Printhead drive circuit with variable resistance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9579890
APP PUB NO 20160067960A1
SERIAL NO

14850153

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A printhead for a printer has actuating elements for ejecting fluid, and a drive circuit for selectively applying a drive waveform having several slopes, to an actuating element, according to a print signal. A resulting printhead has a lesser sensitivity to changes of slew rate in one slope of the drive waveform than a sensitivity to change in another. The drive circuit has a variable resistance circuit, and a control circuit to control the variable resistance circuit to adjust a slew rate of the slope of lesser sensitivity according to a trim signal. By making the adjustment less sensitive, the trim signal and trim control can have more relaxed tolerances, thus can employ simpler, cheaper circuitry.

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XAAR TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDHUNTINGDON CAMBRIDGESHIRE PE29 6XX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hurst, Ian Anthony Wilburton, GB 6 28
Jeapes, Stephen Mark Cambridge, GB 14 39
Marchant, James Edward David Buckingham, GB 3 12

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