EP2221183B1 - Machine numérique à jet pour dépose d`un revêtement sur un substrat - Google Patents

Machine numérique à jet pour dépose d`un revêtement sur un substrat Download PDF

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EP2221183B1
EP2221183B1 EP10162957A EP10162957A EP2221183B1 EP 2221183 B1 EP2221183 B1 EP 2221183B1 EP 10162957 A EP10162957 A EP 10162957A EP 10162957 A EP10162957 A EP 10162957A EP 2221183 B1 EP2221183 B1 EP 2221183B1
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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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • 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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/0015—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0021—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation
    • B41J11/00214—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation using UV radiation
    • 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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/0015—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0021—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation
    • B41J11/00216—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation using infrared [IR] radiation or microwaves
    • 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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/0015—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0022—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using convection means, e.g. by using a fan for blowing or sucking air
    • 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
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/14—Structure thereof only for on-demand ink jet heads
    • B41J2/14201—Structure of print heads with piezoelectric elements

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  • the invention relates to the field of printing without physical contact with a substrate of which at least one face is made of plastic and more particularly a machine, independent of a printing system, which allows, before or after the printing system , the jet application of viscosity product, up to 1000 centipoise, and described as medium to important, such as varnish, glue, conductive ink or scratch, on a substrate of thickness and dimension variable.
  • a first technique the ink contained in a nozzle is expelled by an overpressure created by a gas bubble formed at a heating resistor which creates a chemical reaction by passing the ink to the gaseous state.
  • Another technique for creating an overpressure is to use a piezoelectric component that will bend under the effect of a voltage, so as to reduce the volume of the ink tank. An ink droplet is thus expelled from the nozzle.
  • the present invention therefore aims to overcome one or more disadvantages of the prior art by creating a machine for laying, without contact on a portion of a substrate, products or inks having a medium fluidity, such as varnish , glue, conductive or scratch-resistant ink, on a substrate of varying thickness and thickness.
  • a medium fluidity such as varnish , glue, conductive or scratch-resistant ink
  • the machine is controlled by a control computer (10) (ie, one or more computer management means) that controls the different workstations and also collects information from the different sensors.
  • the sensors give, for example, position information of the substrates (13), configuration information of the substrates (13) or validation information following a correctly performed operation or not.
  • the substrates (13) awaiting printing are placed in an input magazine (5) having a capacity defined according to the nature of the substrate (13) and printing requirements.
  • the input store (5) is designed to accept several thousand substrates (13) of a nature, of thickness up to 800 ⁇ m and of variable size (credit card format up to A0). and possibly at least one side is plastic.
  • the substrates (13) are stored in an output magazine (8) having generally the same capacity as the input magazine (5).
  • a gripper (4) of the substrates (13) makes it possible to remove the substrates (13) from the input magazine (5) and to arrange them on a conveyor to move them along a work line comprising several workstations. job.
  • the first workstation of the chain is a feeder (6) with indexing of the substrate (13) which allows the positioning with respect to two reference edges or the detection of a marker printed on the substrate (13).
  • a sensor will detect the position information and transmit it to the computer over a wired or wireless network. This information stored in memory in the computer will then be reused at other workstations, controlled by the computer. Controls are also performed to detect the presence of a single substrate (13) at each post of the conveyor.
  • the next workstation is the projection device (2, 9) of the product to be applied on the support.
  • the non-contact projection device (2, 9) is detailed on the figure 2 .
  • the projection device comprises a reservoir 9 which contains the viscous product to be sprayed.
  • Nonlimiting examples of products contained in the reservoir are varnish, scratch-off ink, conductive ink or glue whose average viscosities are between 100 and 1000 centipoise, ie, well above the viscosities of the coatings. printing inks that are normally about ten centipoises.
  • the supply of the tank, not shown, is effected, for example, manually or automatically by a supply circuit or semi-automatically by an operator-driven device.
  • the reservoir (9) is connected to a pressurizing device.
  • the pressurizing device therefore comprises a means of controlling and regulating the pressure of the product sent to the nozzles, in a non-limiting manner controlled by the computer.
  • the nozzles fed directly by the pressurizing device are all individually controlled by a device (11) for controlling the nozzles, in a nonlimiting manner, controlled by the computer.
  • the nozzles are aligned and mounted in a ramp, thereby forming a nozzle manifold (12).
  • Each nozzle is constituted by the end of a hollow needle which is vibrated by a piezoelectric actuator glued to the resonator formed by mounting the hollow needle ramp.
  • the piloting of each nozzle is an electroacoustic process, that is to say that the product is projected by a vibration controlled by an electrical excitation.
  • the nozzles spaced from 0.1 to 0.5mm thus make it possible to cover a precise surface.
  • the laying zone is defined for each substrate by a parameter file contained in a memory zone of the computer, concerning the shape of the zone, its position on the substrate relative to the reference points of the substrate, the quantity of product to be sprayed, control software of the machine using this information to translate them into parameters of relative displacement of the substrate and the nozzles, selective control of the nozzles and repetition of offset passage of the substrate in front of the nozzles to produce if necessary contiguous lines.
  • the next station of the projection machine is the drying oven (7).
  • the oven (7) allows to completely or partially dry the projected product.
  • the drying depending on the product applied, can be carried out by infrared radiation in the case of an aqueous varnish or by a heated air flow for a glue or a scratch-off ink or by UV in function of the projected product.
  • the drying then allows the substrate (13) to be stored in the outlet magazine (8), without the projected product being transferred to other substrates (13) or to the magazine (8) with which the substrate ( 13) is in contact.
  • the figure 3 gives non-limiting examples of poses made by projection onto substrates (13).
  • a layer of varnish (14) is performed on a front face or after printing.
  • a layer of varnish occupies an area on the almost rectangular substrate, the corners of which are rounded.
  • a margin not covered with projected product is left on the periphery of the face of the substrate.
  • a substrate On an area (16, figure 3 ) a substrate a layer of thermally reactivatable glue is produced in a pattern, for example a small rectangle rounded at its corners.
  • Different patterns of scratch-off ink (15) are placed on other zones, such as for example an arrow, a star or any other pattern including, in a nonlimiting manner, a contour formed of angles and straight lines and / or of curves.
  • the electro-acoustic control adjusts the projection of material in duration and power.
  • the laying areas are then defined by this digital method with an accuracy of the order of 0.1 mm.
  • the machine can therefore pose a point or to cover the entire surface of a substrate.
  • the laying area is defined for each substrate by a file of parameterization concerning the shape of the zone, its position on the substrate relative to the reference points of the substrate, the quantity of product to be sprayed.
  • a machine control software uses this information to translate them into parameters of relative displacement of the substrate and the nozzles, into selective nozzle control parameters, and into repeated flow reiteration parameters of the substrate in front of the nozzles to produce lines if necessary. contiguous.

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PL10162957T PL2221183T3 (pl) 2005-06-14 2006-06-14 Maszyna numeryczna do natryskiwania powłoki na podłoże
SI200631447T SI2221183T1 (sl) 2005-06-14 2006-06-14 Digitalna brizgalna naprava za nanašanje premaza na substrat

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FR0505981A FR2886880B1 (fr) 2005-06-14 2005-06-14 Machine numerique a jet pour depose d'un revetement sur un substrat
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PL2221183T3 (pl) 2013-02-28
PL1749670T3 (pl) 2012-08-31
PT2221183E (pt) 2012-11-12
FR2886880A1 (fr) 2006-12-15
USRE45067E1 (en) 2014-08-12
US7332037B2 (en) 2008-02-19
EP2221183A1 (fr) 2010-08-25
DK1749670T3 (da) 2012-07-09
FR2886880B1 (fr) 2008-10-03
ATE550195T1 (de) 2012-04-15
EP1749670A1 (fr) 2007-02-07
DK2221183T3 (da) 2012-11-19
ES2393659T3 (es) 2012-12-27
PT1749670E (pt) 2012-06-01
SI2221183T1 (sl) 2012-12-31
DE202006020789U1 (de) 2010-03-04
SI1749670T1 (sl) 2012-08-31
US20070064030A1 (en) 2007-03-22
CZ20906U1 (cs) 2010-05-24

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