Data loading and distributing process and apparatus for control of a patterning process
CA 2010930 C · Owner: Milliken & Company · Inventors: Johnson, Harold Lee, Jr.
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A method and apparatus for real time processing of digitally encoded pattern information suitable for distributing such information to a large number of individual pattern applicators which are grouped into a number of successive arrays. When applied to a patterning process involving the selective application of dye streams to a moving substrate the disclosed, real time processing includes transforming pattern data to corresponding dye contact times, resequencing the transformed data to compensate for physical spacing between arrays, and converting the resequenced data to logical dye stream contact commands to be sent to the individual applicators.
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- Filed February 26, 1990 and granted March 27, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 26, 2010.
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