公开(公告)号：US06692107B2

公开(公告)日：2004-02-17

申请号：US09865924

申请日：2001-05-25

申请人： Michael D. Lattuca ,  James P. Harden ,  Larry S. Foster ,  Frank M. Hughes ,  Darren W. Tosh ,  Michael S. Leiter ,  Benjamin A. Askren ,  David A. Ward ,  Brian D. Smith ,  Robert A. Samples ,  Donn D. Bryant ,  Paul D. Horrall ,  David M. Cseledy

发明人： Michael D. Lattuca ,  James P. Harden ,  Larry S. Foster ,  Frank M. Hughes ,  Darren W. Tosh ,  Michael S. Leiter ,  Benjamin A. Askren ,  David A. Ward ,  Brian D. Smith ,  Robert A. Samples ,  Donn D. Bryant ,  Paul D. Horrall ,  David M. Cseledy

IPC分类号： B41J214

CPC分类号： B41J19/005 ,  B41J25/34

摘要： The invention relates to an ink cartridge body which is removably mountable in a printer carriage area of an ink jet printer and an alignment and latching mechanism for the ink cartridge body. The printer carriage area includes at least first and second spaced-apart elongate guide rails and the ink cartridge body includes a printhead and at least two bearing points at predetermined locations on the ink cartridge body, each of the bearing points disposed on the cartridge body for separately engaging at least one of the elongate guide rails for aligning and maintaining the printhead in a predetermined orientation relative to the print media in the printer. The invention substantially reduces the number of parts and tolerances thereof required for aligning a printhead relative to a print media by directly aligning the cartridge body rather than the carrier in the carriage area of the printer.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种可移动地安装在喷墨打印机的打印机支架区域中的墨盒本体和用于墨盒体的对准和锁定机构。 打印机支架区域至少包括第一和第二隔开的细长导轨，并且墨盒主体包括打印头和在墨盒主体上的预定位置处的至少两个支承点，每个支承点设置在盒体上，用于 单独地接合至少一个细长导轨，用于使打印头相对于打印机中的打印介质以预定取向对准和维持。 本发明通过直接对准墨盒本体而不是打印机的托架区域中的托架，大大减少了使打印头相对于打印介质对准打印头所需的零件数量和公差。