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Gerold Firl
Senior Mechanical Engineer
San Diego Office
Education
BS Applied Mechanics, UCSD
MSME, UC Irvine
Recognition
14 US patents and 1 pending:
Ink jet printer thermal control system (
4,910,528
)
Method for making tab circuit electrical connector supporting multiple components thereon (
4,989,317
)
Thermal ink jet print device having phase change cooling (
5,272,491
)
Paper trays for computer driven printer (
5,354,044
and
5,454,553
)
Apparatus for enhancing ink-flow reliability in a thermal-inkjet pen; method for priming and using such a pen (
5,517,217
)
Multi-purpose paper path component for ink-jet printer (
5,581,289
)
Modular wiping unit for inkjet print (
5,644,346
)
Inkjet printer with variable wiping capabilities for multiple printheads (
5,644,347
)
Combined central and lateral hold-down plates, and end-of-page advance-distance decrease, in liquid-ink printers (
5,646,667
)
Wet-wiping technique for inkjet printhead (
5,847,727
)
Scanner carriage lamp reflector and method of using same (
5,973,815
)
Wiping system for inkjet printer (
6,000,780
)
Spectrally balanced scanner (
6,219,159
)
Dried blood spot collection device (
WO2016025709A1
)
Interests / Obsessions
Autopoiesis
Complex adaptive systems
Favorite Quote
Cognito, ergo non illegitimati carborundum.
Expertise
Systems engineering and analysis
Micro-mechanical design
Fluids and heat transfer
Experience
Inkjet printer design and development
Printhead design and development
Optical scanner design and development
Production line tooling
Automated manufacturing
Globalization facilitator for low-cost manufacturing
FEA structural and thermal modeling
Computational fluid dynamics modeling
Thermosiphon solar hot water systems
Micro-mechanical lancing
Opto-mechanical algorithm development
Instructor, AMES 156A, Mechanical Engineering Design, UCSD. Senior-level design course: stress-strain, static and dynamic; materials; fasteners and welds; springs; transmission and gearing; clutches and brakes, axles and bearings; statistics, reliability, worst-casing and tolerancing.
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