EP0901108B1 - Machine à affranchir - Google Patents

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EP0901108B1
EP0901108B1 EP98250280A EP98250280A EP0901108B1 EP 0901108 B1 EP0901108 B1 EP 0901108B1 EP 98250280 A EP98250280 A EP 98250280A EP 98250280 A EP98250280 A EP 98250280A EP 0901108 B1 EP0901108 B1 EP 0901108B1
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Ralf MÜLLER
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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
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/0009—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets control of the transport of the copy material
    • B41J13/0027—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets control of the transport of the copy material in the printing section of automatic paper handling systems
    • 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
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
    • B41J13/12—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like, e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00467—Transporting mailpieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00669—Sensing the position of mailpieces

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  • the invention relates to a franking machine, according to the type specified in the preamble of claim 1, which is equipped with a travel control and with means for at least detecting a paper jam.
  • franking machines for franking the postal items can be used particularly effectively.
  • a franking machine is suitable for the processing of filled envelopes, possibly also of a very different format.
  • the word letter, mail piece or print carrier is used for the sake of brevity, this includes all types of envelopes or other record carriers.
  • index cards, labels or self-adhesive strips of paper or similar material can be used as a record carrier mail.
  • Modern franking machines employ fully electronic digital printing devices.
  • Applicants' T1000 franking machine has a thermal printing unit. With this it is in principle possible to print any text and special characters in the franking stamp printing area.
  • the thermal transfer postage meter known from US 4,746,234 has a microprocessor and is surrounded by a secure housing having an opening for the supply of a letter, wherein the position and movement can only be determined indirectly.
  • a mechanical letter sensor (microswitch) transmits a print request signal to the microprocessor regarding information about the position of the letter as it is being fed.
  • a disadvantage is the high adjustment effort for the triggering of the microswitch.
  • the microprocessor then controls the drive motors and a thermal transfer print head.
  • An encoder transmits a signal derived from the thermal transfer ribbon transport signal to the microprocessor as information for letter transport movement.
  • a recording device for ribbon cartridges is known.
  • the side wall of the cassette has an opening through which a roller can pass for engagement with the ink ribbon to receive the drive force therefrom or to transfer to a friction roller which is coupled to an encoder disk.
  • the ribbon speed corresponds approximately to that of the printed material, which is transported between the ink ribbon and counter-pressure roller. With a slip between letter transport and thermal transfer ribbon transport, the derived signal is no longer correct, which affects the print image appearance accordingly.
  • a printing device which carries out a franking printing by means of an ink jet print head arranged stationary behind a guide plate in a recess in the case of a non-horizontal, approximately vertical letter transport.
  • a pressure sensor is arranged for Briefgglingserkennung just before the recess for the inkjet printhead and cooperates with an incremental encoder.
  • By arranged on the conveyor pressure elements of the letter transport is free of shuffle and the derived during transport encoder signal is correct, which positively affects the print quality. For thick letters but the letter edge is not always edged, but may be more or less rounded, so that the letter beginning is not detected accurately.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a control that avoids problems that result especially at large print volumes of different post (mixed mail) from high printing speeds.
  • An emerging letter jam should also be recognized in good time with mixed mail and avoided as far as possible.
  • the stamp offset should be adjustable regardless of the printing speed and without adjustment effort.
  • the franking machine is equipped with a path control and with means for preventing a paper jam.
  • a control device of the franking machine includes a microprocessor to which an encoder and a pressure sensor are connected, the latter being arranged upstream of the print head in a guide plate upstream of the print head.
  • the pressure sensor provides signal for the start of printing and is used for letter start detection.
  • the letter speed in the direction of transport is taken into account in the calculation, so that the way is exactly determined, which was covered by the letter. Due to the pressure sensor designed as a photoelectric sensor, the start of printing is always accurately detected. Because of the exact distance measurement no adjustment effort is necessary. in the In connection with the exact position measurement, therefore, any stamp offset can be exactly realized.
  • a preparation sensor is arranged at a distance from the pressure sensor post upstream in the guide plate, so that both sensors are spaced from each other in the transport direction in a predetermined manner, wherein a first Bandverfahrweg is determined by a defined letter.
  • the preparation sensor is thus further away from the printhead than the pressure sensor. From a supplied letter whose position is passed through first.
  • the microprocessor is therefore supplied by the preparation sensor with a first signal before the second signal for the start of printing. From the sensor signals, the length of the letter is thus calculated for each letter supplied, which is then checked whether it is still in a predetermined valid range.
  • a paper jam in the above-described postage meter for the microprocessor can be determined by a letter covering at least one of the above sensors for a predetermined band travel of the conveyor belt.
  • the microprocessor together with a memory forms a tape counter, which is updated on the basis of the signals supplied by the encoder, so that an exact path measurement of the tape travel path is made possible.
  • the microprocessor is programmed to detect a paper jam, a valid letter format or an error due to the preparation and print sensor queries and the determination of the tape travel path and to make the pressure control in a precisely controlled manner.
  • FIG. 1 shows details of the printing device according to the invention for printing a standing on an edge 31 letter envelope 3.
  • This consists essentially of a conveyor belt 10, one orthogonal to the transport plane (XZ plane) and arranged above this in the XY plane guide plate 2 and an ink print head 4.
  • the Letter envelope 3 is turned and rotated so that it rests with its surface on the guide rails 23 of the guide plate 2.
  • Guide plate 2 and conveyor belt 10 together form an angle of 90 °.
  • the standing on the conveyor belt 10 envelopes 3 are inevitably on the guide plate 2 by the oblique position of the same and are also pressed by pressure elements 12, which are mounted on the conveyor belt 10.
  • An extension 12132 of the pressure elements 12 slides on a backdrop with the deflections 81 and 82, which allows the pressing or releasing the envelope before or after printing.
  • a recess 21 is provided for the ink jet print head 4.
  • the guide plate 2 is in the transport direction downstream in the region 25 behind the recesses 21 relative to the contact surface for the letter 3 set back so far that the printed surface is certain to be free.
  • the arranged in the guide plate 2 sensors 17 and 7 are used for preparation or Briefgglingserkennung and pressure release in the transport direction.
  • the transport device consists of a conveyor belt 10 and two rollers 11.
  • rollers 11 are equipped with a motor 15 drive roller. Both rollers 11 are preferably designed in a manner not shown as toothed rollers, corresponding to the conveyor belt 10 as a toothed belt, which ensures the unambiguous power transmission.
  • An encoder 5, 6 is coupled to the drive roller 11.
  • the drive roller 11 is firmly seated with an incremental encoder 5 on an axis, also not visible.
  • the incremental encoder 5 is designed, for example, as a slotted disk, which interacts with a light barrier 6.
  • the control device 1 comprises a microprocessor 91 and known storage means 92, 93, 94 and date circuit 95, a keyboard 88 and a display unit 89 and an application-specific circuit ASIC, having an interface circuit 97 and communicating with the microprocessor 91 in communication.
  • the ASIC of the controller 1 also includes the interface circuit 96 to the interface circuit 14 located in the machine base and provides at least one connection the sensors 6, 7, 17 and to the actuators, for example to the drive motor 15 for the roller 11 and to a cleaning and sealing station RDS for the inkjet printhead 4, and to the inkjet printhead 4 of the machine base.
  • the basic arrangement and the interaction between the ink jet print head and the RDS are the non-prepublished German application 197 26 642.8 removable, entitled: Arrangement for positioning an ink jet print head and a cleaning and sealing device.
  • the pressure sensor 7 is designed as a transmitted light barrier.
  • a transmitting diode of the photoelectric sensor of the pressure sensor 7 in the guide plate 2 and at a distance, according to the maximum thickness (in the Z direction) of the mailpieces (letters) a receiving diode of the photoelectric sensor is arranged.
  • the receiving diode is attached to a support plate 8 on the backdrop. Equally effective would be a reverse arrangement with receiving diode in the guide plate 2 and transmitting diode on the support plate 8.
  • the pressure sensor 7 provides the start signal for path control between this sensor 7 and the first ink jet printhead nozzle.
  • the pressure control is based on the path control, taking into account the selected stamp offset, which is entered by keyboard 88 and stored non-volatile in the NVM 94 memory.
  • a planned imprint thus results from stamp offset (without prints), the franking print image and possibly further print images for advertising clichés, mailing information (optional prints) and additional editable messages.
  • the individual printing elements of the print head are connected within its housing with a print head electronics and that the print head for a purely electronic pressure can be controlled.
  • the encoder 5, 6 supplies a signal to the microprocessor for every n pressure gaps. This is done by interrupt function.
  • a tape counter is also updated, which records the progress of movement of the motor 15 and thus the conveyor belt 10.
  • Each pressure column is preferably 132 ⁇ m wide.
  • a letter evaluation routine is initiated.
  • the preparation sensor 17 may preferably be formed as a reflex light barrier, because the formats for letters deviate so much in size, so that a large tolerance in the letter edge recognition is permitted.
  • the band travel path W def1 is defined as the sum of a tolerance value and the sensor distance between two sensors 7 and 17 in the transport direction .
  • the preparation sensor 17 detects the letter leading edge, which is registered by the microprocessor to start the tape counter, which adds up the encoder pulses until the letter leading edge reaches the pressure sensor 7.
  • the accumulated number of pulses is compared with the number of pulses corresponding to the path between the preparation sensor 17 and the pressure sensor 7.
  • the permissible deviation for the first defined band travel W def1 is 10%.
  • a slippage transport of a letter may possibly lead to a traffic jam and leads to an exceeding of the defined first Bandverfahrweges W def1 .
  • both sensors 17 and 7 are used to detect a paper jam.
  • the pressure sensor 7 detects the letter leading edge, which is registered by the microprocessor to register in conjunction with the signal from the preparation sensor 17, if necessary, a letter jam.
  • a paper jam in the above-described franking machine becomes detectable for the microprocessor 91 in that a letter covers at least one of the two sensors 17 and 7 for a second predetermined tape travel, preferably of approximately W def2 > 400 mm. If the difference Drucksensor_Briefstartwert 7 minus PreparationSensor_Briefstartwert 17 greater than 400 mm, this can not be caused by a large letter format, but can only be interpreted as a malfunction.
  • the microprocessor 91 determines the letter length from the difference of the two values corresponding to the letter trailing edge and letter leading edge detected by one of the sensors 7 or 17, an error message being output if the letter length is longer than the predetermined tape path.
  • the format can be determined with one of the sensors, wherein the determined letter length corresponds to a predetermined for a valid format Bandverfahrweg or lies in one of the areas defined for formats.
  • the pressure control or sensor queries are therefore all path-controlled.
  • further sensors may be arranged for more differentiated determination of a valid letter format and / or for path control of the franking machine or a franking system.
  • FIG. 2 also shows a further interface circuit 99, which is connected to the right via a data cable 19 with an interface circuit 18 of the downstream post-deposition station and permits its control by the control device 1.
  • Another peripheral device to the left of the franking machine base comprising the control device 1 and printing device 20 is preferably an automatic delivery station 28 and connected to its interface circuit 13 via cable 16 and to an interface circuit 98 of the ASIC.
  • the non-prepublished German application 197 11 997.2 is a suitable for the peripheral interface embodiment for several peripheral devices (stations) removable. It is entitled: Arrangement for communication between a base station and other stations of a mailing machine and their emergency shutdown.
  • the printing device can also be realized differently from the previously described embodiment.
  • the invention is not limited to the present embodiment, as obviously other other arrangements of the invention can be devised based on the same spirit of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

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  1. Machine à affranchir, comportant un dispositif d'impression numérique (20), lequel présente une plaque de guidage (2) et un dispositif de transport avec bande transporteuse (10) pour support d'impression (3) et lequel est commandé par un dispositif de commande (1), qui génère des signaux de commande d'impression pour une tête d'impression (4) afin d'imprimer la surface du support d'impression avec une image imprimée correspondante, tandis que le support d'impression (3) est transporté devant la tête d'impression (4), un capteur d'impression (7) étant agencé dans la plaque de guidage (2) avant un évidement (21) pour la tête d'impression (4), caractérisée
    - en ce qu'un capteur de préparation (17) est agencé en amont dans la plaque de guidage (2) à une distance prédéterminée avant le capteur d'impression (7),
    - en ce que le dispositif de commande (1) comprend un microprocesseur (91), auquel est relié un encodeur (5, 6) destiné à déterminer la course de translation de bande de la bande de transport (10) et le capteur de préparation (17) ainsi que le capteur d'impression (7), lesquels se trouvent avant la tête d'impression (4) dans le sens de transport et sont agencés écartés les uns par rapport aux autres dans le sens de transport dans la plaque de guidage (2), le microprocesseur (91) formant conjointement avec une mémoire (94) un compteur de bande, lequel est actualisé en raison des signaux fournis par l'encodeur (5, 6), le microprocesseur étant programmé
    - afin de procéder à la commande d'impression à course commandée en utilisant les moyens du dispositif de transport susmentionné, le capteur de préparation (17) et le capteur d'impression (7), le microprocesseur (91) enregistrant les bords d'attaque de la lettre détectés par le capteur de préparation (17) afin de lancer le compteur de bande, qui totalise les impulsions de l'encodeur jusqu'à ce que le bord d'attaque de la lettre atteigne le capteur d'impression (7) et le nombre d'impulsions totalisé est comparé avec un nombre d'impulsions correspondant au parcours entre le capteur de préparation (17) et le capteur d'impression (7), ainsi que
    - afin de déceler un bourrage de papier, un format de lettre valide ou une erreur en raison d'interrogations du capteur de préparation et du capteur d'impression et d'une détermination de la course de translation de bande, le microprocesseur (91) déterminant la longueur de la lettre L = valeur d'arrêt - valeur de départ à partir de la différence des deux valeurs fournies par le compteur de bande : a) valeur de départ pour le bord d'attaque de la lettre détecté par le capteur de préparation (17), b) valeur d'arrêt pour le bord arrière de la lettre détecté par le capteur de préparation (17).
  2. Machine à affranchir selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le capteur d'impression (7) est réalisé sous forme de cellule par transmission.
  3. Machine à affranchir selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 2, caractérisée en ce que le capteur de préparation (17) est réalisé sous forme de cellule reflex.
  4. Machine à affranchir selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce qu'un bourrage de papier est détectable dans la machine à affranchir décrite ci-dessus pour le microprocesseur (91) du fait qu'une lettre recouvre au moins un des capteurs (7, 17) pour une course de translation de bande prédéterminée.
  5. Machine à affranchir selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que le microprocesseur (91) détermine la longueur de la lettre à partir de la différence des deux valeurs en fonction du bord d'attaque de la lettre et du bord arrière de la lettre détectés par un des capteurs (7 ou 17), un message d'erreur étant émis lorsque la longueur de la lettre est supérieure à la course de translation de bande prédéterminée.
  6. Machine à affranchir selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que le microprocesseur (91) détermine la longueur de la lettre ou en décèle le format à partir de la différence des deux valeurs bord d'attaque de la lettre et bord arrière de la lettre, un message d'erreur étant émis lorsque la longueur de la lettre est inférieure à l'impression prévue.
  7. Machine à affranchir selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que d'autres capteurs sont agencés dans d'autres postes destinés à la détection des bords de la lettre, lesquels sont accouplés en ce qui concerne l'interface avec le microprocesseur (91) dans le dispositif de commande (1) afin de permettre ou de surveiller l'exploitation du système.
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