Media support

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10259237-B2
Application number	US-201314908197-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2013
Priority date	Jul 28, 2013
Publication date	Apr 16, 2019
Grant date	Apr 16, 2019

Abstract

In one example, a media support includes a sheet of elongated suction cups. In another example, a media support includes an arrangement of elongated and/or circular suction cups in which the density of the suction cups varies between different parts of the support.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A media support, comprising:
a sheet of elongated suction cups, wherein each suction cup of the elongated suction cups is eccentric with respect to the other elongated suction cups and includes:
a vacuum port;
a series of ridges adjacent to the vacuum port; and

a rim integral with the sheet and extending around the series of ridges and the vacuum port in a recess in the sheet that extends below the front surface of the sheet when the sheet and the rim are in an unflexed state, wherein at least a portion of a bottom surface of the rim facing the recess extends below a front surface of the sheet when the sheet and the rim are in the unflexed state, and wherein the rim is to flex into the recess when a print media is sucked onto the rim to cause the print media to contact the series of ridges within the rim.

2. The media support of claim 1 , wherein the sheet includes:
only elongated suction cups.

3. The media support of claim 1 , wherein air is to be evacuated from each of the elongated suction cups through a respective vacuum port of the suction cup.

4. The media support of claim 1 , wherein the suction cups are arranged in a pattern in which the density of suction cups varies between different parts of the sheet.

5. The media support of claim 1 , wherein the sheet comprises a flexible sheet and each elongated suction cup comprises an oval suction cup.

6. The media support of claim 3 , wherein the rim is formed at a perimeter of a flexible ring surrounding the vacuum port, and wherein the ring is to flex into the recess away from the front surface of the sheet when the print media supported on the sheet is sucked onto the rim.

7. The media support of claim 1 , wherein the sheet further includes circular suction cups.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Ind Printing
• Hp Scitex Ltd

Inventors

• Veis Alex
• Dekel Yaron
• Dim Yuval

Classifications

• B41J13/0072

  Handling wide cut sheets, e.g. using means for enabling or facilitating the conveyance of wide sheets · CPC title

• B41J11/0085 Primary

  Using suction for maintaining printing material flat (on rotatable drums B41J13/226) · CPC title

• B41J11/006

  Means for preventing paper jams or for facilitating their removal · CPC title

• B41J13/226

  using suction · CPC title

• B41J11/06

  Flat page-size platens {or smaller flat platens having a greater size than line-size platens (B41J11/0085 takes precedence)} · CPC title