Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ink level sensing
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Application No.: US15423260Application Date: 2017-02-02
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Publication No.: US10378946B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Ning Ge , Trudy Benjamin , Teck-Khim Neo , Joseph M. Torgerson , Neel Banerjee , George H. Corrigan, III
- Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring
- Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring
- Agency: HP Inc. Patent Department
- Main IPC: G01F23/26
- IPC: G01F23/26 ; B41J2/175 ; B41J2/14

Abstract:
In some examples, a method of sensing an ink level includes applying a pre-charge voltage to a sense capacitor to charge the sense capacitor with a charge, sharing the charge between the sense capacitor and a reference capacitor, causing a reference voltage at a gate of an evaluation transistor, and determining a resistance from a drain to a source of the evaluation transistor that results from the reference voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170144451A1 INK LEVEL SENSING Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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