Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluid reservoir with fluid property and level detection
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Application No.: US16317362Application Date: 2016-10-07
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Publication No.: US10576748B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Ning Ge , Chien-Hua Chen , Michael W. Cumbie
- 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
- Agent Fabian VanCott
- International Application: PCT/US2016/055917 WO 20161007
- International Announcement: WO2018/067169 WO 20180412
- Main IPC: B41J2/175
- IPC: B41J2/175 ; B41J2/195 ; G01F23/24 ; G01F23/00

Abstract:
A fluid reservoir (101) includes a number of electrode pairs disposed within the fluid reservoir. Each of the electrode pairs includes a number of sensing electrodes (103), and a number of electrical traces (105) wherein the sensing electrodes are coupled to a respective one of the electrical traces. The fluid reservoir also includes a common electrode (104) electrically coupled to a voltage source (106). A number of properties of a fluid (110) within the fluid reservoir are detected by applying a voltage between the sensing electrodes in an electrode pair, and a level of the fluid within the fluid reservoir is detected by applying a voltage between the electrodes and the common electrode. A multiplexer (102) may be used to selectively couple the sensing electrodes (103) to a processing device (108). The fluid reservoir may be a printing fluid container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190240985A1 FLUID RESERVOIR WITH FLUID PROPERTY AND LEVEL DETECTION Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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