Method and apparatus for securing an ink container
    1.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for securing an ink container 有权
    用于固定墨盒的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06209996B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-03

    申请号:US09333784

    申请日:1999-06-15

    IPC分类号: B41J2175

    CPC分类号: B41J2/1752 B41J2/17513

    摘要: A replaceable ink container for providing ink to a printing device. The ink container having leading and trailing edges with respect to an insertion direction for the ink container into the printing device. The ink container includes a fluid outlet disposed on the leading edge and configured for connection to corresponding printing device fluid inlet. The ink container also includes an engagement feature disposed toward the trailing edge and extending outwardly from an ink container outer surface. The engagement feature is configured for insertion into a recessed engagement feature associated with the printing device. With the ink container properly positioned within the printing device and biased in a direction opposite the insertion direction, the engagement feature associated with the ink container engages the recessed engagement feature associated with the printing device. The engagement of the engagement features on each of the ink container and printer maintains the fluid outlet in engagement with the corresponding printing device fluid inlet.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于向印刷装置提供油墨的可更换油墨容器。 油墨容器具有相对于油墨容器进入打印装置的插入方向的前缘和后缘。 墨水容器包括设置在前缘上的流体出口,并被配置为连接到相应的印刷装置流体入口。 墨水容器还包括朝向后缘设置并从墨水容器外表面向外延伸的接合特征。 接合特征被配置为插入到与打印装置相关联的凹入接合特征中。 随着墨水容器正确地定位在打印装置内并且沿与插入方向相反的方向被偏压,与墨水容器相关联的接合特征与与打印装置相关联的凹入接合特征接合。 每个墨水容器和打印机上的接合特征的接合保持流体出口与相应的印刷装置流体入口接合。

    Electrical interconnect for an ink container
    2.
    发明授权
    Electrical interconnect for an ink container 失效
    用于墨水容器的电气互连

    公开(公告)号:US5992975A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-30

    申请号:US869038

    申请日:1997-06-04

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175 B41J2/14

    CPC分类号: B41J2/175

    摘要: A replaceable ink container for use in an off-axis printing system. The printing system includes a printer portion responsive to electrical signals from the replaceable ink container for controlling printer parameters. The replaceable ink container comprises a plurality of electrical contacts with each of the plurality of electrical contacts electrically connected with a memory element. The memory element stores information for controlling printing system parameters. The replaceable ink container also includes a protruding guide feature disposed proximate the plurality of electrical contacts. The protruding guide feature is configured for engagement with a corresponding guide feature associated with the printing system. With proper insertion of the ink container into the printing system, the guide feature engages the corresponding guide feature to align electrical contacts associated with the printing system with the plurality of electrical contacts associated with the ink container. Electrical connection of the plurality of electrical contacts associated with the ink container with the electrical contacts associated with the printing system provides information for controlling printer parameters to the printer portion.

    摘要翻译: 用于离轴印刷系统的可更换墨水容器。 打印系统包括响应于来自可更换墨盒的电信号的打印机部分,用于控制打印机参数。 可替换的墨水容器包括多个电触点,多个电触头中的每一个与存储元件电连接。 存储元件存储用于控制打印系统参数的信息。 可替换的墨水容器还包括靠近多个电触头设置的突出引导部件。 突出的引导特征被配置为与与打印系统相关联的对应的引导特征进行接合。 通过将墨水容器正确地插入打印系统中,引导部件接合相应的引导部件,以将与打印系统相关联的电触点与与墨水容器相关联的多个电触头对准。 与墨水容器相关联的多个电触点与与打印系统相关联的电触点的电连接提供用于控制打印机部分的打印机参数的信息。

    High performance ink container with efficient construction
    3.
    发明授权
    High performance ink container with efficient construction 失效
    高性能油墨容器,施工效率高

    公开(公告)号:US6017118A

    公开(公告)日:2000-01-25

    申请号:US869023

    申请日:1997-06-04

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175

    摘要: An ink container for an inkjet printing system is described, including an assembly of a simple housing with caps bearing indicia and protective surfaces to enable effective handling, aligning, keying and latching of the ink container. The ink container includes an ink container housing, the housing including an ink reservoir and a fluid outlet in fluid communication with said reservoir. The fluid outlet is for providing ink to the inkjet printhead. The container further includes a separately fabricated first cap attached to an end of the housing, the first cap having a plurality of mechanical features that provide mechanical functions for the ink container. The end of the housing is a leading end relative to a direction of insertion of the ink container into the printing system. The mechanical functions can include positioning the ink container relative to the supply station, a keying function for preventing installation of an ink container in the supply station without a cap providing the keying function. The mechanical features can include a boss for protecting a leading surface of the ink container and the fluid outlet from physical damage. The trailing end of the housing has attached to it a second cap having a latch feature for latching the ink container in the supply station, and an oversized handle that prevents backwards insertion. The housing includes a pressure vessel that surrounds the ink reservoir, and the first cap is secured to the pressure vessel.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一种用于喷墨打印系统的墨水容器,其包括具有盖帽标记和保护表面的简单壳体的组件,以能够有效地处理,对准,锁定和锁定墨水容器。 墨水容器包括墨水容器壳体,壳体包括墨水储存器和与所述储存器流体连通的流体出口。 流体出口用于向喷墨打印头提供墨水。 容器还包括附接到壳体的端部的单独制造的第一盖,第一盖具有提供用于墨水容器的机械功能的多个机械特征。 壳体的端部是相对于将墨水容器插入打印系统的方向的前端。 机械功能可以包括相对于供应站定位墨水容器,用于防止墨水容器在供应站中的安装的键控功能,而没有提供键盘功能的盖子。 机械特征可以包括用于保护墨水容器的前表面和流体出口免受物理损坏的凸台。 壳体的后端连接到其上具有用于将墨水容器锁定在供应站中的闩锁特征的第二盖以及防止向后插入的超大手柄。 壳体包括围绕储墨器的压力容器,并且第一盖固定到压力容器。

    Method and apparatus for securing an ink container
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for securing an ink container 失效
    用于固定墨盒的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5949459A

    公开(公告)日:1999-09-07

    申请号:US869150

    申请日:1997-06-04

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175

    CPC分类号: B41J2/1752 B41J2/17513

    摘要: A replaceable ink container for providing ink to a printing device. The ink container having leading and trailing edges with respect to an insertion direction for the ink container into the printing device. The ink container includes a fluid outlet disposed on the leading edge and configured for connection to corresponding printing device fluid inlet. The ink container also includes an engagement feature disposed toward the trailing edge and extending outwardly from an ink container outer surface. The engagement feature is configured for insertion into a recessed engagement feature associated with the printing device. With the ink container properly positioned within the printing device and biased in a direction opposite the insertion direction, the engagement feature associated with the ink container engages the recessed engagement feature associated with the printing device. The engagement of the engagement features on each of the ink container and printer maintains the fluid outlet in engagement with the corresponding printing device fluid inlet.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于向印刷装置提供油墨的可替换油墨容器。 油墨容器具有相对于油墨容器进入打印装置的插入方向的前缘和后缘。 墨水容器包括设置在前缘上的流体出口,并被配置为连接到相应的印刷装置流体入口。 墨水容器还包括朝向后缘设置并从墨水容器外表面向外延伸的接合特征。 接合特征被配置为插入到与打印装置相关联的凹入接合特征中。 随着墨水容器正确地定位在打印装置内并且沿与插入方向相反的方向被偏压,与墨水容器相关联的接合特征与与打印装置相关联的凹入接合特征接合。 每个墨水容器和打印机上的接合特征的接合保持流体出口与相应的印刷装置流体入口接合。

    Connector system for hardcopy apparatus
    5.
    发明授权
    Connector system for hardcopy apparatus 失效
    硬拷贝装置连接器系统

    公开(公告)号:US06695523B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-24

    申请号:US09941580

    申请日:2001-08-30

    IPC分类号: F16B902

    摘要: A connector system substantially rigidly connects a carriage guide rod to a base support structure of a hardcopy apparatus and includes a connector element rigidly fixable to the base support structure. The connector system has a pin which is held in a first bore in the guide rod by a retaining screw in a second bore of the guide rod. The connector system can be adjusted with six degrees of freedom before final fixing. The introduction of a further screw in a threaded part of the first bore permits vertical adjustment of the pin. The connector system can alternatively be used to rigidly secure a printer platen.

    摘要翻译: 连接器系统将滑架导杆基本上刚性地连接到硬拷贝装置的基座支撑结构,并且包括可刚性地固定到基座支撑结构的连接器元件。 连接器系统具有销,该销通过导向杆的第二孔中的固定螺钉保持在导杆中的第一孔中。 连接器系统可以在最终固定之前用六个自由度进行调节。 在第一孔的螺纹部分中引入另外的螺钉允许销的垂直调节。 连接器系统可以替代地用于刚性地固定打印机台板。

    Method and apparatus for actuating a pump in a printer
    8.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for actuating a pump in a printer 有权
    用于致动打印机中的泵的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06220699B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-24

    申请号:US09251706

    申请日:1999-02-17

    IPC分类号: B41J2175

    CPC分类号: B41J2/17596 B41J2/16552

    摘要: A printer apparatus and method of actuating a fluid pump in a printer to deliver fluid to an ink jet printhead without removing the printhead from a printhead carriage particularly useful for priming inkjet printheads using an air displacement pump to deliver air under positive pressure to the printheads. The pump is located proximate a service station on the printer and is automatically actuated by movement of the carriage to service station. The pump may be arcuately positionable to align the pump with a selected one of air passageways provided in a printhead holddown cover on the printhead carriage. Algorithms are provided for locating the precise position of the pump outlet along the carriage scan axis relative to its intended design location and for arcuately positioning the pump relative to the carriage to engage the pump outlet with a selected one of conduits in the carriage connected to each printhead.

    摘要翻译: 一种致动打印机中的流体泵以将流体输送到喷墨打印头而不从打印头支架移除打印头的打印机装置和方法,该打印头支架特别适用于使用空气排量泵对喷墨打印头进行灌注,以将正压力下的空气输送到打印头。 泵位于打印机上的维修站附近,并通过滑架运动到维修站而自动启动。 泵可以是弧形定位的,以将泵与设置在打印头滑架上的打印头压盖中的选定的一个空气通道对准。 提供算法用于沿着支架扫描轴线相对于其预期设计位置定位泵出口的精确位置,并且用于相对于托架弧形地定位泵以使泵出口与所选择的一个管道连接, 打印头。

    Method and apparatus for ink container locking
    9.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for ink container locking 失效
    墨盒锁定方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5917526A

    公开(公告)日:1999-06-29

    申请号:US839011

    申请日:1997-04-23

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175 B41J2/255

    摘要: The present invention is an ink container for providing ink to an ink-jet printer. The ink container includes an inlet configured for connection to a pressurization source. The ink container also includes an expandable outer shell configured for expansion upon activation of the pressurization source. The expandable outer shell has an engagement feature that is configured for engagement with a corresponding engagement feature associated with the ink-jet printer. The expandable outer shell has an unexpanded position allowing removal of the ink container from the ink-jet printer and an expanded position wherein the outer shell engagement feature engages with the engagement feature associated with the ink-jet printer to resist removal of the ink container from the ink-jet printer.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是一种用于向喷墨打印机提供墨水的墨水容器。 墨水容器包括被配置为连接到加压源的入口。 墨水容器还包括可膨胀的外壳,其构造成在加压源的激活时膨胀。 可膨胀外壳具有接合特征,其配置用于与与喷墨打印机相关联的对应接合特征接合。 可膨胀外壳具有未喷墨位置,允许从喷墨打印机移除墨盒,并且扩展位置,其中外壳接合特征与与喷墨打印机相关联的接合特征接合,以防止墨盒从墨盒 喷墨打印机。