18911856. INK JET PRINTER (KEYENCE CORPORATION)
INK JET PRINTER
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Inventor(s)
Kentaro Yamazaki of Osaka-shi JP
INK JET PRINTER
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18911856 titled 'INK JET PRINTER
Original Abstract Submitted
An ink jet printer includes: a nozzle configured to eject the ink toward a drawing target object; a storage unit that stores drawing data specifying an ejection timing of the nozzle at each of a plurality of offset positions in a conveyance direction, the ejection timing corresponding to drawing information; a distance sensor that measures a distance to the drawing target object in an ejection direction of the nozzle; and a drawing control unit that controls ink ejection from the nozzle based on the drawing data and a current relative position from the nozzle to each of a plurality of offset positions of the drawing data. The drawing control unit controls the ink ejection based on a determination result as to whether the distance to the drawing target object in the ejection direction of the nozzle measured by the distance sensor satisfies the predetermined criterion.