US 12,172,437 B2
Multi-nozzle electrohydrodynamic printing with diverters
Lai Yu Leo Tse, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Kira Barton, Ann Arbor, MI (US); and Ethan John Mcmillan, Grand Haven, MI (US)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Appl. No. 18/011,506
Filed by The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/038103
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/257998, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/040,721, filed on Jun. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0256737 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/06 (2006.01); B41J 2/185 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/06 (2013.01) [B41J 2/185 (2013.01); B41J 2002/062 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer, comprising: a nozzle from which a stream of printing fluid is electrostatically extracted and directed toward a printing surface, and a diverter that selectively interrupts the stream of printing fluid such that at least some of the extracted printing fluid is not deposited on the printing surface.