 411, second master gear 412, the 3rd master gear 413, first internal gear 414 and the 4th master gear 415.Wherein, first master gear, 411 adjacency also drive 412 rotations of second master gear, and 412 of second master gears are engaged in the 3rd master gear 413 and drive the 3rd master gear 413 and rotate.Then, the 3rd master gear 413 adjacency also drive 414 rotations of first internal gear, and 414 of first internal gears are engaged in the 4th master gear 415 and drive the 4th master gear 415.In addition, in the present embodiment, driving gear set 500 also is positioned at a side of pedestal 100, and it is engaged in the tooth bar 210 of slide 200.On the other hand, as Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and shown in Figure 3, driving gear set 500 includes one first drive 512, second drive 514, final drive shaft 520 and inner driving wheel 524.Wherein, the inner driving wheel 524 of driving gear set 500 is to be meshed with two tooth bars 210 of slide 200.
In addition, when the ink-jet headstock moves into ink jet maintener of the present invention with the cleaning ink gun or when keeping the humidity of ink gun, aforesaid driving gear set 500 just connects driving tooth wheels 400, with the driving force moving sliding base 200 that provides by driving tooth wheels 400.At this moment, as shown in Figure 3, first drive 512 of driving gear set 500 is the 4th master gears 415 that are engaged in driving tooth wheels 400, and 412 of second master gears of driving tooth wheels 400 and 413 engagements of the 3rd master gear make aforesaid driving force to transfer to driving gear set 500 from driving tooth wheels 400.Then, second drive 514 and the final drive shaft 520 of driving gear set 500 are just rotated by drive in regular turn, drive the inner driving wheel 524 that is positioned at first cell wall 110 by final drive shaft 520 at last and rotate.So, just can control the rotation direction of inner driving wheel 524 by the rotation direction of control driving tooth wheels 400, and then control have the moving direction of slide 200 in pedestal 100 of tooth bar 210.
Kinematic link group 600 as for ink jet maintener of the present invention then please refer to Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.Wherein, kinematic link group 600 can be controlled driving gear group 400, and when ink-jet headstock 800 contacts with kinematic link group 600, kinematic link group 600 promotes driving tooth wheels 400 and the 4th master gear 415 of driving tooth wheels 400 is engaged with first drive 512 of driving gear set 500, and makes second master gear 412 and 413 engagements of the 3rd master gear of driving tooth wheels 400.In the present embodiment, kinematic link group 600 comprises pull bar 630 and one second push rod 620 that one first push rod 610, has an inclined-plane 632.Wherein, first push rod 610 and second push rod 620 are to be arranged at two first cell walls 110 parallel to each other respectively, and pull bar 630 is to penetrate aforesaid two first cell walls 110.In addition, aforesaid the 3rd master gear 413, first internal gear 414 and the 4th master gear 415 are to be arranged at second push rod 620.
Again as shown in Figure 1, the bottom of aforesaid first push rod 610 has an engages axle 612, and an end of pull bar 630 is inclined-plane 632, and the other end of pull bar 630 then is that the top that can hook together the engages axle 612 of first push rod 610 colludes 631.Meaning promptly, pull bar 630 is to collude 631 and inclined-plane 632 links and between first push rod 610 and second push rod 620 by the top.Moreover when first push rod 610 was swung because of contacting with ink-jet headstock 800, the engages axle 612 of the bottom of first push rod 610 was just rotated towards the direction of first cell wall 110.At this moment, pull bar 630 just moves towards the direction of driving tooth wheels 500 because 631 causes that are connected with the engages axle 612 of first push rod 610 are colluded on its top, cause the inclined-plane 632 of pull bar 630 to move towards the direction of driving tooth wheels 500, and then drive of the direction slip of second push rod 620 towards driving gear set 500, shown in the arrow of Fig. 5 A.So, driving tooth wheels 400 just engage with driving gear set 500, and the driving force that makes driving tooth wheels 400 provide can be used for controlling slide 200 moving in pedestal 100.
For another example shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 5 A and Fig. 5 B, ink jet maintener of the present invention is provided with a plurality of Flexible Reset assemblies 640,650, they link the pull bar 630 and pedestal 100 of kinematic link group 600 respectively, and second push rod 620 that links pedestal 100 and kinematic link group 600.In the present embodiment, aforesaid Flexible Reset assembly 640,650 is respectively a spring.Wherein, Flexible Reset assembly 640 pull bar 630 that is used to order about kinematic link group 600 returns back to its original position.On the other hand, second push rod 620 that 650 of Flexible Reset assemblies are used to order about kinematic link group 600 returns back to its original position, make the 4th master gear 415 of driving tooth wheels 400 break away from driving gear set 500 first drives 512, and second master gear 412 of driving tooth wheels 400 and the 3rd master gear 413 also break away from mutually, shown in Fig. 5 B.
As for ink jet maintener of the present invention shoot out gathering-device 700, then see also Fig. 1 and Fig. 6.In the present embodiment, shooing out gathering-device 700 is to be placed in pedestal 100 and to comprise an ink collection dish 710 and two support bars 740,750.Wherein, an end of aforesaid support bar 740 is connected in an end of ink collection dish 710, and its other end then is fixed in pedestal 100.In addition, an end of support bar 750 is connected in an end of ink collection dish 710, and its other end then is fixed in pedestal 100.
On the other hand, as Fig. 1 and shown in Figure 6, aforesaid ink collection dish 710 has two recessed filling chamber 720,730, and these recessed filling chamber 720,730 are respectively arranged with a discharging opening for permitting discharging of the toner 721,731 at them away from a side of striking off unit 250, so that ink collection dish 710 collected ink waste liquids can drop to the ink waste collection unit 160 that is positioned at substrate 100 from these discharging opening for permitting discharging of the toner 721,731.Except that this, the inboard of aforesaid two recessed filling chamber 720,730 is respectively arranged with a blotting unit 722,732, to absorb the ink waste liquid.In the present embodiment, blotting unit 722,732 is sponge.
Please consult Fig. 1 and Fig. 6 again, aforesaid ink collection dish 710 is respectively arranged with a guide rail 711 in its both side edges, and aforesaid slide 200 also is provided with two ink collection dish pilot units 281,282 in a contiguous end that strikes off unit 250.Wherein, these ink collection dish pilot units the 281, the 282nd, correspondence is inserted in two guide rails 711, with moving of standard ink collection dish 710.
Fig. 1 and shown in Figure 6 for another example, the pedestal 100 of ink jet maintener of the present invention is provided with an ink waste collection unit 160 in the one end, to collect the ink waste liquid that is dripped from aforesaid ink collection dish 710.In addition, as shown in Figure 3, in the present embodiment, ink waste collection unit 160 is to be positioned at the below of aforesaid ink collection dish 710 and to have two ink suction pipes 161.On the other hand, as shown in Figure 6, in the present embodiment, these ink suction pipes 161 penetrate pedestal 100 and are connected with an aspirator 900.So, when the ink waste liquid that accumulates on ink waste collection unit 160 reaches some, ink jet maintener of the present invention just can be pumped the ink waste liquid to an extraneous processing unit (not shown) by the assistance of aspirator 900, as an ink cartridges, to carry out next step ink recovery handling procedure.
Start as for each assembly of ink jet maintener of the present invention then please refer to Fig. 2 to Fig. 6, rough being illustrated in down:
At first, when the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800 was in print state, slide 200 was sides that are positioned at pedestal 100, and 300 elastic force by aforesaid assistant spring unit 270 of load bearing seat are positioned at the extreme lower position with respect to slide 200, shown in Fig. 4 A.Then, print when the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800 and to finish and will enter ink jet maintener of the present invention and carry out cleaning the time, ink-jet headstock 800 just moves to the leading edge of ink jet maintener of the present invention according to a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of slide 200, as shown in Figure 2.And when first push rod 610 of ink-jet headstock 800 bump kinematic link groups 600, first push rod 610 just thereby swing, as shown in Figure 3.At this moment, because it is that engages axle 612 with first push rod 610 interlinks that the top of pull bar 630 colludes 631, pull bar 630 just moves towards the direction of driving tooth wheels 500, make the other end be positioned at pull bar 630 inclined-plane 632 contacts and order about second push rod 620 and rotate, shown in Fig. 5 A.After this, the 4th master gear 415 of driving tooth wheels 400 just is meshed with first drive 512 of driving gear set 500, and 412 of second master gears of driving tooth wheels 400 and 413 engagements of the 3rd master gear.
So, the driving force that active wheels 400 are provided is just from first master gear 411, in regular turn via second master gear 412, the 3rd master gear 413, first internal gear 414, the 4th master gear 415, first drive 512, second drive 514, final drive shaft 520 and reach inner driving wheel 524, transmission 524 is rotated in making, to drive the slide 200 with tooth bar 210 mobile in pedestal 100 in for the rotation by inner driving wheel 524 again.So, just can be by controlling the initiatively mode of the rotation direction of wheels 400, the moving direction and the distance of control slide 200, and then the position of control slide 200 in pedestal 100.
Therefore, as previously mentioned, after ink-jet headstock 800 bump kinematic link groups 600, slide 200 just can be under the driving of driving tooth wheels 400, and little by little the position of readiness by a side that is positioned at pedestal 100 shifts out.And in the process that moves, load bearing seat 300 meetings stop to move because of the first block unit 130 that its second block unit 330 touches pedestal 100, but slide 200 still can continue to move towards the direction of ink-jet headstock 800 under the driving of driving tooth wheels 400.So, just load bearing seat 300 can be because of the cause of its route guidance unit 320 corresponding to the path guide rail 240 on the slide 200, the direction diagonal ground of being guided along the path guide rail 240 of slide 200 slowly rises, shown in Fig. 4 B.In addition, when load bearing seat 300 diagonals slowly rose, tray 310 also can be along with gently rising.
And when sliding downside to ink-jet headstock 800 gradually along with slide 200, cleaning work is just implemented to the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800 in the unit 250 (as blade insert) that strikes off of this slide 200 simultaneously, strikes off nozzle residual China ink or the dust on every side that is positioned at ink gun.In the present embodiment, ink jet maintener of the present invention can be controlled the mode of rotating speed, rotation direction and the number of times back and forth of initiatively wheels 400 rotations by default printing equipment controller (not shown), makes the 250 pairs of ink guns in unit that strike off of slide 200 strike off cleaning to and fro.As for the number of times of cleaning, then decide according to the setting of demand of removing and controller.Directly implement capping when work after ink gun is not printed if do not implement the work of striking off, just can control load bearing seat 300 continues slowly to rise with respect to the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800, when slide 200 advances to the final position of pedestal 100, this tray 310 just can contact and coat the ink gun of jet of sealed headstock 800 fully, simultaneously, the tray 310 of this load bearing seat 300 is because of being carried the pushing tow of Flexible element (not shown), make it can fully coat the ink gun of jet of sealed seat 800, to keep the humidity of ink gun, prevent that ink droplet from drying up and the nozzle of obstruction ink gun.
In addition, as shown in Figure 3, when ink-jet headstock 800 be positioned at ink jet maintener of the present invention shoot out the top of gathering-device 700 time, the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800 just can carry out " shooing out program ", removes with the ink piece that condenses (residual China ink) or the dust of the ink port that will be jammed in ink gun by the promotion of ink.Wherein, this shoots out program and can transfer in ink-jet headstock 800 and be performed before the print state or be performed according to needs in the process of printing.When program is shootd out in the ink gun execution of ink-jet headstock 800, those ink waste liquids that ink gun sprayed by ink-jet headstock 800 just drop in the ink collection dish 710 that shoots out gathering-device 700, and two recessed filling chamber 720,730 interior blotting unit 722,732 that are set at ink collection dish 710 again absorb gradually.
On the other hand, ink jet maintener of the present invention can be controlled the initiatively mode of the rotation of wheels 400 by default printing equipment controller (not shown), and the final position that makes slide 200 advance to pedestal 100 also promotes to shoot out gathering-device 700 simultaneously.At this moment, because shooing out gathering-device 700 has two support bars 740,750, and the both side edges of its ink collection dish 710 is respectively arranged with a guide rail 711, slide 200 also is provided with correspondence and is inserted in ink collection dish pilot unit 281,282 in this two guide rail 711, so when shooing out gathering-device 700 by slide 200 promotions, its ink collection dish 710 is just toppled over towards an end of pedestal 100, drop to the ink waste collection unit 160 of an end that is arranged at pedestal 100 with the ink waste liquid that it is collected, as shown in Figure 6.In this simultaneously, tray 310 contacts and coats the ink gun of jet of sealed headstock 800 fully, with the humidity that keeps ink gun and prevent that ink droplet is dry and block the nozzle of ink gun.
When the ink gun of ink-jet headstock 800 transfers print state to, promptly follow opposite start order.The control that slide 200 just rotates by driving tooth wheels 400 is little by little moved towards first positioning unit, 140 directions.As previously mentioned, in the process that moves, load bearing seat 300 just can be because of the cause of its route guidance unit 320 corresponding to path guide rail 240 on the slide 200 and assistant spring unit 270, slowly descends along the direction diagonal ground that the path guide rail 240 of slide 200 is guided and return back to its original position.At last, second positioning unit 260 of slide 200 is just chimeric mutually with first positioning unit 140 of pedestal 100.
Then, ink-jet headstock 800 just moves with the direction away from first push rod 610, and when ink-jet headstock 800 breaks away from first push rod 610, pull bar 630 just passes through the elastic returning of Flexible Reset assembly 640 to its original position, second push rod 620 also returns back to its original position under the effect of the elastic force of Flexible Reset assembly 650, make the 4th master gear 415 of driving tooth wheels 400 break away from driving gear set 500 first drives 512, and second master gear 412 of driving tooth wheels 400 and the also disengaging mutually of the 3rd master gear 413.
At last, in the process that first positioning unit, 140 directions move, tray 310 just moves and slowly decline along with the diagonal of load bearing seat 300 at slide 200, and the downside that strikes off unit 250 meetings the passing through blotting bar 150 of pedestal 100 of slide 200.When striking off unit 250 and contact with each other with blotting bar 150, previous residual China ink or the dust that is struck off on every side from the nozzle of ink gun just can be fallen by 150 absorption of blotting bar, makes that striking off unit 250 can be applied to strike off nozzle residual China ink or the dust on every side that is positioned at ink gun once more.
Except that this, when slide 200 because of the control that is subjected to driving tooth wheels 400 and rotates little by little when first positioning unit, 140 directions move, slide 200 is just by its ink collection dish pilot unit 281,282 and the assistance of set two guide rails 711 of ink collection dish 710, to shoot out gathering-device 700 spurs toward the direction of first positioning unit 140 in the lump, make its ink collection dish 710 return back to one and collect ink state (being state shown in Figure 3), when program is shootd out in execution, shootd out the ink waste liquid that with the ink gun of accepting ink-jet headstock 800 once more from original tilt state (being state shown in Figure 6).
So, start by aforesaid each assembly, ink jet maintener of the present invention can be integrated the gathering-device that shoots out that originally in addition is provided with to include in wherein, make ink jet maintener of the present invention not only simple in structure, and can carry out when shooing out program at the ink gun of ink-jet headstock, the ink waste liquid of collecting ink gun effectively and being sprayed is also discharged these ink waste liquids.In addition, when ink-jet headstock shift-in and when shifting out ink jet maintener of the present invention, maintenance all can be cleaned.At last, when the ink gun of ink-jet headstock was in the wait print state, ink jet maintener of the present invention can be accurately and is fully coated the jet of sealed head, moisture preserving function to be provided and to prevent that ink droplet is dry, prolongs the service life of ink gun.
The foregoing description only is to give an example for convenience of description, and the interest field that the present invention advocated is from should be with described being as the criterion of the application's claim scope, but not only limits to the foregoing description.
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1. ink jet maintener comprises:
One pedestal, this pedestal have at least one line style guide rail;
One slide, this slide be placed in this pedestal and have at least one tooth bar, a plurality of paths guide rail, strikes off unit and a plurality of slide pilot unit, wherein this tooth bar is the root edge that is positioned at this slide, these slide pilot unit correspondences are arranged at this line style guide rail;
One load bearing seat, this load bearing seat are placed in this slide and have a plurality of trays and a plurality of route guidances unit, and wherein these route guidance unit correspondences are arranged at these path guide rails;
One driving tooth wheels, these driving tooth wheels are sides that are positioned at this pedestal, so that a power to be provided;
One driving gear set, this driving gear set are to be positioned at a side of this pedestal and to be engaged in this tooth bar, when connecting these driving tooth wheels in this driving gear set, move this slide;
One kinematic link group, this kinematic link group can be controlled this driving tooth wheels, with when this kinematic link group and an ink gun seated connection touch, makes this this driving gear set of driving gear set of bond; And
One shoots out gathering-device, and this shoots out gathering-device and is placed in this pedestal and comprises an ink collection dish and a plurality of support bar, and an end of these support bars is connected to this ink collection dish, and the other end of these support bars then is individually fixed in this pedestal;
Wherein, this slide moves along this line style guide rail by these slide pilot units, this load bearing seat moves along these path guide rails by these route guidance unit, this shoots out gathering-device then makes this ink collection dish topple over towards an end of this pedestal by the promotion of this slide, this and shoots out the collected ink waste liquid of gathering-device to topple over.
2. ink jet maintener according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this ink collection dish has a plurality of recessed filling chamber, and a side of these recessed filling chamber is respectively arranged with a discharging opening for permitting discharging of the toner.
3. ink jet maintener according to claim 2 is characterized in that, the inboard of at least one of these recessed filling chamber has a blotting unit.
4. ink jet maintener according to claim 3 is characterized in that, this blotting unit is a sponge.
5. ink jet maintener according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this ink collection dish also has a plurality of guide rails, and these guide rails are arranged at the lateral margin of this ink collection dish respectively.
6. ink jet maintener according to claim 5 is characterized in that, this slide also is provided with a plurality of ink collection dish pilot units in contiguous this end that strikes off the unit, and these ink collection dish pilot unit correspondences are arranged at these guide rails.
7. ink jet maintener according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this pedestal also is provided with an ink waste collection unit, and this ink waste collection unit correspondence is arranged at this and shoots out gathering-device.
8. ink jet maintener according to claim 7 is characterized in that, this ink waste collection unit has at least one ink suction pipe.
9. ink jet maintener according to claim 8 is characterized in that, this ink suction pipe penetrates this pedestal.
10. ink jet maintener according to claim 8 is characterized in that, this ink suction pipe is connected with an aspirator.
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