EP0292597A1 - Tête d'écriture magnétique comprenant au moins un ensemble linéaire d'éléments magnétiques d'écriture - Google Patents

Tête d'écriture magnétique comprenant au moins un ensemble linéaire d'éléments magnétiques d'écriture Download PDF

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EP0292597A1
EP0292597A1 EP87107810A EP87107810A EP0292597A1 EP 0292597 A1 EP0292597 A1 EP 0292597A1 EP 87107810 A EP87107810 A EP 87107810A EP 87107810 A EP87107810 A EP 87107810A EP 0292597 A1 EP0292597 A1 EP 0292597A1
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print head
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W. Dipl.-Ing. Sakmann
L. Ing.(Grad.) Fischer
G. Ing.(Grad.) Hechinger
G. Dr.(Physik) Trippel
G. Dr. Schmidt
D. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Rogalla
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IBM Deutschland GmbH
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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
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/385—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective supply of electric current or selective application of magnetism to a printing or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/43—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective supply of electric current or selective application of magnetism to a printing or impression-transfer material for magnetic printing

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  • the invention relates to a magnetic print head comprising at least one linear array of magnetic printing elements, each of said magnetic printing elements being surrounded by electrical windings controlling the magnetic flux in each of said magnetic printing element, said windings being attachable to electric control circuits.
  • Such a magnetic print head is known for example from USP 4 370 661. It describes a linear array of magnetic tips interrupted by gaps. In each of these gaps two electrical conductors are threaded. One conductor belongs to a digit line and one conductor belongs to a word line. When a coincidence of currents occurs flowing in the same direction at the same time, a magnetic flux is generated which is strong enough to magnetize the magnetic image carrier. When only one current at a time flows in either the digit or the word line the generated magnetic flux field in one gap is not strong enough to magnetize the magnetic image carrier. No magnetizing field at all is generated when either no current flows or the current of equal strengths flows in opposite direction in the digit or the word line respectively.
  • the electrical conductors leading the current are provided as printed circuit lines on a flexible substrate. Two of those substrates are superimposed so that in each gap one digit line and one word line is provided. Thus, not more than only two electrical conductors per gap can be and are provided. If for example 8-10 Ampere-turns are required for generating a magnetic field strong enough to magnetize the magnetic image carrier, then the current per conductor has to be relatively high. That means that the printed circuit line conductor has to have a large cross section, i.e. it must be wide and thick. Furthermore, the heat generating and heat dissipation is obviously relatively high.
  • the invention as claimed overcomes these drawbacks. It solves especially the problem of having enough ampere-­turns for a sufficiently high magnetizing field, of having low heat generating by low current flow through relative large cross sections of the current lines, and of providing easy and relatively simple manufacturing by using proved manufacturing techniques, this combined with high precision.
  • its linear array of printing elements comprises a thin flexible foil of magnetic material out of which adjacent to one edge a comb-like structure of magnetic elements is worked out, e.g. by etching, a first thin flexible foil means which is provided in one side with a structure of a first half of the electrical windings, and which is provided on its reverse side with con­necting ground and control lines, a second thin flexible foil on which is provided on one side the complementing second half of the electrical windings, both foils carrying that halfs of the electrical windings being performed as printed circuits, the first and the second foil carrying the halfs of the electrical windings being connected, e.g. by soldering, such that a separate continuous winding surrounds each single magnetic element, and the continuous winding being arranged as close as possible to the open tip ends of the magnetic elements.
  • the magnetic print head comprising at least one linear array of printing elements, and the method for producing it, as well as their advantageous improvements will be described in the following with references to the drawing, showing embodiments of the invention, and in which
  • Fig. 1 shows schematically in a side view a cross section of two linear arrays 1 and 2.
  • Linear array 1 belongs for example to the odd head
  • linear array 2 belongs to the even head.
  • Odd and even head are staggered for one pitch, that means for one spacing between two magnetic elements 3 so that the double picture element density is given.
  • the magnetic elements 3, if enegized, magnetize a drum like image carrier 4 in its surface area 5 immediately below the tip ends 6 of the magnetic elements 3.
  • Linear array 1 and 2 is formed identically and as already mentioned arranged in a block like form staggered to each other. In the design shown in Fig. 1 both arrays 1 and 2 are connected by an appropriate layer like material 7.
  • Magnetic element 3 is part of a thin flexible foil 8.
  • This thin flexible foil of magnetic material is preferably made out of amorous material. This might be a NiFe alloy as for example Permalloy. If for practical reasons foil 8 is not available or can not be produced or processed in one peace then a super-imposition of two foils, e.g. two 30 ⁇ m thick Permalloy foils can be used. Thus a thickness of 60 ⁇ m for a magnetic foil is given. This has been found a well suited and dimensioned material to form magnetic elements 3 out of it.
  • a comb-like structure 10 is worked out.
  • the working out can be done for example by etching.
  • the comb-like structure 10 separates the lower part 9 from the upper part 11 of magnetic foil 8.
  • the magnetic elements 3 of the comb-like structure 10 are separated by gaps 12.
  • the gaps 12 might have a gap lengths gl of 151,66 ⁇ m and the magnetic elements 3 might have a tooth widths of 60 ⁇ m. Both together add up to a pitch p forming the masher for the picture density of 211,66 ⁇ m. This corresponds to 1/120" or 120 pel (picture elements per inch).
  • the lower part 9 and the upper part 11 will be separated later so that out of the comb-like structure 10 the tip end 6 of the magnetic elements 3 are open to the outside.
  • Fig. 1 magnetic foil 8 is sur­rounded in area W by a first foil 14 and a second foil 15.
  • First foil 14 is shown in more detail and in a section cut out of it in Fig. 3.
  • Foil 14 is a thin flexible foil, e.g. a polyimid foil of 12,5 ⁇ m thick­ness. It carries on 1 side electrical conductors 16. Those are copper lines provided on the upper side of foil 14 in well known printed circuit technique. As Fig. 3 shows clearly the lines 16 are separated from each other but form a parallel pattern that is repeated on that foil as often as it is necessary to form a first half of all the electrical windings of 1 linear array.
  • ground lines 17 and control lines 18 are provided on the reverse side of foil 15 on the reverse side of foil 15 .
  • lines are copper lines printed in well known manner on the foil 14.
  • Ground line 17 for example is attached to a pad 19 which forms a hole in foil 14 for through-hole connection.
  • a second pad 20 is provided that in similar fashion is connected via a hole by through-hole plating conntection to control line 18.
  • the copper lines 16 may have a thickness of about 5 ⁇ m, may have a width of about 15 ⁇ m and a distance to each other of about 10 ⁇ m. They are staggered, as can be seen from Fig. 3 in a step like fashion.
  • the end areas 21 of each single electric line 16 are covered with tin or lead tin alloy which is used to form the connection with the second half winding, when a soldering process is used.
  • the second half winding is provided on 1 side of the second foil 15.
  • a section of this foil 15 showing the design of the half winding consisting of lines 16 is shown in Fig. 4.
  • the design is complementary to that of Fig. 3 so that if both sides are superimposed face to face their end areas 21 match each other in such a way that upon completion of the connection between the two foils a continuous winding is formed starting from the lower hole plated pad 19 via all the lines 16 within one winding up to the upper hole plated pad 20.
  • foil 15 is provided with its lines 16 in well known printed circuit technique.
  • Fig. 5 shows in a bottom view an enlarged cross section of the superimposed magnetic foil 8 with its magnetic elements 3 in the middle and underneath the first thin flexible foil 14 carrying one half of the electrical winding and the ground 17 and control 18 lines, and on top of it the foil 15, the second thin flexible foil on which the complementary second half of the winding is provided.
  • This super-position is shown before the connection between the two half winding carrying foils 14 and 15 is performed.
  • the circuit lines 16 tin or lead tin alloy is provided.
  • This tin might have the form of small tin balls 22.
  • insulation layers 23 are provided between the foil 8 with its magnetic elements 3 and the two foils 14 and 15 respectively and especially their conductor lines 16 on both sides insulation layers 23 are provided.
  • the circuit lines 16 are electrically insulated from the magnetic elements 3. Again the partioning or pitch distance p is clearly visable.
  • Fig. 6A In a similar view as in Fig. 5 the result of this connection is shown.
  • the connection is done by soldering.
  • two identical soldering irons 24 and 25 are provided.
  • Those soldering irons 24, 25 are provided with heating ribs 26 and 27 distanced from each other for the pitch spacing p.
  • the heating ribs 26 and 27 are constructed such that at the same time two adjacent tin balls 22 of two different half windings are melted and connected at the very same time.
  • the soldering irons 24 and 25 with their heating ribs 26 and 27 may be made from steel and machined in the desidered design to have a micro-mechanical profile as shown.
  • the structure as shown in Fig. 5 and in Fig. 6A shows the electrical lines 16 on the inside of both foils 14 and 15, facing each other and directly opposite to the magnetic elements 3 of the magnetic foil 8.
  • An in principl opposite arrangement is shown in Fig. 6B.
  • the printed circuit foil 14 and 15 have the conductors 16 of their respective half windings on their outside. Thus they are not immedialetly oppositely faced to the magnetic elements 3 of the magnetic foil 8. Thus the foils themselves can serve as insulating layer to the magnetic element 3.
  • a through hole plating 31 is provided so that a connection through the foil 14 or 15 respectively is made to tin balls 32. In that tin ball area 32 the two halfs are connected.
  • soldering of those two foils with through hole plating is again formed by the already described two soldering irons 24 and 25.
  • This design has furthermore the advantage that an additional copper layer 33 can be applied by electrodeposit to the conductor lines 16 thus reinforcing and enlarging the lines. Also possible cracks in the copper layer caused by the bending of the copper during soldering can be overcome by this design.
  • the hight of foil 15 carrying only the complementary half winding is covering only about the winding area W.
  • Foil 14 carrying also the ground line 17 and the different control lines 18, is arranged such that it surpasses the U-like magnetic yoke and goes on top of block 35.
  • There a decode/drive chip 36 is provided. This chip is connected to the control lines 18 and the ground line 17. It furthermore provides the connection to other needed electrical controlling and driving circuits.
  • Fig. 7 shows a section of a foil 37 that carries one half of the winding. It shows one wide ground line 38 that is connected to connecting lines 39 that lead to each upper beginning of one half-winding structure. The lower end of that half-winding structure is connected to printed circuit lines 40 that lead away from the winding structure to the lower part of foil 37. Lateron after superimposition and connecting the two half-­windings as already described, along a cut line 41 also the connecting lines 40 are cut off. That means that those connecting lines 40 reach the edge of foil 37. At this edge they are lateron connected to a second foil 44 having control lines 42 connected to connecting pads 43. That is shown in Fig. 9.
  • foil 37 and foil 44 are superimposed such that they form more or less one foil compound having the first half of the electrical winding together with the ground line structure on one side (see Fig. 7) and having on the reverse side the control line structure as shown in Fig. 9.
  • the control lines 42 are connected with the connecting lines 40.
  • the spacing correspondes exactly to the pitch p of the magnetic elements 3 already seen in different figures.
  • the two foils shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 form a second version of the foil 14 shown in Fig. 3.
  • a section of a foil 45 is shown provided with printed circuit lines 16 as already shown in Fig. 4.
  • the section view of Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 shows a half-winding structure with sixty lines for every half-winding. The same number is shown in Fig. 7. If foil 45 is then superimposed as complementary second half over the structure shown in Fig. 7, certainly including in between the corresponding magnetic foil 8 as already described, those magnetic elements then will be surrounded by a continuous coil or winding respectively of sixty turns.
  • the foil means formed from the combined foil 37 and 44 is used, as for example in the assembling as shown in Fig. 1 than the connecting pads 43 (see Fig. 9) will be immediately underneath the decode/drive chip 36 whereas on the under side of that foil means the ground line 38 will be applied to a coil ground connection 46 at the ultimate edge area of that foil means.
  • Fig. 10 shows as slightly different design from the head assembly shown in Fig. 1.
  • the difference is that the design of the return flux is differently shaped.
  • the magnetic foil 8 with its part 47 is sliding on the surface 5 of magnetic drum forming the image carrier 4.
  • No magnetic reinforcement block as in Fig. 1 is needed therefore.
  • an appropriately shaped inner plastic part 48, over which foil 8 is guided in its direction turning area 49 foil 8 is given the direction to form an appropriately arced slope for resting with its part 47 on surface 5 on image carrier 4.
  • an appropriately shaped outer plastic part 50 foil 8 is held in its shown position.
  • this outer plastic part is used to have attached to it the printed circuit foil means carrying ground and connector lines to chip 36 and coil ground connection 46.
  • a magnetic printing head for writing on a image carrier 4 of a length (or width respectively) of 30 cm would have to include three linear arrays 1 for the odd heads and three linear arrays 2 for the even heads, attached to each other precisely so that the magnetic elements 3 are all in line and in exact spacing arranged.
  • This on the other hand provides that it would be possible to have masks for producsing printed circuit foils in a widths about 10 cm in one peace. This is feasable with techniques nowadays available.
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GB1139979A (en) * 1966-06-21 1969-01-15 Standard Telephones Cables Ltd Electro-magnetic recording device
US3683105A (en) * 1970-10-13 1972-08-08 Westinghouse Electric Corp Microcircuit modular package
US4328503A (en) * 1979-11-01 1982-05-04 General Electric Company High resolution magnetic printing head
US4370661A (en) * 1979-07-26 1983-01-25 General Electric Company Easily assembled transverse magnetic printing head

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GB1139979A (en) * 1966-06-21 1969-01-15 Standard Telephones Cables Ltd Electro-magnetic recording device
US3683105A (en) * 1970-10-13 1972-08-08 Westinghouse Electric Corp Microcircuit modular package
US4370661A (en) * 1979-07-26 1983-01-25 General Electric Company Easily assembled transverse magnetic printing head
US4328503A (en) * 1979-11-01 1982-05-04 General Electric Company High resolution magnetic printing head

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