EP0020975B1 - Circuit de commande de l'application d'un courant à un enroulement et son application à un dispositif d'impression - Google Patents

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EP0020975B1
EP0020975B1 EP80102566A EP80102566A EP0020975B1 EP 0020975 B1 EP0020975 B1 EP 0020975B1 EP 80102566 A EP80102566 A EP 80102566A EP 80102566 A EP80102566 A EP 80102566A EP 0020975 B1 EP0020975 B1 EP 0020975B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J1/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the mounting, arrangement or disposition of the types or dies
    • B41J1/22—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the mounting, arrangement or disposition of the types or dies with types or dies mounted on carriers rotatable for selection
    • B41J1/24—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the mounting, arrangement or disposition of the types or dies with types or dies mounted on carriers rotatable for selection the plane of the type or die face being perpendicular to the axis of rotation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J9/00—Hammer-impression mechanisms
    • B41J9/44—Control for hammer-impression mechanisms
    • B41J9/50—Control for hammer-impression mechanisms for compensating for the variations of printer drive conditions, e.g. for compensating for the variation of temperature or current supply
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H47/00—Circuit arrangements not adapted to a particular application of the relay and designed to obtain desired operating characteristics or to provide energising current
    • H01H47/22—Circuit arrangements not adapted to a particular application of the relay and designed to obtain desired operating characteristics or to provide energising current for supplying energising current for relay coil
    • H01H47/32—Energising current supplied by semiconductor device
    • H01H47/325—Energising current supplied by semiconductor device by switching regulator

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  • the present invention relates to solenoid control systems in general, and more particularly to systems which include a solenoid control system in which the duration and force of the output of the solenoid regardless of voltage variations, must be precisely controlled.
  • the present invention relates more particularly to the precise control of an impact printer operating at high speed and controlled by a solenoid, enabling quality printing to be obtained.
  • US-A-No. 3,712,212 presents an impact printer in which the striking force varies according to the printing surface of the character to be printed.
  • a rotary printing drum or wheel or an endless printing belt is used in combination with one or more printing hammers for printing on a printing medium.
  • the electromagnetic field produced by the solenoid triggers the flight of the hammer against the document to be printed.
  • the problem of striking the hammer is treated as a function of the printing surface of the characters, no attempt is made to vary the striking force of the hammer, in order to compensate for the variations in tension of food.
  • the impulse applied to the winding of the hammer solenoid is effective from its application without taking into account possible variations in its rise time, caused by fluctuations in the supply voltage or variations in inductance.
  • the US-A-No. 3 866 533 presents another system making it possible to vary the striking force applied by a striking hammer.
  • the width of the pulse applied to the hammer solenoid is varied according to the thickness of the forms as the printing is performed.
  • This patent also presents a technique for regulating the input voltage to reduce variations in the hammer strike force to a minimum.
  • this patent does not deal with the chronology of the printing pulse from the moment when a predetermined current level is reached in the winding of the solenoid, in order to eliminate the problems posed by the voltage variation.
  • the US-A-No. 4,030,591 also has a hammer control circuit.
  • the hammer is synchronized according to the printing speed.
  • the triggering of the hammer is still based on the moment of reception of a pulse.
  • the timing of the pulse is based on the printing speed. No attempt is made to command the hammer after receipt of the conditioning pulse.
  • the duration of the pulse is also counted from the start of the excitation of the hammer winding and not from the moment when the current in the winding reaches a predetermined level. Thus, variations in the rise time can severely affect the system presented in this patent.
  • US-A-3,909,681 also describes a winding control circuit for the operation of a printer hammer.
  • a switch interposed between the winding and the supply current source is opened as soon as the current flowing in the winding reaches a predetermined level allowing saturation of the magnetic core of the winding. The current then decreases exponentially according to the time constant of the circuit.
  • the current supply is therefore maintained only during the rising phase of the pulse and no attempt is made to keep the current constant for a predetermined time.
  • the subject of the invention is a control circuit according to claim 1 as well as its use in a printing device according to claim 5.
  • the device of the present invention consists of a solenoid control circuit excited by a power supply with inherent voltage variations.
  • the excitation current is applied to the winding and the current level in the winding is detected. After the current level in the winding has reached a predetermined maximum level, a timing circuit is initiated to control the duration of the application of the maximum current.
  • the variations in the supply voltage have little effect on the net electromagnetic field produced by the winding since the whole chronology is based on the instant when the level of the predetermined control current is reached, contrary to the chronology which includes the rise time of the signal of the control current.
  • the effects of inductance variations in solenoid type systems can also be offset by the use of the appropriate timing.
  • a solenoid control circuit is used in a daisy-shaped print wheel printer to precisely control the flight time, the strike force and the duration of its application by a hammer mounted on the winding.
  • Figure 1 shows the main mechanical components of a printing system. They are shown schematically since they are well known in the prior art and since the present invention relates to the control system of the hammer hammer control circuit. It is obvious that the system of the present invention could be used for other applications.
  • a laterally sliding carriage 1 is mounted on a guide rod la and an endless screw 7 and carries a wheel or a rotary printing disc 2 driven by a stepping motor 3.
  • the carriage 1 is driven by the worm 7, itself driven by a stepping motor 8.
  • the motor 8 could also drive a belt, which, in turn, would drive the carriage 1.
  • the printing wheel 2 is formed of a disc comprising a certain number of movable elements of a character, for example in the form of flexible radial tongues 9A, 9B, 9C, etc., each bearing a printing character.
  • the impression of a desired character is caused by the actuation of a striking hammer 10 controlled by a solenoid 11, these two elements being mounted on the carriage 1.
  • the solenoid 11 applies the hammer 10 against the selected character carrier tab bringing the latter in contact with the paper 12 or any other printing medium.
  • a transmitting wheel 13 fixed to the printing wheel 2 and rotating with the latter operates in association with a detector FB2 to generate a current of transmitter indexing pulses controlling the operation of the printer.
  • the emitting wheel 13 comprises a series of teeth each corresponding to one of the tongues 9A, 9B, 9C, etc.
  • a reference pulse is generated at each revolution of the printing wheel by a single tooth on another transmitter (not shown).
  • the printer commands can thus determine at any time the angular position of the print wheel 2 by counting the pulses received since the last reference pulse.
  • a notched transmitter 15 is mounted on the shaft of the motor 8 and, in association with a detector FB1, delivers pulses which indicate the position of the carriage 1.
  • the stepping motors 3 and 8 are excited by conventional control circuits 21 and 22.
  • the patent US-A-No. 3,636,429 presents examples of this type of control circuit that can be used.
  • a hammer solenoid 11 is actuated by a hammer control circuit 23 which is the object of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 taken from US-A-No. 3 866 533 shows the variation in the width of the pulses caused by variations in the supply voltage.
  • the curves shown in Figure 2 are for 1, 3 or 6 forms.
  • the figure shows that a variation of the supply voltage from 22 to 23 volts causes a variation of the width of the pulse of approximately 100 microseconds.
  • Figure 3 is a graphical representation of a problem associated with variations in supply voltage during the. rise of the pulse, appearing when said pulse is synchronized from the moment of application of the voltage to the winding.
  • the Figure 3 shows that a relatively high voltage applied to the winding will obviously cause a relatively rapid rise which, in turn, will cause a time of application of the relatively long maximum current compared to the time T2 measured from the moment when the nominal current in the winding reaches a predetermined level.
  • FIG. 3 further shows that the application of a relatively low voltage to the winding causes an application time to the winding of the relatively low maximum current compared to the duration of T2.
  • the graph in FIG. 3 simply shows that the variations in voltage during the rise of the signal can cause significant variations in the time of application of the maximum current to the winding.
  • the chronology of the application of the signal to the winding is established from the moment when the signal reaches its maximum selected current unlike the devices of the prior art in which it is established from the moment when the current is initially applied to the winding. It has been shown that extremely precise control of the electromagnetic field produced can be ensured by establishing the chronology from the application of the maximum current to the winding instead of establishing it from the initial application of said current.
  • FIG. 4 represents an example of circuit 23 making it possible to establish the chronology of a signal applied to a winding for a preselected time from the moment when a preselected maximum current is reached.
  • FIG. 4 shows that the AND gate 25 receives a signal A by the line 24.
  • the signal A is simply the control signal coming from the system, indicating that the hammer must be triggered.
  • Gate A receives its other conditioning signal D via line 42. Signal D will be described later.
  • the output of the AND gate 25 is applied by the line 26 to the AND gate 27 which receives its other conditioning input C from the chronology unit 41.
  • the AND gate 27 delivers an output by the line 28 to the transistor switch 29
  • Switch 29 is simply a conventional transistor current switch.
  • the switch 29 connects the winding 30 to ground.
  • the switch 29 is also connected by line 31 through the resistor 32 to ground to complete the winding current circuit.
  • Resistor 32 is a detection resistance crossed by a detected current and applied by lines 33 and 34 to a comparator 35.
  • Comparator 35 also receives an input by line 36 from a current reference unit 37. The current flowing through the detection resistor 32 is compared with the predetermined current delivered by the unit 37. When the current flowing through the resistor 32 is equal to the reference current of the unit 37, this equality is noted in a output signal B is generated.
  • This output signal is applied to the chronology unit 41 by the line 39 and to the oscillator 40 by the line 38.
  • the output of the oscillator 40 is applied to the line 42.
  • the priming signal coming from the control logic of the printer or any other system is applied by line 24 to the AND gate 25.
  • This signal is the signal A in FIG. 5.
  • the signal D coming from the oscillator 40 is at the high level and therefore the AND gate 25 applies a positive logic level via line 26 to the gate.
  • AND 27 The other input of the AND gate 27 receives the signal C from the chronology unit 41.
  • the signal C coming from the chronology unit 41 is again at this instant at a positive logic level which causes the application of a positive logic level by line 28 to the transistor switch 29.
  • the transistor switch 29 is a conventional transistor switch and the application of a positive potential by line 28 causes the transistor to conduct for application of current through winding 30 of the positive potential at mass e.
  • the current begins to flow in the winding 30 which is the control winding of the solenoid.
  • the resistor 32 which is, as indicated above, a detection resistor.
  • the current flowing in the detection resistor 32 is applied to the comparator 35 where it is compared to the reference current applied on the line 36 by the reference current unit 37.
  • the comparator 35 delivers the signal B which is applied by the line 38 to the oscillator 40 and by the line 39 to the chronology unit 41.
  • the chronology unit 41 begins a count based on the selected instant. In the figure, the chronology unit 41 is a single shot for the sake of simplicity and the instant selected will be that required for the application concerned.
  • the signal B applied by the line 38 will cause the start of oscillation of the oscillator 40.
  • the obvious function of the oscillator 40 is to deliver conditioning pulses to the system to prevent any overshooting of the current.
  • the invention consists of a hammer control circuit controlled by a power supply having inherent voltage variations.
  • the control signal is applied to the hammer winding and the current level in the winding is detected. After the current level in the winding reaches a predetermined level, the timing circuit is energized to establish the length of the signal. Variations in the supply voltage do not affect the hammer, since the entire chronology is based on the instant when the predetermined level of the control current is reached, unlike the chronology which includes the signal rise time. control. Similarly, variations in inductance can be compensated for by varying the duration of the current pulse.

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