[background technology]
In recent years, people are to various electronic installations such as computer, and the portable information apparatus demand heightens.Liquid crystal indicator, but especially the demand of color liquid crystal display arrangement and application places also increase thereupon.This kind color liquid crystal display arrangement must adopt colored filter and achieve the demonstration of colorize image.Wherein, ink-jet method is a kind of manufacture method of colored filter, and this method is to use an ink discharge device that red, green, blue three chromatic inks are sprayed onto in a plurality of pixel regions on the substrate dry solidification ink then and forms the processing procedure of color layers.
Above-mentioned ink discharge device has a plurality of ink guns, and each ink gun has an ink chamber and a nozzle, and ink chamber is in order to the ink of temporary transient storage specified quantitative, and nozzle links to each other with ink chamber.By an external pressure ink is penetrated through nozzle in a plurality of pixel regions to the substrate from ink chamber.Because the volume of each pixel region on the substrate is a micron order, if ink remains on the nozzle, then residual ink can the overslaugh ink ejection of next time, so, the spray volume of just difficult control ink next time is difficult to guarantee the uniformity of each color layers.Therefore, the cleaning of ink gun seems particularly important.
See also Fig. 1, a kind of wiping arrangement 8 that cleans ink gun is made up of a roller 802, a cleaning wiping cloth 804 and a cleaning wiping cloth drive unit 806 in the prior art.When the wiping operation, cleaning wiping cloth drive unit 806 drives cleaning wiping cloth 804 motions, and roller 802 can be used as supporting surface, and cleaning wiping cloth 804 is pressed to ink gun to be cleaned 808, utilizes consequent pressure that ink gun 808 is cleaned.
But, because in the above-mentioned wiping process, roller 802 is cleaning wiping cloth 804 to be pressed on the ink gun 808 clean, because ink gun 808 is the parts that belong to fragile, so caused damage easily by hard thing roof pressure, wiping action is frequent in addition, very easily damages ink gun 808 and reduces its service life.
[summary of the invention]
In view of this, be necessary to provide a kind of ink gun wiping arrangement and a kind of ink-jet head cleaning method that when the wiping ink gun, can play to the preferable protective effect of ink gun.
A kind of ink gun wiping arrangement, it comprises a wiping media, a tensioner and a bracing or strutting arrangement.This wiping arrangement is in order to cleaning ink gun surface.This tensioner offers tension force of wiping media.Bracing or strutting arrangement is in order to support wiping media, and this bracing or strutting arrangement comprises one first substrate, and this first substrate has a recess, and the contacted part of this wiping media and ink gun is positioned at this recess top and is vacant state.
A kind of ink-jet head cleaning method, its step is as follows:
An aforesaid ink gun wiping arrangement is provided;
Wiping arrangement and ink gun carry out relative motion, and ink gun is contacted with the wiping media of wiping arrangement; Ink gun and wiping media are separated.
Compared to prior art; described ink gun wiping arrangement comprises one first substrate; this first substrate has a recess; the contacted part of this wiping media and ink gun is positioned at this recess top and is vacant state; can avoid ink gun directly by hard thing roof pressure; significantly reduce the pressure that ink gun is subjected in wiping process, the situation appearance of avoiding ink gun to damage because of being subjected to big pressure, thus play the service life that preferable protective effect can prolong ink gun.
Described ink-jet head cleaning method adopts aforesaid ink gun wiping arrangement that ink gun is cleaned, and when effectively cleaning ink gun, can shield to ink gun.
[specific embodiment]
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the embodiment of the invention is described in further detail.
See also Fig. 2, the side schematic view of a kind of ink gun wiping arrangement 1 that first embodiment of the invention provides, this ink gun wiping arrangement 1 comprises: wiping media 10, a tensioner and a bracing or strutting arrangement 30.
Wiping media 10 is directly to contact with ink gun (back is described in detail) in cleaning course, in order to the dirty and residual ink on cleaning ink gun surface, to guarantee the cleaning of ink gun.Wiping media 10 can be made of as polyester fiber the fiber or the macromolecular fibre of two or more directions.The fiber light is level and smooth, soft and not yielding, can play preferable protective effect to ink gun.
Tensioner is arranged on the two ends of bracing or strutting arrangement 30, every end be provided with pair of axle spindles 202 and wherein an end be provided with a spool 204 and an electric device (figure does not show), the other end is provided with a rotating shaft 206.In order to clamping wiping media 10, fixedly wiping media 10 to wheel shaft 202 for these.It is bigger that the shape of wheel shaft 202 can be wheel shaft 202 mid diameters, the shape that the two ends diameter is less.Spool 204 can be a rolling bearing, it drives by this electric device, can make wiping media 10 involve and wheel shaft 202 is involved in is wrapped on the spool 204 through this from rotating shaft 206, so tensioner provide one fixedly tension force give wiping media 10 wiping media 10 tightened on bracing or strutting arrangement 30.This electric device is to utilize Lenz's law (Lenz ' sLaw) carries out the conversion of electric energy and mechanical energy, as motor.
See also Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, this bracing or strutting arrangement 30 comprises: one first substrate 300, second substrate 400, four bolts 500, four nuts 600 and four flexible members 700.
In the present embodiment, the length of first substrate 300 is 188 millimeters, and width is 88 millimeters, thickness is 6 millimeters, material is teflon (Teflon), and teflon comprises polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), perfluoroethylene-propylene and various copolymer, and the teflon material characteristic is softer and more corrosion-resistant.First substrate 300 is provided with four counterbores 302 and a recess 304.The part that wiping media 10 contacts with ink gun be positioned at recess 304 directly over and be vacant state.These four counterbores 302 are positioned at the Si Jiaochu of first substrate 300, and the size of recess 304 is decided by the size of ink gun, to be of a size of good greater than whole ink gun.In the present embodiment, the degree of depth of this recess 304 is less than the thickness of first substrate 300.In addition, the size of first substrate 300 also can be regulated according to actual conditions, and is not limited to the size in the present embodiment.
Second substrate 400 and first substrate 300 are oppositely arranged, and the surface area of the surface area of second substrate 400 and first substrate 300 is close, and the material of second substrate 400 is an aluminium, the preferable aluminium A6061 that selects for use, and its corrosion resistance is stronger.Be respectively arranged with on second substrate 400 and four counterbores, 302 corresponding four-way holes 402.In the present embodiment, the two ends of second substrate 400 form a resettlement section 404 to the vertical bending of same direction, and as shown in Figure 4, this resettlement section 404 can be used for accommodating first substrate 300.
Each bolt 500 has a termination 502, a pars intermedia 504 and a screw rod 506, and pars intermedia 504 is between termination 502 and screw rod 506.
In the present embodiment, flexible member 700 is a spring, and it is set in each pars intermedia 504, and spring comprises extension spring, compression spring, leaf spring and torsionspring.Bolt 500 passes this first substrate 300 and second substrate 400 from counterbore 302 to through hole 402, nut 600 is positioned at the outside of second substrate 400 and matches with screw rod 506, makes first substrate 300 and second substrate 400 combine and make flexible member 700 inconsistent with counterbore 302 and through hole 402 respectively.So, when first substrate 300 was subjected to external force and acts on outer surface, first substrate 300 can move to second substrate 400 along bolt 500 axial directions, and at this moment, flexible member 700 is compressed.When external force was cancelled, the elastic force that compressed flexible member 700 produces can make first substrate 300 return to the origin-location.Certainly, flexible member 700 also can be selected other element for use, as rubber ring, sponge elastomeric material.In addition, other elastomeric material, utilize in this way material bending, reverse, stretch or compress restoring force constituted, also be the scope that the present invention is contained.
See also Fig. 5, the bracing or strutting arrangement 30 ' of a kind of ink gun wiping arrangement that second embodiment of the invention provides.Bracing or strutting arrangement 30 different being of bracing or strutting arrangement 30 ' and the ink gun wiping arrangement of first embodiment of the invention, first substrate 300 ' of bracing or strutting arrangement 30 ' be positioned at that wiping media 10 contacts with ink gun under the degree of depth of recess 304 ' equal the thickness of first substrate 300 ', be recess 304, be vacant state for hollowing out the part that design makes the wiping media 10 directly over it contact with ink gun.
See also Fig. 6, the ink gun wiping arrangement 1 that provides with first embodiment of the invention illustrates the wiping operation of wiping arrangement to ink gun.When this ink gun wiping arrangement 1 during in the wiping operation, first substrate 300 was tightened and covered to wiping media 10 via spool 204, rotating shaft 206 and the wheel shaft 202 at bracing or strutting arrangement 30 two ends on first substrate, 300 surfaces unsettled design.Ink gun 3 contacts with the wiping media 10 that covers recess 304 zones; the tension force that medium 10 is tightened in utilization cleans ink gun 3; so can significantly reduce the pressure that ink gun 3 is subjected in wiping process; the impaired situation of pressure occurs because hard thing roof pressure produces greatly because of being subjected to avoid ink gun 3, thereby has preferable protective effect can prolong the service life of ink gun 3.In addition, in the wiping operation process,,, vibrations or bump increase the weight of the pressure of 10 pairs of ink guns 3 of wiping media as taking place if abnormal conditions occur, the flexible member 700 that is set in first substrate 300 and second substrate 400 can provide a rational cushion space, alleviates the pressure that ink gun 3 is subjected to.
See also Fig. 7, third embodiment of the invention provides a kind of flow chart of ink-jet head cleaning method, and its step is as follows:
Step 101: an ink gun wiping arrangement is provided.
The ink gun wiping arrangement that this step 101 provided can be selected from the ink gun wiping arrangement that first embodiment of the invention or second embodiment provide.
Step 102: wiping arrangement and ink gun carry out relative motion, and ink gun is contacted with the wiping media of wiping arrangement.
The described relative motion of this step 102 can be that ink gun maintains static, and wiping arrangement is shifted to ink gun; Wiping arrangement maintains static, and ink gun is shifted to wiping arrangement; Or mobile simultaneously ink gun and wiping arrangement make both close.
Step 103: make ink gun and wiping media produce relative motion.In this step 103, wiping media drives by spool and ink gun is carried out wiping up to clean to ink-jet head cleaning.Certainly, if during just to ink gun wiping roughly, this step 103 can be omitted.
Step 104: ink gun and wiping media are separated.After wiping finishes, ink gun is separated with wiping media and finish the wiping operation.
The ink gun wiping arrangement that the embodiment of the invention provided; first substrate of its bracing or strutting arrangement wiping media contact with ink gun under be provided with recess and form hanging structure; during wiping; ink gun contacts with the wiping media that covers recess area; can significantly reduce the pressure that ink gun is subjected in wiping process; the situation appearance of avoiding ink gun to damage because of being subjected to big pressure, thus there is preferable protective effect can prolong the service life of ink gun.And provide a rational cushion space by the flexible member between first substrate and second substrate, alleviate the pressure that ink gun is subjected to because of accident.When described clean method effectively cleans ink gun, can shield to ink gun.
In addition, those skilled in the art can also do other variation in spirit of the present invention, and certainly, the variation that these are done according to spirit of the present invention all should be included within the present invention's scope required for protection.