Abstract: A fuel injection system operates under a predetermined substantially constant pump speed and creates multi-pressure levels by diverting the fuel flow. Fuel pressure can be switched from one steady pressure level to another level on-demand instantly. This superimposes and overlaps typical fuel injection events in the linear operating ranges under different pressure levels, significantly increasing the fuel injection dynamic range. The dynamic range is further increased when another predetermined constant pump speed is assigned. Thus, the system saves fuel and reduces exhaust emission in city driving when gas pedal is released including idle. The same system can instantly deliver additional fuel on-demand for extra power beyond engine rating producing a sport-car-like performance.

Abstract: A fuel injection system operates under a predetermined substantially constant pump speed and creates multi-pressure levels by diverting the fuel flow. Fuel pressure can be switched from one steady pressure level to another level on-demand instantly. This superimposes and overlaps typical fuel injection events in the linear operating ranges under different pressure levels, significantly increasing the fuel injection dynamic range. The dynamic range is further increased when another predetermined constant pump speed is assigned. Thus, the system saves fuel and reduces exhaust emission in city driving when gas pedal is released including idle. The same system can instantly deliver additional fuel on-demand for extra power beyond engine rating producing a sport-car-like performance.

Abstract: A fuel injection system operates under a substantially constant pump speed and creates multi-pressure levels by diverting the fuel flow. Fuel pressure can be switched from one steady pressure level to another level on-demand instantly. This superimposes and overlaps typical fuel injection events in the linear operating ranges under different pressure levels, significantly increasing the fuel injection dynamic range. Lower fuel injection when idle or during city driving reduces fuel consumption per mile traveled and reduces exhaust emission that causes smog in metropolitan areas. The system delivers additional power to the engine instantly at peak load on-demand, reduces idle speed with the engine running smoothly, does not change fuel tank temperature, and may enhance the life of the fuel pump.

Abstract: A fuel injection system operates under a substantially constant pump speed and creates multi-pressure levels by diverting the fuel flow. Fuel pressure can be switched from one steady pressure level to another level on-demand instantly. This superimposes and overlaps typical fuel injection events in the linear operating ranges under different pressure levels, significantly increasing the fuel injection dynamic range. Lower fuel injection when idle or during city driving reduces fuel consumption per mile traveled and reduces exhaust emission that causes smog in metropolitan areas. The system delivers additional power to the engine instantly at peak load on-demand, reduces idle speed with the engine running smoothly, does not change fuel tank temperature, and may enhance the life of the fuel pump.

Abstract: A multi-ink jet printer contains n nozzle orifices, which are aligned in one or two nozzle orifice arrays with its axis (or axes) substantially parallel to the relative print direction. All print droplets generated from nozzle orifices are individually charged and are deflected under a common deflection electric field substantially perpendicular to the relative print direction. All nozzle orifices may be individual single jets, or may be formed on an orifice plate sharing the same ink system, same stimulation, same deflection electrodes and the same ink collector. Using the interlacing schemes described in this teaching, the said multi-ink jet printer can print marks, characters, or graphics on receiving medium at n times the print speed of a single jet printer and still maintaining excellent print quality.

Abstract: In an ink jet printing apparatus an ultrasonic transducer is an elongated cylindrical assembly submerged in the ink which is held under pressure in an ink chamber. To provide an array of ink jet filaments having uniform length and uniform drop formation, the acoustic energy of the transducer is focused by the internal wall of the ink chamber toward an ink jet array on an orifice plate. The said invention also generates ink droplets from all jets at the same phase--which simplifies the driving electronics of the array for high resolution printing. In one embodiment the internal chamber wall, in cross-section, is a sector of an ellipse and in another embodiment it is a parabola.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for use in an ink jet printing device to synchronously produce a plurality of uniform fluid filaments and droplets. A fluid reservoir is provided with an orifice plate having a plurality of orifices through which the fluid issues to produce the desired droplets. Above the liquid contained in the reservoir is a rigid piston suspended above the reservoir in contact with the liquid and having means sealingly engaging between the piston and the sides of the reservoir. The piston is moved translationally up and down by a plurality of electro-acoustical transducers which are secured to the piston in contact with its upper surface so as to produce pressure fluctuations in the fluid uniformly and synchronously over the plurality of orifices.

Abstract: A jet drop recorder produces a continuously flowing stream of recording liquid and has a pair of deflection electrodes positioned therealongside but offset therefrom. The stream of recording liquid is stimulated to break up into uniformly sized and regularly spaced drops, and the electrodes are positioned such that at least portions thereof are upstream from the break-off point. Drops produced by the stream are steered to different laterally separated printing positions by application of a cyclic differential charging signal to the electrodes. This causes a stepped cyclic deflection of the unbroken stream, which in turn directs the drops toward the desired printing positions. There is no need to provide a drop deflection field. Furthermore the filament need not have any particular level of conductivity, as the disclosed electrode configuration produces a gradient electrical field capable of polarizing and deflecting a perfectly dielectric liquid.

Abstract: A chart recorder is disclosed having a variable chart speed and a writing device in the form of a variable droplet rate ink jet pen. The signal pulses for ejecting ink droplets from the pen are generated by a voltage controlled oscillator, and circuits are provided to make the oscillator output frequency proportional to the chart speed, and also responsive to higher rates of pen movement, so that a substantially uniform density line is traced at all chart speeds and virtually all rates of pen movement. To simplify the circuit while maintaining an extremely wide range of writing speeds, the voltage sweep range of the oscillator is set at the upper end of the pen response frequency, and lower oscillator output rates are established by selectable R-C circuit components to match the speed of the chart recorder. To give more precision, a circuit embodiment is also disclosed that generates pen control pulses proportional to the true rate of relative movement between the pen and the chart.

Abstract: A duplicating apparatus is equipped with a photoconductive modulator screen cylinder for making reproductions of a graphic original on a dielectric receiving medium utilizing aperture-controlled electrostatic printing techniques. Means is provided for creating a charge distribution system on the surface of the modulator corresponding to an image to be reproduced from the graphic original. The apparatus also comprises charging means for projecting gas ions against the modulator screen cylinder, electrode means for collecting the gas ions selectively transmitted by the modulator screen cylinder on the dielectric receiving medium and means for developing the dielectric receiving medium to create a visible image.

Abstract: An ink supply system for an ink jet, or an array of ink jets, is disclosed in which an on-off valve is interposed in the conduit between the ink reservoir and the droplet forming nozzle, and a second source of ink under pressure is connected through a normally closed valve to the conduit between the nozzle and the on-off valve. To initially prime the nozzle, the on-off valve is closed, a vacuum pulled on the nozzle, and the valve opened to fill the conduit and nozzle. To reprime or clear obstructions such as dirt particles, the on-off valve is closed and the normally closed valve briefly opened to send a pulse of ink to and through the nozzle. With both valves closed during shipping or storage, the likelihood or ink being dislodged from the nozzle or conduit so as to deprime the nozzle is minimized.

Abstract: An impulse ink jet mounted in an ink reservoir so as to be a self-contained writing device for X-Y and strip chart process recorders and table top graphic recorders, with the jet being associated with a length of energy absorbing conduit coiled within the reservoir so as to minimize the effects of acceleration on the ink; the conduit allowing the ink jet to achieve a flat response to the driving pulse rate through its full response range.

Abstract: A modulator screen drum assembly supports a multi-layer screen having the capability of selectively passing therethrough charged particles for aperture-controlled electrostatic printing. The drum assembly comprises a pair of rotatably supported end wall members axially positioned in spaced apart relationship. The modulator screen is secured to and wrapped around the end all members to provide a screen drum or cylinder. Adjusting means is provided for axially moving one of the end wall members relative to the other end wall member to stretch and tension the screen cylinder in a longitudinal direction, and locking means is provided for locking the adjusting means in the set position to thereby maintain the screen cylinder in properly tensioned and taut condition.

Abstract: The invention deals with the construction and shape of the electrode employed in a duplicating apparatus which uses a drum shaped gas-ion modulating device. The curved modulator is matched with a curved gas-ion collecting electrode so that the propagation of the charged particles follows along the electrical field lines which are symmetrical about a center axis running longitudinally between the modulator and the collecting electrode. The ion optical system assures the production of a charge pattern on the dielectric paper that corresponds to the charge distribution system on the modulator.